How it is. It’s not unusual to come across replies that on the surface are passable but are ever so slightly…off. And the comment history is the same. People who make it their business to undercover bot networks regularly find groups of accounts that post automated chat-gpt type responses and seem to act in unison. Their methods vary but sometimes they all post the same low effort zero depth reaction comments as a strategy to build up karma without being spotted. The fact the platform is structured for popularity and engagement in such a way that this is worth doing (and polluting any regular discussion in the process) is entirely what’s wrong with Reddit.

E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheseFuckingAccounts/comments/1176jfy/literally_these_fucking_accounts_fed_up_with_them/

Type of thing that would be found. This particular investigation sub now private but there are others

I’ve lost faith that I’m even having conversations on there at all. Such a big motivation to have natural language bots building up credible history and posting nonsensical but vaguely plausible sounding replies that offer zero depth.

Me too. I don’t know how I got drawn back in (though obv post titles are heavily scored for causing engagement, so a heavy dose of bots and psychological trickery no doubt…)

I got into a rhythm posting here and there a bit and then realised more than a few not-at-all-usually-controversial takes of mine attracted zero conversation, just the -2, -3 downvotes within minutes.

Dialogue and especially any nuance on Reddit is dead dead dead. I can’t stand (who I assume to be) the hypersensitive types who just downvote and move on. They’re making the place shit and they can keep it.

Something something Soviet Russia…

Hi Firefox. It’s been a while…

Companies have dress codes. Is it too much for kids to have a predictable leveling environment where the most important thing is learning? Once they’re grown up, “Katy” not being able to wear a bikini on the office floor, or Todd not being able to wear his gym tank top on the hotel front desk becomes obvious. So why is restricting that at school not ok?

Huh? Second hand uniform sales are massive in the UK. Every school has one. Maybe not in the states? Don’t know why…

Small government conservatives: “get the government and all its “rules” out of our lives!”

School board: “you’re right, each family should decide what schoolwear is appropriate and I guess people will have to manage themselves and their own reputation…”

Small government conservatives: “no not like that!”

Because they won?

What would be the point of this from a non fucked up standpoint?

I think the bad and good reasons can be true at the same time. Plenty of others list the bad reasons. For the good reasons:

• it is unlikely Hamas could evacuate its weaponry, rocket stockpiles and other supplies in 24 hours undetected
• so some will be flushed out at which point they can be engaged
• others will remain, so having the civilian population leave - even if not completely - it’s the best way to reduce collateral deaths and give Hamas as little time to prepare as possible
• hostages area likely being held in the north, hence the time pressure to separate as many civilians as possible and isolate Hamas
• the crisis would be less of a crisis of the Arab nations actually stepped up to help but none of them want anything to do with Gaza Palestinians…
• finally (up to you if this is a good or bad reason) Israel may well intend to bulldoze every building in North Gaza to deny its use to Hamas and it’s obviously safer for the population to not be there when it happens. This may increase the chances of the UN / Egypt creating a viable refugee camp inside the Egyptian border which may well be Israel’s end game

They have also bombed the caravan on primary roadway people are taking out of the city, according to several news sources

Fwiw the video that Hamas themselves released shows an explosion that is very much not a missile or artillery. It has a large orange flameball, doesn’t leave a crater, leaves windows on the vans intact.

This was most likely a propane IED of which Hamas are known to use. Or a tragic accident (trucks propane tank exploding).

Sometime later … “Gimp does not have a tool for drawing lines or curves but one way to create a straight line effect is hold down shift when…”

looks at camera

You need scale

Can’t scale. Hard drive full.

I wouldn’t put it past them to short their own stock while they make announcements then go long once things settle down…

Well… I look forward to using Unity’s replacement…

Some others in the Anglosphere:

Fred Bloggs - no idea where it’s from. Related to “bog” as in bog standard maybe?

Tom, Dick and Harry - is ages old. Even as far back as Shakespeare you can see the triplet evolving. “Tom, Dicke, and Francis” : Henry IV, Part I

What’s next is Elon standing at a red light holding a piece of cardboard telling you to buy Twitter Blue or he’ll key your car

Have you tried demanding $1000 of popcorn or you’ll stop eating?

Like a real life Brewster’s Billions

It’s not even random, it’s counting 1 to 9 and then down again to 5. Seems like even less effort lol. It’s either patronising in a show off kind of way or just dumb. Either way… just wow.