And by they, you mean the right wind politicians in power.
The people who vote for them are constantly voting against their immediate interests.
If we had some sort of ranked choice, a lot of these one-issue voters might actually have a choice in their representation. Which would be good for all of us.
All a civil war will do is put a bigger boot on all our necks.
Nobody rational wants to see that happen.
Unless you enjoy the thought of American military might amped up to 11 and deployed on it’s own citizens.
Sounds like a town so devoid of life that it would be more productive to just let it collapse.
There’s a bunch of tiny rural towns that have basically no jobs and no real reason to exist anymore.
Globalization was not kind to rural America. And people listen to snake oil salesmen like Trump because he’s the only one talking at them with a distorted compassion.
I agree, the “award” systems, are one of the least offensive monetization strategies I’ve seen.
Keep in mind that awards don’t have to behave like Reddit and Discord have implement them. I’m sure there’s room to innovate in a community focused manner.
Reddit however, has decided that they need to crush everything and go full Silicon Valley vampire in order to squeeze a lifetime of upper class earnings into a get rich quick payout scheme.
The revenue calculations likely take gold into account.
At least the real rev/user would.
It also disables a lot of analytics, so you get a better experience than the paying customers, for free.
I think they’re planning to release a real-money karma system that’ll revolve around awards.
So they need to sunset the old awards, to make room for cash awards.
It’s such a terrible idea for a social network that I’m convinced Reddit is doing it.
Hey, you know the only perk you get with Reddit Premium that isn’t available through a free browser extension?
Yeah that’s going away in 60 days.
It will be replaced with something so awful we dare not mention it while people are still pissed off about the other popular thing we killed with little notice.
We here at the Reddit management understand you have concerns about the destruction of the global hub of collaboration, but you’ll get over it.
Peace!
Maybe 30 years ago.
But in the last 20 years there has been a lot of of funding towards prevention and researching a cure.
https://avac.org/project/resource-tracking/
An HIV vaccine has proven itself to be an extremely elusive target.
But with recent developments in biotechnology, it may not be much longer before we finally have get one.