P.S. Also, let this be a remembrance of old Reddit of late aughts. The original iteration before gamergate and other reactionary campaigns, it was a nice if techie biased place online. I remember the hacktivists, the Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street, Aaron Swartz, the left libertarians, leftists and progressive circles being quite active on the site during the great recession. It was not a reactionary dump back then. It offered a good exposure to lots of new movements brewing. The internet becoming an outrage machine and Obama leading into reaction was not foreseeable. It's kind of wild how we used to follow authors en masse online. Now we have influencers and the internet is mostly AI slop and the information is becoming enclosed.

Once upon a time, a blogger or am obscure academic could go (relatively) viral and that was cool. The internet used to be a place you could go for an escape instead of being the mainway for interfacing with the society and becoming upset.

Parking reform, open borders, drug legalization and /r/ShitRedditSays were pretty good political influences for the time period. Later /r/chapotraphouse was great not because it was free of bad actors but because it did have a bunch of great posters I've followed elsewhere and it could laught at itself on occasion.

Thank you, I didn't have time to read the entire article, but what I did get to was very interesting. I appreciated the insight into the nuances of agriculture.

Two not so fun facts, Henry Ford was a nazi, and the vast majority of harvested soybeans are used for animal feed.

I had no idea how was still around l! Might have to check out the podcast.

there’s already a justin roczniak jumpscare in the video but it did leave out my favourite criticism of battery-powered transit: i love having to do rocket science for my trains. i’m sure when people say “it’s not rocket science” it's not because rocket science is a famously difficult thing