Wonder what made the banging noises…?
In theory, the cost of energy used in manufacturing and logistics is covered by the purchase price.
How will they prevent theft by pirates?
Reactionaries from different nations are heads of the same hydra. Russian tankies, USA magas, west Asian ISIS, etc . . . they all suffer from the same character flaws.
Those “russian” bots and troll farms are likely funded by American tankies/conservatives/terrorists.
“They care about their company and increasing value for their stakeholders.”
Capitalist corporations don’t give a fuck about stakeholders - i.e. the workers who depend on income from the company for their livelihood, and the users who have integrated their product into their lives.
The company only cares about leeching money into the pockets of its shareholders - i.e. the parasitic owners who contribute nothing of value to the company or its stakeholders.
It was created to let governments talk to each other before resorting to nuclear war - a security council veto is a form of speech. Its been keeping that line of communication open, so its been working as intended. Anything else the organization might accomplish is just a bonus.
Seems like those kinds of metrics could be collected by the 3rd party devs if Reddit requires them to include a bit of code in their 3rd party apps as a condition for API access.
Is there anything stopping an organization with programming talent from accessing all of Reddit via http and bypassing the API fees?
Don’t let this betrayal be forgotten when you vote in the primaries next year. Or his anti-vax conspiracy promotion.