precisely. a fucking shame.

i always thought that some canadians do get sarcasm.

China is an entire economy built on intellectual property thievery and slave labor.

so, just like the united states when it suited them, no? do read about united states in nineteenth century once. oh, and: you do realise that slavery in some circumstances is still legal in the u.s.?

it’s a bloody biweekly caliper gentlemen’s club meeting in the replies there

“don’t imitate other people’s accents, it’s rude”. less than 10 words.

i would swear that in an earlier version of this message the optimal batch size was estimated to be as large as twenty.

maybe try to learn from the past

we did. you just don’t listen.

(it’s programming dot dev again, isn’t it?)

stalinists, like pigeons, are gonna shit over every place where they congregate. it is a pity that they have half the brain and quarter of the cuteness of the pigeons though.

…and that’s one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

there’s this lovely nostalgic thread by the very dude working for baikal, and you can play the game “spot the serb in the thread without looking at the names”.

ironic eugenics is genocidal the same way

thank you, that’s perfectly awful :-)

wanted to emulate bene gesserit, ended doing bene tleilax

so the official reply is that mod got bored, and also was asked to re-open. which is, of course, fine.

and to be clear

• i didn’t think there is any conspiracy, that would be ridiculous,
• if we subscribe to the idea that a community is owned, not stewarded, by mods, it’s perfectly fine to do with the community whatever the mods want, without the need of them being accountable to anyone else,
• i do think that reopening the sub after closing it in protest is mostly sad,
• and a very small and rather insignificant footnote to a more general discussion on (f)utility of using master’s tools to bring down the master’s house.

nah, i’m not going back where i’m clearly not wanted; the mods can take care of this themselves.

it was always a risk; questioning someone’s integrity, be it directly or indirectly, is rarely welcomed.

needless to say, i’m even less inclined to resume any activity on reddit.

not only the thread is closed, i was banned for asking that question:

so what you’re saying is that people shouldn’t be their whole selves in your presence because it makes you uncomfortable.