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This is the one I used: https://github.com/deestan/PowerDeleteSuite

Having seen those volunteers pour so much time and effort into Duolingo courses (shoutout to the Duolingo Esperanto community), I don’t think any of this monetization shit has ever entered their minds. As far as I can discern, it’s a labor of love for the most ardent of volunteers.

For volunteers making and expounding Duolingo material in their languages, just being able to share their love of the language, and then seeing other people learn the language seems to be their main aim. Ditto for the Reddit moderators, I suppose, just being share their hobby to a community of people that has formed around their subreddit, and then seeing more people come to appreciate it, that’s the main thing that makes the hard work worth it.

This labor of love is what the capitalists have sought to monetize. They look at all of these people doing what they love, and see schmucks waiting to be exploited. And these “community managers” high up the corporate ladder seek to keep this exploitation going.

• Global Head of Community at Duolingo
• Reddit’s VP of Community

Duolingo, the language learning app that profited so much from volunteer input, only to kick them out once they outlived their usefulness.

Reddit, the content aggregator whose lifeblood is user-generated content and whose distinctive feature is its army of volunteer moderators.

Do I hear an ironic echo here? Or is it just me?

After Reddit’s response to the blackout protests, what made those moderators think Reddit is going to act nice? The mask has already been dropped, Reddit, represented by Steve Huffman, has already shown their true colors. Anyone who’d willingly trust them after what they’ve done is just flat out asking for pain.

Having said that, maybe those mods are trying their best to keep whatever semblance of “the old status quo” that might still be left. I also am guessing there’s some kind of a psychological trauma thing at play here with them choosing to stay with an entity that has shown its willingness to use and abuse them, even painting them as villains. Sure, it’s not a simple thing to just leave–after all of the effort they’ve exerted taking care of their subreddits. But they’ve got to realize sometimes, the best move is to just leave, even at the cost of everything they’ve got left.

I am currently using LibreWolf (I am assuming that’s what you meant by librefox), and aside from getting used to a non-chromium-based browser (which is almost all of them nowadays), it’s really fine.

Besides, why wait to try it out? Get used to it before you have to.

I use adblock (uBlock origin) because the internet is nigh unusable otherwise. It’s incredibly risky (even irresponsible) to not have adblock turned on given the danger of malware, or malware in the guise of advertisements. However, I’d whitelist sites that are decent about it–though in practice, I find it risky to temporarily disable my adblock just to test things, much less to whitelist them.

Most of all, there are other, better, ways to support content creators in the internet.

I only wish I can actually go ahead and buy one; good pillows as well.

But then again, I’m just in a really shitty financial situation. Maybe when things turn around for me, I can invest on those.

Proper dental hygiene is something that one should make a habit from a young age. By the time one realizes its value, like I did, it might already be too late.

Ditto with sleep hygiene. Those two are habits that I think should be learned and reinforced from a young age.

It’s not just OPs strange and mysterious predicament that has made this thread epic, but also the genuine efforts of some of us to help OP in the midst of wild, off the wall, guessing.

And then there’s the misplaced reply that ended up in the perfect place.

And I’m glad to have seen it first hand.

That’s something that, depending on your POV‌ (sadistic DM or a player), might be either interesting, or really terrible.

But then again, it takes time (to know that you’re fucked) so I guess it’s just horrifying. You’d never know if you’ve fucked yourself up using the power.

The 2003 FMA anime was created back when the manga is still being published, and started to drift away from the manga such that at the anime’s midway point, it’s following a different storyline. Some plot points and characters are changed as the anime overtook the manga. Ultimately, it’s a different story as opposed to the manga and Brotherhood.

However, I like how the pacing is a lot slower, allowing me to get more invested and interested into the characters. It’s not as fast-paced as Brotherhood, and it’s a lot darker. There’s just something really somber about the entire thing that I can’t put my finger on.

I watched it on cable TV back then, but I think there are some sites still carrying it if you know where to look.

As for One Piece, thanks for the advice! I’ll go do just that once I have the time (to watch the first half–or I can just go full manga). I don’t think you’re proselytizing than you’re just excited to talk about something you’re really into, which is nice.

FMA 2003 for me, but I like Brotherhood as well.

And yeah, the only thing stopping me from watching One Piece is the sheer amount of episodes, lol! I want to start watching it, but I’m like, there’s no way I’d be able to watch thousands of episodes just to catch up!

Lol!!

Meanwhile, I was thinking more along the lines of FMA’s law of equivalent exchange, but since the way equivalent exchange is handled is kinda hand-wavy, I tried to find a way to make it more realistic, while trying to limit the power’s OP potential (hence, the random body part stipulation as initially stated).

TBH, I don’t watch One Piece, but had I done so, I would have given you a nod by saying you need to be concentrating to use the power (and would backfire by randomizing the target of the power if you lost concentration).

I mean, yes! But I don’t really think ordinary object manipulation (like what we can already do IRL) counts as using the superpower.

The way I see it, it applies to things like telekinesis, or manipulating the mass of an object (making things lighter, or heavier), or even something as out of the left field as “manipulating gravitational lensing such that I can see things clearly”. It can even be used in such a way that it can be lethal, such as “make someone’s blood dense, and have them suffer a heart attack as a result.”

The superpower is actually that OP in the sense that aside from the limits I’ve put (and the modifications we’ve agreed upon), only one’s imagination is the limit.

That’s basically it, lol!

Like how a DM of a tabletop RPG group would be like “interesting, but how can I make it more interesting and limit abuse at the same time?”

Granted, but your thoughts are transmitted to the person looking at you.

I mean, that’d still make it somewhat OP, I think.

Though to be honest, your approach is similar to what I actually came up with as a consequence for a different superpower (time-space manipulation–which I think is a lot more energy-intensive), in the sense that it’d take energy from the least important part of the body to the most important.

However, I suppose just having the energy requirements already limits a lot of the OP potential of the superpower (can’t just summon a black hole, lol!), so I think your changes are quite reasonable.

So, yeah! Let’s go with your modifications.

I wasn’t really thinking much about it, tbh, but it’s more along the lines of “cell burns glucose to create energy”, or “random photon hits skin cell, making it slightly warmer,” or in the more unfortunate circumstances where the random part of the body is, say, a brain cell, it could have not much choice but to “spontaneously undergo nuclear fission.”

It’s me trying to cover my ass, tbh, and make things more interesting by just not going “E=MC² thus things go boom!”

I suppose you can go use the power safely most of the time, but there’s a chance that something important might go off in the most unfortunate way.

Cool! Every time you manipulate gravity, your body loses mass in addition to and proportional to how much energy is needed to do the manipulation.

Which part of your body loses this (additional) mass is totally random. It could be your fat, it could be your brain tissue, it’s all random. How the mass is lost depends on what is the most likely way it’d be dissipated.

I’ve been a lurker on Rəddit for almost a decade, but I’ve never been on such a commenting spree as I’ve been in the past couple of weeks.

Back on there, I was maybe, posting comments once a week on the average. There might be spurts of activity as I get involved in a discussion, but that usually happens once every a couple of months. In contrast, here, I’ve made a couple of hundred comments in just less than twenty days. That’s more comments than I would have ordinarily made in half a year over on the other side.

Also, while my posting over on the other side isn’t stellar, only having made a handful of posts over my nearly a decade over there, here, I’ve already made three–not much, but still way a lot more activity than I’m used to. I find commenting and engaging with others in threads a lot easier than starting my own thread. It’s kinda scary.

Having said all that, I think what is needed here is not just “more content” but more quality and engaging content. While a dead community where no one’s talking is bad, I also hate to see communities devolve into spamming sessions in effort to push up activity.

EDIT: Added a word for clarification.