But after the last 12 times, they told us they had fixed the grid!

I’d imagine it’s the high risk of being detected and threat of being fired, shunned by your peers, and blackballed from the industry. It’s kinda like asking “what’s to stop them from just translating and recycling old Latvian TV scripts?” Like, sure, you could do that, and you might even get away with it for a while,…

Both of those outcomes lead to writers being replaced by AIs relatively quickly, though. As soon as it gets around that even Writer X thinks the robots can convincingly duplicate their output, they’re getting fired, and shortly after that, so are a bunch of other writers. It’s definitely in the writers’ interest…

I've said it once and I'll say it again, are there no Pinkertons to break these haughty purveyors of prose? 

The James Cameron movie about this submarine sinking to the bottom of the sea, never to rise again, is going to be the best four and a half hours you’ll ever spend at the cinema. Tom Cruise is going to hold his breath for the entire duration of it.

There are different types of lithium batteries. Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, which might be the ones used here, have lower energy density, but better storage characteristics and safety compared to others. Some equipment manufacturers also over-provision so that 100% of stated capacity is only 80% of actual…

Hate Cilantro, because I’m one of the soap-mutants. Easiest way to destroy a good salsa or plate of carnitas is to add too much of the Devil’s weed.

The editors here are worse then Hilter

I *wish* the Biden administration was as left-wing as the right believes it is.

This.  A total lack of any safety culture with guns.  On a properly run set, those weapons would’ve been under lock and key and handled ONLY by the armorer, and the actor(s) using the weapon on set, to ensure a chain of custody.  And even then, the gun’s barrel and chambers would be checked every time it changes…

What were real bullets even doing on the set?!?

No, the actual victims of this situation didn’t even sue. From NY Times:

Yours is a perpetual victim viewpoint. She was actually paid (too much in my opinion) for being punitively fired without cause.

A lot of posts end up with comment counts in the single digits (or none at all!), something that never used to happen. The ones which gain any sort of activity beyond that are the spicy takes which energize troll accounts, who then bait readers into participating. It’s depressing.

I mean, have you opened up a Gizmodo or AV Club article from 2012? None of those classic commenters are here anymore and a lowly article back then got 5x the number of total comments as in 2023.

This would only be true if Reddit were asking for a fee within the realm of possibility. The $12,000 for 50 million API calls is over 70x what similar platforms charge. It’s like posting a 2013 Honda Accord on Autotrader for over 1 million dollars.

Except that isn’t the issue at all. The issue is not if they should charge or even any limits they are putting on using the API. The issue is how much money they want and how much time the app devs have to implement changes.

They took toy stores from us. Never Forget.

Well, they will continue to let 3rd parties access the API and do exactly what they had been doing - just for a much higher price. They are shooting themselves in the foot, just as Twitter has done, not realizing or caring how many of their users prefer using a third-party app.

Good. Fuck em