With Microsoft acquiring Activision going on, a lot of people are going on about how they hope this makes the future of active Activision properties bright.
Yet here I am hoping for something else, like a return of games series like Soldier of Fortune.
Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.
Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…
So, a bunch of people who obviously have more money than any semblance of sense, opt to go into the water inside an obvious deathtrap and now we're supposed to care and waste millions trying to recover their dumbasses or bodies?
Meanwhile, another boat with a fuckton of refugees sank, killing hundreds and nobody even seems to know it happened.
Stop worshiping the rich.
Interesting Reddit is not just threatening moderators.
They actually replaced a very few mods in a very few privated subs.
The other threat they made was to replace mods in subs that switched to NSFW, which they also did to a very few mods in a very few subs.
The defining characteristic here is that they did it to a very few.
It's simply a tactic to scare moderators into falling in line.
While mainly showing Reddit knows full well they can't materialize these threats on any real scale.
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