"...we should start seeing other asteroids."

PLUGH

" A key aspect of a competitive market is the ability for the buyer to walk away from a purchase, not simply to have an alternative."

So it's your contention that a competitive market in food is impossible? It's a position that has been taken up, but it doesn't seem to generally end well.

The unstated but obvious reason they are taking the time to remove it is because they want to train their LLMs on the messages.

100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Kevin and his idiot people killed Digg a long time ago when they implemented their own algo to determine what users could see and corrupted it with a bunch of advertising. It should have been left alone. Nobody cares and nobody wants it back.

"Tools for the job are to be provided by the employer, no matter how expensive. And they can get very expensive."

That's often not true. Many professions expect a workman to have his own tools. Auto mechanics, carpenters, musicians, electricians, plumbers, photographers, and so on.

"If one comes on a particular visa and doesn't violate its terms, one would be just fine"

It's so adorable that you believe that. May I remind you that ICE has arrested and incarcerated actual US citizens.

It is permissible to make the form of payment a condition of sale. Once the sale is made, the debt by law can be settled in cash--unless it was part of the terms of sale that payment must be by some other means. You'll only pay in cash? Then I won't sell to you. This is allowed.

"[P]ay only $50,000. After wiring $5 million"

That's not how it works. You gotta hand back all the money you stole. The fine is *on top* of that.

Sleep tight, kiddies.

If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. You don't have anything to hide, right, citizen?

And yet another user demonstrates the need for the <sarcasm> tag.

"We need to be able to spy on you for your own protection."

"[T]hose deciding which age-based controls need to exist, and those enforcing them gain a tremendous influence on what content is accessible to whom on the internet."

Never has the phrase, "it's not a bug, it's a feature" been more appropriate.