The headline is not only bait but also wrong

At best, they could claim that AI-generated images are fueled by societal associations of negative attributes with obesity

And surely the use of the word phobia in an academic context should be more rigorous

The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules

The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience

I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups

When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social

For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make

Hackernews is a link-based message board, Ars is a article-based website

Both used to be just tech, but have started being a bit more general or tech-adjacent

Ars has specialist professional journalists, Hackernews links heavily favour tech industry professionals and deep dives

Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica

What more is there to know?

As a technology article this is interesting

Not sure why they feel qualified to make statements like this:

“When ineffective policy results in a large chunk of the populace generationally living in yurts on the outskirts of urban areas, it’s clear that there is failure.”

Exactly the same, except the reason is that the eggs at the back can freeze if the carton is pushed back in the fridge, so I work from the far end to near

NTA yet. You’re not an asshole if you think that way, but you could be depending on how you act

If you suggested a kid free meetup and they said they would bring the kids anyway then the conversation is over - if you tell them you don’t want anything to do with their kids then they will think YTA and you won’t catchup, which is worse than now where you just won’t catchup

Maybe just tell them you’re going somewhere kids can’t come like a bar, and politely decline any offers to meetup elsewhere

I am not in any way qualified to ask this question, but wouldn’t devaluing your currency by half cause 100% inflation on all imports, and effectively double all foreign denominated debts?