Fox “News Stars”.

Americans have a very low bar in describing “stars”.

It does. It’s been around for well over a decade. The thing is, even when I first saw the photo, I couldn’t understand what the graphic was supposed to be.

You weren’t ghosted, he told you that he wasn’t going forward.

Not to say that he probably wasn’t a jerk. But he plainly told you that he wasn’t interested in pursuing anything. That’s not ghosting.

Possibly, but the OP was talking about sitting in a cafe, not brewing at home.

At a cafe you have overheads, staff, cleaning, etc. Plus the rising cost of beans. All I’m saying is that cafes can’t freeze the price of coffee to a past point in time because customers have a fixed idea of what a brew should cost.

Not to be that guy, but we have been under-paying for coffee for many years now. The price of beans kept going up, but customers were locked into what a cup of coffee should be and extremely price sensitive about addressing the reality.

A catch-up is underway all over the world.

Note. Not a cafe owner and I don’t have anything to do with coffee except drink it.

That’s very true, for now.

At this moment Reddit is existing on its former reputation. There are a host of like internet megalithic platforms that are now not even distant memories. Once they outlive their former utility they fade pretty quickly. Think of MySpace, Friendster and Yahoo Groups. Even Facebook is circling the plughole, but it may take a while before disappearing due to its former dominant position.

Is Reddit still a thing? I wasn’t aware?

I thought that it had evolved into a bot parliament.

We have to start adopting more accurate terminology for demographics. Most boomers are in their 70s and 80s. The ‘boomer’ shortcut has outlived it’s usefulness. I’m a ‘young’ boomer at 68.

I saw a lot of these so-called boomers at J6. Except that they were in their 30s and 40s. Boomers ain’t scaling walls no more.

I wonder? Just before I was banned, I used a third party app to scrap 14 years of my data and delete it all. Not long after that I was banned for some truly innocuous post.

I don’t get how they hate violence when I was last there it was full of drone videos blowing bits of Russians I to the air.

But can you get books to read on it? I suspect that these gadgets will get locked out of the market by the thugs.

I found out that when confronted with ID surveillance I don’t really want to visit that site after all.

Companies keep pushing security onto the user at the same time as demanding more personal data.

They can suck my…

Don’t want it, don’t need it. The nuclear furnace in space provides free fuel. What we need is massive storage. That’s the next real battle.

People will argue that we don’t have the tech yet. Well, we never have the tech until someone develops it. Do you suppose a chicken laid a nuclear plant? No, it was developed over time. So will energy storage.

The bigger mystery to me is why people try so hard to get back in. I had a 14 year account and when I was banned I just moved on. The last couple of years the place was a pit.

I got banned for reasons I don’t really understand. So, I just accepted it and it’s fine.

Depends upon the country. I believe that the US can, but not positive.

That’s my life.

True, my friend. But Reddit is set on automatic self-destruct mode. Nothing can be done except sit back and watch from a distance. Unfortunately it will be pretty boring to watch.

Me too. 14 year account and it never bothered me much because it’s like being banned from a dumpster fire.

I’m wondering how driving out users will assist their bottom line? Particularly those of us who were providing content that they can sell. 90% of Reddit accounts are bots and lurkers.

I’m not a European myself, but when I visit France this is too common to even remark upon to my wife. I don’t know why they don’t ticket them, or maybe they do and it’s not a concern?