Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ’ in a sexshop

For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the ‘video booths’ area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.

It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again

All this tells us is that Russia has literally zero anti-aircraft/intercept capability — even for national-level strategic sites.

They keep getting their turds pushed in by radio-controlled light civil aircraft pottering in thousands of km at highway-traffic speeds.

Pitiful.

Someone has no idea how memes work

And this is related to the relative capabilities of USA vs Russian in terms of logistics.

The Americans can generally afford the fuel, and the logistics tail to keep it flowing.

Russia cannot.

How well the M1A1 serves Ukraine remains to be seen, but so far they’ve gotten pretty fantastic performance out of every weapon system they’ve been given, from Javelins to Patriots.

One of the two men you mentioned will win – barring a death before the election, either Biden or Trump will be elected.

All the wanking in the world isn’t going to result in a third option with even the remotest chance.

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.

Pretty much everyone, including the 3rd party apps, agrees with what you’ve said.

Reddit needs to monetize the API, and spez has really fucked this up.

Reddit posted a chart showing the top abusers of the free API, with an implication that this was the reason they are now going to charge third party user apps for access.

However — according to Apollo, which has been pretty credible and is apparently the largest app, they aren’t even close to the excess usage levels shown

I expect those top-ten abusers of the free API, exceeding the limits by 40000% and whatnot are all LLMs sucking up text for training.

Reddit has been letting those project hoover up very valuable (given recent valuations of LLM/AI projects) textual discourse (authored by all of us of course) for free. They may feel a bit foolish, and they are realizing their worth, in terms of the value to LLM efforts.

SO, I think the pricing is related to what they believe the various AI projects can afford to pay.

It’s still an easy win for them to kill the third-party apps that they wish were gone, given the NSFW and in-app ads issues.

If reddit wanted to, they could create a seperate pricing tier for usage that passes through to individual humans, rather than to language machines. They are different use cases and absolutely have different value propositions in terms of potential revenue generation.