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  1. Comment on This is why it’s so hard to find mental health counseling in the USA right now in ~health.mental

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    Not that I can guarantee your insurance would cover this, but there is a genetic testing service that can try and see which SSRIs will have the least side effects for you. My wife's psychiatrist...

    Not that I can guarantee your insurance would cover this, but there is a genetic testing service that can try and see which SSRIs will have the least side effects for you.

    My wife's psychiatrist introduced us to this, as her previous two meds made her extremely sick for a week at a time each time she got on or off. The test was really easy and it returns a chart with symptom predictions. They tried a med with a good prediction and it went and has been going extremely well

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  2. Comment on Two weeks with a Pixel 7 Pro - My experience in ~tech

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    I have had the Pixel 7 Pro since Mid October since the Pixel 6 Pro trade-in was so good. I really like it overall. It solved my biggest grip about the 6P, which was the modem/network strength. The...

    I have had the Pixel 7 Pro since Mid October since the Pixel 6 Pro trade-in was so good. I really like it overall. It solved my biggest grip about the 6P, which was the modem/network strength. The camera and Google's photo tools seem sleeker too.

    The only thing I dislike about both phones are the minimum brightness settings. Compared to my wife's iPhone at night, Google's screens are way to bright and so I use an app to set a filter over everything to help with that.

  3. Comment on Two weeks with a Pixel 7 Pro - My experience in ~tech

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    The camera is supposed to rattle fyi it's part of the optical image stabilization system.

    The camera is supposed to rattle fyi it's part of the optical image stabilization system.

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  4. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

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    The effort made is actually hilarious in terms of how terrible the execution went. The biggest issue is that English idioms obviously don't carry that same meaning. For example, Reddit translated...

    The effort made is actually hilarious in terms of how terrible the execution went. The biggest issue is that English idioms obviously don't carry that same meaning. For example, Reddit translated offmychest to vonmeinerbrust, but in German that means more like "from my breasts/boobs" which is just terribly funny/bad.

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  5. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

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    Reddit has recently gone on a confirmed astroturfing esque binge recently actually. They've been creating lots of badly translated foreign language subreddits. I'd be really curious who mods and...

    Reddit has recently gone on a confirmed astroturfing esque binge recently actually. They've been creating lots of badly translated foreign language subreddits. I'd be really curious who mods and posts in those as I imagine it must be company employees.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/reddit_admins_were_just_caught_using_bots_or_fake/

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  6. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

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    I think at this point everyone has to realize how badly Reddit has been managed financially since ~2017. It's abundantly clear in hindsight: Went from ~300 employees to ~2000 employees Adding...

    I think at this point everyone has to realize how badly Reddit has been managed financially since ~2017. It's abundantly clear in hindsight:

    • Went from ~300 employees to ~2000 employees
    • Adding headquarters in HCOL cities (San Francisco and Amsterdam)
    • Implemented a redesign and mobile app (this was successful but still cost a lot.
    • Implemented their own image and video hosting
    • Implemented chat system 1
    • Implemented NFTs
    • Implemented Crypto-ish "Community Points" (completely abandoned now)
    • Implemented chat system 2

    Much of that list is such a waste of the limited resources they had. Steve basically chased every single tech bro invention for the last few years thinking it would make Reddit bigger. And now while he's rightfully got AI on the mind, I seriously doubt it will be profitable. Reddit is already open to scraping without the API and I don't think these LLM providers are going to pay his prices for that content.

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