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  1. Comment on US shoppers, drawn by steep discounts, power through Black Friday in ~finance

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    The article does note that this may not carry through the whole holiday season: It will be interesting if we ever get any data about who is doing the spending, especially in the wake of the recent...

    The article does note that this may not carry through the whole holiday season:

    Despite the strong Black Friday sales this year, analysts say that may not reflect how retailers will perform overall this holiday season.

    It will be interesting if we ever get any data about who is doing the spending, especially in the wake of the recent Moody's report that nearly half of U.S. retail spending comes from top 10% of earners.

    10 votes

  2. Comment on Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday in ~humanities.history

  7. Comment on Reddit announces new limits on moderating large subreddits and for moderators to remove content sitewide in ~tech

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    • First, we are moving away from subscribers as the measure of community size or popularity... Instead, we’ll start using visitors. This is the number of unique visitors over the last seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average.
    • Using visitors as the measurement, we will set a moderation limit of a maximum of 5 communities with over 100k visitors. Communities with fewer than 100k visitors won’t count toward this limit. This limit will impact 0.1% of our active mods.
    • Today, when you remove content from your community, that content continues to appear on the user profile until it’s reported and additionally removed by Reddit. But with this update, the action you take in your community is now the final word; you’ll no longer need to appeal to admins to fully remove that content across Reddit.
    14 votes

  9. Comment on The US Internal Revenue Service is building a system to share records including home addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to facilitate deportations in ~society

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    I remember when this would have been something Republicans screamed bloody murder about. Just imagine the wall-to-wall Fox News coverage if Obama had done anything like this. Jade Helm would have...

    I remember when this would have been something Republicans screamed bloody murder about. Just imagine the wall-to-wall Fox News coverage if Obama had done anything like this. Jade Helm would have been a walk in the park in comparison.

    14 votes

  14. Comment on Disney to cut nearly 6% of staff across ABC News, Disney Entertainment Networks in ~finance

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    RIP to FiveThirtyEight

    RIP to FiveThirtyEight

    ABC is also eliminating the political and data-driven news site 538, which had about 15 employees.

    18 votes

  17. Comment on How Watch Duty app became crucial for tracking the Los Angeles wildfires in ~enviro

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    Watch Duty was invaluable during the fires in Colorado last summer, particularly with the continued demise of Twitter/X as a reliable (and accessible) source for real-time information.

    Watch Duty was invaluable during the fires in Colorado last summer, particularly with the continued demise of Twitter/X as a reliable (and accessible) source for real-time information.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on American election mental health thread in ~health.mental

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    It's because none of those things mattered to a lot of voters. Many people simply voted based on their perception of the current state of the economy and the polling on that was horrific leading...

    etc... and say "yes, that's the person I want"?

    It's because none of those things mattered to a lot of voters. Many people simply voted based on their perception of the current state of the economy and the polling on that was horrific leading into the election (regardless if that perception was accurate or not).

    NBC Exit Polls:

    This phrase remains eternally relevant

    "It's the economy, stupid"

    26 votes

  19. Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in ~tech

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    Yeah, I really wish they [NCRI] were more transparent about their operations and relationship to Pushshift. We've had years of lackadaisical support and involvement from them over on r/Pushshift...

    Yeah, I really wish they [NCRI] were more transparent about their operations and relationship to Pushshift. We've had years of lackadaisical support and involvement from them over on r/Pushshift at this point. I assume random interns are the ones getting assigned the task.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in ~tech

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    NCRI has advertised Pushshift as their proprietary platform since at least April 2020 (see my comment here). Nothing that's public. But that's the real reason Reddit went "nuclear" and blocked...
    • Exemplary

    But I don't think they actually "acquired" Pushshift at any point, and I can't seem to find anything to back that claim up either.

    NCRI has advertised Pushshift as their proprietary platform since at least April 2020 (see my comment here).

    Do you have anything to back that up?

    Nothing that's public. But that's the real reason Reddit went "nuclear" and blocked Pushshift in May 2023 for violating the Data API. They were allegedly offering to resell bulk data to AI companies and Reddit caught wind of it. I think it's entirely possible Jason/Pushshift team had no idea it was happening.

    6 votes