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  • Stigg00
    Steven Iglesias (@Stigg00) reported

    @DuelingParkNews There’s actually a huge issue. And the issue is people. Do you realize just how many APs would clog up the portal entrances, saying things like “I’m an AP, I have a ticket, you have to let me in”? Just go on Reddit, 90% of us (not me), have the mindset, I’ll complain and be rude and I’ll get what I want. It would be an absolute disaster.

  • nishancodes
    Nishan | AI SaaS Builder (@nishancodes) reported

    @pcshipp There's always a sub for any problem in Reddit Here's what worked for me I try to find 10 people within the niche I'm interested in and ask them all the questions I want as a courtesy, I offer them 1 month or even lifetime free for the product I build Later when they sign up and use the app, I ask them for testimonials and reviews This way, I get - first users (could convert to paying users if value provided is good) - free testimonials I can use for marketing - free testers for my product

  • Frost7
    Frost (@Frost7) reported

    @AnimalProtect33 @WogStalker You’re not wrong. There are some who are genuine that I’m friends with, but unlike the subversives, they’re not itching for a fight with me and I’m not itching for a fight with them. If you drill down on these people you’ll frequently find they are reddit-tier atheists LARPing.

  • RexPowerCo1t
    Rex Power Colt (@RexPowerCo1t) reported

    This song has become ubiquitously known as "the worst song of all time" that it honestly feels boring hating on it now That's not to say I disagree with the sentiment, it's a terrible song, it's just that it feels boring scrolling through a Reddit thread asking "What's the worst song of all time?" and hundreds of people reply with Dance Monkey

  • tomaldertweets
    Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets) reported

    I vibe-coded a tool that got me 250k impressions the next day. Here's exactly how it works - and the prompt I used to build it. I used to lose 45 minutes every morning scrolling Reddit for content ideas. I asked Perplexity Computer to build me a tool that would do it for me. 2 evenings. 5 conversations. 0 code I wrote myself. Perplexity called it Reddit Radar: → Scans 20 tech subreddits at 6am → Ranks trending visuals by potential → Writes 5 hook angles per saved visual → Syncs directly into my Notion pipeline Now my morning routine is 3 minutes with a coffee. Tap through the ranked posts, save what I like, choose from the best hooks. The next morning I posted one. It did 250,000 impressions and 500+ engagements. What's wild: I never picked the stack. Perplexity Computer chose Claude Sonnet for the hook gen, React + Tailwind for the frontend, Express + SQLite for the backend, Notion API, Gmail API, a cron job, and Python to parse Reddit RSS. All by itself. When the save function broke, I screenshotted the error and sent it back. It diagnosed the issue, refactored the flow, and deployed the fix - all in one message. You don't need a content team any more. You need content systems. Full prompt + live tool + deep dive article in the comments 👇

  • dictionaryhill
    Meccanica (@dictionaryhill) reported

    Cross posting this from the (private) Airstream Addicts Facebook page without the username to protect the innocent. If anyone has a link to the public Reddit post or Substack please feel free to share it in comments. Take note, his biggest issue is my same problem with Cybertruck and why I choose the R1T. The front charge port. Enjoy: -------- 1,219.7 miles. Joshua Tree, CA to Olympia, WA. Three days, one 31’ Airstream Sovereign, one Silverado EV, and a spreadsheet that wouldn’t quit. Final tally: Silverado EV: $362.92 2020 F-150 (12 mpg): The truck I started this silly journey on back in 2024. Fuel costs would’ve been ~$599 2022 Diesel Silverado 2500 (13 mpg + DEF): The truck I upgraded to after being underwhelmed with the F150. Fuel costs would’ve been ~$673 The EV came in at about 30¢ a mile - roughly half the cost of either truck at today’s West Coast pump prices. The catch? Eleven charging stops vs maybe three or four for gas. The EV “paid” me about $42/hr vs the F-150 and $54/hr vs the diesel for the extra time spent plugged in. Charges averaged 30-40 minutes each. Solid trade when you’re eating lunch or stretching your legs anyway. Less solid when you’re trying to make Olympia by dark. Best efficiency: 1.6 mi/kWh coming down off Siskiyou Summit. Worst: 1.0 mi/kWh going up the same pass. Gravity, as always, keeps the books balanced. Held 55 mph in California, 65 in Oregon and Washington. The 10 mph bump cost about 14% in efficiency - right where v² aero theory says it should land. Honest math, not guesses. The part nobody talks about: 9 of 11 stops required dropping and re-hitching the Airstream. Pull-through fast chargers are still rare enough to be a rumor. If the networks want to win the towing market, that’s the problem to solve. I didn’t realize one of the brand new Rivian chargers was pull through until I had already unhitched. Didn’t matter. Takes literally two minutes to unhitch. About the same to hitch back up. No complicated hitch - straight on the ball. Fuel costs were current CA/OR/WA prices averaged together. Full Substack write-up is coming. Reddit r/SilveradoEV got the long-form data dump. This is the elevator pitch. The truck pulled the Airstream without drama. The numbers say it did it cheaper. The clock says it took a little longer. All three are true at the same time.

  • secretrevealr
    Secret Revealer (@secretrevealr) reported

    I found an ex-performer breaking it down on a podcast. At first I called bullshit. But the same routine kept showing up: old Reddit archives, private forums, and real guy transformations. The logic is brutal once you see it: If you can build muscle in the gym with resistance and consistency… why the hell wouldn’t the exact same principle work down there?

  • lestat133974
    Lestacy (@lestat133974) reported

    @pinkscccubus @refemmed no it isnt if u go on reddit theres tons of stories of guys who get roped into doing cnc fantasy stuff with their gfs and then feel really guilty and terrible afterwards

  • RedDora89
    Tess with One Follower (@RedDora89) reported

    @vinted why are you ignoring the issue of generating labels!? Literally hundreds of comments on here and Reddit where people can’t post parcels. I also don’t have a printer to get one that way. Sort it out - I’ve got two I need to send tomorrow before I go away!

  • realarmaansidhu
    Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reported

    @Threadscenes That image has been on Facebook, Reddit, and X since December 2025. The black specks are mouse droppings. The "what is this" post is the third or fourth engagement format being recycled. Stolen image from an actual pest concern Facebook group, wrapped in feigned confusion, reposted across viral aggregators. The poster never had the mice. The poster doesn't have the sink. The post had 5,000 different lives before this one. This is the engagement bait factory. Anonymous accounts run a content cycle that goes: stolen image, vague mystery question, comment harvest, screenshot, repost. Each cycle generates engagement metrics that get sold to brands or used to seed paid follower bases. The economics work because X's algorithm rewards comments and the question format produces them at scale. The image is real. The poster's confusion is staged. This format costs roughly zero dollars to produce, generates 10,000 to 100,000 views per repost, and can run for months across multiple accounts before the algorithm catches the recycle. Every "weird thing in my house" or "what is this strange shape" post you scrolled past in the last six months is more likely a content harvest than a real homeowner mystery. The question is fake. The mice are real. Someone else's house. Someone else's problem. Your timeline. Your engagement.

  • BrianBanks08
    ₿rian ₿anks (@BrianBanks08) reported

    8MDHBYB1DMBsACyY5oUMQxNK1umREwGZiJ4iDnvZpump @MarioNawfal you hear about intel guy who pulled a roaring kitty ? Invested his grandmas 200k retirement savings, was down huge on it and didn’t sell. 2 years he held and now he’s up 2m. Huge on Reddit ….

  • Vickthefan
    Fanatic (@Vickthefan) reported

    @Griz_zly8 @Haky49501827 Reddit iko down

  • askOkara
    Okara (@askOkara) reported

    every feature you ship is a content opportunity most founders / marketers announce it on x and move on here's a better approach: 1. post the announcement on x 2. write a linkedin post announcing the feature 3. write a short article 4. find reddit threads where people complain about that exact problem and drop a comment 5. include that feature in the weekly email you send to users ship it once, publish everywhere

  • dacoit_rvs
    🔱 (@dacoit_rvs) reported

    Any blind that tries to expose Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, or anything related to them somehow ends up getting taken down... yet their dalla log claim he has no PR That BollyBlinds subreddit on Reddit feels completely bikau

  • LordCanas
    Lord Iván Emiro Cañas Gutiérrez 🇬🇧🇻🇪 (@LordCanas) reported

    @CharlesMullins2 Hi, answering your question I would say No. The viral posts (on Facebook, X, Reddit, etc.) love calling it "quantum levitation" or "reversing a fundamental force" because it sounds dramatic. But the researchers themselves describe it accurately as a tunable quantum vacuum force for nanoscale engineering, not a gravity breakthrough. Bottom line: This is a real, fascinating advance in quantum mechanics and potential nanotech (think better MEMS devices, ultra-low-friction components, or quantum traps). But it's not anti-gravity, and it doesn't point the way there. If we ever crack macroscopic anti-gravity or gravity manipulation, it'll come from a very different corner of physics. No, this is not anti-gravity (or a step toward it). The viral claim you're describing is real science, but massively overhyped in wording. It refers to recent (and some older) demonstrations of a repulsive version of the Casimir force, which can make tiny objects repel each other or "hover" at nanoscale distances without physical contact. That's genuinely cool for quantum physics and nanotechnology, but it has zero connection to gravity or anti-gravity. Quick recap of the actual science (no hype) The Casimir effect (predicted in 1948) is a measurable quantum force between two uncharged, parallel conducting plates (or other surfaces) in a vacuum. It arises from quantum vacuum fluctuations, virtual particles popping in and out of existence in empty space. These fluctuations are restricted between the plates, creating a tiny net attractive pressure that pulls the plates together. It's real, has been experimentally confirmed many times, and becomes significant only at distances of micrometers or less (way smaller than a human hair). Scientists have figured out how to reverse it into repulsion in specific setups: Using different materials (e.g., one surface coated with a low-refractive-index dielectric like Teflon in a fluid medium). Chiral (twisted) optical materials between plates. Ferrofluids (magnetic nanoparticles in liquid) tuned with external magnetic fields. Certain metamaterials or geometry tweaks. In these cases, the vacuum fluctuations produce a repulsive force instead. Experiments have shown tiny gold flakes or other micro-objects stably "hovering" or levitating ~50–200 nanometers above a surface due to the balance of repulsive and attractive Casimir contributions. Recent work (e.g., 2019 experiments and 2024 studies with ferrofluids + magnetic fields) has made this tunable and reversible. The force does indeed come from quantum fluctuations in "empty space itself," as the claim says. And yes, it can enable frictionless microscopic motion or prevent nanoscale parts from sticking together (a big problem in tiny machines). Why this is not anti-gravity Completely different forces. Gravity is the attraction between masses (or spacetime curvature in general relativity). The Casimir force is a quantum electromagnetic effect from the vacuum's zero-point energy in quantum electrodynamics (QED). It has nothing to do with mass or gravitational fields. Repulsive Casimir doesn't "cancel" or manipulate gravity any more than magnetic repulsion does. Scale and strength. At the microscopic scales where this works, gravity is insanely weak compared to Casimir forces (by many orders of magnitude). The "hovering" you see in lab demos isn't fighting Earth's gravity, it's balancing short-range quantum forces against each other (or against other tiny effects like Van Der Waals). I couldn't use this to levitate even a speck of dust against planetary gravity. No pathway to anti-gravity tech. Anti-gravity would require something like negative mass/energy, wormholes, or manipulating spacetime on macroscopic scales, none of which this touches. Vacuum fluctuations do relate to big cosmological mysteries (like dark energy), but reversing Casimir locally in QED setups doesn't advance gravitational control or unification theories. Claims linking this directly to "anti-gravity" appear only in social-media hype or fringe posts, not in the actual physics.

  • namanbarkiya
    Naman Barkiya (@namanbarkiya) reported

    Day 8 wrap. Spent the day going from "thinking about this problem" to "shipping a fix for it." -> Reached a reddit community and posted few comments regarding this idea and got validation. Product 2 is locked: CrazyForm. A form that measures how it was filled, not just what it says. Keystrokes, pauses, paste events, tab switches. Streams to the server as you type. You get a 0-100 trust score per submission and a per-signal breakdown. The pitch in one line: detection asks "was this written by AI?" a race nobody wins. CrazyForm asks "was this typed by a human in one continuous session?" — that one we can actually answer. Built for hiring funnels, scholarship applications, grant programs. Anywhere the answer matters and synthetic submissions are eating the signal. Landing page live soon.. full product within 7 days.

  • ReplyMenace
    The Reply Menace (@ReplyMenace) reported

    @reddit_lies Reddit has whole subs dedicated to ****** fanfiction and acts shocked when someone calls it out. The poster got to the end and still said “yeah shut it down.” The only thing more disgusting than the story is the 300 people who upvoted it, you degenerate gremlin 💀

  • hannahisstupidd
    hannah (@hannahisstupidd) reported

    the true woman experience is using reddit to find a fix for your broken dyson airwrap and then get muna tickets

  • craigbob99
    Craig D. Mansfield, PhD, EI 👨‍🔬🥼🥽⚗️🧪🔬☣️☢️🧮 (@craigbob99) reported

    @HoneyBadgerBite The TikTok vs Reddit implication is hilarious. Both platforms have a distinct problem with hating men.

  • frog_omo
    Amit | Frogomo | AI 🐸 (@frog_omo) reported

    saw this question on reddit: "is AI automation actually worth the cost for my business?" So, I spent the last week digging into the data. the honest answer is more nuanced than most vendors will tell you. here's what i found: MIT's NANDA project: 95% of enterprise AI pilots produce no P&L impact. IBM's 2025 CEO survey: only 25% of AI initiatives deliver expected ROI. S&P Global: companies scrapping most AI work jumped from 17% in 2024 to 42% in 2025. sounds bleak. but then i looked at SMB-specific data. goldman sachs survey of 1,256 small businesses: 76% use AI and 93% report positive impact. salesforce SMB trends: 85% report measurable ROI. the difference? SMBs mostly consume AI through off-the-shelf SaaS, chatgpt, copilot, features baked into hubspot and quickbooks. someone else owns the integration risk. enterprises attempt custom builds and headcount replacement. that's where the failure rate concentrates. what actually works at SMB scale: → invoice OCR: 97-99% accuracy on text PDFs, ~€0.015 per invoice → lead qualification automation: £2,000-£5,000 to build, payback in 1-3 months → internal reporting: typical payback 3-4 months what consistently fails: → customer-facing chatbots without human escalation → AI making policy statements (air canada got sued, cursor triggered mass cancellations) → full headcount replacement (klarna cut 700 agents, then publicly admitted "cost was too predominant" and started rehiring) hidden costs that ambush everyone: → API costs routinely 2-5× initial estimates → data prep runs 2-3× original budget → maintenance: 5-15 hours/month of owner time for DIY automation → license fees are only 30-50% of true cost of ownership the pattern from practitioners who got it right: boring back-office beats flashy customer-facing. augment, don't replace. fix the data layer first. budget 2-3× the consultant's quote. the honest answer to "is it worth it": narrow, off-the-shelf automation in the back office pays back in 3-6 months. customer-facing AI without escalation paths eventually produces a public incident. choose accordingly.

  • FindTheSneaks
    Find The Sneaks (@FindTheSneaks) reported

    @TeamYouTube Happening on my 1st gen 4k with old remote and also the most recent new gen 4k on new remote. You have to tap to move. Swipe won’t work. Also multiple Reddit post with others having the same issue from today

  • theAIdreamer
    iamfaheem (@theAIdreamer) reported

    so I built Buddy. it scans the internet for people who are already expressing the exact problem your product solves. X. Reddit. forums. LinkedIn. wherever the conversation is happening. it finds them. so you don't have to.

  • IvanDubrovka
    Ivan Dubrovka (@IvanDubrovka) reported

    @PopCrave The timing is far too precise to be a coincidence. Just days before Drake drops Iceman, Kendrick torches 400 million views to start from zero. It is the pettiest, smartest troll move of the decade. What Actually Happened (The Timeline) · Monday Morning: Fans on Reddit and X notice that the mammoth music video for "Not Like Us" has vanished from Kendrick's YouTube channel without a trace . · The Panic: Given the history, the internet instantly assumes a lawsuit, a copyright strike, or that Drake’s lawyers finally found a way to bury the diss . · The Twist: Hours later, the video reappears on Kendrick’s feed. However, the legendary 400+ million view counter has been reset to a stark, humbling zero . That is the genius of the move. Kendrick deleted the trophy case but kept the receipt. The "Iceman" Connection Drake’s "Iceman" campaign is built on mystery—hiding release dates in blocks of ice, teasing a wintery, untouchable persona . But Kendrick just executed the perfect counter-programming. By resetting the view count, he has artificially pushed "Not Like Us" back into the "New" and "Trending" algorithms . Why He Did It (The Real Strategy) · Algorithm Warfare: For the next 48 hours, every hip-hop fan opening YouTube will see "Not Like Us (Official Video)" at the top of their feed, sitting right next to Drake’s new release . · Stream Manipulation: Some insiders suggest a metadata or licensing shift at Universal Music Group (UMG) forced the re-upload. However, doing it this week is a power move, not a technical glitch . · The Crowd Goes Viral on Social Media: The chatter isn't about "Iceman" features. It is about why Kendrick deleted the video. He has successfully redirected the energy of Drake’s release week back onto his own headline . The Bottom Line Kendrick doesn't need another hit. "Not Like Us" is cemented in rap history forever. But by sacrificing the vanity metrics, he has ensured that when Drake tries to freeze the world, all anyone remembers is the fire. The view count is back at zero. When Kendrick pressed play, the number shot up by millions in a few hours. That is not a glitch. It is the digital version of waiting for your opponent to finish talking before punching them again.

  • stpaquet
    Stéphane Paquet (@stpaquet) reported

    @strzibnyj Then you will fall back to the same moderation issues as Reddit. Because at the end of the day we are only humans

  • 0xCabana
    CABANA (@0xCabana) reported

    5/ 🎨 Who Left vs Who Entered Reddit shut down NFTs, Nike sold RTFKT, NFT Paris cancelled mid-refund-drama The old “mainstream adoption” thesis is dead But Disney, Spotify and Netflix all launched NFT integrations for token-gated content this cycle

  • Serapher_PGR
    Serapher (@Serapher_PGR) reported

    @BASEDPLAYER0 I DREAM of the day the FBI shuts down reddit permanantly

  • avrldotdev
    avrl ☘ (@avrldotdev) reported

    Applied System Design (Real Scale) 18 How Reddit ranks posts in Real Time Problem During the r/WallStreetBets surge, many people were upvoting the same few posts every second. Why didn't the server get stuck or the database crash from the sheer volume of updates?

  • VidyacharanGV
    VC Venkata (@VidyacharanGV) reported

    @aravind I have serious doubts about @AshwiniVaishnaw . Makes me wonder if he is compromised. GOI has taken no action to handle this issue (Reddit, for example). Anyway the fake-news mafia will cry crocodile tears that their freedom is being oppressed. Let them cry for real henceforth.

  • patye91
    suzanne patricia lik (@patye91) reported

    A few days ago, someone from my community told me they'd been on Reddit for a whole year with nothing to show for it. No clients. Nothing. So I looked at their profile. The problem was clear immediately. They were in the wrong subreddits for their niche. Not just a few — all of them were wrong. So no matter how much they showed up, they were talking to the wrong people. They were commenting under the wrong posts too. Instead of jumping into threads where people had a specific problem, they were responding to general questions where nobody was really looking to hire anyone. Their posts had no clear direction. They didn't know what to share, what format worked, or even which subreddit to post in. So everything felt scattered. And their profile said nothing about who they were. No name, nothing about what they do or for a potential client to hold onto. So we fixed it together in one week: ✅ They joined the right subreddits for their niche ✅ We looked at what kind of posts actually performed and built a simple structure around that — turns out detailed posts showing real results worked best ✅ They started commenting under posts where people were actively looking for a solution Things have already started to shift. I'll come back with a full update soon.

  • multidanvers
    stevie | hacks (@multidanvers) reported

    @Iesbiangaze everyone on this reddit is my enemy i posted a theory of how i thought the season would end (nothing about avorah bc i know how these ugly ppl move) and got down voted so bad 😭