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  orange chainsaws (@westboundsign95) reported 3 minutes ago

  Why is there just so many bad guides to literally everything and somehow reddit is the one that solves all my problems

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  Yash (@yashlame) reported 5 minutes ago

  Call it the unsigned citation. An AI engine pulls a Reddit thread into its answer. The thread is about your category. Your product solves exactly that problem. Your name appears nowhere on the page it cited.

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  d1nz.3 (@d1nz_3) reported 8 minutes ago

  @mrzlucid callin it a funnel is fair, my problem w it is what it converts. 8 months of BIP posts got me followers who r all buildin the same thing as me, n almost nobody w the problem I solve. what shifted it was postin the same updates where the buyer asks the question - reddit threads, comment sections - n keepin BIP for the founder crowd. both r fine, just dont count one as the other.

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  DingusCola SLOTS CLEARED (@fackinbuddy) reported 12 minutes ago

  @___EEF_ There are apparently people on Reddit as recent as 4 days ago having the exact same issue on me and the working theory that it’s due to paypal’s ai security. This could validate for a genuine law suit

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  The Wise Investor 🧠 (@TheWiseIC) reported 12 minutes ago

  @sjb987654321 @varuninvesting User stagnation is a risk but let me paint this picture. If Reddit wasn’t desired, why does logged out traffic and web referrals continue to grow? Clearly, there’s a demand for “what does Reddit think”? The issue is how to convert logged out to logged in. Well, management said that the best conversion comes from platform investments. Reddit search went from 1M users last year to 15M users. They just need to make the platform better to use. That’s it. The best ROI comes from within.

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  Arjun Premkumar (@arjun_prmkmr) reported 15 minutes ago

  @ayoub_el77927 Talk about what and how you solve the problem on X an Reddit as much as possible.

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  David G Quaid (SEO) (@DavidGQuaid) reported 20 minutes ago

  @NomadicBackpac1 so everyone likes to pile on with... So is a dead server - but you never see "having a live server" is good for SEO. There's a line - if it doesnt help SEO - then its not "optimizing" Fixing a page that used to rank by taking "draft mode" off - isn't SEO. It doesnt take an IQ of 145 to figure this out? Go look at the top ranking sites for many high CPC categories and show me they're all the fastest. They're not - many of them fail the CWV test - as many people point out on Reddit.... Saying Google punishes slow sites is cyclical for "I ran out of SEO ideas"

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  Prakrit (@Misarwaprak) reported 22 minutes ago

  @HVSBanwait I said what I observed across x insta,reddit, many jatt Sikhs are rattled not bcse someone won there is a central theme in their issue with this election. They simply can't accept a hindu winning there. For them everything associated with punjab is sikh especially jatt Sikhs.

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  James Altucher (@jaltucher) reported 22 minutes ago

  There are two primary bottlenecks to today's AI. And solving these bottlenecks is where the money is right now. A) DATA - the big models have ALL the data already. All the texts, videos, reddit posts, tweets, etc. How can they get more data? Other than the natural daily creation of new data the biggest repository of UNUSED data is behind the corporate firewall. Whoever can unlock the data behind the firewall will create a model bigger than anything OpenAI can do. The key is this: corporate data does not want to be free (competition reasons or even legal reasons in the case of healthcare) So the method has is decentralized learning techniques where AI trains locally inside the firewall, and then shares its weights (but not the data that created those weights) to an AI model that stitches this together. This is where $TAO is the best in the world and at a $2.5B value is cheap. B) CONNECTIVITY = POWER. Everyone is complaining about power. But people don't realize that the power problem is really a connectivity problem. 100,000 GPUs in a data center means a million or more copper / electricity interconnects connecting them all. Change that from electricity to MicroLEDs and you wll use 1/30 of the power. Problem solved. Who is doing this? $MRVL $ALAB $FABC $KOPN

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  Colin Sechay (@colinsechay) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Fran_Casaretto_ The Legendary Story: Tom Hanks is sitting at a diner in North Dakota having a beer. A few tables over, some kid is face-down, completely passed out. Hanks walks over to check if he’s okay, sees the guy’s phone sitting on the table, and can’t resist. He has the bartender snap a few photos of himself with the unconscious stranger — one where he’s looking concerned, one where he’s pointing and laughing like he just found treasure — then slips the phone back into the kid’s pocket and leaves. The next morning the guy wakes up, scrolls his camera roll, and finds Tom Hanks photobombing his hangover.  That’s the story that spread on Facebook, Imgur, and Reddit with captions like “Can you imagine finding these on your phone after a drunken night out?” What actually happened A fan ran into Hanks at a diner in West Fargo (Hanks’ niece worked there). The fan’s thing was posing with celebrities while pretending to be wasted. He asked Hanks if they could do it. Hanks said yes, handed over his glasses, and played along while a friend took the pictures. The original Reddit title was literally: “My friend met Tom Hanks, stole his glasses and pretended to be wasted.”  Hanks’ favorite version When a reporter asked him about it in 2013, Hanks gave both stories and then said he preferred the legend: “Well now, that second version is that I did just start taking pictures with a passed-out guy. I’m happy with this version, that it’s become somewhat of a legend. I wouldn’t want anyone not to believe that I am capable of turning up on their phones.” So the photos are real, Hanks really posed with a guy who looks dead-drunk at a diner, and he really used the guy’s phone. He just didn’t do it to a random unconscious stranger. The internet decided the better story was the one where Forrest Gump finds you passed out and photobombs your phone, and Hanks was happy to let that one live. @grok

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 24 minutes ago

  REDDIT $RDDT ADDED $2.6B TODAY OVER TWO CONTRACTS WORTH $130M A YEAR: Reddit RDDT at $158.11, +$13.47 / +9.31% today, one of the largest gains on the board among big, widely-followed names - and the company itself did nothing to earn it. The San Francisco company runs the network of user-written forums people land on when they add "reddit" to a search, employs 2,555 people, and makes almost all its money selling ads inside those conversations. The day around it: S&P 500 ETF Trust, ticker SPY, at $765.27 (after hours), +$3.49 / +0.46%. One stock, not a market. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID Colin Sebastian at Baird kept a Neutral rating and a $185 price target - the level an analyst reckons the shares are worth - and made an unusual argument. Not that good news is coming: that the bad news is already in the price. Today's share price, he wrote, already sits near his worst case for two expiring contracts, and he valued a middling outcome at roughly $10 a share of extra value, a good one at roughly $20. That is the whole catalyst: an unchanged rating and a sentence about what the price already assumes. THE TWO CONTRACTS Reddit charges AI companies for legal access to its archive of human conversation instead of letting the text be scraped for free. Two of those deals matter: - Alphabet, the owner of Google, at $337.38 (after hours), +$2.36 / +0.70% today: a reported $60M a year, from a February 2024 expansion of its access to Reddit's data - OpenAI, privately held, with no shares anyone can buy: a reported $70M a year, from May 2024 Both expire next year. Neither has been renewed in public. Together that is $130M a year against $2.78B of revenue - the money coming in the door - across Reddit's last four reported quarters. Roughly 4.7% of sales. Set the two side by side. Today added about $2.6B of market value - the share price times every share - against contracts bringing in $130M a year. Twenty years of that revenue repriced in one session, on an argument that the fear had gone too far. WHY IT NEEDED AN ARGUMENT The June quarter, reported July 30, was not the problem. - Revenue $804.9M, +61% from a year earlier - the eighth quarter in a row above 60% - Advertising was $762M of it, +64%; everything else, licensing included, $43M - Profit $252.8M, or $1.25 a share, against about $0.97 analysts modeled, from $89.3M a year earlier - People using Reddit on an average day: 130.3M, +18%. Money earned per user: $6.18, +36% - This quarter was then guided to $860M-$870M of revenue, above the roughly $830M modeled Beat, guided higher, and down 20.99% the next session - $178.04 to $140.67 on July 31, on 29.9M shares against a normal 4.5M. Two worries did that. Visitors arriving from Google searches had gone choppy, and no new AI licensing deal was announced. Both are one worry in different clothes: how much of Reddit turns on a larger company's decisions. Which is why Alphabet is in this story twice - as the customer paying the $60M, and as the search box deciding how many people show up. THE PART THAT SHOULD SLOW ANYBODY DOWN Reddit did this exact thing three weeks ago. On August 14 it closed at $178.09, up 12.63% in a session, on news it would join the S&P 500 - the index that fund above tracks - on August 18. Index funds have to buy what the index holds, so that was real, dated, mechanical demand. By September 1 the stock closed $144.64. The entire 18.78% handed back over twelve sessions. Today's $158.11 close is one cent below the $158.12 it closed at on August 13, the day before the index news broke. Three weeks, two double-digit jumps, one full round trip. The shape today was strong - opened $143.71, dipped to $143.50 early, closed within 16 cents of its best price of the day - but on 5.32M shares against a 7.03M average over the past month. A 9% move on lighter turnover is a smaller crowd setting the price than the percentage implies. Wider frame: the shares sit 44.1% under the $282.95 of September 18 last year, and $19.93 / 11.2% under where they closed the day before the July report. WHERE IT SITS Reddit is fourth on the Hypergrowth Len5, which watches early companies growing fast. It earns that on both halves at once - 18% more people showing up, each worth 36% more - which is how a 61% quarter gets built without either number carrying it alone. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: management's own map for this quarter is +47% to +49%, the first sub-60% quarter in two years. Growth settling there and easing further makes this a bigger company growing slower, which is a different style's shape. None of the other five carry it. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and an outsider's opinion is not that; a high built on Reddit's own October figures would be. Quality-Value hunts a durable business at a fair price; 33.6 times the last year of profit is arguable, but durability is the harder half while a real share of visitors arrives through somebody else's search box - user growth holding through a referral downturn is what would settle it. No dividend answers Income in one line. Alphabet sits first on that same Quality-Value Len5 - the top name on it - because search and cloud are about as hard to displace as any business gets, and the price reads as a real discount rather than merely fair. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: search revenue shrinking as people ask AI assistants instead. WHAT TO WATCH, AND THE RISK October 29 is the next hard fact, when Reddit is expected to report - not company-confirmed. That is where +47% to +49% either lands or does not, and where any renewal news surfaces. The risk is that nothing was signed today. No contract renewed, no talks confirmed, no figure published. What moved was one analyst's read of what the price already assumed - and twice this summer this same stock has been handed a reason to jump and then spent a fortnight giving it back. Not investment advice.

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  technopol 🕊️ (@technopol_ph) reported 27 minutes ago

  @nokkron @ShitpostRock I've been banned there for the most mundane things like my photo's pixel size was too large. They have the ability to scale it down like normal forum moderators do but no not in Reddit.

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  Let 📖: the raven scholar (@f1reheartt) reported 32 minutes ago

  @LilyRosey79580 yeah… lol I actually saw two people on reddit who had the same problem as me, but they were luckier, since theirs went back to normal. I think the best would be to do regular backups

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  Keith Zhai (@KeithZhai) reported 33 minutes ago

  @michael_kove @victor_bigfield reddit on a schedule is a mean test. usually a login page pretending to be a thread. curious what you get tonight.

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  Dice (@builtbydice) reported 33 minutes ago

  @MSiekmoeller reddit is ridiculously good for finding people with the exact problem you’re solving

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  TradingRuppe | Investing (@TradingRuppe) reported 35 minutes ago

  🚨 10 WILD THINGS THAT JUST HAPPENED IN THE STOCK MARKET TODAY (WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2, 2026) 🚨 1. Dell Technologies Squeezes +4.7% ($DELL): PC and enterprise giant $DELL climbed +4.7% on heavy buy-side volume after beating fiscal Q2 2027 estimates, powered by accelerated enterprise demand for high-capacity AI server hardware.  2. 10-Year Treasury Yield Touches 4.81% Multi-Year High: Global debt selling pushed the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield up to 4.814%—its highest level since late 2023. Multi-decade high yields in Japan, Germany, and the UK added pressure across international risk assets.  3. Reddit Rallies +7.0% ($RDDT): Social network platform $RDDT surged +7.0% on heavy institutional accumulation as analysts highlighted upcoming high-margin AI training data-licensing renewals.  4. PG&E Drops -9.7% on Capex Cuts ($PCG): California utility titan $PCG plunged -9.7% after cutting capital spending plans and addressing ongoing regulatory uncertainty surrounding wildfire liability frameworks.  5. Oil Rally Pauses After $94 Peak: Following yesterday's military spike, international benchmark Brent Crude pulled back slightly from its $94/bbl high as traders weighed supply disruption risks in the Strait of Hormuz against steady physical supply flows.  6. Edison International Falls -7.6% ($EIX): Utility pressure continued as $EIX fell -7.6% after state lawmakers advanced Senate Bill 492 without expected liability protections for utility operators. 7. JOLTS Job Openings Print at 7.3 Million: July JOLTS labor data showed openings coming in slightly below consensus at 7.29 million, signaling a moderating U.S. labor market ahead of Friday's non-farm payrolls report. 8. Charter Communications Rebounds +4.9% ($CHTR): Telecom heavyweight $CHTR advanced +4.9% on heavy dip-buying following earlier executive leadership changes, leading mid-day media gains.  9. ISM Manufacturing Expands for 8th Straight Month: August ISM Manufacturing PMI printed at 54.6, comfortably above the 50 expansion threshold and confirming ongoing factory production momentum despite higher borrowing costs.  10. Markets Snap 3-Day Losing Streak: Dip-buyers stepped in to stop the September slide, sending the Dow Jones up +295.07 points (+0.56%) to 53,061.95, the S&P 500 up +0.46% to 7,666.60, and the Nasdaq Composite gaining *+0.45% to 26,217.83*.

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  Cushion Finish (@Cushionfinish21) reported 35 minutes ago

  @moonlarking @pixaxiq @CH4R10T_TV The easy way to tell is the lack of engagement on the post other than views and likes. You can easily find places that will charge you like 15c for 10 likes with a quick Google search - people use them all the time. It's a huge problem on this site as well as Reddit.

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  Nishant Nischal (@Nishant_N_25) reported 35 minutes ago

  How to get thousands of signups without spending $1 on ads: Instead of launching your SaaS with a paid paywall: 1. Pick 1 feature from your product 2. Spin it off onto a standalone landing page 3. Remove all login/sign-up friction 4. Add a clean "Powered by [Brand]" watermark 5. Launch it on Product Hunt & Reddit A great free mini-tool will bring in more leads than a 6-month marketing campaign.

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  BigTrees (@MoreBigFish) reported 39 minutes ago

  @EricBalchunas @1xNotSure The reason is that over the last 12 yrs there have been many hundreds of thousands of tweets, reddit posts, articles, hit pieces, books and podcasts, all to give you the opinion you have about the man. Some ask why so much effort has been made to take him down - and see a story.

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  heated rivalry anti 🦈 (@imaloteveryday) reported 40 minutes ago

  this just being a coke rant of reddit twitter terms. this is because none of your problems exist in real life

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  Carnelian🇺🇸🦖 (@carnelianpagan) reported 43 minutes ago

  @HazelAppleyard Surely he knows what a **** looks like, considering he has one. They don't all look the same but it's pretty close. Unless he's never looked down? That post is a whole can of worms. Dude need serious therapy, not reddit troons.

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  nexa_sama (@nexasama) reported 45 minutes ago

  Matt Damon says Steven Spielberg intentionally banned him from Saving Private Ryan’s boot camp so the cast would genuinely resent him: "Is it true that Steven Spielberg excluded you purposely from the military training on the set of Saving Private Ryan to create a real resentment between the rest of the cast and you?" "That is totally true... I was ready to go to boot camp, and he said, 'Absolutely not.' He goes, 'You can train in any way you want, but I'm separating you from the other guys.' They really did" "they were totally resentful every time they brought up boot camp." "There's an internet rumor on Reddit that if you watch the famous 'idiosyncrasies' scene in Good Will Hunting" "you can actually see a subtle wobbling up and down because the camera operator was laughing uncontrollably along with you and Robin Williams." "I don't know, we could check. I wouldn't be surprised. Robin made everybody laugh... When he would see people's energy flagging, he would just launch into like 10 minutes of stand-up."

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  Bmore73 (@mdemt) reported 46 minutes ago

  @ErimhanAhmet May 2024 — Former sailor’s photos called “worse than prison” A former Navy worker shared mess-hall photos on Reddit (raw-looking chicken, questionable brown meat, pink hotdog, moldy bread). Commenters included veterans from the 1990s who said shipboard food was “really quite awful,” greasy, and off-tasting. Covered by The Mirror.  Longer-term context from reporting: Sailors have long described repetitive menus, declining quality after fresh produce runs out (often within the first couple of weeks), and reliance on personal snacks, protein powder, and ramen to supplement. Midnight rations (“midrats”) were frequently cited as especially sparse leftovers. Ships returning to port rusty after long deployments October 2020 — USS Stout (DDG-55) after 215 consecutive days at sea The destroyer returned to Naval Station Norfolk looking heavily rust-streaked and weathered after a record 215 days without docking (COVID restrictions prevented port visits). Photos circulated widely showing rust patches on the hull. Daily Mail and later Naval News / NAVSEA coverage noted the rust was removed and the ship repainted after return. NAVSEA later used the Stout photo as an example of high operational tempo plus saltwater corrosion.  December 2021 — Broader “Navy is rusting away” reporting Task & Purpose published photos of multiple ships showing rust after deployments, including USS Arleigh Burke, USS Fort McHenry, USS James E. Williams, and USS Zumwalt, plus the 2020 Stout return. The piece attributed it to a “crushing deployment cycle” that left little time for preservation work.  2018–2019 examples and analysis • USS Curtis Wilbur drew comments for a “rusty and shabby appearance” during a 2018 Hong Kong visit. • 2019 Defense News “Rust Dialogues” discussed why U.S. ships often look rustier than allied ships: American vessels stay at sea longer with fewer port visits for chipping and painting. A 2005 photo of USS Normandy mid-deployment was contrasted with later, rustier ships. Corrosion control was already a multi-billion-dollar annual cost.  2023 NAVSEA statement Naval News quoted NAVSEA on rusty ships: high operational tempo + steel + seawater = rust staining wherever coatings are scratched. Crews do preservation at sea, but it is balanced against operations. The Stout 2020 photo was referenced again.  Rust after long deployments is treated by the Navy as expected cosmetic wear from saltwater and limited time for topside work while underway; it is usually addressed after return to port. Food complaints have been a persistent sailor grievance for decades, especially once fresh stores are gone and the 21-day repeating frozen/canned menu takes over. Both issues tend to surface most visibly after unusually long or high-tempo deployments with few or no port calls.

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  Johnny (@houndofhircine) reported 51 minutes ago

  @frozenaesthetic Can you buy Reddit too and shut it down?

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  SHRIMPMONEYCAPITAL (@SHRIMPMONEYCAP) reported 53 minutes ago

  @LegalYookay on reddit the problem is "men"

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  Priyanshu Bhati (@buildwithpb) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Noise_Frequency @susanabulhawa glitch is huge but calling them barons feels like a stretch. they’re just really good at reddit lore.

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  graphtheory (@graphtheory) reported 57 minutes ago

  It’s funny to me that people are trying to set boundaries with the evil tankies who want to burn everything down by being like “VPs at banks only make like $200k” You’re talking to a waitress at a gas station who dunning Krugered herself on Reddit, don’t bother, you’re the enemy

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  Harshal (@harshal_lfc) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Chikudi_US Also, according to reddit rumours they already had issues from 2nd or 3rd month itself. Plus, early months in marriage is mostly lovey dovey after which people show their true colours if they are hiding something

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 59 minutes ago

  Fable 5.1 has been out for about a day and Reddit has already discovered why some people don't like the way it writes: THE WATERMARK. Except...probably not. Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the first new Claude models carrying Anthropic's statistical text watermark, and some users are already wondering whether that's why the newer Claude models feel more verbose, structured or exhausting to read. I went through Anthropic's actual watermark documentation, and their explanation makes that theory pretty hard to defend. The watermark doesn't insert hidden characters or extra words. It only nudges the random choice between equally acceptable next words. Anthropic says its testing found no measurable effect on creativity, readability or output quality, and cites Google's controlled testing of the underlying SynthID-Text approach reaching the same result. It also adds no extra tokens and essentially no latency. And here's the detail I hadn't appreciated: Anthropic is applying the watermark globally, even though it exists largely because of the EU AI Act, because it says it doesn't yet have a durable way to apply it only by geography. Older Claude models are eventually getting it too. Code barely gets watermarked at all when exact token choices matter. Factual passages get less watermarking for the same reason. The watermark lives mostly in places where “grey” and “overcast” are equally good choices. So if Fable 5.1 suddenly feels like it swallowed a management-consulting handbook, I wouldn't blame Brussels just yet. But humans being humans, we quickly try to reverse-engineer model behavior from vibes. Yesterday people thought Fable 5.1 existed because Claude suddenly seemed smarter. Today people think its writing changed because of a watermark. Last week a Gemini model told somebody it was a model that hadn't even been released yet. The Behavioral-Fingerprint Trap keeps winning. We are getting very good at noticing that something changed. We're still pretty terrible at figuring out what changed underneath it. And in 2026, it could be the checkpoint, the harness, the effort setting, the router, the safeguard layer, the system prompt, the watermark... ...or Claude just decided it really wanted to give you twelve bullet points today.

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  Zee_Engr (@engr_117) reported 60 minutes ago

  @reddit_lies @RationalBlonde Can we report on Reddit discrimination? Same issue with /layoffs Reddit community. They ban anyone who talks and shares true fact on H1B, OPT, offshoring issue