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Equestrian ponies canonically put them in sandwiches.

So you think you can come to the Canadian border waving around a dead Canada goose and you’ll be welcomed with open arms?

You’d be shot on sight. If we had any guns.

So if Linus Torvalds were to announce one day “I’m tired of Linux, time to burn it all down” that’d be fine? Someone else can just create a new operating system, after all.

The point here is that OP may have “created” the subreddit in the sense of clicking a few buttons and filling out some text fields, but at this point it’s a community with 200,000 participants. Those participants also share in its ownership. Forcing them to jump through hoops recreating the whole thing just because OP’s decided he wants a Viking funeral is selfish.

Yeah, as soon as he said “Goose, easy” I knew he was not Canadian material. Sorry, OP. Maybe try Mexico?

Then they can make a new sub and pointlessly use their own leg work.

The existing sub is right there. OP wants to walk away from it. There’s absolutely no point to burning it to the ground and forcing someone else to do a bunch of work to recreate it, it’s just petty.

I’ve had to deal with this sort of “if I can’t have it nobody can” mentality in online communities before, helping rebuild the ruins of something that someone pointlessly destroyed on their way out the door, and it massively sucks. OP’s just going to make everyone hate him.

Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.

The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck.

200,000 people might give a fuck.

And frankly he’s being incredibly selfish to try this. 200,000 people apparently enjoy his sub, but now that he’s bored with it he’d rather see it destroyed than let someone else handle it.

America is currently at war with us, declared abruptly and out of nowhere. They just decided one day “we want to annex Canada!”

Even if Donald’s presidency is short-lived and a new slightly saner and less stupid administration takes control, I don’t think it’s a good idea to be trusting the Americans any more.

We need to disentangle ourselves from any military dependence on such ridiculously unreliable “allies.” I’m all for this.

Ah, so this is how survival prepping goes mainstream. Not quite how I expected but I’ll take it.

They may also go down over time. They may do little spirals, or go sideways.

Donald changes his mind on these things literally hour-to-hour. That’s really great for American businesses.

Yeah, I’d much rather have random humans I don’t know anything about making those “moral” decisions.

If you’re already answered, “No,” you may skip to the end.

So the purpose of this article is to convince people of a particular answer, not to actually evaluate the arguments pro and con.

Sounds like an auction with extra steps.

Wasn’t he just a nut who had decided to shoot anyone who was really famous, and Donald just happened to come to town that day?

There are so many things about this timeline that are just dumb. My suspension of disbelief is broken. I want to subscribe to a different one.

I’m not making any statements about what other people may think about it. The question was why this guy is doing this thing, and I expect it’s because he finds it fun.

I’ve seen plenty of weird bots on Reddit over the years that had no point to their existence other than, presumably, having been fun to code. This is probably one such.

Right, and this is presumably something he finds fun. You were asking why, I was explaining why.

No, it’s not the same. I was using basketball as an analogy. Someone who doesn’t enjoy basketball wouldn’t “get it”, just as you’re not “getting” the fun that can come from building and playing around with AI bots. Different people find different things to be fun.

/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive/ does this.

I actually wandered away from the SubredditSimulator successor subreddits because even with GPT2 they were “too good”, they lost their charm. Back when SubredditSimulator was still active it was using simple Markov chain based text generators and they produced the most wonderfully bonkers nonsense, that was hilarious. Modern AIs just sound like regular people, and I get that everywhere already.

What I am failing to understand is: why?

People do things for fun sometimes. You could ask this about almost anything that people do that isn’t directly and immediately related to survival. Why do people play basketball? It’s just pointlessly bouncing a ball around in a room, following arbitrary rules that only serve to make the apparent goal of getting it through the hoop harder.

And if not, the Ukrainians are doing quite well in the long-range department. Just yesterday they blew up an oil refinery 1300 km from the front lines.