This wasn’t true in the past and we might simply be experiencing a historical anomaly right now

While our exact pacing might be slightly different from the pure extrapolation, human history has been a long, steady increase in the rate of invention. Access to education has meant that more people are making things, and then the next generations build on top of their work to make even bigger things.

Another fun comparison is to watch Seven Samurai, then watch The Magnificent Seven.

New York has a similar thing about to take effect, as well.

Someone just made this up so that they could get it away from their kid, didn't they?

I jest, but that would be funny.

She has a "version 2" as well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLFbZlYWaKc

Not just this, it's AH. Not... terrible, but super hype-y from what I've seen.

Do you want Reavers? Because this is how you get gorram Reavers.

Well. Damn. This helped me out, thanks.

The bulk of heavy users are on third party apps, most likely.

"Taking over" is the wrong tense and the wrong interpretation. With very few exceptions, charter schools have been a Christian nationalist ploy nearly from the beginning.

To some extent, Reddit does get a slice - in the form of user engagement. User engagement is how they generate ad impressions, even if it's not from the users on the third party apps.

They COULD have simply put ads into the API, or made it a requirement. They didn't.

Their entire goal is to maximize "value" before their IPO. Control and number inflation. They don't care about the long term. Spez wants to cash out, and he doesn't care what it costs the company.

Even worse, their official app uses the same API -- and, by estimates, the Reddit app uses more calls than Apollo does.

They wanted more per user than they will ever make. A multiple of that, in fact.