i feel like "does he not like bilbo?" can basically sum up gandalf's actions in the hobbit more generally

It was the official discord until earlier this year, so it's kinda not just "some unofficial server". Also, the mod in question was using racial slurs. Granted, the Godot foundation also split ways with them.

Additionally there was something about an over zealous community manager blocking people over responses that supposedly weren't all that inflammatory or bad? I'm not super sure there, I've only kinda half been paying attention to it

AFAIK, most of valve's stock is held by employees, not private investors. It's usually a pretty hard sell of "make the company you work at shittier to make more money", especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

FWIW - this picture has been floating around since the mid 2000's; the person who blogged about it cooked it super wrong. The instructions said to use a bain marie, and they didnt know what a bain marie, but saw you boiled water in it, so they just boiled the can. If you boil a can, water is 100% going to seep into it, and turn it into...what you see here.

What are you looking to actually do with your programming skills? That will heavily influence which languages to recommend you learn. Do you want to make websites? build games? do AI stuff? Create enterprise-level software? something else?

Probably because of expected expenditures; creating and hosting a streaming platform isn't cheap, and if you have a company that already seems to be floundering, announcing "we're going to spend a boatload of money we don't have" doesn't instill confidence.

you got me.

It's called Cross-dominance and is something I have as well. Certain tasks feel more "right" to perform with one hand over the other.

How best do you recommend continuing the protest? Simply stop using reddit altogether, or is there a malicious compliance you recommend?

Unfortunately, that's probably the only route, IMO

My usage has gone down significantly since the API changes but I haven’t been able to kick it altogether.

While it's not exactly a perfect replacement for reddit yet, lemmy can help with that, i've found. If you click to the "all" feed you can basically get a slows/less populated version of reddit r/all. Really all it lacks at the moment is user participation, which has been climbing a lot over just the past few weeks.

For what it's worth, the admins won't actually see that, they disabled responses on those messages. That's why it says "private moderator note", it's a note only the mod team can see

(It's still funny, though)