Not having to slaughter animals to serve meat is absolutely a "we're living in the future" moment. Although cultivated meat has been deployed to Singapore, according to a BBC article, it's not widespread:

That partnership lasted a few months and this year Huber's has started offering a chicken sandwich and a chicken pasta dish to the general public - albeit only once a week with limited dining slots available.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65784505

It looks like the primary issues they're facing is scale. They need to up the scale considerably to match demand.

I see Beyond, Impossible, and spin-offs everywhere, so they have some tough competition to unseat, even though their products actually meat and not just substitution.

Of course. Storage space is cheaper on 7200rpm drives, and has, historically, for years. SSD is rapidly dropping in price, but it's not on the same level, yet. Western Digital Gold 4TB is $150 USD. Crucial MX500 4TB SSD is $200.

EDIT: SSD is also not available for large drives, 8-20TB.

Considering the COVID pandemic is still mass infecting people (with somewhere around 1/10 people getting Long-COVID, and some percentage of those people being disabled long-term) and now it's leading to weakened immune systems and fungal infections, my guess is another mass health-disruption event is what we're on the brink of.

Or maybe mass homelessness and poverty. Does anyone remember that two-parter from Deep Space Nine where they go back in time with ghettos in San Francisco? Past Tense. It was set in 2024.

The IPO is really the only thing that matters to reddit right now. Their entire decision making system is based around how to increase value and profitability as quickly as possible so that the IPO is successful (my guess is that this is in hopes of leaving investors holding the bag.)

Although they don't care to do anything about it, this current behavior is exactly what will make them unstable in the long-term. Having better organization, and a better business acumen, and being better to their community will net better profitability. But none of that matters as long as short-term, the IPO pays for the sins of the past.

The way that Christian and other developers were treated by reddit, their administrative team, and their CEO, is just abhorrent. There's no justification to explain their behavior. It's just so cold. To attack someone from a position of power for simply defending themselves, after attacking them for a mutually beneficial compromise, is just morally bankrupt behavior.

I don't blame him (and others) for just wanting to stop the relationship with reddit. Even if they backpedaled, there would be no trust left.