I think a quirk of reddit is that conventional finance doesn't account for its value. Reddit in and of itself just operates a barebones site as the article says. While the site itself is ostensibly worthless. It has had incredible amount of value to those using it for commercial and political purpose. Nation state actors too even (cougheglincough). These days what organization isn't using or trying to use reddit. Such things don't appear in financial statements. I think they've been propped up with funding for so long because its a nexus of zeitgeist. There are enough organizations who it is useful to such that it's better to keep reddit alive rather than risk having to establish their dark presence on new competitor platforms. I suspect spez knows he has everyone by the balls too.
The config file in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
.
Search for the widget name. I will use org.kde.plasma.analogclock
.
On my system this widget has a config section.
[Containments][53][Applets][186]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.analogclock
It is applet 186. Search the string Applet-186
for a section that has entries containing ItemGeometries
.
[Containments][53]
ItemGeometries-0x0=Applet-112:1712,48,144,256,0;
ItemGeometries-1280x720=
ItemGeometries-1920x1080=Applet-186:1504,96,304,304,231;
ItemGeometries-1920x1200=
ItemGeometries-3840x2160=
ItemGeometriesHorizontal=Applet-186:1504,96,304,304,231;
The ItemGeometries
are the layout of the widget on the desktop. I believe the last five semicolon separated numbers are:
- x position
- y position
- width
- height
- rotation in degrees
The American sphere of influence is palpable here. Trudeau, Poilievre, and Singh are all gen-x. The average age of politicians here is not as geriatric as American congress.
The media landscape has been pared down to a handful of corporate interests. The loss of local news, media, and journalism with the series of low key consolidations (and scandals) over the past few decades has been devastating for Canadian sovereignty. Now pile on Americanized social media being the defacto cultural zeitgeist. It's been a disaster. It used to be that Canada had cultural icons that everyone could name. Now what is there?
Not even the once sacred Hockey Night in Canada was spared. It seems not many people even know this but it isn't a CBC production anymore. It's made by Rogers Sportsnet. CBC merely gives the timeslot to air that bland corporatized production every Saturday.
The local paper in my area stopped a long time ago. I don't even remember when. People don't subscribe the newspapers anymore that once wrote about local and national issues first with global issues as subsections of the paper. People don't have cable TV anymore even though there's really no more local content. Everyone is streaming American media.
The current generation did not grow up with local TV stations as the main broadcasters. They did not get their news from local papers. They did not have MuchMusic being the window into pop culture. They did not grow up with the powerhouse that was once CBC kids programming. Their childhoods did not revolve around shows produced by Canadian media companies like Corus or CINAR. The young generation today were given iPads and consumed American media.
Right now you have to talk to people over 30 give or take who have memory of what the Canadian news and media era even was. What we're seeing is the fading memory of all this.
The millennials in my area are doing traditional extended family things with the kids friends from school.
There's another type of citogenesis going on with articles and internet comments. Writers look to social media to see what people are talking about / what will get engagement. Internet commenters talk about the article taking the points that strike a chord. Writers see what the users are talking about and write about that. Internet comments react. Writers see the comments and publish accordingly. Rinse. Repeat.
Some iterations later people have piles of articles to point to as proof. The articles have been repeating back their own words written by someone else with ostensible credibility because it's been published.
A major problem aside from that itself is internet comments need to boil everything down to simple one liner takes. The world isn't simple like that. People could do long form investigative journalism. And then the internet comments would boil it down to a single easily digestible take that washes away all analysis.
The perpetual foreigner mindset. They will never see certain people as Canadian. When they can't come to grips with that. They will never even see them as individuals. It goes no further than a monolith of which there are some who happen to be living in Canada but never Canadian. Gotta walk around making public displays of appeasement so peanut over there won't be shaking his is boot because they're all CCP agents until proven otherwise.