The internet, as experienced by most humans today, primarily consists of ads, sponsored content, propaganda and spin. I don't really see how it's contributing to our development in a constructive manner.

Oh, fuck. He's optimistic

In this case they used the dashes for dramatic effect. It's sometimes used to mimic spoken English, in that the cadence of the sentence is changed by the information contained in the dashes. Often, it's replaced by commas in the form of a non-defining relative clause (The man, who lived in the house next to me for many years, was coming to visit). Think of it like a cue to take a pause before saying/reading the information.

Here's a link, if you want to read a bit more: https://writingcommons.org/section/grammar/mechanics/punctuation/dashes/

Try posting non-US news to !news and see what happens.

Well that's some high grade bullshit. "The World’s Internet Frontpage".

It'll go unnoticed, but I think it's appropriate to remind Americans that theyre co-opting terms like "news" to mean "American news".

I don't need to read this article to know that the Taskbar Calendar/Agenda Flyout is still missing.

Serious question: what actually is the value of hard work?

Dogs don't scream when they sneeze, do they?

The country.

That someone has a job working for the railway? In the UK? And that they're measuring distance in kilometres? Now, that would be interesting.

As mandated in their invisible job description

"including business founders, CEOs" - Oh, well, that's ok then. There was nothing to worry about, after all.

Seriously, thanks so much for posting that. Every now and again it's reassuring to hear someone put into words exactly what I fail to articulate. And so well articulated, too.

The fact that this was written before the enshittening of reddit really adds weight to the arguments within. I sigh and chef-kiss at the same time, if you can visualise that.