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The Ark of Bukhara is a spectacular-looking fortress located in Uzbekistan, built 1,500 years ago

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  • It's /‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ shaped. It's not freestanding walls, the whole thing is an earthen mound with a flat top and its sides lined with bricks.

    • The Ark of Bukhara is a spectacular-looking fortress located in Uzbekistan, built 1,500 years ago

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    • Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits

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  • Reddit would implode instantly with only 2K moderators. According to this Reddit post, six years ago there were almost 75K moderators working in subreddits with more than 500 subscribers (i.e. this number only includes moderators who actually have to do some work because their subs are decently active). That number is certain to have grown since then.

    • Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B

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  • I get that, but who would want to buy a company that's never been profitable? It smacks of a scam. "Hey, bro! Buy my company! It never managed to make any money for me, but it'll be highly profitable for you!" Sounds like the company founder is looking to pull a fast one and laugh all the way to the bank while their investor is left holding the bag.

    The only way I can see this working is if the idea is to build a large user base by offering a good user experience, i.e. not monetizing the platform very much, just enough so that it barely pays for its own operating costs. Then you sell that user base to someone else for the express purpose of shoving tons of ads down everyone's throat. In that case it's still a fast one, only in this scenario the users are the victims. But even then I'm skeptical. If that's the plan, why sell the company instead of enshittifying your platform yourself?

    • Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B

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  • Right? How the hell is a company that has never managed to turn a profit worth more than $0?

    • ELI5: If you're a Christian, why do you have to be good if Jesus will forgive you no matter what?

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  • The simple answer is that the "you have to be good" Christians are not the same people as the "Jesus forgives no matter what" Christians. Beliefs and doctrines vary wildly throughout Christianity, and different Christians often believe contradictory things. This isn't helped by the fact that the Bible itself, being a collection of many books by many authors, contains contradictory viewpoints. This allows believers to focus on the elements they like and ignore the ones they don't.