That’s not The Columbia River Gorge then I think. It’s like, the Columbia River, in a gorge. The Columbia River Gorge is between Portland and Kennewick area specifically. Not that it really matters.
The geology out there is pretty amazing. Giant fucking lava flows covered everything millions of years ago and then there were cataclysmic ice age floods that carved out the gorges and whatnot. The Columbia river carried something like 13 times the volume of the Amazon River at times during the floods.
Reddit’s newest users use it like Tiktok, thus pushing short videos to the front page all the time. It will become a Tiktok clone within the next six months. Mark my words.
IMO this already happened. I’ve been seeing too many short videos content on reddit lately. That’s why I’ve been slowly abandoning reddit. Eventually API changes made me switch to lemmy which is turning out fine right now.
OP has a view setting that magnifies ads. In my view setting (as close to third party apps as it gets), the ads take up much less space and there is no trending section. OP is choosing a bad layout to exaggerate their point.
I’m not entirely sure but I only changed settings when things bothered me and I never saw this sort of ad. I’m not sure if I even browsed popular before I changed some settings so I’m not an objective judge. My point is, users are not trapped with this sort of ad environment. You use classic view instead of card view and the ads get a little differently annoying. Not huge screen space gobblers but sneaky post-lookalike pests.
California’s Great America theme park in Santa Clara, CA, USA - but the comic strip is from “Peanuts” and dates back to 1991 as far as I can tell: www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1991/02/07
The original author / cartoonist, Charles M. Schultz, did the comic himself from 1950 - 2000 with no assistants - so I guess this one is authentic. Maybe if he were alive today he’d be a fan of this community! Or maybe he’s just expressing a child’s point of view.
Seeing that island in the distance from my hotel every morning, and knowing that a single person privately owns it, made me unreasonably upset everyday I stayed there.
Right now Relay for Reddit is working on a subscription model and has been granted a extension period. It’s currently free to use. Not sure if I’ll bother paying for it to stay on Reddit, but for now I can still use Reddit without the official app.
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