Reddit is Beholden to Marketing Agencies With Agendas – Reddit is regularly manipulated by marketing agencies who use the platform to shill for fake news, products, and reputation management

via The_In-Betweener: Aug 27th, 2018 – https://www.macobserver.com/news/reddit-financial-services-companies/ Reddit moderators are aware of this, and do their best to combat this type of shilling. It’s a tough battle, because the first thing they look at to verify an account’s authenticity is to look …

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IT TOOK NEARLY A FULL DAY TO ADMIT THIS: Twitter Reverses Ruling After Backlash, Concedes It’s Against The Rules To Wish Death Upon Dana Loesch’s Children.

via dailycaller: Twitter reversed course Monday and suspended a Twitter account that said National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch “has to have her children murdered.” “The only way these people learn is if it affects them directly,” Twitter user …

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Default rates on student loans by university type

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/student-debt-loan-default-college.html Millions of students will arrive on college campuses soon, and they will share a similar burden: college debt. The typical student borrower will take out $6,600 in a single year, averaging $22,000 in debt by graduation, according to the National …

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USA vs. Russia Arms Sales from 1950 to 2017

by transitmapper U.S. and USSR/Russian arms sales from 1950 through 2017. The underlying data comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Arms Transfers Database. Units are expressed in trend indicator values (TIV). Each dot on the map = one …

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Cash poor, investment rich.

by therinlahhan First off, I use the term “investment rich” as a relative term. I know most people here have a lot more than I do in investments but relative to my “cash,” it’s significantly more. But that’s good. I …

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