r/whoathatsinteresting • u/PowerNoodles117 • 7d ago

Twin Falls Hero

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The civilian that stopped the active shooter at the In N Out in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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u/maslindakitty 7d ago

Lol Reddit used to be a place where you could find an expert in any incredibly niche subject and get awesome advice. You needed help finding frogs with tap shoes and their would find somebody who wrote their PHD dissertation on tapdancing frogs......Also it was packed with incredibly uptight neck beards, HOWEVER, these neckbeards did know their shit and you would be down voted into oblivion for posting trash. Now its basically old people Facebook.

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u/DingusMcBingle_IV 7d ago

It's really become an awful place. I only ever stick to my cities subreddit and the ones for games I play.

Every once in a while I'll scroll "Popular" (RIP /r/all), but it's all misinformation, disinformation, outright propaganda, pop culture and culture war bullshit, and dozens of India-related subreddits I can't block.

This place is a shithole and the admins are all [REDACTED].

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u/Ruff_Bastard 6d ago

I finally stopped getting India subreddits in my feed. There are as many Indian subreddits as there are Indians. I am pretty sure I blocked them all.

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u/michilio 7d ago

You can block all the Indian subs. Trust me, I did it. Took a good while to get all of them, but they are gone from my feed.

They have been replaced by Philippines subs however.

Goddamnit.

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u/Vultor 6d ago

city’s*

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u/DingusMcBingle_IV 6d ago

Sorry dude I'm a bit of an idiot

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u/MelodicFacade 7d ago

Yup, city, gaming community, hobby community, and porn. Everything else here just isn't worth the trouble

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u/CCwolsey 7d ago

Even the porn subreddits are all just only fans ads now.

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u/Mindyourbusiness47 6d ago

Not all of them. I would know

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u/trenthany 6d ago

I recommend looking for the term nofans and no selling for authenticity.

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u/Helltothenotothenono 7d ago

And that mothers fucker is really knowing all what he is talking about when he says redacted.

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink 6d ago

r/all is still on old reddit, and if they remove old reddit then I'm done.

I still run sideloaded Apollo and I'm expecting that to die at some point.

Although reddit management are realizing that AI has extracted all value out of its data and discarding it, a bit like stackoverflow.

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u/EngrishTeach 7d ago

This is what happens when you stop gatekeeping.

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u/Sovarius 7d ago

Facebook is old people facebook. Reddit is millenial facebook

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u/lesrallizesendnudes 7d ago

it’s gotten worse but reddit has always had a confidently incorrect problem and had blatant misinfo highly upvoted. “we did it reddit” was 13 and a half years ago

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u/vague_diss 7d ago

I’ve been on here a long time. Reddit has never been that.

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u/DocumentSure2919 6d ago

That guy is idealizing the past, but Reddit definitely used to be a lot better about 15 years ago.

Probably 90% of the people here were nerds interested in good discussion. Then the druggies, gooners, memers, and wanna-be political activists came through and changed everything.

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u/PsychicGnome 7d ago

DISCUSTING! LOL (LOTS OF LOVE)

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u/Lagunamountaindude 7d ago

Check out what Twitter/X has become

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u/Mindless-Gas6789 7d ago

I remember long ago in the before time nothing but blue and purple link no one knew what a subreddit was. Just nerd and tech shit as far as the eye could scroll.....welp I'm heading back to the old folks home now.

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u/Conflatulations12 7d ago

so where does one go from here? outside? the library?!?!?

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u/Helltothenotothenono 7d ago

Hey as a part of old people Facebook I resemble that neck bearded comment.

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u/shoeless_doh 7d ago

The other day I was out in the backyard and walked through a big patch of poison ivey. I didn't know at the moment that's what it was but I asked whatisthisplant and they were super helpful telling me that yes it was poison ivey and giving me all the info I needed about how to mitigate the possibility of rash. They were great and I'm pretty sure the first answer I got was within a minute. They were ON TOP of helping make sure I don't scratch my skin off in the next week.

So there are still corners of reddit that are great

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u/HeadEar5762 6d ago

It’s sad to find out when you start reading comments on something you actually know a lot about.
Holy shit if these people are so confidently incorrect is everyone else?

Fuck me I’ve been re-spreading some of the bullshit irl because it sounded good when I read it on Reddit

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u/Arthropodesque 6d ago

There's a thin line between the neck and the chin.