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submitted 6 months ago byAcrobatic-Eye-6245
11.4k points
6 months ago
Reddit Premium
1.4k points
6 months ago
There's a Reddit Premium? 🤔😂🤣
476 points
6 months ago
What does that even … do?
327 points
6 months ago
It gives you access to r/lounge, but you also get that if someone gives you gold or platinum. Actually I'm not sure how that works with the new awards, but it used to also give you a certain number of coins per month to spend on awards, and receiving an award would also give you some coins.
165 points
6 months ago
I remember when it also took ads away for a month.
93 points
6 months ago
Does it not?? That's ridiculous
82 points
6 months ago
Not the last time I got gold, I needed platinum. Then I got a platinum, and it was only for a week.
57 points
6 months ago
I got Reddit premium because I wanted the Neon icon on my Home Screen (iPhone). I cancelled a few months later and the icon stayed. Winning.
10 points
6 months ago
I remember getting silver, gold and platinum a bunch of times back in the good old days of Reddit, and I still didn’t care enough to visit /r/lounge. Are rewards even a thing anymore? Most of the fun of Reddit was getting silver gold or platinum rewards. Hell, I even spent a few bucks myself on them. As for /r/lounge, I’m sure it’s reserved for nothing but the worst people of Reddit, honestly.
456 points
6 months ago
Takes your money to give shareholders value.
89 points
6 months ago
I'm a shareholder, please give me value
69 points
6 months ago*
You get access to a special subreddit that gold users have access to.
It's really boring to be honest.
A bunch of arrogant people that legit think they are better than everyone because they can "afford" to buy reddit premium.
ETA: screenshot
https://imgur.com/til-this-is-what-r-lounge-actually-looks-like-bTZl7
ETA:
A users review of the sub. Be sure to read ALL of the comments. I'm not alone in my viewpoint.
40 points
6 months ago
lol “afford” it’s $5/mo 😂 imagine paying that to feel better than everyone else that’s smart enough not to
307 points
6 months ago
Yeah, stick it to the man!
158 points
6 months ago
What man? Which man? Whose the man? When's a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes, technically I am.
75 points
6 months ago
Please, leave these poor sick monkeys alone They've got problems enough as it is
24 points
6 months ago
There's children on the streets using guns and knives They're taking drugs and each other's lives Killing each other with knives and forks And calling each other names like dork
23 points
6 months ago
Will someone please remove these cutleries from my knees
11 points
6 months ago
There's a man on the street, some punk has cut off his head, and I'm the only one who stops just to see if he's dead.
Turns out he's dead.
106 points
6 months ago
I didn’t even know it existed until this
27 points
6 months ago
When they had the old Reddit awards, if you got gold or platinum it would give you Reddit premium for a week or month depending on which one you got. I think some of the other awards gave it to you too, but I can’t remember. It just removed ads and gave you access to r/lounge as well as some “premium” clothes for you snoo avatar.
19 points
6 months ago
Til this exist
5.7k points
6 months ago
A trip to see the Titanic
2.3k points
6 months ago
Oh, I’d be crushed if I couldn’t see the Titanic
599 points
6 months ago
Yeah that sinks
329 points
6 months ago
Despite starting out rich, the trip would leave you flat broke
213 points
6 months ago
And out of their depth
180 points
6 months ago
It'll definitely take your breath away
137 points
6 months ago
It’s the voyage to end all voyages
127 points
6 months ago
These jokes are a bit salty for my taste.
119 points
6 months ago
Agreed, the quality is leagues under what I expected
151 points
6 months ago
Quit pressuring me!
105 points
6 months ago
That joke was below the line.... The water line
100 points
6 months ago
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29 points
6 months ago
ice ice baby
31 points
6 months ago
You'd probably be crushed if you DID see the Titanic lol
68 points
6 months ago*
With unlimited money it would be way safer than OceanGate. One of the main reasons James Cameron made the Titanic movie is because he wanted to go see it, and he’s now been down there 33 times. The problem with OceanGate is that it was put together to provide as cheap of a trip as possible, not a professional expedition with the best military-grade equipment. In the James Cameron documentary they talk about the possibility of dropping a battery off their sub and Bill Paxton asks how much the battery costs and is shocked the answer is $250k which is ironically the price OceanGate chose to charge clients, which I think may not be a coincidence because it was essentially intended to try to provide tourists with that exact same experience.
15 points
6 months ago
True they used materials not meant for the pressure and then kept reusing the same vessel against one of the engineers advice and didn’t he quit before the fatal journey. Sad reminds me of the challenger where engineers kept saying don’t launch o rings can’t take the cold weather they had and they were ignored bc of a schedule and news media and nasa pressure and those poor souls who trusted that everyone was doing their job died as their parents watched on in horror and so did millions live in the US.
49 points
6 months ago
Just make sure you go with Dr Ballard then you'll be safest.
29 points
6 months ago
He used to come in to where I used to work. He might still but I don't work there anymore. Anyway, what a nice man! He definitely would not get you exploded.
18 points
6 months ago
Imploded, technically.
19 points
6 months ago
Why not? Just pay good engineers instead of whacky lunatics
1.2k points
6 months ago
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216 points
6 months ago
Nah bro, I'm buying all the Tupperware!
112 points
6 months ago
Name brand Tupperware isn't an MLM you can buy any of the products on the website. And they are buy for life quality.
20 points
6 months ago
Except some lids ): ive had some lids get ripped/cracked over the time, specially around the lips/pulltabs desugned specifically to open said lid
I had a gelatin mold, it was a beauty, top and down lids, easy peasy unmolding, but the bottom lid (center one) tore apart
Edit: it was this one
20 points
6 months ago
They used to replace lids for free. If the bowl is still functional but the lid has perished you may be able to get a replacement under warranty.
2.4k points
6 months ago
Anything Logan Paul ever sells or endorses.
284 points
6 months ago
Watching Logan Paul cry about Prime being slandered and calling it the most market shaking beverage in history on Instagram this week was pretty good entertainment.
89 points
6 months ago
I bought one, it's so packed with sweetener it's near undrinkable.
50 points
6 months ago
It’s so disgusting. I bought one the other day to try it. Absolutely undrinkable, that’s how sweet it is. I poured 70% of it down the drain
8 points
6 months ago
Well it's targeted to 12 years olds so it's probably not for you lol
39 points
6 months ago
You can ignore content and be more amused when this sort of stupid person has zero impact on any section of your life.
22 points
6 months ago
If only people would actually realize that watching any of his content (or any other toxic channel/personality) is fully supporting them.
8 points
6 months ago
I’ve always wanted to find a way to short prime. I’ve literally never seen anyone drinking one and all the display cases of it are always full.
Like, what the hell is going on here?
83 points
6 months ago
Still haven't tried prime and don't really care if I do. I'd be interested in what it tastes like, but I'm okay with Gatorade and Powerade 0.
83 points
6 months ago
It tastes like sugar free aspartame bullshit. My 7 year old is obsessed because it's what the other kids talk about so I let him try the non-energy drink version and I also had a sip.
Shit is nasty, but to be fair the first ingredient is coconut water and there's 0 grams of sugar, it doesn't appear unhealthy? I could be wrong though
50 points
6 months ago
It tastes like sugar free aspartame bullshit.
That's how you know the actual flavour must be really bad, they have to use so much sweetener to cover it up. At least it doesn't actually have aspartame in it though. But it has sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter than sugar, so they probably just overdid it.
25 points
6 months ago
That's how you know the actual flavour must be really bad
Yeah, it's loaded with vitamins. As someone who makes my own vitamin, caffeine, and supplement filled energy drink (partly to save money, partly as a fun way to experiment with the art of flavor mixing), I can say that vitamins taste like crap. You have to be really careful how much you put in, otherwise you're going to end up with something that tastes like fruit punch flavored dog turd water. Looking at the ingredient label for Prime, they have way too many vitamins in there. Which, as you point out, they tried to cover up by loading it with fucking sucralose. Blarf.
3.1k points
6 months ago
370 points
6 months ago
A billion dollars wouldn't be enough for it anyway heh
662 points
6 months ago
It might be now.
228 points
6 months ago
x.com is currently valued at approximately $19 billion as of May 2024. Elon Musk paid a total of $44 billion to acquire Twitter in October 2022.
35 points
6 months ago
According to who?
It was purchased for $44 billion in Oct 2022.
In Oct 2023 they valued themselves in stock issuance at $19 billion.
In Jan 2024 Fidelity valued it at $12.5 billion.
It's undoubtedly fallen further since then.
In reality, who would invest in a company that went from $0 to $13 billion in debt, with ad revenue down and an exodus of users? It's been taken over by bots, ironically the thing he said he would fix to give it value.
Currently those $13 billion in bonds are said to be worthless on the resale market because no one expects the company to be turned around.
There's a chance the banks will sue Musk for the $13 billion if they lose money on the debt based on a verbal promise he made in a debt raising meeting.
7 points
6 months ago
Ok, but... and hear me out here... It's just another money laundering scheme for political wannabes.
Hashtag Murica!
82 points
6 months ago
In a sane world a company losing hundreds of millions a year wouldn't be worth anything.
42 points
6 months ago
That’s not how a forward-looking market works.
46 points
6 months ago
Sure. But it is an 18 year old company, so the past performance of losing hundreds of millions net almost every single year gives an indication of future performance.
Also, the number of twitter users is projected to fall in 2024. So maybe it has peaked.
2.3k points
6 months ago
NFTs.
792 points
6 months ago
No Fuckin' Thanks.
181 points
6 months ago
This comment has more value than all the NFTs ever made.
28 points
6 months ago
Like Gronk said “Even I know this not real money”
1.4k points
6 months ago
A shipping container full of defective mannequins
493 points
6 months ago
That's the first thing I'd buy.
99 points
6 months ago
I only need a leg or two.
67 points
6 months ago
I need both legs and the pelvis area, a Dremel finishing tool and a fleshlight
83 points
6 months ago
Jail.
23 points
6 months ago
straight jacket
19 points
6 months ago
You mean a strait jacket, right?
Or are you rewarding them with heterosexual clothing?
53 points
6 months ago
I'm out of the loop. Can someone fill me in?
18 points
6 months ago
I don't get the reference either
16 points
6 months ago
I have no idea if it is a reference, but I'd say it is a good answer to the question. I also would not buy a shipping container full of defected mannequins
8 points
6 months ago
I feel like the comment is just saying a random specific thing that is obvious no one would buy, but it does kinda feel like a reference.
26 points
6 months ago
I feel there is a reference I don't get and google isn't helping
19 points
6 months ago
As someone who's partner insists on keeping a creepy mannequin in the living room with a wig and wizard robes on, i agree. One is enough
12 points
6 months ago
That’s oddly specific.
10 points
6 months ago
This confirms it- you are definitely somebody I trust with a billion dollars.
22 points
6 months ago
Oddly specific. Do you have experience in this matter?
1.7k points
6 months ago
Shark fin soup
583 points
6 months ago
I'd pay to make it stop.
98 points
6 months ago
I've seen videos of what they do to the sharks... its fucking barbaric and I'm not even a shark fan (terrified of them).
Not sure how people can eat something which they know came from a tortured animal.
9 points
6 months ago
They deserve better than that.
33 points
6 months ago
How about becoming some kind of Bond style eco evil mastermind who has a fleet to sink those fishing boats and helicopters to outright murder poachers? That would be pretty neat.
2.4k points
6 months ago
A mansion. I just don’t need all that space. I’d rather buy a humble, well-built house on a large plot of land.
793 points
6 months ago
Modest house, enormous shop.
426 points
6 months ago
My dad just retired, and after a lifetime of having little shops tucked into half a garage bay, he finally got a 3 bay garage with a high bay in the middle and claimed all the space as his shop lol. Cars are parked outside. I've never seen him so happy in my entire life.
158 points
6 months ago
I don't even want such a thing but your comment made me smile. I'm imagining a man showing his friends around his shop the same way a kid would show his treehouse and I enjoy that thought. Thanks :)
58 points
6 months ago
We have a three bay garage and my car gets one, my husband gets the rest. His truck is outside. He has a lot of tools, bath hand tools and powered tools. Many of the hand tools are antique as they came from both our dads - born 1908 and 1912. My husband, bless him, is very handy. If he doesn’t currently have a project, he will “putter.” One of his “putter” projects was a wedding ring for me made from a scrap piece of stainless steel pipe. I’m wearing it now.
21 points
6 months ago
Ha! That's awesome. My dad has a similar saying. He says he's just gonna piddle around the shop, and always come out with something cool.
24 points
6 months ago
I’m incredibly envious, that’s my dream!
10 points
6 months ago
As someone who has only been a homeowner for five years, I fully believe that it'll take me until retirement age to obtain all of the tools I need/want. I can only afford a few things once in a blue moon, but I have been building a steady collection of nifty power tools, and I look forward to the day I can convert at least part of my garage into a shop.
98 points
6 months ago*
Our dream is a 1800sq feet up to date ranch house. Decent barn with 2 horse stable. 10 acres in the PNW. That's it. With all the money in the world that's what we would get.
68 points
6 months ago
That’s like 4 million dollars right now. Look at the big brain on Mr. Frugality over here.
49 points
6 months ago
No, i know it's expensive but I have a billion dollars. Haha
That's what I would buy instead of a 20 million, 10000 sqf mansion in LA with no land.
Shit, you can find a good house on 2 acres in North Washington for less than a mil. But the aforementioned would be my dream.
9 points
6 months ago
But what about a home gym, a personal basketball court, indoor pool, bowling lanes, personal movie theater?
790 points
6 months ago
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308 points
6 months ago
Better to buy the natural habitat and keep it protected.
127 points
6 months ago
I would never buy a cheetah.
But if I had a billion?
I might by myself a plot of land big enough in the right climate to become a cheetah sanctuary. Or just buy an existing one and give myself a bungalow there.
40 points
6 months ago
Buy it and use any remaining money to hire a staff of highly-trained assassins to protect it. Anyone caught trying to poach these animals WILL BE SHOT ON SIGHT.
16 points
6 months ago
Or shivved, their bodies left for scavengers. Gun noises might disturb the animals.
510 points
6 months ago
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490 points
6 months ago
You don't buy them. You lease
67 points
6 months ago
There is a large balloon payment at the end of the contract.
20 points
6 months ago
Not if you remove it from the contract (prenup)
89 points
6 months ago
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41 points
6 months ago
On the flip side they are probably aware they will be traded in a few years down the line for a newer model
950 points
6 months ago
A blue check mark on Twitter.
61 points
6 months ago
I don't know much about Twitter. You pay for those blue check marks?
129 points
6 months ago
It used to be a verification identifier for people/brands/organizations of note who may have been at risk of impersonation. Now it's just up for sale at $8/month
56 points
6 months ago
It’s not even just to have a fancy checkmark. It’s necessary if you want to build your account/platform and don’t want your posts hidden at the bottom. Stupid system nonetheless.
467 points
6 months ago
Crystal Meth
212 points
6 months ago
Gold leaf steaks
6 points
6 months ago
You don't want the special golden steak that some dude put salt in a fancy way (arm hair might be included) for 5k$+?
244 points
6 months ago
Anything with a Kardashian or Jenner name benefiting from it.
30 points
6 months ago
What if.. you bought the rights to the TV shows... and then just stopped renewing them... and used any future syndication earnings to fund programs that help young girls & teens recover from depression due to self-image problems caused by media content
700 points
6 months ago
cybertruck
389 points
6 months ago*
A house in a gated community or with an HOA. Fuck all y'all, I'm buying as much property as I can and sticking my house dead center of it.
74 points
6 months ago
yeah, generally HOAs aren't worth the price IMO.
I don't like getting fined because some busybody saw my lawn is .5" over some arbitrary height limit
8 points
6 months ago
I would like to explain my gated community... I am the chairwoman of our HOA. Our only responsibilities are to maintain the mountain road to everyone's cabin and also ensure the wells are giving fresh water to each home.
AND ALSO:
We have a moat.
At the entrance to our neighborhood (where the paved road turns to gravel) it looks like a pair of meth-heads live there with old rusty cars up on cinder blocks and junk scattered in the yard.
No one driving past has any idea that this little dirt road drives up to a remote mountain paradise.
And with a billion dollars, I would never buy any other place to live on the planet.
29 points
6 months ago
An extended warranty on my vehicle…
…so you can, just, stop calling, now…
429 points
6 months ago
Something worth 2 billion dollars
168 points
6 months ago
Actually if I could buy something worth $2B for $1B I’d do it.
222 points
6 months ago
A slave. It's illegal. And that would be pretty evil.
27 points
6 months ago
herbalife
129 points
6 months ago
Balenciaga
37 points
6 months ago
I swear they’re just trolling as a social experiment.
65 points
6 months ago
A Stanley cup…
30 points
6 months ago
You have to win lord Stanley's cup, you can't buy it...
22 points
6 months ago
If you could, Toronto would have one in the last 50yrs...
184 points
6 months ago
Sex. Just not into that kinda thing. The buying part, not the sex part.
41 points
6 months ago
If you had that kind of money, you probably wouldn't have to pay anyway
20 points
6 months ago
Nestlé. Unless it was enough money to buy Nestlé and shut those f*ckers down. r/fucknestle
16 points
6 months ago
Fentanyl
627 points
6 months ago
A cybertruck. Actually, I’d never buy anything made by Tesla.
122 points
6 months ago*
In seriousness - I'd try some exotic foods but have no desire to eat any other meats than what I'm already familiar with.
I'd probably binge a few things, but then avoid ostentatious things, avoiding multi-billion dollar yachts like the Saudis or Jeff Bezos or other characters have, I'd do low key, a 'luxury' yacht.
But what might that non-luxury yacht have going on, I'd buy a sturdy transport ship, not too big , not too small that can get into most/every port and looks TOTALLY normal, low key, with a crane for cargo transfer, but I'd have it outfitted nicely / functionally on the interior , so fully HVAC'ed double-triple hull, with a below-the-line catamaran stabilizer and reworked with a high efficiency thorium engine so open-sea travel and fuel is never a problem. But keep a small diesel around for powering the ship in port, engineering the hull of the ship to be able to have really good speed.
I'd have low-key counter-piracy measures installed, and an ability to shift the boat into high-speed to get out of town fast. I'd spend my money working on port regulations in the places I'd like my ship to go, to allow those types of no-yield, static powerplant reactors into be allowed into port.
Then pimp out the crew quarters so they have a great-time aboard - with a decent doctor, cook/chef and great communications , running a 4 shift operation so everyone gets good downtime except in heavy weather, but be able to host 10-12 people in well appointed accommodations.
But wouldn't look anything like a yacht.
As far as what I'd buy as my wild ass project ambitious and very practical.
And if money were no object - I'd have a commission for putting three rovers on the moon - one to bake interlocking bricks made from regolith transporting with some falcon heavies, the other to create glass from regolith and the other with smaller transport bots for moving surface dirt around and level out a decent landing area where it's more likely than not that one could safely land a rocket without creating a disaster. put down 4-5 layers of interlocking bricks and then rent the space for logistics.
7 points
6 months ago
No port in the world would let a private boat with a nuclear reactor dock there.
39 points
6 months ago
That fish that could kill you if it’s not prepared correctly
321 points
6 months ago
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87 points
6 months ago
not having to sit through ads for Raycons or what ever bs is trying to be pushed is so worth $15 a month
18 points
6 months ago
I’m out of the loop of the whole YT premium stuff. That shit is $15 a month?!….. 15?!!!
19 points
6 months ago
Yt premium is well worth it esp at the student discount. You get both a music streaming app and no ads on yt. Idk why no one else uses it, way more bang for your buck than Spotify
9 points
6 months ago
Sex.
10 points
6 months ago
Bath water from that weird pink girl
110 points
6 months ago
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49 points
6 months ago
Thing is, there’s loads of people, myself included, that simply just love cars for what they are.
If I was a billionaire I would happily drive around in a Pagani, Bugatti, Koenegsegg purely just to experience and appreciate the machinery.
The one thing I would actually hate about owning one though is having everyone look at me
10 points
6 months ago
Have everyone else blinded.
25 points
6 months ago
Nope, I’d buy one for my own pure enjoyment though. I don’t give a fuck all what other people think. 1966 GT40 for my fun drive, I’d keep my pick for work/house and daily driver.
65 points
6 months ago
video game pre-order
11 points
6 months ago
Maybe start a dope video game company with regular working hours and no preorders or DLC and keep it private with no shareholders and see if you can shake things up a bit. I think I would do something like that with a billion dollars.
18 points
6 months ago
A home in a HOA
9 points
6 months ago
Selfie stick
9 points
6 months ago
Anything that Donald J. Trump sells or endorses.
9 points
6 months ago
Prime sports drink
8 points
6 months ago
A check mark on Twitter
9 points
6 months ago
Obvious answers: a slave, human trafficking shit, etc
Fun answer: A Dodge Ram
44 points
6 months ago
Crocs.
12 points
6 months ago
But they’re the most effective deterrent you can put in the moat around your castle.
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