With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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English business magnate Richard Branson supports the decriminalization of drugs, and /r/TrueReddit discusses his recent blog post about the subject—specifically, the results of decriminalization in Portugal. RobotPirateMonkey has a handy tl;dr summar: “For those of you that don’t want to read the article: Crime is down, drug use is down, government spending on jails is down, and people aren’t as fucked overall.” (/r/TrueReddit)
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Is there any way to improve /r/politics? Probably not. (/r/TheoryOfReddit)
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Carlos the Mailman, decked out in even more swag this year, continues his adventures in holiday card self-portraiture. (/r/pics)
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An interesting question from an 8-year-old mind: “Can scientists invent something that isn’t made up of atoms?” Read the answers in /r/askscience. (/r/askscience)
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What’s life like inside North Korea? Foreign Policy calls it the “Land of No Smiles.” Redditor Zaruka thinks otherwise. And he’s got pictures (his own) to prove it. (/r/worldnews)
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Redditors decipher a World War II-era map and notebook found in the walls of a demolished building. Is it a treasure map? Nope. But it does tell you a lot about crop shipments to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine’s third largest city. (/r/AskReddit)
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Today I learned, the Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct them in a film adaption of Lord of the Rings. (/r/todayilearned)