Want to read Reddit but don’t have the time? Our daily Reddit Digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the social news site—every morning.
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r/askscience takes a scientific look at the possibilities of a post-apocalyptic Adam and Eve. (r/askscience)
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Redditor acr91 asks: “Would you teleport if there was a 10% chance you’d come out naked and a 10% chance you’d come out vomiting uncontrollably?” I scoffed so hard my throat hurt. redditor gemminck is equally nonplussed: “Yes. How is this even a question?” Well, it’s apparently enough of a question to spawn more than 160 responses. (/r/AskReddit).
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Did YouTube personality The Amazing Atheist threaten a rape survivor with rape? That’s the consensus on a trifecta of subreddits: r/worstof, r/SubredditDrama, r/ShitRedditSays. Redditor BetweenJobs observes: “People always suspect atheists of being angry assholes, [men’s right activists] of being blind to real social problems, and Reddit of being misogynistic. I didn’t think someone could support all three preconceptions in a single sentence.” (r/worstof)
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A new study shows that people who drink diet soft drinks daily are more at risk to suffer a stroke or heart attack. The health-minded redditors at r/science discuss what might be behind the surprising finding. (r/science)
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If you’re grieving and want some sympathy from Reddit with a post to r/pics, don’t. Your morality has been prejudged and found wanting. You’ll get harassed off the site. Sure, you might just be legitimately overcome with grief and feel like turning to a pseudonymous forum of strangers to help you cope. But in the process, you’ll earn a couple thousand meaningless Internet points. And to a lot of redditors that apparently represents some kind of material corruption of your grief. (r/pics)
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The Atlantic’s James Fallows took to r/IAmA yesterday and was, unsurprisingly, long-winded. That’s a compliment, given the often frustratingly brief answers Q&As on Reddit produce. Fallows’s group interview with redditors makes for a great read. (r/IAmA)
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How can you get a celebrity to do an AMA? Twitter, apparently. And what effect will a popular AMA have your little subreddit? A traffic surge, of course. (r/TheoryOfReddit)