A daily recap of what's been happening on reddit over the past 24 hours.

What's going on?

A Retired 9/11 First Responder Just Won $5 Million in the New York Lottery, from /r/news link
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, denied asylum in France, from /r/worldnews link
Why Is Reddit On Strike? - Forbes Magazine, from /r/inthenews link
School Custodian Who Lost Home in Fire Gets New House Thanks to Students, from /r/UpliftingNews link
Reddit in uproar after staff sacking, from /r/technology link
(Meta) Should r/sports go private to show solidarity with the other major subs?, from /r/sports link
Is It Time to Start Shutting Down Law Schools? No one wants to go to law school, yet new ones keep popping up, from /r/law link
Reddit Moderators Shut Down Parts of Site Over Employee’s Dismissal, from /r/cyberlaws link
Why is /r/pics back online?, from /r/outoftheloop link

Get Smarter

YSK what to do in an emergency prior to having the paramedics show up., from /r/YouShouldKnow link
Can Pluto collide with Neptune in the future?, from /r/AskScience link
ELI5: What happened to Digg?, from /r/explainlikeimfive link
TIL that AOL had volunteer mods that filed a class action lawsuit against AOL, claiming that AOL volunteers performed work equivalent to employees and thus should be compensated according to the Fair Labor Standards Act., from /r/todayilearned link
Google Trends - "Reddit Alternative", from /r/dataisbeautiful link
How to make a brownie in a cup in 2 minutes or less, from /r/HowTo link
Am I the only one who thinks Reddit is overreacting a bit?, from /r/NoStupidQuestions link
This pool table, from /r/damnthatsinteresting link
Queen Victoria's Water Lily (Victoria amazonica) is the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies. The genus Victoria was named after Queen Victoria by botanist John Lindley., from /r/Awwducational link

LPT: Surf craigslist, the days after Black Friday or Xmas, as people will be getting rid of their old stuff, from /r/LifeProTips link
3 year progress, Skinny-fat to near goal physique (r/progresspics xpost), from /r/fitness link
[Image] Giving up makes it permanent, from /r/GetMotivated link

Science AMA Series: Climate change is a medical emergency: but what can be done about it? The Lancet Commission on Public Health and Climate here to talk about managing health effects of climate change. Ask us anything!, from /r/science link
CO2 emissions threaten ocean crisis, from /r/EverythingScience link
Don't downvote "stupid" or naive posts and comments: You're basically telling kids and other people trying to learn something about space to Shut Up and Go Away., from /r/space link
Big Bang May Have Created a Mirror Universe Where Time Runs Backwards, from /r/physics link
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken an amazing photo of Pluto and its five moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Styx and Kerberos., from /r/astronomy link
22 Massachusetts towns will build their own gigabit internet service., from /r/futurology link
New Jersey: The Only Disliked State [1,100 x 822], from /r/mapporn link
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" was a bad idea for protocols, from /r/programming link

What are some good Reddit alternatives?, from /r/AskReddit link
[AMA Request] Victoria, ex-AMA mod, from /r/IAmA link
I've kept a daily journal of my life for the past year. Give me a date, and I'll reply with a line from that day in my journal., from /r/CasualIAMA link
We thought it couldn't get worse, it did: reddit admin claims he was fired by Ellen Pao for CANCER!, from /r/subredditdrama link
The Moderators and People of Reddit VS. The Reddit Admins For Firing Victoria, lack of communication, and more., from /r/KarmaCourt link
Many of you are asking if r/bestof will go private. Here are our thoughts, from /r/bestof link
Trending Subreddits: /r/OutOfTheLoop, /r/MealPrepSunday, /r/almosthomeless, /r/HumansBeingBros, /r/checkthiscarforme

Trials of Life Ep. 4 'Hunting and Escaping', written and presented by the legendary naturalist, Sir David Attenborough. Each of the 12 episodes features a different aspect of the journey through life, from birth to adulthood and continuation of the species through reproduction. BBC (1990), from /r/Documentaries link
Tron (1982) [720p], from /r/fullmoviesonyoutube link
The One I Love (2014) 720p, from /r/fullmoviesonvimeo link
Ant-Man - Trailer 2 (Final Trailer), from /r/movies link
What song has been stuck in your head this week?, from /r/music link
Blackout - Blackout [Stoner Rock] (2015) Off their latest album "Blackout", from /r/listentothis link
Site which tracks lightnings, from /r/internetisbeautiful link

Who needs a $200 crib, when you can buy a $20 dog bed?, from /r/aww link
Sand dune close-up in the Ica desert, Peru. [OC][1200x801], from /r/earthporn link
Voat.co right now, from /r/pics link
Jupiter with my DSLR from my backyard [1476x1476], from /r/spaceporn link
Blue afternoo skies over Lagoa da Pampulha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [OC][4.608×3.456], from /r/skyporn link

[Xbox 360] Anyone else experiencing issues connecting to EA Servers?, from /r/PvZGardenWarfare link
How does reddit feel about b&w with a pop of color. I usually think it's gimmicky but I like how this came out., from /r/photocritique link
Jon Talks 30 Rock, from /r/WhichGGEpisode link
Primitive slackline in Canada, from /r/Slackline link
Back to Turbo from S6E after Lollipop, from /r/droidturbo link

Victoria is living the dream we all have when we get fired - that the company that fired us will instantly and fantastically fall apart., from /r/showerthoughts link
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley, from /r/quotes link

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