Penis, man…

Idk what his secret sauce was

Drugs

If everyone’s an adult capable of making their own choices then let them. Is this reddit? Get outta here.

It’s not a retail device, and it’s loaded with a store version of iOS. It’s tracked specifically to that apple store. Here is a recent article. The phones are designed to work while they’re connected to the apple store wifi and that’s it. You’d get more useful spare parts if you robbed people outside a nightclub.

Especially when the entire experience can be recreated in any rudimentary AI chatbot. It’s not like there are any human users left on Twitter anyway.

Everyone does dumb shit when they’re younger.

Sure, and you can’t come back from some of it.

Shout out to Colon, Michigan, magic capital of the world.

Politics specifically, nothing. But if you are the kind of person who violates the social order, no matter how mundane or harmless your behavior is when you do it, don’t be surprised when people don’t want to have you around anymore. They don’t want to see the kind of behavior you demonstrate when you realize that consequences don’t apply to you for whatever reason.

If you want a political example, a pardoned January 6th insurrectionist is currently in the news for threatening the house minority leader.

People don’t remember the “9 times out of ten” you were cool as hell, they remember the one time you crashed out and made everyone feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and they think about that every time someone has to decide whether to invite you out somewhere.

Sadly it’s people’s need for validation that drives them to interact here and platforms just reflect that. Up/downmodding, persistent identity, profiles, logins, none of that was ever necessary for us to have conversations in the beginning.

People look at places like this as platforms that encourage discussion, but the incentive is always to post and comment in the way most people will agree with. That doesn’t encourage discussion, it streamlines and simplifies it, removes nuance. And disagreement? Your comment is forced to the bottom of the page and ultimately collapsed / hidden. On reddit it can even be removed by automod to stop you from leaking all that precious karma.

And don’t get me started on the profit motive. In the 90s we were just happy a business came on here and interacted with us. There just wasn’t any way to make money here when it was nerds talking to other nerds. Now the motivation for being present on the internet is to go viral so you can get money and attention.

I don’t care what it takes to get all these newcomers off here but it can’t happen soon enough.

If showing your tits on the internet is going to stop those folks from being able to get jobs in their 30s, what are we going to do with them all? There’s a LOT of porn on the internet, like TONS.

People are so lucky for all the great knowledge that was lost when altavista bought dejanews and Google bought altavista. I saw stuff on early 90s usenet that was way way way worse than anything you can see on the modern internet.

You’ve reduced your options to online dating or hooking up with club girls. I’d start by expanding those options.

Someone who is hardworking and disciplined enough to keep the same shitty job for ten years could easily make a partner happy and get satisfaction from a relationship. Too many people look at what other people have and let it make them feel hopeless when they should be looking at what they have themselves and let it make them feel empowered.

Someone doesn’t need to spend a lot of money on a Halloween costume this year.

What if you just let the AI you’ve been training for free all this time match you automatically? It knows what you watch, what you like on your Facebook and Instagram, it reads your DMs and text messages, it even knows what ads you’re likely to pause the longest on before you scroll past. It knows you better than you know yourself.

4pm?? During the cpbl playoffs? Unlikely.

Why are so many people still using Twitter?

Group chats aren’t private. Individuals could possibly disclose what you tell them one-on-one. If in your life there’s something as damaging as what was said in those chats you’re talking about, keep it to yourself. Or better yet, get some new opinions.

We?

I don’t know much about this platform but as a person who really tries to avoid politics on the internet and focus on cool stuff like hobbies and cat videos I wouldn’t recommend people come here. There’s enough folks getting riled about politics. People need to focus on their local community and their family and what’s happening there, not mainstream US politics 24/7.