I made a Twitter account in like 2009, in order to follow breaking hockey trades and free agent signings.
Then I realized that these are all posted to hockey forums at ludicrous speed, so I just stayed on the hockey forums.
There must be people refreshing Twitter just to be first to repost stuff to other social media sites for clout. It’s part of what makes Twitter so gross.
Also, what Twitter has done to ‘journalism’ where 99/100 ‘journalistic articles’ are just writing about what the author read on Twitter that day. It’s all just so gross to me.
Sorry, I rambled. I meant to just agree that I also signed up for Twitter for a niche interest. Although I quickly dropped it again, way before all the activism took over the platform and people started losing their jobs over tweets they liked or made.
Your point about articles that are just reposts of what the journalist read that day hits home so hard.
At what point did it become generally acceptable to throw some incredibly bland commentary along with embedded tweets or reddit posts and call it an article?
I quit like 6 months before Elon musk ever even mentioned buying Twitter. This is all pretty hilarious for me. Although I did occasionally poke my head in using a front end open source alternative like fritter or nitter or you don’t need to log in.
But those haven’t been working either because of the latest s***
It’s been more than six months since the purchase went through. I believe he closed the deal in Oct 2022. He fought that for a while before it happened. The claim of intent to purchase happened earlier that year.
Don’t worry. My sense of time has been fucked up ever since the first pan lockdowns, too.
This is what I’m saying, I think people are just really addicted to Twitter and refuse to let it die combined with a lot of people online being far left and hating anything right of Antifa
You don’t need to simultaneously say something stupid and loudly announce you’re a right-winger - only one of those things is needed to get the message.
Fence sitter implies I’m neutral and not decided about issues. No, I’m decided in my beliefs, I just don’t fit into either side. For example, I’m pro unrestricted civilian gun ownership but I’m also pro abortion. I’m anti illegal immigration but also anti religion.
Yes, it does mean you’re undecided, but worse yet, your wording tells me you haven’t even been made aware of what you should decide about in the first place. The issues you’ve raised have been contrasted as if dichotomies, when that’s not even close to true. It’s good that you agree abortions are the choice of the mother, as that’s the bare minimum we should expect of a rational human being who’s not evil. Then you immediately contrast it by asserting you haven’t even thought about your own morality yet – what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean? Could I roll up to your front yard in a Panzer? Maybe you’d invite me in for some coffee as I hold a glock made of pure Uranium? Besides that, “anti illegal immigration” is a largely meaningless statement – everyone is, even “illegal immigrants”. They’d rather have the stupid law allow them to visit legally.
Point is, the divide doesn’t lie between political parties, but between choosing to be evil and support a capitalist dystopia where money is worth more than lives, or be good.
between choosing to be evil and support a capitalist dystopia where money is worth more than lives
So you are a communist. What makes you think that you have the right of saying what should be decided or not? If I had to pick between hypercapitalism and communism, I would pick capitalism. Why? Because my country was raped by communists for over 40 years. Are you American? You sound American.
It’s good that you agree abortions are the choice of the mother,
No, I think it should be a decision for both parties, because by nature you need a father and a mother.
what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean? Could I roll up to your front yard in a Panzer?
If it’s road legal and insured, why not? Actually in many European countries you can own a tank legally, just without the weaponry
Maybe you’d invite me in for some coffee as I hold a glock made of pure Uranium?
Uranium no, that would kill both of us, but polymer why not? There is a shooting range 3 blocks away, lets blast some targets!
– what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean?
That you should be able to legally own really any form of firearm (nuclear weaponry to be considered at some other time). Want a fully automatic AR15 or a Kalach? Go for it. What I don’t mean by unrestricted is licenses. Guns owners should be licensed, weapons registered. Hmmm, almost like we already have this system all over the planet with motor vehicles, so just copy that system.
They’d rather have the stupid law allow them to visit legally.
It’s called a visa. And what gives them a “right” to any particular country? If I cross to work in Germany, I can do so legally because I’m a European citizen. However, if I wanted to work in the US or Canada, I would need a work visa. That is the legal way. Nobody is entitled to anything. Not me, not you, not economic migrants. The only people who deserve our help are actual war refugees. You know, like in Ukraine. They don’t run to Germany for cash, they ran to the nearest safe country (Slovakia, Poland) for actual safety, ie no rocket in their home.
the divide doesn’t lie between political parties
Given you think anything left is good, anything center or right is bad, the divide is between US political parties for you.
But feel free to give me any more questions that you think I’m “undecided” about. I’m very well decided on pretty much anything. Or you can just do “too long don’t read”, I don’t really mind either way.
I’m not American. Capitalism has been raping my country for 100 years and is now raping yours as a bonus.
Actually in many European countries you can own a tank legally, just without the weaponry
I.e. you can own a vehicle. You took out the thing which made it a tank. Superb insight.
No, I think it should be a decision for both parties, because by nature you need a father and a mother.
I’ll agree with you as soon as a father has to expell a baby through his penis after carrying it about for 9 months
And what gives them a “right” to any particular country?
What gives you right to yours? It’s an arbitrary piece of land, certainly stolen from previous inhabitants.
Uranium no, that would kill both of us
Every gun’s only purpose is to kill. What’s the difference?
Given you think anything left is good, anything center or right is bad, the divide is between US political parties for you.
Again, not American. Again, it’s not about parties. Right-wingers, however, are unified in fucking people over for a slightly more favorable bottom line.
I’m not American. Capitalism has been raping my country for 100 years and is now raping yours as a bonus. You sure act like an American. Better dead than Red
I.e. you can own a vehicle. You took out the thing which made it a tank. Superb insight.
Technically yes.
I’ll agree with you as soon as a father has to expell a baby through his penis after carrying it about for 9 months
Okay, but no child support payments if mother refuses to abort and father demands. Is that fair?
What gives you right to yours? It’s an arbitrary piece of land, certainly stolen from previous inhabitants.
Yes, previous inhabitants of… 2500 years ago. What gives me the right? I was born here. I pay taxes. I follow the laws. And so did my ancestors.
Every gun’s only purpose is to kill. What’s the difference?
Passive vs active. Me putting a piece of uranium under your bed vs shooting you in the face when you try to rob my house are two different things. Both end up in death, sure, but don’t rob people if you value your life more than their stuff. And I do value my property more than your life.
Right-wingers, however, are unified in fucking people over for a slightly more favorable bottom line.
Hopefully this leads to Twitter not being the public square of the internet anymore at least mainstream wise. The man is doing everything to make the site worse.
Edit: I can see that your cat has a lot of hair coming out of his/her paws. You should really get trim this as its not good for the cat, from what I have been told.
Toe tufts! They can sometimes get matted or the cat could become obsessive about cleaning them but if those things aren't an issue there's no real reason to trim them. There's no harm in trimming them if wanted but also not necessary.
Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.
I think once people start to figure out just HOW the Fediverse works, they’ll start spreading out. I joined beehaw originally, then they defedereated from lemmy.world, which is where most of the communities were that I had subscribed to. That’s why I joined lemmy.world…
so far i think that process is going to be a bit of a barrier for the average user… so many logins. i understand that decentralization carries this burden, but i’m not sure it’s worth it for me personally, and i think i may be slightly more inclined that the average user to jump through those hoops. we shall see.
The decentralization has its warta for sure. I’m curious how it’s all going to play out. As an example I’m in IT so not an idiot but I’m registered on InfoSec.pub. now I’ve learned there’s better “home” nodes but even though the comments are federated I can’t login to a node that isn’t my “home” node which is weird to say the least.
Same here. I thought you only needed one login for all the servers but that hasn’t been the case for me. I’m hoping I find a good app that makes the experience more seemless.
Same here. I thought you only needed one login for all the servers but that hasn’t been the case for me. I’m hoping I find a good app that makes the experience more seemless.
You do only need one login, where you’re going wrong is trying to actually log in to those different instances. Instead, you can subscribe and post and comment in them from your home instance 🙂
It’s like email in that sense. You can’t log into Hotmail with your Gmail account but you can still access all the content on Hotmail through your Gmail account.
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