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Huh? You want a room full of people with guns to shoot each other dead, is that what you're saying? Where does that get us? Escalating violence does just that. It's not a solution.
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Me too, but I thought maybe if you reposted the image, more people might participate on that day, perhaps sending a teensy message to technofeudal edgelord bealzabezos....
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It's wild and wonderful, yet overflowing with inane, pedantic bullshit all at once– usually while your ass is on fire and you can't find your car keys.
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'Since you been gone'...great song, love it.
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Yeah, considering it's run by the OMB, one of this weekend's compromised government offices, it might not make much difference. But thank you!
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Gideon the Ninth is one of the most fascinating books of the decade; subsequent books in the series are very interesting but lost a bit of that initial zazzle (for me). But I still love them all.
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Yeah, it does. After arranging several therapists for them over the last 7 years (one of whom literally quit, saying there's nothing she could do because they were "unworkable due to screen addiction") I was filing it under the same umbrella.
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Ahhh...
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Just channel your inner Elsa...
Zuch is a parasite. (Do you know he bought WhatsApp for $19 BILLION and nobody blinked in eye in the federal government? WhatsApp has no revenue and he promised to keep it ad-free. That's never going to happen.) We need to collectively excise him from the commons.
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Yeah, you can.
That's the only way to fight fire with fire in this situation. Use RedNote, that's where all the TT refugees are. Use YouRube and all the non-twitter apps. Anything but Meta. Alternatives will flourish if everyone slams the brakes & screws their courage to the sticking point.
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or ZuckTock
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totally understood our grief over TT ban and were super welcoming. I stayed up late several nights chatting and learning mandarin slang (sooo many nice Chinese people making helpful videos!)
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So...I downloaded little red book (Xiaohongshu/RedNote) and it's pretty cool. You might like it. The terms & conditions were only in Chinese when I signed up, but the privacy terms page was in English. It felt so momentous to talk with people all the way around the world in this moment. They
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Thanks :0)
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Thanks!
I started painting peoples' dogs as a thank you exercise...I've got two huskies, and since black and white can be slightly boring, I started splashing colors around to match their personalities.
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That's such a coincidence--I asked them to volunteer at an animal shelter, too! They turned 18 and moved in with a friend and their mom instead...
mooching, I guess? Not sure what to make of that, other than to say it was an interesting solution.
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Where else am I gonna browse the internet on my burner phone while pretending to write a screenplay?
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Wow--I painted this picture of my friend's puppy for Christmas last year; classic head-tilt, looks just like your pup!
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Omg--Bowser is INTENSE. But such an unbelievable cutie.
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Plot twist: Kindle is a kat, right....?
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I don't think it was; I saw the one about Heidegger...
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Yes, some people are evil. But I can also imagine, though sex with children is wrong, it may seem right to someone whose mind is stuck in a traumatic place because of their own childhood experience. This exact situation makes me wonder at the wisdom of persisting as an NPC in one's own creation.
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God is a brick wall to the imagination. 😳
I guess this explains why God is so many different incarnations to so many different people.
The problem with 'utterly wrong' is that life is a prism and morality depends upon one's own faceted experience. Damaged kids often grow into damaged adults.
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Tillich's synthesis into theonomy of heteronomy and autonomy seemed to be just a way to resolve the loneliness of confronting the world for what it is (once you eschew the parochial ideals of childhood) without losing your mind. But I'll go back and read for nuance; perhaps I missed the point.
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It's interesting you say that, because 99.9% of everyone I've ever met behave in ways that disagree. Btw, what is God for, if not for that? Existential crutch is literally the only use that makes sense to me. I'm not trying to irritate you, I genuinely want to know what else it could possibly be.
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Man, I wish I could believe in God. Everything'd be so much simpler...I could just shake my head and ¯\_(ツ)_/ my shoulders, pointing heavenward for each horrible tragedy & wonderful thing that defies explanation, tally it all up to one Being with either a crazy temper & /or a wild sense of humor.
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In summary, grok insists
-MC=only grokker in the world with hypothetical user profile. (Huh?)
-it collects no user data but somehow equated user with said profile (impossible)
-can't implement dark (let alone funny) trump meme—not even from its own suggestions. (Now, this one sorta tracks...)
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This.
Try explaining to people that money is just an abstract representation of control over productive capacity (labor & resources)—and that governments with sovereign command over their own currency CAN issue it towards democratically ratified social goals—and you've just earned a blank stare. 😳
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I was in advertising in 90's and became disillusioned with consumerism and intrinsic manipulation; transitioned to UX / dev; tried to completely ignore social media for the same reasons. Grimness for decades (+ hopelessness it engenders) watching otherwise intelligent colleagues chase $$ and $$$
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This.
I recently pushed myself (finally) to confront a childhood friend who kept posting derogatory shit about a certain segment of the population (of which my kid is a member), and I am DREADING going back in to read the comments. We share many childhood/high school friends, in a parochial town.
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Was thinking the same thing. What to do, what to do...oh I know —let's ride the ragged edge of disaster and get those clicks, but not publish it cause his sanity makes us look like
d[imposters]icks.
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Jump to conclusions much? Mountain-making out of molehills is exactly the problem with social media discourse. I was not trying to make a statement. I am simply a person who thinks that graphic could be better. As in: It's simply not enough to slap together a headline & logo and make an impact.
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Takes me months to get them off...
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No, that is fucking awesome.
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This is a terrible graphic—like it's some racist attack calling an entire nation of people diseased. How about an "in"...
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I'm with you—The U.S. gov't uses Israeli tech and U.K.'s GCHQ to spy on its own citizens free of pesky repercussions.
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I know 2024 has taken a bleak turn but Plz, don't jump...
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An interesting read but didn't much of the storyline seem meandering / beside the point 2U? I liked that the author did a ton of research into the occult, but beyond Night, it also had its Share of Klunky Moments...the dad was bizarrely uninvolved in son's life; shut him out his entire adolescence.
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Wish I could join you on that high horse, but getting dropped from my plan has made it kinda impossible to get my hip fixed.
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I will check out the book, at any rate. I was reading the synopsis and you're right, it does sound insightful.
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Not this story; I was referring to papers in general. The Atlantic article and three 'peer-reviewed' Harvard professor paper scandals of 2023. (Behavioral science professor, Francesca Gino and one other, I forget his name).
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Embolden whom? They're already as brazen as you like, and pointing fingers since 2016. No point in taking the high road when there's piles of scat every 6 inches.
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Maybe we should all get one free pass in the spirit of NYC's open season on CEOs...
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It's hard to have an allegiance to truth when you've no idea what it is...Patel is a simpering sycophant.