I’ve got an idea as to why.
I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.
I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.
The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.
For 2, I initially thought the same thing…but Trump is on board to “finish the job” in Palestine. I’m sure all the countries controlled by a corrupt Muslim government have SOME mixed feelings on the orange turd.
Either way, I’m glad it failed. Just imagine the Christ allegory his cult would spin out of it.
Uncle Tom, is that you?
I get the sarcasm now but for some reason, I first interpreted the second sentence as a smoker too angry to proofread after fumbling their words.
Like on the bank website. If you have more than one account number (like checking account + a savings account - NOT separate login), you can “rename” them.
I have two checking accounts, one has the default name “Checking” for spending money and the other named “Bills” for …paying bills. Every paycheck, $X gets added to the Bills account and the rest into checking. This was VERY IMPORTANT for me when I was scraping by because it guaranteed I wouldn’t forget I had a bill coming up and unknowingly spent the money
the MAGA political class, which remains fundamentally liberal
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Thanks, saving that to read later!
I’ve heard this argument before and it doesn’t make sense to me. Memes include words and people generally don’t express nuanced ideas through memes. They’re all about saying as little as possible using a slightly altered version of a scripted scene. It’s a devolution in language, not an extension of it. And it’s a cancerous one - you get more attention online if you appeal to the lowest common denominator by using a meme template so why think on the subject any further beyond that on? Hell, why even make something yourself when you can copy and paste it from your favorite meme bucket (Instagram, reddit, etc)
My theory is that memes made the internet worse but nobody wants to talk about. If I were getting my masters in behavioral science, I would be studying the impact of memes on Internet culture.
Kids liking shitty and mean stuff isn’t a new thing so it’s not an indicator of how fucked we are
It has nothing to do with the current generation of kids. There were definitely kids you grew up with who would have loved this content of it was around at the time.
We’re so fucked but it’s not because a small fraction of Gen Z likes shitty stuff
I thought discord streaming was so dumb until I was trying to reach my friend something in a game. Now we use it a couple times per month, it’s great. I hate that I like Discord lol
I was going to say “asexuality” but…I think sex does a pretty good job of selling asexuality to asexuals.
Balance. Repetition. Composition. MIRRORS
For once, it was a good thing
Tim Walz somehow shifted political discourse with one simple word and I love him for it.
The world grew numb to the word “dangerous” after decades of every politician using it to describe their opponents so it became useless to try to convince anyone with it… Even if the person in question IS dangerous. It’s like an error message that pops up for no reason - people just start to ignore all error messages.
But modern conservatives are weird. In a really bad way. It’s the perfect word to describe them and it frames them in a way everyone can understand
The choice is blowing smoke in public places, not craving nocotine
Care to point out what I missed? I saw nothing in the article indicating that it would ban smoking outdoors in general
What? It’s totally normal to put your index and pinky finger on the outside of a mug handle. It’s not uncomfortable at all!