if convicted he’ll be epsteined.

This would have been a really cool album cover in the late 90’s.

If they cared about not burning everything down,

There it is.

Given that you seem to be struggling to grasp this, I take it you’re a genuinely good person running his life in good faith.

Basically all votes for the Democrats aren’t votes For, but votes Against.

Front lawn. Face up. Feet together.

Don’t give a shit if he’s prosecuted for it, I’d be a bit pissed if a jury convicts him.

I was right, you’re a troll. Eat sand.

I remember reading about someone who listened to Popcorn for 24 hours and it had an effect on them.

15 different renditions of Popcorn.

Nope. My argument is not absurd because not using any of them is an option. You realize that’s a thing you can do, right? Give none of them your attention?

Okay, you have issues. Or are a troll. Or are a troll with issues.

I consider Twitter a dead platform because it is a nazi hellhole and I strongly recommend everyone just stop using it.

At this point though I do genuinely believe Facebook is worse because they’ve had a direct hand in at least one ethnic cleansing during my lifetime. Elon may quack like a duck but Zuckerberg swims, flies and waddles like a duck. I strongly recommend everyone just stops using Facebook and Instagram as well.

BUT ANYWAY, let me ask this: What’s stopping Elon Musk from buying Bluesky, badging it as X2 and doing the whole thing over again? Bluesky is currently a private for-profit company operating mainly on venture capital, just like Twitter was when it was a startup. It’s never going to support itself on its own revenue, that venture capital will eventually run out, there will be an IPO, it will suddenly be open to the whims of shareholders who will demand dark patterns and engagement at all costs and everything that has made the rest of the internet suck and they won’t care if their algorithms boost genocidal messages that erupt in widespread violence as long as their dividends come in.

It’s just a nope from me, and everything you will ever say will further convince me.

How many ethnic cleansings has Facebook been instrumental in? I can think of at least one in Myanmar.

Large commercial platforms being absolutely evil is NOT unique to Twitter. Again I challenge you to name me a large social media platform that didn’t either rot into a wasteland of scam bots or start committing atrocities.

Very bad people own almost everything and their solution to any rising star is to buy and ruin it.

Hell, I don’t want to adopt a platform that’s doomed to get as bad as Youtube let alone Facebook or Twitter. You’ve got to show me some low level structure that says “Here is why it can’t fall the way the last ones did.”

I don’t give a shit about the Bluesky stock you bought. Bluesky is doomed, don’t adopt it.

“Less nazi than Twitter for the next few months” isn’t good enough for me to adopt it. I’m not going to board a doomed ship.

Let me be perfectly clear here: Fuck Elon Musk right in the aorta. I am NOT endorsing Twitter here. What I’m mostly doing is endorsing abandoning both microblogging and commercial for-profit social media as concepts.

Bluesky is gonna get worse. They’re in attract mode right now just like any tech startup; they’re burning venture capital money operating at a loss in too good to be true mode to gather users and when they hit a certain adoption rate or simultaneous active user base all the shit Twitter and Threads do is gonna get turned on.

“It’s got moderation.” It’s got thought police in potentia. Either they’re going to start using their moderation systems as a political cudgel or they’re going to start letting scammers and shit through because they profit from the traffic whatever that traffic is. You won’t be able to say the word “poop” but commercials for anorexia pills will make it through to teenagers. Can you name a commercial platform that didn’t eventually do one or both of those? The only one I can think of that didn’t just die young was MySpace, which continued to exist into its irrelevancy.

I foresee a cycle of instability that goes something like “New platform just dropped, it’s like Facebook but it isn’t Facebook. It’s like Facebook used to be before algorithms fucked it up.” Early adopters join it, there’s a period where you still have to have Facebook because three of your friends whose ability to understand things doesn’t work won’t make the switch, eventually people leave those friends, everyone is standardized on the new thing, new thing does exactly what Facebook did, it fucks the world up again, “New platform just dropped, it’s like Screechbox but isn’t Screechbox, it’s like Screechbox before algorithms fucked it up.”

I’m kicking that in the head right now.

Yet.

It’s a commercial platform, it’s going to enshittify because that’s what commercial platforms do.

Are those in real or Australian dollars?

The problem I see with BlueSky is, what’s the difference between Bluesky and Twitter?

Did any learning take place? “Okay, clean sheet design, let’s do it again but better this time” what did they do to keep Bluesky from going the exact same direction Twitter did?

Y’all too, huh?

IF OP doesn’t take you up on that, I will.

You ever been in a big city in the South? They aren’t the densely packed walkable and/or public transportation heavy big towns like New York or Chicago. The old parts of town that were designed before cars now have narrow densely trafficked streets paved through them with inadequate parking and no real “park here and take public transport in,” nearly none of them have commuter rail, some might have bus services. The majority of the city is just heavy suburbs, miles upon miles of retail strip malls and tract housing.

Even when you compare places like Greensboro to places like Sanford, you start going "Well there’s more brewpubs…which are bars. There’s more restaurants…that serve alchohol. There’s a comedy club…that serves alcohol. Greensboro is Sanford if Sanford had a functioning mall and a minor league baseball team. If you live there, at 6 pm on a given Thursday you can stay home or you can go out to a bar and that’s about it.

This was years ago now; I did an experiment to test various AA battery chemistries in real-world conditions to determine if the price difference was worth it. This was tangentially related to amateur radio, I first got the idea from overhearing a conversation on 2 meters.

I used rechargeable Ni-MH, zinc oxide “Heavy Duty” batteries, alkalines, and lithiums to play a lot of video games on my Nintendo Wii. (the batteries in the controller) I found that the Lithum batteries performed less than twice as long as the alkaline batteries, nowhere near worth their price. The “Heavy Duty” batteries were less than half of the alkalines but that actually made them more cost effective. The Ni-MH batteries had the shortest single charge of them all, I forget what it worked out to be the break even point.

One thing I did note was the Lithium batteries were noticeably lighter than the Alkalines, so if weight is an issue they may be a viable option.