As a polock… e x c u s e m e w h a t t h e f u c k

I somehow managed to condition myself into thinking of gay as a complement term. People I hung out with in high school used to call things “straight” derogatively. Something was straight if it was boring, bland, predictable, superficially performative in a conformist manner, etc.

We’re all at least a little gay 💜

Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I’d definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.

You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it’d be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.

I’d even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups… however, everyone’s identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what’s between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that’s to be done elsewhere.

Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it’s public property. A town square where you’re wearing a name tag. If you don’t want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.

I’m sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that’ll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.

… but lemmy and masto do completely different things

masto’s a microblogging platform like twitter and lemmy is a link aggregator like reddit

honestly i kinda wish there were a rebuild of email that is compatible with the old system but was redesigned from the ground up to do the job better

🔫👨‍🚀 I always have.

ZING!

And dipshit elon literally argued in court that “twitter doesn’t exist anymore”

HMMM MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD INVENT IT

🤔

because its name is Mastodon, something that when people google it pulls up a band.

Also because it’s trying to be a hot fresh new thing but it’s literally named after an animal that’s extinct.

If it had a catchier and more unique name it probably would have caught on more.

we’re tired of being sold a shit sandwich that may someday become edible? wow who would have ever predicted this utterly unprecedented turn of events except absolutely fucking everybody.

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if only it had been an audi, we could have joked how it has become an innie.

Is that why the animetitties sub now has actual anime titties again instead of being a more serious version of world news like it was for a while?

2012 does indeed still feel like a major inflection point.

Thank you for telling me all this neat stuff! :D

I think I get what you are intending to imply by the word “intuitively”; it’s that it eventually becomes as reflexive and fluid as touch-typing itself.

Gosh you make it sound almost like you play Vim like an instrument more than use it…!

Honestly that sounds cool ^_

the internet was awesome for like … twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden…

If I wanted to hear about what’s good about Vim, should I:

a) ask what’s good about vim

-OR-

b) assert blindly that there is nothing good about vim so fanboys will come crawling out of the walls tripping over each other to tell me how I’m wrong?

There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.

I need to uno reverse this bitch by suing them for their tv violating the access controls of my house’s wifi

They did. You’re welcome.

Ubisoft will have to get used to people not owning their games.