There are upsides to Twitter, but having to follow somebody and to register is a no.

Small notes to be answered rarely.

I’ve looked at the early Usenet archives, and typical posts there resembled this format quite a lot. It’s later that Usenet became a place where you write long considerate posts, and also expect rather quick answers.

It’s actually interesting to communicate in a rare terse format.

The reason I don’t use Twitter, BlueSky, anything like that is - I don’t have a scenario of it being useful for me.

Some people would want others’ lives to be embedded into one hierarchy, and that only.

So that everything of importance were decided by people on top of those hierarchies.

Ex-USSR countries show full well why this shouldn’t be allowed. It, of course, was done there accompanied by a different ideology, but.

Was he sired on a weekend?

Ideally everyone would be able to set up rules as to who and what they see.

Something like (pseudo syntax initially like SQL, but went off track):

IF sum(this.poster.posts.karma) < -100 OR this.score < -10 OR sum(this.poster.opinions.rating WHERE this.poster.opinions.source IN me.friends) < 0 THEN false ELSE true END.

Always has been

Funny. I’ve always been proud of understanding things deeper than people around me (or trying).

But at the same time those people around would treat as something miserable the fact that I don’t even try to remember dates, numbers, names, other specific facts not necessary for understanding the whole architecture. I’m fine with that context, but it’s obvious.

People are different. For me some purple actually is good. As opposed to green on computer displays. Real green is very good, of course.

Any non-neutral color is hard though.

Having problems with sugar is not subjective

I’m autistic, so talking about “common sense” might be funny, but - IP is technically an extension of contract law to a very abstract area. If we are being this rigid, then sovereign citizens must too have a say in politics. If we are being this rigid, then I want all Turks gone (or sworn fealty to me, LOL) from Khodorchur, Dayq province of Western Armenia. If we are being this rigid, then all governments in the world are illegal.

You get the idea.

And if we are, then why won’t we be even more rigid and ask how can one own a number? Which is ultimately any intellectual property. Piece of information is not a blockable resource.

And if we are not, then I don’t see any public value in an institution that harms people.

And there’s none, this is purely a device of power. When you realize this, and look at other such devices of power, you also realize that your society (as one that, well, imposed such IP laws on most of the world as a condition for economic interaction) is not free.

Even those guys are getting some understanding of modern warfare, wow.

BTW, I know that shouldn’t be too public, but are NATO countries doing this? Because Hollywood movies are good and all, but this is the revolution that has already happened, like tercios. I mean cheap mass-produced drones. One can talk quality-over-quantity all one wants, but there’s no way one wins against a well-organized equal force possessing those in good numbers. And level of organization is something hard to predict and developed by experience, so hoping for Russia and NK and China and who not remaining clumsy would not be wise.

Oh, basically the moment I’ve learned that many school shooters are autistic and I’m likely autistic, I started joking on that subject.

I mean, it (still) feels funny. Not that autistic people are braver (often seems the opposite), we just fear different things than NT generally. So what NT people (especially kids, especially in an environment prone to bullying) fear is not what we fear.

The real Skype was fine.

This Skype, I think, is just an ugly version of Teams.

Is WoW still that popular though?..

Boris Johnson also knows a thing or two about homoerotic stuff, UK good schools and all.

Also they weren’t very careful with that donor money. They could afford to lose it, if they’d cut spending on various kinds of stupid advertising. Half the media would turn against them, but that’d have upsides too - in the exact area of swaying Trump votes, both those voting contrarian and those voting for destructive change.

It’s not right wing populism. It’s the political field slowly and steadily cleaned of anybody inconvenient, and mass media slowly eroded. People who come to power because of this love to play right wing populism because they liked it when they were voters. But most of their voter base are not right wing populists, they just have 2 (sometimes 3) bad choices of which the predictable one always wins.

The rest of the world … is not.

Most of it is run by murderers and sometimes thieves. Actually non-murderous thieves are a good thing. One of the least evil variants.

Of course they do. Holding someone’s leash it’s easier to control them and thus, among other things, prevent them from violating some rule.

Doesn’t mean all people need leashes and collars, except for private life.

No. I meant a modern thing filling the same niche. Palemoon is just old FF supported by a group of delusional people (their attack on OpenBSD with “official branding” or something comes to mind).