Doug [he/him] @ Doug @midwest.social

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Does it count when a major political party, that does that all the time, uses the money it pilfered from that government, or is that different somehow?

What about that the only reason they're not doing it directly from the government account is because of the safeguards against that kind of thing they haven't pulled down yet

I've had an email in my inbox for over a decade. The subject is FYI. The sender is listed as Allen Large, but in all caps. And the body is as follows

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    Email Mr Allen now.


  

Realistically it's just bad spam but sometimes I get myself wondering what shady deal fell apart because they sent something urgent to the wrong person

I've had an email in my inbox for over a decade. The subject is FYI. The sender is listed as Allen Large, but in all caps. And the body is as follows

        --
    Email Mr Allen now.


  

Realistically it's just bad spam but sometimes I get myself wondering what shady deal fell apart because they sent something urgent to the wrong person

Are children and young adults really more impressionable than Fox news, and thereby Facebook's, audience?

I also don't know that I agree with "targeted mostly at children and young adults". There are very large parts of TikTok that would be wholly unappealing to your average kid. Not to mention that American social media started out very much targeted at children and young adults. Or have we already forgotten what the main demographics of Facebook and myspace used to be?

The problem with whataboutism here is that these conversations pretty much always involve TikTok and rarely other platforms until it's brought up in comments where it can be dismissed as whataboutism.

Either they're all a problem (it's this one) or none of them are. We need to stop drawing arbitrary lines between offenders. It's just giving a bunch of shit bags freedom to continue being shit bags.

You never met anyone who hated part of their family?

I know some Thanksgiving dinners you could go to...

Star Citizen?

So it does, in at least some cases, work like that?

It's ok to admit being wrong

What can you tell me about the pompatus of love?

Yeah, he had those wind up teeth instead

Except all the times it has.

When there's only one camera that's often been the way it has worked

I'm not saying you can or that you're expected to. Just like a single rain drop doesn't make a flood.

But if every rain drop got discouraged from falling because it can't make a flood all on its own we'd have been in droughts earlier and more often.

As far as likelihood, I think we've been approaching a revolution of some kind or another for a couple decades at least. It could be a violent one like the French Revolution, or a cultural one like the Industrial Revolution. Time, events, and people will make that determination, but the visible unrest with income disparity grows more obvious on a pretty regular basis.

Are they going to go just because you say they have to, or will action be required?

Assuming it's action does that happen with apathy or do you have to care?

Caring a "whole awful lot" does not start and stop with green initiatives by the people.

The "do you care" flow chart boils down to two directions:

• No > then it doesn't matter
• Yes > then what are we going to do about it

Which branch gets to what you're talking about?

The Lorax which is really the most applicable one here.

If you haven't read it I'll also suggest The Butter Battle Book if you're interested in morality that boomers retroactively want to have not taught their children

Well if no one does anything it won't be better should reincarnation come around.

I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I doubt anyone will want to see Tucker on X past the first couple minutes of hilarity.

But I'm old and I think they call that Molly now

That's a very big part of it.

When fucknugget wanted to start a company he had plenty of credit either on his own, with his name, or both. If he blew 50k in an attempt he could try again next week.

If I blew 50k I'd be homeless.

It's way easier to high stakes gamble when you won't notice you lost.

Before merging with Yutani?

Us queers need to stand together

I'm not trying to co-opt anything. Far from. I just want to remind everyone that you don't need to know your place in the rainbow to want to see its beauty.

grow up and use the block feature.

I'm really sick of this talking point. If history hasn't demonstrated to you that ignoring a problem doesn't resolve the problem then you take ought to go back and read some more.

If you can't stand to be bothered by others trying to carve out consideration for your fellow humans then I'm glad this may be our only interaction.

That sounds like a fun game