Yeah. Nobody is sorry enough unless they change their behavior. America's apologies aren't even substantial enough to wipe one's own ass with until and unless we ACT to PUNISH THE FASCISTS. CORPORALLY. CAPITALLY. PERMANENTLY.
When I told my best friend about mastodon, it misimprinted on her brain in a flash as "walrus chat" and now she can't for the life of her remember its actual name.
if i had a nickel for every deep-voiced woman named Elizabeth wrapped up in a massive fraudulent enterprise, I'd have ten cents but it's still weird that it happened twice
Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, TIK-tok, SNAP-chat, RED-dit, WHATS-app, etc; there are a FEW exceptions like Insta, Messenger, Telegram... but they are the clear minority and were propelled in spite of their names. it's part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it's cute.
A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
While at it, change "favorite" to "trumpet" (as in trumpeting praise), again it's trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than "favoriting" which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn't mean it's your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
Also while at it, keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called "Remembering" (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)
i dunno about you but i'd love it if new england became a canadian province, can we just like literally do the exact opposite of what the mandarin chief wants and let canada absorb some of the US? please? Fucking PRETTY PLEASE????
I imagine the conservatives in the US will be very pleased to see stories like this one.
In fact, some of them have told me exactly what they wanted to see happen years ago, and described this exact scenario.
Personally I had many other reasons to oppose the new administration and voted against it for those reasons; I didn't really have a stake in this particular area of policy. I'm not pleased with anything the trump administration is doing, including this.
People give up trying to migrate to the US and instead staying in the countries they're from makes me wonder what knock-on effects it will have in those countries though. Will mortality rates increase? Will there be increased strife now that people have to fight in light of flight no longer being an option? They can no longer choose to peacefully remove themselves from the conflict.
As a resident of the united states, I have considered the option of evacuating this place but have come to accept that it is not going to be an option for me. So I find myself wondering if I myself shall also be forced into violent conflict when/if I might have to defend my household from brownshirts, fully cognizant of the fact that I am outnumbered and outgunned and almost definitely not going to succeed in protecting my home without being overwhelmed and slain where I stand, nor taking nearly enough of them with me to make a difference in the long run.
They don't want to contend with violent gangs the local authorities are either unable or unwilling to stop? Well, I'm about to be in that situation too. Wish me luck.
A mall is a private real estate instrument built by speculators to extract rent from businesses and it's actually rather predatory. This is fundamentally not real estate and fundamentally does not exist to extract rent, so it's more like "what if you took a mall and removed all the mall-ness from it".
If malls were collectively owned by the stores that comprise them and pieces of the mall could appear and disappear at will of whoever's participating... Is it actually even still a mall really???
What the actual FUCK, THIS SUMMARY LEAVES OUT MAJORCRITICALVITAL INFORMATION
MULTIPLE masked gunmen! UNIDENTIFIED! they have no fucking clue who they even ARE?! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THE HEADLINE SHOULD BE "UNIDENTIFIED MASKED GUNMEN ATTACK PUBLIC CIVIL SERVICE OFFICE, MURDERING THREE"
the only thing I'm hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that...
it's so dystopian even Kefka would be proud too.
(as in, the omnicidal maniac clown Big Bad Evil Guy from Final Fantasy 6)