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People will be on Twitter all day and then wonder why they hate everyone and have no hope.
The mainstream western platforms have so much brain poison. Which I say with some reservation because Twitter did help me reach ML at some point in time, so not like it's all bad, but that was also pre-Musk-takeover. After him, it seemed to slowly deteriorate into little more than bots and neo-nazis with leftish twitter more marginalized.
And I mean, even back then, it had plenty of brain poison and false paths to get lost going down. I do not miss the cortisol spikes (not sure if I'm being figurative or literal) from reading the latest Twitter beef and being very careful not to get involved, so as not to suddenly have ire turned on me over a phrasing misunderstanding in my notifications. I never liked how it had this embedded status-based dynamic, where small accounts basically had to ingratiate themselves to the ones with lots of followers, or else risk getting quote tweeted and bombarded because they said something that set the person off. I found that a lot of mid-sized accounts (decent number of followers, but not like in the tens of thousands or something) would have a tendency to act like you were in their house invading their personal space when replying to them, instead of it being a public forum, which only made the angst worse over minor misunderstandings and confrontations. And to some extent, I couldn't blame them for acting that way about it because it wasn't like they were necessarily wanting to be a minor e-celeb. They may have more so stumbled it because they were witty, or because they happened to exist as a girl on the internet with a conventionally attractive pfp pic and so were getting guys chasing them, or sometimes a combination of the two.
In retrospect though, it's not at all surprising that a society like the west's would produce such an unhealthy and stratified-feeling "social media" platform like Twitter.
I keep getting suggestive or brainrot content on Instagram.
Ugh, sounds painful.
The medium is the message.
Twitter was designed to destroy good communication, imho
Still in Zaragoza.
I should get some slept.
Have a good rest of the day or night wherever you are!!
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In a room of infinite monkeys typing stuff randomly, at least one of them will write the entire Capital volume 1 on the first try. The rest will write YouTube video essays.
Schrödinger's... monkeys, right?
If you convert Pi to binary and then to asci eventually it will produce all the works of Marx in order of publication.
It wouldn't because ASCII can't write German letters ü, ö and ä. /j
Picture tax for the day (even threw in my cat, happy now?!)
Yup, those streets look extremely Spanish 😀
I don’t know about nowadays, but people used to play handball a lot in the ubiquitous narrow streets, though this particular alley looks too narrow even for that.
Somehow, I also ended up on the planet Ghorman 😱
The student loan situation in the US is a great example of how truly shitty the country is beneath its mask of liberal democracy do-goodery. Basically punishing young people for believing in higher education and turning them into a decades long source of revenue.
Then there's the healthcare system. So bad somebody whacked a health insurance CEO and people were like "yeah, that makes sense."
Or the food quality. Poorly regulated, sugar and salt is the answer to damn near everything.
So the US doesn't value education, it doesn't value healthcare, it doesn't value food quality. What the fuck does it value that actually matters to the wellbeing of people? I'm inclined to think the only thing that stops the country from being unbearably terrible to live in for the majority of people is all the workers who do well intentioned work in spite of the bullshit systems they're tangled up in that make their work harder. But they need to realize they don't need those bullshit systems, never have, and they can create a system based on humane principles. They have to take power seriously first though.
tv, sports, religion, and drugs are what keep america going. Its bread and circuses but they do a double dose of circuses because bread is too much work.
Yep, when I graduate, I'm going to be paying them off for at least 20 years I bet you.
My sympathies. It really is awful.
Job hunting fucking sucks. I can't find anything that fits and if I do, I'm not getting hired
