thats quite incredible

…wait till you hear about the people that write for a hobby.

not everyone writes for profit

…and to any of the feeds actually contain an article ? or just links back to website, so they get pageview ?

you have grown up in a broken age

I picked up a permanent ban, after 15 years for saying ‘Go outside fatso’ to someone who said I couldnt read. Not my proudest moment, but there you go.

The reason I mention it, is that it adds a different dynamic if they are trying retain (and prevent me from editing) data which they hold about me. They might argue that doesn’t extend to post where I’ve written “cats > dogs” - but anything where I’ve refered to where I live, whether I have kids, what my political views are, are all clearly personal details which they are not allowed to hold without retaining my consent.

Clear contraventions on GDPR in EU.

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/eu-data-protection-rules_en

its fun to watch. i think a few people have taken the opportunity to take control of famous subreddit names .

its silicon valley baby ! you haven’t needed a profitable, sustainable model for decades. you need a big mouth, a slide deck and the phone numbers of a few suckers with lots of money.

OPs question suggests there was at least some illusion !

https://youtu.be/eyGND49CBYk

british comic stuart lee on the subject.

imagine being in the strategy meeting with your team, when they suggest a play based on suspending withdrawing food from child would go well with your voters.

imagine agreeing to go with it. getting a speech written about it and one day standing at the lectern to say in front of crowd of assembled people “it is not our responsiblity to feed children”. and then pausing for applause and going home and telling your spouse, “today went great”.

in this supply chain of inhumanity, there were so many opportunities for the heart to say “yo…something is off here…cant quite put my finger on it…but it doesnt seem…right ?.”

to sail through all those checkpoints of human decency, and go through with it, is nothing less than psychopathy.

the unplanned kids that arrived under anti abortion laws.

it’s a weird mindset.

the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound

kiwi cadenza are the only thing i listen to post-BLON

thats incestuous