New to me too. I want to eat one.

I’m imagining kiwi-stawberry, but frankly that’s just my animal brain drawing stupidly simple connections.

Maybe it was living in the desert SW for awhile, but my fav yard chair was always the small boulder.

What I don’t get is why people would expect it to be any good. If you went over to reddit, and somehow actually got it to sort by literally “all” subs, and especially if you flipped over to “new”…

That is just not going to be anything but a shitty experience.

Do people think like, everything that exists must somehow be good or something? No, meh content is everywhere, and it gets reposted and shared all the time. It’s the bulk of it… We’re better than reddit would be, but I still don’t use all very much. Mainly just use it to find decent new communities to actually subscribe to.

It’s all about trust at the end of the day. The easiest is if you have a position of trust already. I had an older brother, and while he was a dick a lot, he also looked out for me, and I could tell when he was being serious about something. He also loved science, and he wanted me to love science too. So I studied hard and learned how it works, and now I think he was right.

He probably saved me, since I myself have always found more rebellious positions very appealing. But once you learn what the scientific method is, how it works and why it was needed in the first place, that sticks with you. It’s a method, not a belief, and just like your method for tying your shoes or riding a bike, it just sticks, because it works.

If you don’t have a position of trust, you have to lean on things that don’t require it. Clean rationality/logic can be used, and make sure to very thoroughly go step by step. If A, then B. If B, then C. If C, then D. Don’t assume any like you’re talking with a peer, instead go extremely by-the-book.

If they’re religious, you can use bible quotes. It does just so happen that Jesus himself was a rather opinionated fellow and left us a lot of material to work with. The man was even downright reasonable sometimes.

You can also use history, if you’re strong at it. It gives numerous routes for dealing with these arguments.

None will work reliably, but I think it’s a numbers game, where we just try to save what we can. First and foremost though, if you have a younger sibling, please be a good older brother/sister. They’re probably not ready for this messy of a world.

Everyone who goes there was not vulnerable to being influenced by facts or knowledge. Anyone who values a sound methodology for arriving at those will have stayed well away from the place.

The gateway into that shit isn’t Truth Social. It’s attitudes that attack education spread at the grassroots level, and once adopted, it leads to distrust of any message that coincides with the establishment position.

I mean, you’re right, but destroying it won’t help. They’ll just go somewhere else, worse. You can’t actually “cure” them with facts though, it just doesn’t work that way.

Noooooo leave them all there. It’s a containment space.

I mean, look, they will always go somewhere, okay? This is the internet, trust me, there’s plenty of places. But that service makes for ideal containment, mainly because Trump is on it and it’s not connected to anything else. It’s perfect. Don’t fucking ruin it.

edit: I mean, you want to shut something down with shitposting, go for the legacy outlets that provide them with a lot of their ideas and shit. Go after daily stormer or something, the older shit. Where a lot of the ideas originate, and the hardcore extremists get radicalized from. Those are more like the brain stem of the thing anyway, where truth social and fox are more like the body, the bulk.

“causing reputational damage” to the EU is probably a bit of an understatement.

Duct. Duck is a brand name, sealing gaps in ductwork is one of the things its really good at and happens to be the same color of, to blend into.

But yes, ops tortillas are not the best.

You know… I don’t think I’m going to have a drink today.

I think he’s trying to see if, maybe, instead of making one big change all at once and massively kicking the hornets nest, it’s better if he breaks it up into smaller kicks spread over time.

So instead of replacing the old system wholesale, he takes it down, waits a bit, then installs the new one. See if that helps at all.

It probably won’t.

I’m curious what their plan to improve the profitability is. I have a sneaking suspicion that whatever it ends up being, it’ll probably be unpopular.

You don’t become a billionaire in the first place without using a few tricks here and there. Why change?

Thanks for helping take care of it, that was a pretty quick response from you guys. I’m betting the talk for the next day is gonna be all about 2FA. lol

I’m checking on mobile web browser atm, everything seems fine.

Too many memes or something?

Yeah, I strongly suspect large numbers of trolls are making very, very heavy use of the reporting features.

Can probably set up a chatGPT to talk to them for you, with some effort.

Average joe kinda implies middle American, so no, probably not.

Are you saying you don’t think republicans try to blame the homeless problem on democrats?

No worries. It does rely on some knowledge of American subcultures though, and how much some of us like fucking with words. We dont give no fucks how we sound, often.

Homelessness, then, is a major wedge issue, particularly with the right, as they try to pin the blame for it on their opposition. That wedge-issue-ness is tied into feelings, how they feel about homeless. When you change the name though, that context can change. The new name doesn’t summon the old feelings anymore.

This is why you always see the right put so much focus on controlling language, to them language is perception, and is more cultural and individual than dem voters tend to see it.

So you’ll frequently get this ring-around-the-rosie where the left comes up with terms, the right turns them into insults, the left comes up with new ones, etc etc.

It’s honestly hard to say if it was an overt political choice or simply using a more familiar term to the reader base, southern illinois being more on the rural side.