I hate Twitter, but I'm getting to the point where I want it to get better because if bluesky gets many more members we're just gonna have Twitter again.

One thing I liked about the Muskification of Twitter was the scattering.

I'm pretty sure I've lived on less than this in inflation adjusted dollars.

Oh I don't think it's a problem for Discord, but when it comes to software projects specifically I find the reliance on Discord frustrating because of its non-public orientation. If I'm having an issue I'd far rather search for a solution on a public wiki, bug report system, or forum than sign up for one more Discord server.

Far more than should tbh. Too many little game mods will have a Discord for questions and reporting issues rather than using their GitHub or a forum.

I think you're giving the guy too much credit. Sometimes things are as they seen. He just didn't like the moderation scheme on Twitter, made a gesture buying it, fumbled a little bit and overbid, then after having been forced to acquire it tried to turn it into something closer to what he wanted it to be.

Masnick's post is well put, but also a disturbing reminder of how much power nation-states can exert over the Internet.

Or....you tend to be negative.

I feel bad for folks who are introverted and not particularly strong. Almost every job with a low barrier to entry demands a lot of physical or emotional labour.

Imagine a barista with a pin that says "Here are some of the soft skills that this job demands and which I lack."

I think by "do nothing" he means no arbitrary interface changes, new features no one asked for, etc.

That's the sort of "doing something for the sake of doing something" stuff that Microsoft and Apple often do that people hate.

When I have romantic feelings it doesn't make me want to sleep with the person they're directed towards.

It doesn't make me want to necessarily sleep with them either, but rather stay up late having sex with them. And maybe after sleep.

But this idea of asexual romantic attraction makes about as much sense to me as saying "When I am hungry it doesn't make me want to eat food."

When I say I have "romantic feelings" for someone, the feeling I'm referring to is a combination of love and sexual desire. Even when I was a kid and would sort of push down or repress sexual thoughts because in my head it felt wrong or inappropriate, what I was feeling was sexual desire and love.

My understanding of the term "romantic" has always been euphemistic, based in an understanding that it would be weird and rude to just tell someone you're crushing on that you love them and you want them to love you too and you want to put your mouth on their genitals because you think you could make them feel really good and you want to physically intimate to be vulnerable with them because vulnerability is a part of of not just physical but emotional intimacy and you want them to share their feelings and feel open to you and so on and so on you get the idea.

Do people seriously conciously fantasize about taking part in erotic acts with real people (especially ones they have feelings for)?

Yes.

I kinda get the disrespect perspective, maybe. I felt that a little as a teen. But then I thought it probably wasn't respectful treating my crush in my mind like a sort of sexless statue or object rather than a real human being that I was in love with and wanted to have sex with.

Because they're also rich. Laws are for the poors.

Public micro blogging overall is a bane, so yes.

The difference between clearly documenting features, and hiding or removing them.

First time I saw a Zoomer do that it hurt my soul.

The proof for eligibility was basically self-attestation.

This is actually a good take. Kids aren't miniature adults, they're kids. They're not helpless or useless, but neither are they fully morally and emotionally developed. They need guidance. Plenty of adults can't responsibly handle internet access. I survived early onilne porn and gore and social media, but it's not like any of it benefited me in a meaningful way.

Some folks have an attitude that's like "I touched hot stoves and I learned better", but that's far from ideal.

To be fair, at least as of this moment his prior post says Google is "manufacturing consent for", not "actively supporting". I believe that the former can be the latter, but is not necessarily the latter.

I feel like maybe research on medical implants like this should be done by the state.