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modifier , 4 months ago to Technology in Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies

Which part?

modifier , 5 months ago to Technology in Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO

You need to signal your willingness to ruin it if you want Wall Street to take you seriously.

modifier , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to 196 in Potato Salad Rule

Stipulated without objection but I'm not sure what point you are intending to make. And, based on the logic in this thread, you can't get slapped in the nuts without surgically accessing them first and we should all start talking about getting slapped in the scrotum - which is still technically different than getting slapped in the taint, so whatever point you're making is safe.

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Potato Salad Rule

This is sublime.

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Potato Salad Rule

I must ask, nay demand, that from now on when referring to my testicles, they are referred to individually and as distinct entities to each other and the scrotum.

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Potato Salad Rule

Or just...both

modifier , 5 months ago to unions in UAW Chief Says Billionaires—Not Migrants—Are Real Threat to Working Class

Based.

modifier , 5 months ago to Technology in NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter

Definitely exceeded my expectations.

modifier , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Uggghhh, another community I have to block.

I generally sort by everything:12 hour and feel that I get a pretty good and relatively 'clean' cross section of the content.

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Woke rule

It's all that damn soy they want to way nowadays.

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Rule

This feels like a joke that anticipates the community notes as a punchline. I don't frequent Twitter, but I have to imagine this is a burgeoning genre of comedy tweet

modifier , 5 months ago to 196 in Rule

Yes, this resonates, though I try to resist the urge to curtail my sarcasm.

I do find myself using sarcasm in a self-deprecating manner more than I used to, as it feels less prone to misinterpretation, or at the very least, that most misinterpretation would be unlikely to be taken at someone else's expense.

modifier , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in 99% to passing the shopping cart test yet they failed right next to the goal.

Did you have one epically infuriating shopping trip spread out across multiple posts or are parking lots part of your beat?

modifier , 6 months ago to Technology in Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow

We are all DigitalFrank on this blessed day.

This reminds me of an interesting dynamic I've witness this holiday season.

Now, to set the stage, most of my extended family and friends know well that I don't do social media. I left Twitter way back when it was just becoming necessary to grapple with the idea of the blue check, and Trump was still just some reality TV guy with cartoon hair the last time I made a Facebook post. I never got Instagram, TikTok, or any of those 2nd run of social media apps.

Everyone who knows me knows this about me. But this year when I talk about actually deleting my Facebook, people are aghast. No one is bothered that I haven't posted there in a decade, but me actually deleting my account is something more akin to actual death to a lot of these people. I don't get it.