… just don’t use instagram?

I never have, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out

fuck no

I quit reddit for a reason

‘as above’

First thing, I’m buying the finest fineliner I can, go for 4-6 columns on the page.

Then I’m writing in billionaires, one a week, after making them cosign a suicide note that the deaths will stop once wealth distribution flattens the fuck out, there’s a full UBI everywhere and fossil fuels are history.

It’s not women’s job to be attractive.

They aren’t there for your viewing pleasure.

They’re not for you; they’re not a public amenity.

You have no more right to expect them to smile in order to make your surroundings more aesthetic than you have a right to expect them to get their tits out for you to gawp at.

Rita Morgan.

That episode was NOT OK.

I was not ok for about a week.

Working in emergency medicine would be amazing, but the first lull that happened, I’d fuck up and people would die

No, that’s not poisoning.

If you get killed by a tsunami, that’s not water poisoning for fuck’s sake.

whining about downvotes = instant downvote

This is a bad argument. Your conclusion happens to be factual, but it doesn’t follow from the premises.

Being in an enclosed space with an internal combustion engine will kill you because of the CO buildup, and no, that doesn’t happen in the open air. CO does oxidise to CO2 eventually, so it doesn’t just keep building up in the atmosphere.

The main harm caused by burning fossil fuels is the CO2, which is wreaking havoc on the climate and will kill billions - but not by poisoning them.

Goldrush and Badwater

And never plays any of them.

The whole UX is just so bad

This is an important point.

All texts (writing, film, other media) are constructed against their contemporary cultural context, and rely on that context to give them meaning.

Ever watch stand-up comedy from a decade ago? Even if you laughed yourself sick at it at the time… it ages extremely badly, since it’s so intimately tied into the whole vibe of the time.

The more generic the work, the longer its use-by date - but of course, the less likely it is to be memorable.

After a time, all things die. And that’s okay.

2008. It took a while to be affordable here.

Killing in the defense of others is a legal defense to homicide.

If the guy were attacking people with a machete, nobody would dream of prosecuting the person who put him down.

The fact that he’s doing it slightly more slowly, but on a massively larger scale should not change anything.

As someone who’s been on forums of every stripe since the goddamn 80s, I can say with a great deal of experience that all good internet communities have just one single rule: “Don’t make us ban you.”

Anything else just invites edgy trolls and rules-lawyering.

Now don’t get me wrong, guidelines are good and necessary. Give people an idea of the kinds of thing you do and don’t want to see, and the way you will generally act in turn, because managing expectations is important.

But the moment you make hard-and-fast rules that you’re obliged to follow, people will make a point of bending you over them with edge cases and not cuddling afterwards, just because they can. They think denial-of-service attacks are just as hilarious against human systems as they are against software ones, if not moreso - or they do it to assert control as part of one personality disorder or another.

If you play their game, you will lose.

You need to have an admin-discretion clause, and not feel bad about invoking it whenever it’s the right thing to do.

Of course, this can lead to tyrannical asshole mods - if you have a mod team, you need to keep a close eye on it to prevent shitty personalities taking over in that domain. As the person that the buck stops with, if you can’t trust yourself with it, then the place is going to hell anyway.