The Octonaut

Twitter definitely was not any attempt to emulate the function of SMS.

I can’t tell if you don’t know what SMS is for, or what Twitter was for.

All the Gamestops in my country shut down, because memes can’t pay commercial rates or corporation tax

This depends on your client. A lot of them hide responses in the same way Reddit did.

Why are its eyes on the back wall of its orifice

I’m just glad they didn’t include Ireland with a butcher’s apron

And have at least one quest and a small bag of gold coins with you for when the adventurers act like you’re not all here to do adventuring stuff for fun

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I am not from the USA.

Then again in my country “Senator Buttkis ® arrested for soliciting young men” isn’t a thing. So I’m giving a specific example from specific place. And saying “like” that.

Thanks.

I think a big thing that is missed is that when it’s a case of “homophobic politician turns out to be banging dudes nightly” you need to compartmentalise the two problems - stupid homophobia, and the much more specific “this politician and their political party are very obviously not trying to govern in good faith and instead will say literally anything for power”. Both are bad. The first one is a thing that will take a century or two to die away mostly and even then will pop up sometimes if we get complacent.

The second one is the thing that we might be able to fix, like, on a four year cycle.