this commentary is pretty...... brutal

waggles eyebrows

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

Actually I went and got a custom CSS Chrome extension and got rid of almost all number silliness with these settings on my desktop computer:

.ProfileTweet-actionCount {
  opacity: 0;
}

div.module.Trends.trends {
  opacity: 0;
}

.ProfileCardStats {
  opacity: 0;
} 

Needless to say, this rules. Twitter just feels like relaxed spa now.

that's a good point, maybe just making it so you have to highlight the number then

This article rules.

There's a couple good reasons for follower and following counts, like it tells you about how someone uses twitter and it's useful to know. But yea, how many likes and rt a tweet has? Useless lol. It's all an engagement hack to keep you on the app instead of doing something else.

I use a client for twitter just because it makes the numbers less prominent, and it rules. I love twitter, but jesus the number shit is such a pain. Like I see folks post about how many followers they have, or like screenshotting the twitter analytics page, and I kind die on the inside.

I think keeping numbers around for transparency purposes would be good, but I'd like to make them much less prominent.

One really cool thing about this software is that it doesn't keep karma totals, so that's just something you never have to think about lol.

If the numbers were less visible, or entirely hidden, everyone might live more meaningful, more productive lives online, using posts as means to ends rather than as circulations within the system.

i want to make a custom stylesheet for this site that hides upvote totals on posts and comments for this reason. this is a small site where the numbers don't really matter, but my lizard brain still likes watching numbers go up and i think i would be a lot happier if it didn't.

ok it works now and all i gotta say is extremely same

agh fuck

e: ok i fixed it. also you can edit what a post links to now i guess

we are all youtube.com

https://twitter.com/BBW_BFF/status/956082193897574401/photo/1

;_;

nothing good can stay, it looks up again from here

nice

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mice

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Everything's 'clickbait' nowadays...

At this rate, maybe clickbait is good!

kind of a dumb clickbaity intro for a common sense argument tbh

Bebel said: Whatever the enemy advises us to do is harmful for us. The enemy advises us to go into the Duma—clearly, going into the Duma will be harmful for us. The enemy advises that the powers of the Duma should be extended—clearly, the extension of the powers of the Duma will be harmful for us. What we must do is to undermine confidence in the Duma and discredit it in the eyes of the people. What we need is not the extension of the powers of the Duma, but the extension of the rights of the people. And if the enemy talks sweetly to us and promises us indefinite "rights," it shows that he is laying a trap for us and wants us, with our own hands, to build a fortress for him. We can expect nothing better from the bourgeois liberals.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1905/10/15_2.htm

the opposite

Casey is great in general

half of these things I haven't actually heard of. does that make me uncool?

Aly is great, but I think people should be more aware in general that there's a huge issue of sexual assault in US Gymnastics and it really does need to get burnt down.

i do not know Aly Raisman but i want to give them a high five for seizing an opportunity to do what a lot of victims never get the chance to do.

he isn't insincere though; he admits to finding these people interesting once he gets the conversation going. I'd rather have someone listen to me, even if their enthusiasm is slightly feigned, than to dismiss me immediately. I might have a chance of getting along with them then.

I do agree with your other points though.

He's bragging about being polite, there's some points where he admits to being extremely insincere and that bugs me a lot (I don't want to think that people are just being polite when they seem to be into what I'm saying!!), and there's no actual breakdown of these are the basics of being polite. It doesn't really have a structure, it's basically a rant.