twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to Tech Support: If I have my name on my signal account, does it show it to everyone I add on there? by flabberghaster

I think it shows your name and profile picture, but not your phone number. Importantly, it requires you add someone, or willingly join a group.

I think if they have your phone number in their contacts, Signal will add that to the Signal contact, and so someone can find your phone number by adding every phone number to their contacts. But I'm not certain about that.

More: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591-Signal-Profiles-and-Message-Requests

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by rain in Exciting developments by nomorepie

Hands too small to hold a phone comfortably

Hands too big to use a pop socket

Hands just right for when I accidentally broke the pop socket, turning the thing into a small knob that makes my phone easier to hold

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twovests wrote

Reply to light is kind of crazy by neku

The reprieve of my life is the fact that you can make this post by employing an arcane series of hand gestures to communicate using magical devices created through the collective efforts of billions of efforts of human activity

Good post, I appreciated it just as you appreciated your light bulbs

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to I want to indulge in clowning. There is nothing wrong with the catharsis of laughing. Clown in this thread with me. by twovests

It's all so fucking absurd!

Please imagine a version of yourself from 2015. You're chatting with them.

Were they on Reddit? What did they think of Bitcoin? What about the shiba inu memes? "Wow, such post"? Were they aware of Elon Musk? Did they think he was the cool space billionaire? Did they think Trump's presidential run was just so funny?

Now please imagine telling them "Under Elon Musk plays a Himmler to President Trump's Hitler as he leads a hostile takeover of the entire United States federal government under the new DOGE agency."

Can someone please clown with me? This is so absurd. This is all so absurd. I fantasize about finding out this is all a wild fever dream.

President Trump was a clown. Elon Musk was a stupid Redditor idol. Doge was a tired meme about a cute dog. Hillary Clinton was going to be President.

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to I want to indulge in dooming. There is nothing wrong with the catharsis of screaming. Doom in this thread with me. by twovests

I'm not going to be ashamed of missing Obama! I miss Obama!

Okay, I will be a little ashamed. He was also a war criminal.

"I got selected for President Trump's draft to annex Canada" would sound like laughably bad satire in 2014. "Things don't get that silly that fast," someone would say.

A friend of mine reached out after making the heartbreaking decision to send their documents in to get their passport renewed back to their birth sex. I had to break the news that they probably won't get their documents back for awhile. They're having a panic attack at that information. I think it was right for me to give the information, but, fuck.

I feel like I'm wasting my time doing things on the local network.

I remember reading Among the Hidden, a young adult dystopian thriller, and it was actually quite good. Youths stage a protest on the white house over IRC, and I thought, "But they can see the IP addresses of the kids using IRC." And in the end, they kill all the kids at the protest. Gripping story.

Hey, Joe Biden! Your presidency would have been historic, and regarded among Jimmy Carter, if you didn't wait until 2023 to prosecute Trump.

USD might crash, I'm seriously considering buying Bitcoin, can someone talk me off that ledge? How much of all my money should I turn to Bitcoin?

Thinking about the 55 year old Bitcoin bro who hit on his niece at the family gathering in front of everyone, including his own wife and children. He then asked me about artificial intelligence (which I'm an expert in, ugh). He and his wife were both very drunk when they drove their huge black truck home.

I wonder how long until the N-word is in common use again by politicians. The "you can't say this word" argument is a pretty complicated and abstract one, that also requires you already believe racism is a thing that exists and is bad.

Recently had a Jewish friend who did not know who Netanyahu or the ADL were. Recently had a 28 year old friend who did not know that SCOTUS rulings apply nationally. Recently had someone argue that "99% Hitler vs 100% Hitler" is actual numeric fact and not a silly exaggeration to drive a point. I am finding it increasingly hard to talk to the people on "our" side, because, fuck, come on, what. We still need to think even if the MAGAs aren't

The next DOOM is coming out in May, but I need a new computer, and tarriffs- oh nooooo

Doom with me in the Doom thrread

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twovests wrote

Reply to I've decided to recommit to not using ablist language. CW: mentions of ablist slurs. by flabberghaster

Let me know if you find a solution. The loss of clarity of message is hard to swallow. Especially as English proficiency wanes in the population, I'm struggling between the desire to simplify my language so that people can understand me, and the desire to be Erudite and Articulated.

It might help to focus on the social aspect? "That's fucked up" might convey parts of what "that's crazy" would.

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