[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I mean, I don't think that framing is out of line for the age range of the protagonists.

Yes they are saving the world, but they're not exactly politically connected, aware, or savvy to initiate policy change.

So Hermione does what most middle or high school kids do. She advocates and protests.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    hard to ban a spam attack without also stopping any new sign ups. Also high risk, because the moment some scumbag uploads an image like that, it's hosted on their server and they are legally at risk.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's scarey how much of the popular conservative media in the US seems to be paid off by Russia.

    But you see it everywhere you look, there were just news reports of Nicholas Sarkozy bending over backwards to talk about how reasonable he thinks Putin is and how France needs Russia.

    Fucking crazy, but some people really do listen to this shit and end up having their world views shaped by what they see as their trusted sources.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Definitely less infinite scrolling, which has probably been good for me time management wise.

    But yeah, just generally less content and posts. Also find myself ending up on reddit when doing internet searches for questions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    There has been value generated by Twitter that will outlive it though.

    They established and refined an interface that other ventures like blue sky and mastodon are utilizing, and they delivered open source frameworks like Bootstrap will long outlive Twitter, and have brought value to the broader web development ecosystem.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    The nice thing about our economic system is that value is rarely completely destroyed, the money he paid for Twitter didn't cease to exist, it went to former Twitter shareholders.

    They may be using it in more productive ways than he ever would.

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