I love small talk. It’s just noises that communicate emotion or very basic information, and it has a script!

I agree with the original statement and also the correction in ops picture. They both communicate true and valuable information.

That would make her an asshole, but leave her personhood intact.

I don’t know if it was always like this, like pre internet, but I remember when I first started hearing people concerning themselves with the profitability of corporations online.

It was somewhere around the start of the eternal September (I was one of the unwashed tech illiterate masses), and I witnessed people having the most furious debates about video game company / console profitability, and it just never ended.

I wonder if it was just my first encounter to seeing so many Americans in one (virtual) place, or if it was the latent tribalism of the internet, or just nerds having fun crunching their nerd numbers. But I still see way too much of it.

It has got better in some of the chiller places on the internet, though. Which are about the only places I frequent.

Curious to hear other people’s perspectives on this kind of parasocial relationship with corps / brands.

Whoa

There are ways, yes

I’ve definitely been this level of stupid, just luckier, so I have enough sympathy for the both of us.

Yeah I was being obtuse

Google has a browser now?

Please God let me remember this line for when the time comes

The real welcome to minnmax is always in the comments

It’s inherently antisocial. You no longer have to play by the social contract with that kind of wealth/power.

It’s a grave failure with our economic system that billionaires have been permitted to come about

Wow! So things must have gotten a lot better for people over the last 7 years!

Right?

I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord

If I’m being charitable I could presume that they left them so as to not disrupt sting operations

I find they’re the same. You just have to oil them and use them regularly.

I don’t even do that any more. I just make sure they pan is oiled and at a decent heat before putting food on it. Putting food on a cold pan will not end well, unless it’s really well maintained (and I am very lazy).

Thank you for sharing. That’s a rich article for topic hopping

I’ve often regretted putting too many todos on my list, and never regretted putting too few.

I refuse to glean any learnings from this observation.

Totally. It’s no wonder tobacco companies are deeply invested in smoking cessation and alternatives (or so I’ve heard - don’t ask me for a source).