nasredin

I haven't been able to create a Twitter account for over a year now. Home IP.

(Not giving Twitter my phone number)

I think it's deliberate b/c bots seem to be exempt from this phone number requirement.

Millions of real live non-Americans who comment on US politics are not doing it on behalf of a hostile government.

The people in that one party who have been found by courts to repeatadly disenfranchise certain groups?

They are usually broken because Google often pushes shady obfuscated updates.

IIRC the OFFICIAL "Personal Blocklist" was broken for a long time due to this.

AFAIK there's still no way to block entire TLDs.

So basically Google doesn't give a shit about you!

One more reason for Google being a very scammy advertising company (they stopped being a search company years ago):

You can not blacklist entire TLDs, just individual subdomains.

Thanks to ICANN (and others?) there is hundreds of TLDs that are 100% full of spam. And they all are able to game the system.

Google has lost the SEO War IMHO.

If they are not willing to innovate they should be broken up via anti-trust.

And Steven Seagal!

He is the spokesman/brand ambassador for "Bitcoiin".

Yes that is two "I"s.

I can not believe nobody mentioned:

APNG is (can be?) lossless. You have to lose a lot of quality in GIF to get reasonable filesizes. APNG gets you lossless quality with decent sizes.

Quality sticklers rejoice!

The profiles of Neonazis, weekly complaining about college kids protesting hate speech, the "Cletus Safaris". Yeah NYT isn't what it was anymore.

Have you heard about The Most Ignorant Man in America. NYT got it covered.

They literally had to show up at the Whitehouse and sit on the couch and they would have won their awards.

I read your entire post.

Why did you mention Ecuadorian Embassy in London?

I don't get the thought process.

The entire population of California is rolling their eyes when a developer uses "roll your own".

And don't get me started on actual developers and engineers.

Do these hip young companies realize how much historians are gonna be pissed at them?

"Paste"

"53" or is it "fifthythree"?

What happened to being unique?

Or even searchable FFS!

Something that's obvious but sometimes overlooked is listening.

Some people are just not good listeners. Something to watch out for.

Also to summarize the above poster: don't be pushy. And I'll add don't be condescending or patronizing.

Why can't Chinese marketers come up with Western-sounding brand names?

This is so annoying.

They may be a better value, but European brands give you peace of mind.

Maybe we could do something about voicemail then?

ducks

I feel like you post is missing:

I had to walk 10 miles to school in the snow! Barefoot! Uphill! Both ways!

or

GET OFF MY LAWN!

Nothing is new man. People are not gonna learn.

Can't wait to use the term "AIMd" on "Slack" (what a stupid name BTW) in 10 years.

...it's yours forever until it becomes Google's forever ;)

Obligatory plug for Tox.

http://tox.chat

A lot of countries require require registering the phone number to your name.

Relying on phone numbers as uniqie identifiers especially in "crypto" hipster apps (Signal) is stupid bordering on malicious

OK, stop. You've convinced me. Software programmed by attention merchants (advertisers) and IP prostitutes (lawyers) instead of engineers is stupid.

Can you provide a car or software development analogy?

And sharks including threshers, makos and great whites have an even odder solution: They feed their fetuses an endless stream of unfertilized eggs.

2. Sibling cannibalism

Sand tiger sharks have the most ghoulish fix for hungry babies: The fetuses devour each other in-utero until there’s just one pup remaining in each of their twin wombs. This uterine bloodbath is thought to have developed because a litter of sand tiger pups usually has multiple fathers — and each dad is engaged in a proxy war for his genes to take the upper hand. The “winning” fetus gets all the nutrients from its siblings and a roomy womb to develop into an unusually big baby, over 1 meter (3 feet) long at birth. Being born large and well-developed helps these newborn predators survive in a hostile ocean.

So a part of me is literally attached to my mum's brain?

The wallet-controlling part I'm guessing.

I hope you are feeling better, because that was one serious burn!

Russia in the 1990s... but with about 10 times more people.

And what about...

Oh wait.

Whataboutism, a #1 go-to tactic in dictatorships.

FYI the "stability" he brings as opposed to the chaos of the 1990s is one of Putin's major talking points.

It is one of the few constant themes in Russia.

LMFTFY:

"efficiently starting a MAJOR war"

The whole AUMF thing is probably not a good example to use.

IIRC Russia has entire fake building facades for the upcoming World Cup.

The drive to please higher-ups/Putin is quiet strong there. See their election turnout "encouragements".

You forgot to include Little Rocket Man in your powder keg.

I am so quietly proud of myself.

I managed to not learn the definition of that "word of the year". Through all the news articles about their decision, the outrage, I remain in blissful ignorance, content with my superiority over the Steve Buscemis at OED.

"How do you do, fellow kids?"

Personally I enjoy and visit UD more often than OED.