Also, AFAIK the creators see it. And it influences the algorithm I think

If you disagree, then you are a rich, white male between the ages of 24 and 45

who doesn’t care about the wellbeing of others. You can be privileged and still human

Is this true or are you gaslighting us?

At least where I live, there are more busses on time than on sidewalks but that might be a regional thing

It’s actually on the sidewalk if you look closely

Ocean gate? Never heard it referred like that. Funny how gate is just a word for scandal by now. It all started with the Watergate gate.

In parts of Germany, it’s the same (Erdapfel), others say ground pear (Grundbirne) but don’t compare apples with pears (it’s our equivalent to apples and oranges)

Let’s compromise: 26?

And adrenochrome, obviously

My life motto is: two showers until Christmas

And if you want to be me, be me
And if you want to be you, be you
Cause there’s a million things to do
You know that there are

Thanks anyway

Religion manifests in many ways. Some of them problematic, some aren’t but so are other ways of viewing the world.

And that almost makes it worse. The joke works without it, why add a Down Syndrome punchline at the end? If it’s not about it, why bring it up in the first place?

As they say, every sign has a story

Interesting! This sounds a lot like the experience of millennials (like me) but instead of coming to an internet that’s as young as I was, you get there a decade or so later.

I checked the book again and she’s like “of cause there are exceptions” so you’re kind of seen as well

For those who understand German

I wish we’d refer to early internet era as something other than the 1900s.

Oh feel you. Saying 1900s for the whole century feels wrong but why tho? We do it for other centuries as well so maybe it’s time to get used to it.

WWW ostensibly started in 95.

That’s already part of becoming mainstream. I use “internet” in the broader sense that includes other technology I’m not really familiar with. But some precursors of the internet were around in the 70s and maybe even earlier? Donno, I’m second wave myself. Sorry if my terminology is confusion and not correct.

When we start referring to the “turn of the century” as the early 2000s, I may just outright die.

I used the phrase “turn of the millennium”. Sorry if old people thought I meant 1000 CE.

In Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch argues that there are three waves of “internet people”. The first was “before it was cool”, the second when it became mainstream (give or take the turn of the millennium) and the third when internet was already a thing. The third are young people, too young to remember the 1900s and therefore the time before internet, and old people who go online because it’s unavoidable and also more intuitive and easy than ever before.

Despite the generation gap, they have things in common and in contrast to the first and second wave (which she also subdivides but that’s beside the point). For example they never used mail as primary communication and they have smartphones as first device and most often second hand from a family member.

Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk and sorry if I took your shitpost too serious but there’s truth and science behind it and I couldn’t not share it.

Thanks, sounds great!