TheOctonaut

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TheOctonaut,

Why is Business Insider trying to write archaeology articles? This is awful.

TheOctonaut,

I have no idea how this is controversial. Why is posting your own memes/comics worse than posting someone else’s content?

You can see exactly why in this very comment chain, people talking about organising followers to boost things etc

The point of a link aggregator is not to act as veiled marketing for social media accounts or cosplays. Posting your own shit is 9 times out of 10 just promotional crap. Like this. Lemmy doesn’t need content that exists primarily to drive traffic elsewhere, or shit content for the sake of shit content.

TheOctonaut,

Yeah that’s a good thing with some artists I suppose.

TheOctonaut,

It really isn’t. Self promotion is pretty terrible for a link aggregation site. You used to be limited in the ratio of what you could post between yours and other content. Then The Other Site decided it was social media. Now you want here to be social media too. No thanks 👍

TheOctonaut,

Why? That’s her comic right there? What does that achieve other than bringing her ‘other’ business here?

TheOctonaut,

Why?

TheOctonaut,

No, it isn’t. Because, crucially, you’re not supposed to care who the other people are. By your definition if ‘social media’, my Geocities guest book was social media.

TheOctonaut,

This is a link aggregation website. It doesn’t matter who posts the content. You’re thinking of OnlyFans.

Which in this case is appropriate.

TheOctonaut,

They’re already deleting comments and organising “boosts”. Genuinely bizarre.

TheOctonaut,

This is true only in the vaguest sense.

  1. “Europe” didn’t invent the term soccer. A specific group of people in England did.
  2. Those people were upper class posh boys, the same ones who call rugby “rugger”. They are not the people who support football today or made football what it is around the world.
  3. If you can’t tell, it’s an obvious nickname for something. The equivalent of one nation deciding to exclusively call basketball “shootin’ hoops”.
TheOctonaut,

Isn’t that the point of the meme? I finally felt seen.

Get figuratively fucked and literally never fucked, descriptivists

What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other...

TheOctonaut, (edited )

I’ve never agreed with someone on this and yet been certain they are wearing polished coal rings before

TheOctonaut,

…are you suggesting that for a smaller number, they achieved immortality?

TheOctonaut,

Is this like that “the 90s were 10 years ago” effect? The viking age was 1,000 years ago. More, really.

500 years ago the world had been circumnavigated

TheOctonaut,

Please attend a very basic civics class

TheOctonaut,

Every time I see a photo myself from 5 or more years ago I wonder how I could have thought back then that I was fat and old.

This sounds like self-love. It is not.

TheOctonaut, (edited )

Are you… Rubbing the phone on your face?!

TheOctonaut,

Why sit next to someone not watching the movie while they watch the movie and actively interrupt them watching the movie?

TheOctonaut,

I’m sorry none of that has anything to do with ADHD. If anything ADHD is great for helping make connections from disparate sources as, for better or for worse, 15 things pass through your brain every second. And as someone with ADHD, trying to talk to me during a movie is incredibly annoying, because I’m either hyperfocused on the movie or working very hard to focus on it. If I’m not focused on it, I probably don’t care about it very much, so I’m not going to be asking questions to try to keep up.

All of this sounds like your sister has made “ask questions” part of her “try very hard to focus” routine but that is her quirk, not an ADHD trait. I can only imagine nobody has annoyed her in this way so hasn’t thought about it.

TheOctonaut,

Sounds like your wife is having an affair with carbon monoxide

TheOctonaut,

So, uh, you guys just invented image macros again. Huh.

TheOctonaut,

“what did humans do to deserve dogs”

We fed them scraps, bones, and unwanted infants for thousands of years until they forgot that a bunch of them could just eat us

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