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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Lumbermouth
Mar 6, 2008

GREG IS BIG NOW


Anders posted:

It's an experience - it's not possible to explain how good a listen the first seasons are

It somehow continues to escalate from a series of pornographic business anecdotes to a international espionage thriller and soap opera interspersed with pornographic business anecdotes. I go through all six seasons every year or so.

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Brigadier Sockface
Apr 1, 2007

Anders posted:

Someone should start a thread when you have to talk to someone about it but can't do it with anyone you know because how the gently caress can you explain something like it to someone

The cumtown thread is that way

smoobles
Sep 4, 2014

There's gotta be a point where twitter is so full of nazis and harassment that app stores pull it, right?

Didn't Parler and that other one I forget last like 48 hours

Macdeo Lurjtux
Jul 5, 2011

BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Mushrooman posted:

Post Malone should do the funniest thing possible and throw the card into a volcano.

He should turn around and put it randomly in one physical copy of his next album.

kjetting
Jan 18, 2004

Hammer Time

Anders posted:

You're probably right - I joined shortly after the warez had been removed, but I unfortunately remember that ADTRW was a subforum even if I never set my foot inside it. Point still stands though :colbert:

ADTRW still is a subforum. They changed the meaning of the acronym, and along with the rest of SA I guess it has also evolved and matured gradually, but it has always been the same subforum.

Early SA was a lot of edgelord-stuff and also didn't have many rules, so there was a lot more slurs, NSW content and other stuff you'd later associate more with the likes of 4/8/whatever-chan/kun. When stricter moderation was applied, one of the things non-ADTRW posters drew the admins' attention to was that in the anime forum posters were unironically posting lewd pictures of underage characters and openly discussing the fuckability of drawn schoolgirls, so Lowtax banned that.


whydirt posted:

My recollection is that the porn subforum here was closed due to drama/harassment of posters about homegrown content

Homegroan was a big reason, but the rest of the warez forums were removed shortly after and I would guess it was about the forums being partly public and wanting advertisers.

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

Pookah posted:

Yeah, watching your parcel go on a little world tour can be both irritating and funny - one order, which was supposed to come from Germany to Ireland spent a couple of days en route in beautiful Iceland.

My record, from over a decade ago, is 364 days in delivery, because Australia and Austria are definitely the same.

Autechresaint
Jan 25, 2012

kjetting posted:

ADTRW still is a subforum. They changed the meaning of the acronym, and along with the rest of SA I guess it has also evolved and matured gradually, but it has always been the same subforum.

Early SA was a lot of edgelord-stuff and also didn't have many rules, so there was a lot more slurs, NSW content and other stuff you'd later associate more with the likes of 4/8/whatever-chan/kun. When stricter moderation was applied, one of the things non-ADTRW posters drew the admins' attention to was that in the anime forum posters were unironically posting lewd pictures of underage characters and openly discussing the fuckability of drawn schoolgirls, so Lowtax banned that.

Homegroan was a big reason, but the rest of the warez forums were removed shortly after and I would guess it was about the forums being partly public and wanting advertisers.

What was the original acronym of adtrw?

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

Autechresaint posted:

What was the original acronym of adtrw?

Anime Death Tentacle Rape Whorehouse

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
In the latest episode of Harley Quinn, Elon is beaten to death with an electric golf club on the moon. Highly recommend.

ryde
Sep 9, 2011

God I love young girls

Boris Galerkin posted:

I’m still mad I had a 1st edition foil Charizard when I was in elementary school and I brought it to school to show off and it got stolen.

Never had one myself, but talking to collectors.. apparently those things are super fragile and will significantly degrade if you didn't keep them in sleeves and top-loaders the entire time. There's approximately no chance that an elementary school you could have taken care of that card consistently and long enough for it to have retained value.

Hope that makes you feel at least a little better.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


E the Shaggy posted:

In the latest episode of Harley Quinn, Elon is beaten to death with an electric golf club on the moon. Highly recommend.

In the season finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis pulls out Elon Musk's heart through his chest and squeezes it until it turns into a blood diamond

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Anders posted:

Someone should start a thread when you have to talk to someone about it but can't do it with anyone you know because how the gently caress can you explain something like it to someone

Do we have a podcasts subforum? There should definitely be one even if just for this and nothing else

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010

John Wick of Dogs posted:

In the season finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dennis pulls out Elon Musk's heart through his chest and squeezes it until it turns into a blood diamond

"You ever been in a storm Elon?"

ryde
Sep 9, 2011

God I love young girls
https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1686940699361792000

in which elon is surprised by inflation.

im so tired of people talking about how much value the dollar has lost over a period of 90 years. Like, yeah, no poo poo inflation exists but its over 90 years, thats a long loving time and there are plenty of ways to counter that inflation. Its not an issue unless you're stuffing cash under a mattress you dumbass.

ryde fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Aug 3, 2023

a7m2
Jul 9, 2012


ryde posted:

I will be honest though, I don't really understand how WeChat became a thing. I dont see the value-add over just using my phone's OS. So maybe it is I that am stupid.

QQ was/is a chat app kinda like MSN messenger and the precursor to Wechat. Once smartphones became a popular thing, Tencent was able to rapidly make use of their expertise with QQ to develop a decent chat app, as well as carry over their userbase (you can log into it with your QQ account). They were also early in the payment scene: online banking sucked (and still sucks) in China and Wechat Pay is actually really good and convenient so it caught on like wildfire. They do have a serious competitor in the payment area called Alipay, but that's mostly just used to pay for things on Taobao (the equivalent of Amazon, owned by the same company that owns Alipay) and stuff like insurance. While possible, most people don't use Alipay for daily payments or sending friends and family cash (though some do).

They also made it possible for developers to create their own mini-apps that run inside of Wechat and can leverage some of Wechat's features such as payment, location, and social stuff. That's also huge because it allowed for instance restaurants to let you place an order and pay just by scanning a code with Wechat. It's typhoon season now so instead of installing another app, I can just open up the typhoon-watch mini app in Wechat super fast and check if any are headed my way. Whenever I go back home I legit miss the convenience of Wechat, it's honestly quite good overall.

Wechat is not quite an everything app, there are still plenty of other apps people use, but Wechat has become completely indispensable for anyone in China. I think it's impossible to reproduce, because Tencent was so early with all of it.

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/semafor/status/1687138361650110464

https://twitter.com/semafor/status/1687138895928991746

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

elon is so smart, and wise, creator of spacex paypal and twitter blue

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON

kjetting posted:

ADTRW still is a subforum. They changed the meaning of the acronym, and along with the rest of SA I guess it has also evolved and matured gradually, but it has always been the same subforum.

Yeeeaaaah and they absolutely refuse to change it, which keeps me out. Like, they'll claim it means something else, but it's always clearly a reference to the original tentacle rape title.

It's very like anime fans to fervently hold onto a very old, very tasteless, very gross joke 'for the culture!!'. There's a reason anime/manga is the most behind on kicking pedos out of our spaces (and why there was a high crossover between bronies and anime fans). Sigh.

StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 3, 2023

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

he is unstoppable....

ryde
Sep 9, 2011

God I love young girls
"highly-qualified users"

Anyone talking stocks on Twitter is very likely to be a complete loving idiot. I know Twitter can't very well admit that, but it still bugs me to see Elon tout his user base as anything other than drooling morons.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

cumpantry posted:

elon is so smart, and wise, creator of spacex paypal and twitter blue
Discoverer of inflation

Seth Pecksniff
May 27, 2004

can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.
This would set up so much market manipulation it's unbelievable

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

StrangersInTheNight posted:

It's very like anime fans to hold onto a very old, very tasteless, very gross joke 'for the culture!!'. There's a reason anime/manga is the most behind on kicking pedos out of our spaces (and why there was a high crossover between bronies and anime fans). Sigh.
I agree, we do not do enough. Sighs in agreement.

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




can’t believe elon invented inflation, wtf was he thinking?

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

but elon also invented nickola tesla

Hardcastlemccormik
Jul 19, 2022
Because there are no easy ways to handle money, stocks, and other similar assets in an easy mobile friendly format. No sir. Nothing in that market.

People like to scream about “Apple/Nintendo didn’t invent X” when the fanboys go apeshit over a “new” feature but the Muskalites who are still on board with this must have literally never used a smartphone in their life if they think any of this is innovative.

smoobles
Sep 4, 2014

the apps already work together too because of smart URLs or whatever, I can fulfill a Venmo request from WhatsApp

he's trying to create an everything app when the phone already is the everything app.

A GIANT PARSNIP
Apr 13, 2010

Too much fuckin' eggnog


ryde posted:

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1686940699361792000

in which elon is surprised by inflation.

im so tired of people talking about how much value the dollar has lost over a period of 90 years. Like, yeah, no poo poo inflation exists but its over 90 years, thats a long loving time and there are plenty of ways to counter that inflation. Its not an issue unless you're stuffing cash under a mattress you dumbass.

See? People working minimum wage are 1933 millionaires in 2 years! Cut every social service and impose a flat tax on all these millionaires!

ryde
Sep 9, 2011

God I love young girls
I will say that i am sympathetic to people who lived during the Great Depression where cash-under-the-mattress might actually have been a good idea, but there's no reason in TYOOL 2023 to not put your money (if you actually have money) in bonds or some other safe vehicle to counter inflation.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck, its not inflation keeping you from being able to save, its capitalism and the fact that your bosses are underpaying you.

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!





I'm super excited for how spectacularly this will backfire for Elon

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

serious question, does he want them killed?

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

the obsession with getting these donors' names out in the public eye while also wielding the collective mass idiocy of a sycophant army is... how would musk say it. Concerning!

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
The other day my dad was complaining about milk being more expensive than it was 20 years ago. I know he understands the power of compound interest, but the lure of "I used to be able to get 4 pints for a pound, but these days..." griping is too strong.

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




I found this incredibly cathartic

https://i.imgur.com/VmoUS6t.mp4

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer

cumpantry posted:

serious question, does he want them killed?

That or too scared to report on him anymore.

This Is the Zodiac
Feb 4, 2003

cumpantry posted:

serious question, does he want them killed?
No, but only because he doesn't acknowledge them as living humans, just a video game style enemy to be defeated.

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

Sockser posted:

I found this incredibly cathartic

https://i.imgur.com/VmoUS6t.mp4

Lol wow this rules

Dr_Strangelove
Dec 16, 2003

Mein Fuhrer! THEY WON!

goatface posted:

The other day my dad was complaining about milk being more expensive than it was 20 years ago. I know he understands the power of compound interest, but the lure of "I used to be able to get 4 pints for a pound, but these days..." griping is too strong.

“foor points fer a poond”

MikeJF
Dec 20, 2003




smoobles posted:

There's gotta be a point where twitter is so full of nazis and harassment that app stores pull it, right?

Preparing against that eventuality was probably one of the reasons that twitter used to have just about one of the best Progressive Web Apps out there (a tech where you can create webpages that can package themselves up into responsive native apps that get installed and maintain their source on your device and just talk to the server in the same way as any other app) but pretty sure that's fallen out of decent maintenance in the X era.

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The Awesomesaurus
Feb 15, 2006

I'm too cool to be extinct.

Sockser posted:

I found this incredibly cathartic

https://i.imgur.com/VmoUS6t.mp4

I hope Elon sees this.

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