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Feb 17, 2010

keep punching joe posted:

I'm willing to die on the hill of social media being a product of Web 2.0. Forums, bbs, icq/irc etc. are all the old (good) Internet and do not count.

Friendster was the first I consider as 'social media' as we know it. While Friends Reuinited / Classmates etc were definitely more like a standard forum.

Good lord that reminds me, I had a 4 digit icq number, sadly lost to the sands of time now. :corsair:

I played a pbm wargame in the 80's and we had a role roleplay news letter that we used to sling poo poo at each other. That was sort of (anti)social, and it was media.

The real brain worms set in with smart phones and easy access, and the interweb stopped being the fastness of porn, geeks and nerds. Not to say we didnt have our own issues, but...

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Feb 17, 2010
What did Eddie do? Last I heard they identified as a lesbian trapped in a man's body, though that may have been a joke tbh.

Dress to Kill is still the best.

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Feb 17, 2010

Guavanaut posted:

It does feel sometimes like Eddie Izzard is taking the piss, especially with the whole "I don't care about pronouns and JKR isn't transphobic" thing, but I don't know enough about whether that was a fair representation of what they said, only that it did understandably cause upset.

Why Glinner cares so much about whether Eddie Izzard is a woman or not is a different matter.

I really don't think glinner is arguing anything in good faith. He has lost the plot entirely.

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Feb 17, 2010

Bug Squash posted:

There's going to be absolutely no outrage during the next set of traveler clearances, is there. This is pure aesthetics.

It's all about the twitter dogpile. This special was released a while ago.

What does GRT mean?

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Feb 17, 2010
I can see them going online only soon. The shops are separate from their delivery arm, and the shops are sad and empty.

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Feb 17, 2010

Isomermaid posted:

When it comes to bodies, right wingers do tend to have an obsession with purity which leans less on historicity and more on their own attitudes to tradition and body autonomy. Tattoos are, and have always been, cool.

In Britain of all places. The name literally means place of the painted people. It's about as close to a foundational tradition as we have.

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Feb 17, 2010

mediaphage posted:

who knows what might happen when the time for CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN comes right

I have some bad news for you.

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Feb 17, 2010
Oh indeed. I wish I had put my inheritance into building societies before they started going public, then investing that winfall into apple in 1997. Ah well, no regrets.

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Feb 17, 2010

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Yeah you shouldn't believe a word of that until it's confirmed by Not Russia.

You would have thought the side being advised by the premier gold standard of "take out their ability to shoot back before you commit a man" armed services (the First World/west) would have come up with a method or 2 for hardening their defensive capabilities against a first strike barrage.

But this is the 2020's and tbh who knows.



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Feb 17, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

All of which means that if you are defending a relatively small amount of land from a well equipped attacker, you basically can't.

Yes, but don't underestimate your own side. Drones (to pick the greatest tool of modern militaries, greater utility (and this is the most important point, deniability) than tanks to be frank) are a loving superb tool to do whatever the ! you want.

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