this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ah. well, my commiserations, the us seems to thrive on pitting people against each other.

anyways, my point is that usenet had every type of crank you can see these days on twitter. this is not new.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well probably but what’s the point if some extremely small minority used it?

The point with iPad kids is that it is so common. The kids played outside and stuff well into 2000s.

Still I guess iPads are better than dxm tabs but as the old wisdom says: why not both?

[–] counteractor@pawoo.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Emmie “it wasn’t full of twitter fake news etc as we know it”

Maybe you should say what your point is.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought I did, the fuck ya want from me

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 2 years ago

"this only matters now because I only became aware of it today" is not, y'know, a very compelling argument

for, well, anything

[–] counteractor@pawoo.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Emmie@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don’t even remember what it was about now tbh, must not been super important