TheOctonaut

joined 2 years ago
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Are kids today so Vine-brained they don't understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What made Reddit worth using was Digg, a better link aggregator, turning to shit.

When the focus of Reddit also shifted to its users not the content, that was the start of its decline.

"Keeping people active on the platform" isn't the great thing you think it is when 1% of it was the good discussion you're remembering, and 99% of it was quoting canned response memes like a college kid in 2007 quoting Anchorman.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

This is a game from the 90s my dude. Java was "The portable language".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because in theory you know what the server is running on, and can optimise for that with C++, while supporting the front end on multiple architectures using one codename with Java.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Twitter definitely was not any attempt to emulate the function of SMS.

I can't tell if you don't know what SMS is for, or what Twitter was for.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Angela Collier completes a nice Venn diagram of (making me feel like I'm) learning stuff, righteous anger, and being a person with a face who isn't some new media production studio

https://youtube.com/@acollierastro

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(User was born after the last BB forum was shut down)

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (9 children)

"I know, but I wanted people to see it"

This type of behaviour is bannable on platforms with functioning moderation

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Its just a surname used as a first name, one of America's cuter, more demure methods of cultural appropriation.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a comment made by a person who lives in a country where in living memory a small spark of resistance led to the eventual defeat of the most powerful empire on Earth.

"Almost impossible".

Sorry guys we didn't want fascism but the alternative was just, like, hard.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If only there were some unique way in which Americans were better prepared than most populations to deal with quickly resisting and overthrowing a tyrannical government.

Oh well.

view more: ‹ prev next ›