Zero22xx

Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like

And then other parts of it are just infuriating. Like how if you try to post song lyrics or something, the markdown just mashes every sentence together in one line for some reason. So you have to know the secret code just to make gdamn new lines. I actually pressed enter to go to a new line 5 times in this paragraph but it comes out all jumbled together after posting.

As far as I'm concerned, I shouldn't need to know some special formatting just for return to work properly.

I hope this changes with generations

I had this hope too but it's hard to maintain while watching gen Z go down the manosphere rabbit hole and start to turn to religion again and shit. And even certain people from my own millennial generation that seemed progressive 10 years ago have been replaced by pod people these days.

With the way things are going in the world right now, the only hope I've still got is that one of these days everyone wakes up and realises the damage they're causing and we see a major swing in the opposite direction.

Wow that's more people than I thought. It definitely doesn't seem that way on the platform, seems more like a ghost town inhabited by bots and the elderly these days. Makes sense though, I'm pretty sure non-English users get more out of Facebook than Reddit or Twitter. I'd actually be interested in seeing a breakdown per country.

So yeah, I guess that was a bad example then, thanks for the info. Although still, compared to its heyday when everyone was using it, including young trendy people, it's nosedived quite a bit. Anecdotally speaking.

You could probably look at Facebook for a case study in this.

• Take away the ability to choose the sorting method for your feed
• Basically never show you content from people that you follow and instead flood the feed with suggestions that go into adverts that go into more suggestions that go into more adverts
• When it does finally show you something that you've chosen to follow using your own brain, ask "aRe yOU inTeReSteD in ThiS cOnTEnt?"
• Make sure that every redesign is to the benefit of advertisers and not users

Facebook is still pretty widely used in my country. But even the people that use it say that it's gone to shit and complain about never actually seeing their friends' content anymore. But they still use it because there's nothing to replace it with yet. Not everyone enjoys forum style or microblogging style, so it is what it is. Keeping an eye on Friendica currently to start suggesting to people but in its current state, I'd say it's still not shiny and polished enough yet to get non tech enthusiasts to switch over.

Just came here to say that I saw this when it was first posted but I only just got the joke now seeing it come through my feed again..

Probably the age and history. There's a few buildings around that are a couple of hundred years old. Most of the other nearby towns are small and generally hubs for surrounding farms, or at least they started that way.

It's gone to shit though. Every time I go back there I'm shocked all over again at how it's mostly just going to ruin these days.

And especially if she's really strong and swings a sword like it's made of feathers.

And this kind of shit unfortunately is fuel for anti-vaxxers and conspiracy types. It's not just misinformation on social media that we have to thank for people's mistrust, it's also the scientists that downplayed how bad sugar is or who turned a blind eye to what cigarettes do in the interests of money.

Ah thank the gods, I was waiting for my morale boost.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I wish I could say Sonic 3 & Knuckles but we weren't swimming in money so I very rarely got a new game (and just to add, I never threw controllers or punched TVs either because mommy wouldn't just buy me a new one if I did that).

I did rent out Sonic & Knuckles occasionally though. But I can practically picture the early level layouts of Sonic 3 in my mind like they're familiar streets that I grew up in.

When I was a kid, for a while my mother, one of my sisters and I lived with my grandpa. Grandpa loved his caine and other white spirits and would drink until he went and passed out in his room. Then he would start shouting in his sleep and have big fights and arguments with someone. Usually when this started, someone would go to wake him up and tell him to shut up (as suggested by him).

Anyway, one day the three of us excluding grandpa were sitting around in the lounge doing whatever, when next thing we heard grandpa shouting in his sleep from his room. So both me and my sister go to tell him to sit up. And we both saw the shape of a person in his bed and heard him sort of mumble "ah, fine, ok, sorry." And that was the end of the shouting and we went back to the lounge to carry on watching TV or whatever we were doing.

Next thing, a car pulls up outside and out gets grandpa and his friend. They had both been out the whole day and grandpa wasn't actually home that whole time.

That's easily the biggest unexplained experience I've had in my life. The fact that all 3 of us heard him shouting and that both my sister and I saw him in his bed still freaks me out today.

Courtney Love called them (and Marilyn Manson) out early on for their activities with young female fans

Ouch, that's disappointing. I know about Manson these days but in the early days of Korn, I was still watching Saturday morning cartoons and didn't even know they existed yet. So I missed them getting called out. I guess the moral of this story is, kill your idols.