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  • dhork@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Well said! I would also like to add that we shape the community here (and in Social Media in general) through our interactions.

    Whenever we post, we are making a conscious choice to interact with a human (or possibly a bot, beep boop). Even if we are disagreeing with that human, the act of replying is, in some ways, a vindication of their point of view. You felt, among all the posts on the Internet, everywhere, to reply to that one.

    So if someone posts nonsense or gibberish that doesn’t help the discussion at all, and spreads negativity about you or other people, you are under no obligation to respond! These people are negative because they seek conflict. The worst outcome in the world for them is if you simply ignore them, because it means that you didn’t think enough of their opinion to respond.

    Don’t feed the trolls!


  • I don’t think there is a conspiracy that involves the RAND corporation, or the reverse Vampires.

    I do think that Elon Musk is an idiot who failed upwards his whole life, and mistakes that for business acumen. I think his tweet to buy Twitter was originally a joke, but then the SEC got involved and he was forced to buy at an inflated price. Recall he did everything he could to get out of the deal; Twitter literally sued to enforce it because it was a much better deal for shareholders than anything they could do organically. When you realize he never really wanted it in the first place, his actions make more sense.

    I also think Steve Huffman is a fraud who can’t see that Elon Musk is a miserable failure and looks to him as a mentor, so he is turning out to be just as petulant as Musk.