Is shell paying you to run defence? I don't get it. Shell=bad and you should google it if you don't know why

My guess is they're not self destructing. They're pissing off parts of the user base to profit more from the rest of the user base. I'd guess it's all calculated and profitable. Except whatever twitter is doing that's just a mess

Their goal wasn't to win you over. It was to create a loyal user base of ad consumers and they succeeded at that

I also succeeded at finding a platform to consume content that isn't ad riddled. Yet.

I think that's partially a cultural difference. The original artist is Chinese and being a murderous warlord is seen as sexier in the USA than in China

I could be wrong

Interesting how gains in productivity are framed as hurting workers, not that the economic system that incentivizes giving workers less is hurting workers

My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they're nested strangely

Mushrooms however are a giga based species

I believe this sparked the dark brandon name. Originally made by a propagandist cartoonist to make Biden look evil, the left memed it because he's an old man so the juxtaposition is funny, then libs just adopted it as a cool way to brand Biden

And that link somehow doesn't open well for me (something about a bracket I believe

The mobile market has plenty of competition.

Fucking lol dude. I'm no economist but there's no shot the mobile phone marketplace counts as "plenty of competition". It's essentially a duopoly. And the barrier to entry is massive.

You trust me to do them in a healthy way??

There is a difference between good and bad things

Crazy, I know