I'm betting an absolutely huge majority of traffic on Twitter is completely pointless and inane... "I'm going to the bathroom", "the poop is coming out", "meeting Bill and Larry for drinks".
Agreed. Shit like, "Just had the most AMAZING burrito!"
Yeah, like I care about their burrito.
Twitter- Promoting the ADHD Generation Since ummm Whenever"
Oh noes! How will I live without access to posts by people letting the world know that they just had a slice of pizza and then took a dump in 140 characters or less.
Maybe I'm just old and cranky*, but I would hate the living shit out of this if I was a passenger or a driver.
Honestly, this thing should be marketed as "The Ultimate ADHD Inducer".
"Hey kids! Feel like you can focus on things for too long? Thanks to our advanced technology vehicle, we have the solution! Just spend 24 hours in our Mobile ADHD-O-Matic and never again will you be plagued by long, useful attention spans! Just one short exposure, and you too can have the long term memory of a goldfish! Never be forced to concentrate on anything ever again! Another fine product brought to you by RonCo(tm), makers of....HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!
* Okay, so there's no "maybe" about it, but still...
Hm well if you don't already know it then there's no hope.
I guess there's no hope for me, then. Oh well.
(I'm well past the point where I let any of this stuff affect me one way or the other, but if you want to shout "Troll" every time something doesn't sit well with you, feel free.)
It's amazing the disconnect between how you see yourself and how other people see you. Seriously, visit http:///lol.i.trollyou.com, and understand why you are that guy.
I appreciate the thought, but no thanks. I wouldn't want to sully your link by visiting it.:)
Users can control the ads they see, including Customer Match ads, by opting out of personalized ads or by muting or blocking ads from individual advertisers through Google Ads Settings.
If I could "control the ads" I see through their settings, I wouldn't see any. I'm guessing that "see no ads" isn't one of the settings.
Gosh, I can hardly wait for this new round of advertising to kick in; I just haven't seen enough ads lately and this will be a refreshing blast of pure consumeristic happiness.
I suppose it could theoretically mean fewer ads if they're really targeted, but as we all know, that ain't gonna happen.
All hail our targeted advertising overlords, kneel before Zod, puny consumer!
Anita Sarkeesian may be factually correct but they contribute nothing new or useful essentially 'society' has know and understood her point since the third century BC. Its just useless gum flapping now.
She's not factually correct, or any other kind of "correct" for that matter. She's simply drumming up dollars by casting herself (and all women by extension) as helpless downtrodden victims of Teh Patriarchy. Her "analysis" of video games is buzzword-laden bullshit with no basis in reality.
She said herself early on that she "wasn't a gamer" and "didn't play video games", and it's been proven that she stole about 95% of the gaming footage used in her videos (without giving attribution, of course). But Anita never lets facts get in the way of her narrative or her paychecks.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time.
I do, and they still freeze it. I call the bank and CapitalOne, and they still freeze the card. This has happened to me about 10 times in the last 5 or 6 years, regular as clockwork.
Yes, CapitalOne will turn off a card at the drop of a hat. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not.
I make regular trips to Cambodia and the first few times I did something like pay for a meal or a hotel room they (CapitalOne) froze the card. Okay, I get it, they're erring on the side of safety, and frankly I appreciate that. Better safe than sorry, right?
Soooooooo, the next few trips I called them in advance and told them that I'd be going to Cambodia, I'm gonna use my card there, yada yada yada. And they still froze the card.
Lather, rinse, repeat. To make a long story short, EVERY time I go to Cambodia and use my CapitalOne card I expect it will be frozen within an hour or so. And I'm always right. ALWAYS. And I always fire up Skype, call them, explain the situation, and they unfreeze it, usually for the duration of the trip (2 to 4 weeks).
But without fail, the next time I go to Cambodia (after notifying them I'm going) and use the card, *BAM*, it's frozen again.
Honestly, I appreciate them erring on the side of caution, but NOT after I've pre-called them and warned them that there will be foreign transactions on the card, specifying the city and the date range.
I mean seriously, CapitalOne, get your shit together. Days in advance I tell you where I'm going and when, and you still can't get it right.
I'm sure I'll be embarrassed when my Anonymous Coward account becomes public information and subject to ridicule. I certainly don't look forward to that.
Found you:
Anonymous Coward 5428 Somestreet Rd, Apt 23 Cityville NB 010101
It makes sense. Thunderf00t made little from his videos until he started spouting bullshit about Anita Sarkeesian.
What Thunderf00t "spouted" about Anita Sarkeesian was anything but "bullshit". I checked a lot of the stuff in his videos on Anita Sarkeesian and the fact is that pretty much everything he said checked out. And it's easy to see it why it checks out because all he did was take clips of her speaking and played them verbatim.
You can do the same and you'll likely come to the same conclusion if you aren't already committed to a particular point of view.
Remember, Anita Sarkeesian is the one who said "EVERYTHING is sexist, EVERYTHING is racist, EVERYTHING is homophobic, and you have to point it all out." That statement of hers is simply not true by ANY stretch of the imagination. Seriously, give me a fuckin' break. Everything is NOT sexist, racist, and homophobic and only a demagogue would say shit like that.
There is already an effort to get people like Thunderf00t and Sargon of Akkad defunded, and this is bound to help the campaign.
^^^^^THIS.
Yes, beware the wrath of the self-righteous Social Justice Warriors. To them the ends do justify the means, and simply disagreeing with them puts you on their enemies list.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm betting an absolutely huge majority of traffic on Twitter is completely pointless and inane ... "I'm going to the bathroom", "the poop is coming out", "meeting Bill and Larry for drinks".
Agreed. Shit like, "Just had the most AMAZING burrito!"
Yeah, like I care about their burrito.
Twitter- Promoting the ADHD Generation Since ummm Whenever"
I started jumping up and down and landed on it. Dad glued it back together but it was never the same.
If you were female I would think I'd just found my soulmate.
I managed to step on mine within 2 minutes of opening the box. Crunch. The End.
I got over it, but still....
I've learned as much about new things there as I have anywhere else.
Holy shit....I just felt a disturbance in the Force...it's like 10 million teachers all cried out in agony and then quit their jobs.
Ronco fits in there somewhere. I don't remember exactly, and perhaps that's for the best.
Don''t you dare insult my Popeil Pocket Fisherman!
Now I'm off to give myself a groovy new haircut with my Flowbee.
Oh noes! How will I live without access to posts by people letting the world know that they just had a slice of pizza and then took a dump in 140 characters or less.
Yep, pretty fucking tragic. Oh wait, no it's not.
Twitter: The confetti of the Internet.
"Hey devs...fuck you ha ha ha ha ha!"
-Signed, Twitter
Personally this is one of those "...and nothing of value was lost" moments.
It seems that "being an abrasive asshole" is the new "friendly".
Yeah, I think it sucks, and I see more and more of this every day.
Guess what folks....being a dismissive asshole to friends and co-workers doesn't make you cool. It makes you a dismissive asshole .
What's wrong with kids and their parents talking with each other, and sharing experiences when out on a drive . . . ?
Because that would require actual human-to-human interaction, you sick bastard.
Far better that we all be gazing lovingly into our New Shiny(tm) rather than actually be talking to people (ewwwwwwwww!)
Why, the very thought makes my skin crawl, echhhh.
Maybe I'm just old and cranky*, but I would hate the living shit out of this if I was a passenger or a driver.
Honestly, this thing should be marketed as "The Ultimate ADHD Inducer".
"Hey kids! Feel like you can focus on things for too long? Thanks to our advanced technology vehicle, we have the solution!
Just spend 24 hours in our Mobile ADHD-O-Matic and never again will you be plagued by long, useful attention spans!
Just one short exposure, and you too can have the long term memory of a goldfish! Never be forced to concentrate on anything ever again!
Another fine product brought to you by RonCo(tm), makers of.... HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!
* Okay, so there's no "maybe" about it, but still...
Hm well if you don't already know it then there's no hope.
I guess there's no hope for me, then. Oh well.
(I'm well past the point where I let any of this stuff affect me one way or the other, but if you want to shout "Troll" every time something doesn't sit well with you, feel free.)
Yep definitely "lol i trol u" guy.
It's amazing the disconnect between how you see yourself and how other people see you. Seriously, visit http:///lol.i.trollyou.com, and understand why you are that guy.
I appreciate the thought, but no thanks. I wouldn't want to sully your link by visiting it. :)
Users can control the ads they see, including Customer Match ads, by opting out of personalized ads or by muting or blocking ads from individual advertisers through Google Ads Settings.
If I could "control the ads" I see through their settings, I wouldn't see any. I'm guessing that "see no ads" isn't one of the settings.
Yippee! More advertising!
Gosh, I can hardly wait for this new round of advertising to kick in; I just haven't seen enough ads lately and this will be a refreshing blast of pure consumeristic happiness.
I suppose it could theoretically mean fewer ads if they're really targeted, but as we all know, that ain't gonna happen.
All hail our targeted advertising overlords, kneel before Zod, puny consumer!
This happens regularly, yet you still use CapitalOne? I think I see the problem...
Other than this relatively predictable bork up,they've been pretty good.
It's not an earth-shaking problem and it's easily fixed. To be honest I'd much rather have them trigger a little too easily than the alternative.
Pop a chill pill and stop taking this stuff so seriously.
Anita Sarkeesian may be factually correct but they contribute nothing new or useful essentially 'society' has know and understood her point since the third century BC. Its just useless gum flapping now.
She's not factually correct, or any other kind of "correct" for that matter. She's simply drumming up dollars by casting herself (and all women by extension) as helpless downtrodden victims of Teh Patriarchy. Her "analysis" of video games is buzzword-laden bullshit with no basis in reality.
She said herself early on that she "wasn't a gamer" and "didn't play video games", and it's been proven that she stole about 95% of the gaming footage used in her videos (without giving attribution, of course). But Anita never lets facts get in the way of her narrative or her paychecks.
OK. Not a moron then, just really bad at jokes. I guess that's an improvement.
Ha ha, I was joking about it being a joke.
If you're going to make out of the ordinary purchases for overseas, or travel overseas, you always want to call your bank ahead of time.
I do, and they still freeze it. I call the bank and CapitalOne, and they still freeze the card. This has happened to me about 10 times in the last 5 or 6 years, regular as clockwork.
Yes, CapitalOne will turn off a card at the drop of a hat. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not.
I make regular trips to Cambodia and the first few times I did something like pay for a meal or a hotel room they (CapitalOne) froze the card. Okay, I get it, they're erring on the side of safety, and frankly I appreciate that. Better safe than sorry, right?
Soooooooo, the next few trips I called them in advance and told them that I'd be going to Cambodia, I'm gonna use my card there, yada yada yada. And they still froze the card.
Lather, rinse, repeat. To make a long story short, EVERY time I go to Cambodia and use my CapitalOne card I expect it will be frozen within an hour or so. And I'm always right. ALWAYS. And I always fire up Skype, call them, explain the situation, and they unfreeze it, usually for the duration of the trip (2 to 4 weeks).
But without fail, the next time I go to Cambodia (after notifying them I'm going) and use the card, *BAM*, it's frozen again.
Honestly, I appreciate them erring on the side of caution, but NOT after I've pre-called them and warned them that there will be foreign transactions on the card, specifying the city and the date range.
I mean seriously, CapitalOne, get your shit together. Days in advance I tell you where I'm going and when, and you still can't get it right.
Literally 2 seconds to find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hey, don't disrupt his narrative by getting all "facty" and stuff. SJWs hate that.
By the way, she never said what you claim she did. If I'm wrong you will provide a reliable source, I'm sure.
The video clearly shows her saying exactly that, in those exact words.
We both know it does, but you're welcome to deny it until you wet your panties in frustration.
I'm sure I'll be embarrassed when my Anonymous Coward account becomes public information and subject to ridicule. I certainly don't look forward to that.
Found you:
Anonymous Coward
5428 Somestreet Rd, Apt 23
Cityville NB 010101
SSN#: 000-00-0000
You can't hide, Anonymous Coward!
It makes sense. Thunderf00t made little from his videos until he started spouting bullshit about Anita Sarkeesian.
What Thunderf00t "spouted" about Anita Sarkeesian was anything but "bullshit". I checked a lot of the stuff in his videos on Anita Sarkeesian and the fact is that pretty much everything he said checked out. And it's easy to see it why it checks out because all he did was take clips of her speaking and played them verbatim.
You can do the same and you'll likely come to the same conclusion if you aren't already committed to a particular point of view.
Remember, Anita Sarkeesian is the one who said "EVERYTHING is sexist, EVERYTHING is racist, EVERYTHING is homophobic, and you have to point it all out." That statement of hers is simply not true by ANY stretch of the imagination. Seriously, give me a fuckin' break. Everything is NOT sexist, racist, and homophobic and only a demagogue would say shit like that.
There is already an effort to get people like Thunderf00t and Sargon of Akkad defunded, and this is bound to help the campaign.
^^^^^THIS.
Yes, beware the wrath of the self-righteous Social Justice Warriors. To them the ends do justify the means, and simply disagreeing with them puts you on their enemies list.
There was one problem in doing so, in that they didn't even fit upside down - but no worries, he was able to hammer them into place ;)
Lol, Russian ingenuity will overcome anything, including common sense and "fits-only-one-way" parts.