At this point I wouldn’t be shocked to discover every impassioned defense of the primacy of X was followed up with a very nice check to the writer. At least that would explain the glaring blind spot.
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I'm glad he locked me out of my account when he did-that's the only thing 'nice' I can say about him. It was at the exact time of the Nazification ramping up.
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I like this about Bluesky (I wrote "tweet" when I should have written "post.") bsky.app/profile/did:...
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My guess is that those defending their use of X simply see significant revenue, engagement, subscriptions, etc from their activity there. And they don't want to give up that money/attention/etc. Related to those who use substack tbh, which has some unsavory connotations.
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There are so many things I miss more than X: cigarettes, three channels of TV, what the Catholic Church was like before we knew what the Catholic Church was like, colonoscopies before they invented Cologuard, the Cold War...
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