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> 9 inches or more Ah, we are talking of internet inches I guess? The vast vast vast majority of men don't have 9" inches or more.
Yes, being rich affords you access to the right side of the bell curve
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> This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only. You can't keep sales people a.k.a phonies away it will always happen. Every underground subculture gets appropriated as soon as even…
> Sadly, can't punch people in the face over the internet. Even worse everything is all about forced inclusivity now. Nobody is going to do that anymore because we don't all have lead poisoning from gasoline fumes.
Speaking of group chats, I recalled an interesting story how MSN Messenger lost Chinese market. Back in 2003ish, MSN Messenger was THE shit in China. QQ, the competitor of MSN Messenger by Tencent, was losing ground rapidly, especially to white-collar users in big cities. To Microsoft, MSN Messenger probably was a toy, but to Tencent it was life and death. So QQ launched group chat. In addition, QQ Group Chat allowed…
It could be cool to have an HN Telegram group
Then fucking do it.
I think it'd probably fail, but it might not. Importantly it allows iterations. The side group might be the winner.
My email is in my profile, I'll try for a month, add your dog, there's your group.
I think you'll find "something" already exists. There was a WhatsApp feed. For me it wasn't interesting. Do a search on the archives / Google if you care. Or just do it.
https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest As AI takes over the public internet (the trees) the people will retreat to safe underground spaces where they know only authentic humans live.
I believe the mainstream internet is already completely overrun by malicious actors, whether bots or not, and the majority of the population doesn't seem to care or have the ability to notice. I don't see the bulk of the population doing anything to retreat from it. A subset of the population, that includes myself, sure, but "the people", I doubt it.
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> Sadly, can't punch people in the face over the internet. Even worse everything is all about forced inclusivity now. Nobody is going to do that anymore because we don't all have lead poisoning from gasoline fumes.
wat?
Now, if you work with young people (so-called zoomers), you'll notice they are absolutely not like this anymore.
At least 30% of this was caused by everyone breathing leaded gasoline.
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wat?
If you're old enough you might remember Americans were much more violent from 1960 to 1995 or so and the crime rate was incredibly high in American cities, leading to what was called white flight. Now, if you work with young people (so-called zoomers), you'll notice they are absolutely not like this anymore. At least 30% of this was caused by everyone breathing leaded gasoline.
Now, all you get is microplastics, which do the opposite.
And testosterone makes you objectively cooler and better as a person. For example, violence is cool.
I remember a poll on Facebook where someone asked whether you tend to appreciate or are annoyed by being invited into group chats. Most people appreciated invitations.
In general I loathe them. I feel like they are so distracting. And then people get all spammy in groups intended to be planning groups and you have to scroll back a year to find which hotel room to book or whatever. I have Messenger notifications blocked and honestly don't know how anyone pays attention to so many and also have day jobs.
> every group chat has a n-1 group containing everyone except that annoying member. And if you think your chat doesn’t have such a group, oh boy, do I have some bad news for you. There are more like 2^n - 1 subgroups, i.e. as many subgroups as the there can be. If you think you're safe because you're already part of one subgroup that complain about the people not included in this particular subgroup, I also have some…