Catholic Tumblr nazis be like im not like other girls i wish i couldve married an abusive christian trad man at 15 i never drank beer or ATE fastfood in my life and if u ever seen a picture of tits online Ur a degenerate. Everyone i dislike is a pedo bc i said so n i demand to be taken seriously as a supporter of a mainstream religion with most notable pedo scandals. Pagan Tumblr nazis be like heres the corniest looking picture of a wolf uve ever seen in ur life
……I got recommended a youtube video about bodybuilder drama and
tell me this doesn’t look like random discourse that fell from the DC Universe into our own
i watched the video out of morbid curiosity and thus far it seems like bog standard hobby drama
an overproduced video accusing some dude (who tbf seems like a real prize) of plagiarism, not knowing what the fuck he’s talking about, and charging way too much money for his shitty products
but because I mostly hang out in nerdy and/or femme hobby spaces these days, I’m used to seeing hobby drama from Geeky Twinks, trans folks, and/or middle aged cis women who fake their deaths to not have to make large custom yarn orders
seeing incredibly buff men pull this shit is thus really really funny to me, because they are no better and no worse than my people
Appreciate the dynamic where I can treat [tumblr] as a personal conversation with my friends but if I post something interesting enough millions (or at least large fractions of such) of people see it anyway
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about this at all on Tumblr, which is very lax of us all, so I suppose I shall do it myself.
Last week Elon Musk broke European law so badly that the lawyers who will finally put the case to rest have yet to be born.
I’m not exaggerating. Here’s the thing: America has terrible data privacy laws. A solid technique for an American website owner in times of financial hardship, such as accidentally buying a loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol, is to take all the data harvested from users and to sell it to third parties for lots of money. It is fun and breezy and lets you pay off at least one lawyer for the month. What a lark.
However, the European Union has an even more fun and breezy law called GDPR.
And the thing is, the EU really, really care about GDPR. Like… they really care. This is not one of those grey area laws like jaywalking where it’s basically ignored unless you do it in front of a police officer who is having a midlife crisis because his wife left him and the dishes are piling up and he’s down to his third day of wearing the same pants and yesterday a man in the pub laughed at him for getting a football term wrong. This is the sort of law that, if you break it, grey men in grey suits with worryingly little humour will get in touch and unroll terrifyingly long scrolls of legal text and then you are in gaol for the rest of your life. This is a big law. The big one. Big boy law. Do not break.
So, if you’re going to be a website owner in times of financial hardship who needs some quick money to cover your many billions of dollars of debt who decides to sell the private data you harvested from the user base, the most important thing you absolutely MUST remember is, you can only use the American data,and never the European.
But.
I mean.
Hypothetically.
If someone were to own an American website in times of financial hardship, such as an accidentally bought loss-leading debt-ridden social media platform to avoid going to gaol… but that someone didn’t know the difference between American and European law.
Well then. That person would sell the wrong data.
And if that were to happen, on the scale of a global social media platform, with users ranging from the megalomaniacal Uber Rich to literal world governments…
The ensuing court cases would last for decades, as lawyers began the lawsuits at the richest end of the list, and worked their way down.
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Also he posted a Twitter poll today about whether he should stay in charge of Twitter and he lost lol
Elon Musk is an icebreaker. He represents enough money, which is to say power and mass, both in personal holdings and as center of the nexus that’s accreted around him (Saudi, etc.) subject to one human will and without the narrow time horizons of a publicly traded company, that he can take on forces that less empowered agents find themselves reduced to operating under.
That’s been behind so much he’s been doing with Twitter, running it against the bluecheckerati, Apple with its App Store tollbooth, now the EU and their claims of authority over the internet.
And he not even threatens these agents claiming the apex position with certain defeat but the potential of such catastrophic defeat, and the threat of putting so much resources into the conflict – and drawing in such big broad allies in his wake – significant portions of the tech capital scene, conservative America AND implicitly the oh-God-shut-upppp Democratic Party machine vs. the bluechecks; platforms and the online economy vs. Apple; the entire American (or Saudi, just non-European, honestly European too) tech scene vs. the EU…
(and by linking fates he can start to draw the allies from one fight into others)
– that those top-dogs’ payoff matrix starts to suggest “yield”.
And what does he use this towards? A gee-whiz The Future as seen from the later 20th century: electric cars, interplanetary travel, an internet that starts out American-flavored and then becomes the global top dog itself – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace in 1996, Code is Law in 2000, his PayPal era.
I suspect OP is an EU citizen because I’ve never seen an American even exposed to a legitimating narrative of GDPR, to civilians at most it’s the reason for those dumb interruption screens asking us to approve cookies, to American tech it’s a serious thorn from
I don’t think he’s some Ozymandias-type mastermind, the whole “icebreaker” thing is he’s a brute whose victories come by mass, but he’s at least internalized that if he wades out into a melee others avoid he’ll probably do reasonably well for himself playing for position.
kinda funny how musk has if anything re-energized twitter's base he despises by launching new policies in such an emotionally reactive way that even his supporters aren't throwing their full weight behind them. "the kid who can't argue without crying and running for help is the one who deserves to get bullied" is something everyone intuitively understands by like third grade
On the other hand, by escalating he’s kind of buying the pot – even if you weren’t 100% with him before, if the wall falls now and his opponents win on these terms it’d be catastrophic, a catastrophe his continued rule is the only thing holding back
Someone needs to do an Elon!twitter update of this classic GamerGate meme of Vivian James, personification of video games, leading anons into exile, in which they’re coming back out of the desert as a conquering army, Muhammad-returns-to-Mecca style
The great thing about Tumblr is that when you read the tags of any post, you’re going to see “oh my god someone put it into words, how could you describe that so precisely” and “does anyone understand what the fuck this word salad is, why does this have so many notes” on the same post. You’ll read the most sane and sensible statement you’ve heard all year and someone’s commented “wow fuck you, worst take ever, this is disgusting. I hate OP and everyone who agrees with them, I wish I could hunt them for sport.”
It’s a harsh training ground for a people-pleaser, because no matter what you say or think, someone is still going to be displeased by it. Sure, it’s good to hear varying opinions and occasionally reconsider your own stances on things, maybe this person does have a point. But it’s also absolutely crucial to have your own opinions on things, trying to please everyone and changing your opinion every time someone disagrees with what you previously thought would drive you mad within 15 minutes of scrolling.
As for myself, I just say shit recreationally and intend to continue posting whatever stupid thoughts pop into my head as they happen until Tumblr finally collapses completely, or somebody who’d hunt me for sport actually gets a license for that.
Even the upper midwit thermostatic types on Twitter haven’t internalized or even first-order realized the vibe shift yet, all still carping over the eternal inevitability of things that’ve already had their warrants signed
Growing up, the Philly white-flighters didn’t even realize to drop their guards until the second Clinton term
In the tow truck taking Darwin to the shop to be resurrected. Bluechecks might be scoffing at the Matt Taibbi “Twitter files” stuff about the old staff suppressing stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, but it’s on news radio at least.
“Covid is airborne!” - that the virus is spread through exhaled aerosols, not airborne moisture droplets or surface-tainting “fomites”. A point they were genuinely more right on than authorities early on that still has some application – that only N95-type masks or respirators reliably stop transmission, not fabric or paper surgical masks. However, largely an ingroup signal at this point, they seem to believe that authorities not pointedly declaring it apropos of nothing causes or constitutes failure.
Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes: a DIY air filter made of box fans and furnace filters, because above. They love these things and are always frustrated that schools and public places won’t welcome wild-eyed maniacs trying to set up their own homemade science fair projects everywhere.
CO2 testing: they carry around little CO2 monitors and are always tutting about how high the readings they get are, less in their own right than because it’s a clear sign of a poorly ventilated space where exhalations are not being cleared. Once again, makes them look like maniacs.
“SARS-CoV-2”: they kind of performatively always call Covid this, even using more characters of a tweet. I dunno if the intention was to differentiate the syndrome from the virus, or if putting it in the SARS lineage was supposed to draw on residual associations there, but by now it mostly seems like flaunting yourself as savvy.
Something there but iffy
That danger and damage increases with multiple infections. It is true that Danger(Case1 + Case2) > Danger(Case1), which means that Case2 (and subsequents) has some nonzero risk, but they often act like Danger(Case1) < Danger(Case2), which I don’t see as well established at all.
Pretty convinced
The danger of Covid now lies largely not in the initial “acute” respiratory infection, but in the chance of later “long Covid” progression to other organ systems, that may render the sufferer vulnerable to later mortality. Damaged heart muscles lead to later heart attacks; blood vessels to strokes & aneurysm; immune systems to later infection (as seems to be making this winter an atrocious pediatric respiratory infection season, or made Jair Bolsonaro an infection piñata). I myself can attest to later blood pressure swings that cause fainting. That this explains much of the increase in “all-cause mortality” above and beyond that attributed to Covid itself since the beginning of the pandemic.
Not convinced
Immunity from prior infections or immunization does not durably reduce the severity of future ones. This is out of keeping with the experience of other coronaviruses already in regular human circulation and mutating into new variants, which after caught repeatedly throughout life become trivial. My own experience has my current infection (somewhere from my 4th to 6th, producing symptom “echoes” of the “long” portions of 1 and 2) as the worst since 2, but 2 was much less harsh than 1 and 3-current was nothing. I suspect this might be a stronger case against the background of a generally decreasing trend of severity. Also it might be the case that immunity wanes so subsequent cases are easier if they occur before it wears off (and leaves new immunity of its own), in which case attempts to stop any particular case with masking, isolation, or air treatment might make population-level health worse by lengthening average time between infections past acquired immunity duration.
“Schools should have been reworking their ventilation systems for anti-viral effect!” My father was the solicitor for our school district, in which capacity one of the things he worked with was contracting. At one point the district upgraded ventilation systems in maybe a third of their secondary schools at once. From scoping through passing a bond, soliciting and evaluating bids to work completion (when the construction market was slack enough for contractors to hire labor and buy materials cheap) was 8 years. In a small subset of schools, that already had ductwork at all, in a rich school district where the bond passed on the first try. To attempt this for every school building in the US – let alone other public places – would likely exceed the national HVAC construction capacity for decades. The only precedent I can think of, the drive to rework hospital ventilation systems against Legionnaires, affected far fewer buildings and institutions that were then fairly flush with income streams atop the healthcare economy, still required extensive federal subsidy, and was ongoing decades later.
Bunch of Twitter users in different areas of focus who spent the last decade furious that things were going their way but not as far or as fast as they wanted and performed that fury as a way to whip things on harder dealing with the new situation that things are going to be going against them for the next 15 years at least and they no longer have any traction on the situation about as well as you’d expect
