Have you ever speculated as to why you get banned so often?

Yes. Appeared. That’s what it was. Appearance.

But the Democrats are not the People’s Party or they wouldn’t have driven off so many of the people with their Palestine policy.

The Democrats are just slightly more polite versions of the Plutocrat Party which is the real, single party of US politics. Democrats/Republicans is just the grift that makes you think you’ve got choices that matter.

This was my own reaction.

This is becoming a meme.

Used by the left to attack Musk. Used by the right to praise him.

I think the list of what’s going on with the Apartheid Manchild can be found in the list of symptoms for ketamine abuse.

Grand Theft Autocorrect has no feelings to hurt. Has no nervous system to signal pain. Spicy Madlibs is less self-aware than an ant.

Well the booster fouled the landing, but that’s still way ahead of SpaceX who fouled how many landings (not Starship) before one finally did so without exploding?

Not “caused by” but certainly “amplified by”.

Right now, a little bit of Low Orbit.

I’m pretty sure this was moderated by machine. This was right when they started bragging about their automated moderation. It’s possible that this was a language barrier issue, but it didn’t feel right.

I use so-called “eternal pencils” now. They come in various “hardness” ratings (like pencils: B, HB, H, 2H, etc.) but even my “softest” (read: darkest with broadest tip) has been in use now for a couple of years without noticeable wear on the tip. That one is guaranteed to be usable for a decade. My hardest will likely stop working when the sun dies in four billion years or so.

I’ve tried them. I still prefer the compressed ones, but they’re pretty good, yes.

Any system that is rules-based, whether human-run or algorithmic, can be gamed because rules cannot be made without flaws that people can game.

Algorithmic systems, however, lack any actual comprehension and thus will be far easier to abuse. As an example, at Farcebook, back in 2015 (when I still had an account) I got a post removed by an automated reviewer and a note placed on my account for “threats of violence”. The “threat”? Someone asked me how to do something and I replied with “I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you”.

No human reading that would see that as a genuine threat.

I have lived in small towns (smallest: about 3000 population) and in big cities (largest: about 14,000,000 population). I have family who live so rustically that even a small town is an hour’s drive away.

I like all three situations for different reasons, albeit for the rustic life only in short bursts of two months or so.

Overall I’d say I’m a “city girl”, but if I have a decent Internet connection I probably would enjoy small town life more since I’m aging and slowing down. There would be some adjustment, of course, to not being near hot spots and good restaurants and such, but it would also give me the peace and quiet to actually catch up on reading the books I’ve accumulated over the years and getting practice time in on the instruments I want to learn.

So you’re only missing out if you really want those things. But don’t think that you’re going to have more time to do things in the city. As plenty of others have pointed out, the realities of traffic in most cities are such that you’ll face long transit times anyway, although if you live in a place that has actual public transit that gets mitigated quite a bit; I can cross the megacity I live in now from extreme ends in just over an hour; most of the places I want to go I can be at in under 15 minutes, the majority of these being even in walking distance.

Cousin. Did I typo that?

Good plan.

Step 1: Ban all US social media. Step 2: Ban all US citizens. Step 3: Ban all US businesses of any kind.

There. MEGA.

Respect. The whole huqin family is fiendishly difficult to play.

Yes. At work, for example, I make a cup in the morning about 10AM and then keep refilling and drinking until about an hour before quitting time.

(P.S. Even at 50,000,000 dollars that’s less than 1/8 of the Apartheid Manchild’s net worth.)