As an American who grew up in the 90s and 00s... what the fuck, this was a THING?!
JakenVeina
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As long as it's beneficial to the tech titans.
the reason so many of us got on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram is because they used to be a lot of fun
My brother, that's the entire thesis of enshittification. You optimize for user experience, at first, at the cost of HEAVY operational loss, and you offset that loss with venture capital. Competitors can't compete against a financially-unsound product, unless they play the venture capital game, too. Either way, you either outlast the other competitors, or you end up the last one standing, at which point you have to get the venture capital money paid back, and you can only do that by degrading the product to the point where it's actually financially viable. Usually worse than that, since just being profitable isn't good enough when you have a mountain of debt to pay off, to venture capital investors that demand infinite profit growth.
Yes, I'm aware this is a critique of the enshittification theory by the very guy who coined it, but that strikes me as a terribly bogus conclusion.
As in, how it actually illuminates nearby objects?
It took some custom configuration of the Lumen engine, to try and approximate what it used to be, pre-1.0.
So thaaaaaaaat's why Trump agreed to not enforce the ban.
So I went into creative mode to test this, and no dice. Giant corals aren’t destructible, with nukes. At least, the one that was blocking me isn’t.
Yes, it's bad. Usually, with posts like this, you have to read it with a "okay, this is a biased perspective, what's the real story underneath?" attitude. I.E. you woupd expect the OP to describe their friend in the best possible light, and toxic traits might be described in a very reasonable way.
You do not describe your friend in a reasonable way. You describe a very toxic person, outright. Perhaps you're just better than most people at being unbiased (kudos, if so, but then I also have to assume you know full-well the answer to your question already). If not, the implication is that this is your "biased towards your friend" perspective, and the actual reality is far WORSE than you describe. This would also imply that you might have some issues of your own to work through, that you think the things you describe are normal friend behavior.
Either way, this person does NOT sound like a force for good in your life. Unfortunately, at your age, removing toxic people from your life is not going to be easy. For one, I'm guessing you go to school together, so you can't just avoid her entirely. Your best bet is probably to just think about ways to minimize the time you spend with her, or at least alone with her, and increase the time you spend with other friends. I.E. don't let yourself be dependent on her as your only friend.
Good luck, and props for seeking out advice on a problem like this.
I dunno where else it COULD go at that point.
Oooooo, interesting. Shit, so now I actually have a need to make them?
Not sure what you mean. You want me to go back to having gaps in the roof, between all the generators?
These days, replace "Documents" and "Downloads" with "the root folder of OneDrive".