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What does "connected experiences" mean?

This guy got some footage of some people saving a lifeguard (about 1:36)

https://youtu.be/uj7vo3DIczA?si=lTeoJU2XKkvlFrx5

You think the culture wars over pronouns have been bad, wait until the machines start a war over prepositions!

I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to "drive engagement" that I don't think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I've had on profit-driven social media sites.

I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like "it's difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers" doesn't say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And "checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure" seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

I wondered if the weapon was a Taser or cattle prod... But it says "deadly weapon" so maybe it was some kind of custom supervillain lighting gun.⚡

Thanks for this fun thread. I think "nasal gazing" would be a good candidate for a list of eggcorns.

There seems to be precedent on Twitter 2019, but I refuse to add the link here.

Did Karma get a speed update? Lessgo!

Long ago "drive" meant urging an animal to move forward. And "dialing" a phone number meant entering the "digits" by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

Words aren't as static as you seem to think.

One thing that would help this whole situation is not living in sprawling suburbs and exurbs that require maintaining so many more miles of pipes per person.