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Marco Rogers

@polotek

Web developer, movie buff, and pretty much the best guy you know.

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linkhttps://marcorogers.com/where-to-find-me calendar_today04-02-2009 18:59:19

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Second, if we're gonna keep devaluing culture, we're going to have to figure out what else matters to us. My experience is that when humans don't have enough interesting distractions to keep us occupied, we tend to try to destroy each other.

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How the fuck was everyone somehow convinced that the collective trauma experienced over the past 3+ years was due to remote work and masking and not, y'know, being abandoned to mass death and disablement in the name of unprecedented capital accumulation by the ultrawealthy?

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"Twitter never has and never will be a vehicle for democratic expression. It is a privately held corporation that monetizes human expression, and what turns out to be most profitable is sowing social, cultural, and political division" newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

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Correct. And also, they make more money from the ad-supported tiers. Let me say that again. The ad-based tiers are cheaper, but when they add in the advertiser revenue, the ad-based tiers are *more profitable* per customer. We literally can't have nice things.

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“There were Black people here and - “ “How DARE these WOKISTS try to FORCE our children to learn that ALL OF BRITON used to be BLACK!!!! Something something white genocide something something reverse racism.” mentioning the existence of Black people triggers meltdowns.