there’s always a percentage of people participating in any sport who aren’t there for the love of the game but rather to be seen doing it. for some reason my gut tells me that this percentage is quite high for pool. it’s not a very stimulating game but you look cool and dangerous while you’re playing it.
Latest
why do so many moderators on irc act grumpy when people are using their chat platform to chat. im attracted by the elegance of the protocol and driven away by their bad vibes. discord may be full of weirdos but at least they want to connect.
guys i think i permanently damaged both of my knees by running full tilt down a san francisco hill to get to the post office before it closed. how was evolution able to produce both the mighty frontal cortex and the troublesome ACL?
look at my cat
it’s kind of like if twitter only had one user and he was really cool
Defeeding the Web
the core profit model of every free app is selling your attention to advertisers. this has the unfortunate side effect of optimizing to waste massive amounts of your time and make you feel awful but unable to quit. on top of that its increasingly hard to quit the apps simply because they have so successfully become vital knowledge platforms. but there is a way with a little web magic to block all the attention-sucking parts while keeping the knowledge-sharing parts. youre just gonna have to read part 3 to figure out what that means im sorry dude.
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