Xeno

if you normalize political violence against your opponents then you also normalize it against yourself.

Their political violence against us (their opponents) has always been normalized and it never led to what you said.

This place is full of former redditors. We’ve all been in the situation where someone comments the most deranged, obviously satire thing, you upvote and start playing in on the joke, saying something even more deranged, and they agree with you in an obviously satire back and forth, then you check their comment history and it turns out it was never satire from their side and you were encouraging a flat-earther. As much as the /s and the mOcKiNg CaSe annoy me, I think they’re necessary these days.

What I do now when a Youtube channel starts enshittifying is unsubscribe and copy the channel’s url to a plain text list. I’ll occasionally check it using Noutube, see the video list, and if there’s anything interesting, I’ll watch it there. That way I can still enjoy whatever little content is still worth watching without rewarding the channel more than necessary.

Sometimes I catch myself opening nano inside emacs’ term. I literally forget I’m using emacs and just do it on instinct. I once also opened emacs inside emacs’ term and I just stared at the screen in disbelief.

English: ghoti

I’m pretty sure it’s a pictographic fish

I’m adopting this interpretation as my headcanon.