• Capitalization to emphasize A Word Or Phrase
• The use of ™ to show Importance™
• Commas,,, used as,,, an ellipsis,,,,
• ran dom s p aci ng to show a choked or strangled sort of tone
• Cut-offs mid sentence
• saying that they love something, or that something is doing its best, even if it’s an inanimate object
• Dramatizing every sentence (instead of saying “Oh, she’s pretty!” One would say “U would let her kill me and say thank you.”)
• random capitalization in the middle of a sentENCE TO EMPHASIZE A RISING, MORE EMOTIONAL TONE
• vague one word answers in response to a picture
• Mood/same/me
• Jokes where the only way to understand it is if you’ve seen two other vines, a tweet, and four Tumblr posts from 2012
• Noticing details about a freaky picture and acting like it’s completely normal
• The opposite: seeing a stupid picture and losing it in response
Feel free to add others
Using a screenshot of a vine or specific meme as a reaction with the understanding that everyone will know what phrase goes with it, ie: Free real estate, I sure hope it does, A child, etc
if you’re offline or away and i message you something (like a link to a meme or a picture or w/e) honestly just assume that i’m just leaving it there for when you get back and not expecting you to answer straight away. i don’t need you to respond with “hey, sorry, i wasn’t at the computer!” or anything. i was leaving u a gift for later.
This also applies if you’re online and just don’t want to or have the energy to deal with humans in the moment. Just because we have the ability to reply in real time does not mean we have the obligation.
social media sites are unhealthy. This isn’t even an opinion, it’s been a dirty secret for years that the platforms have been designed from the ground up to be as addicting and socially disruptive as possible, and it’s gotten to the point where well known and respected names in the field like
Aza Raskin (the guy who came up with he now standard infinite scrolling screen) and Leah Pearlman (the one who came up with the “like” button on Facebook) have expressed concern in their innovations.
why do some of yall have to be so blatantly not nice for no apparent reason other than catering to some ugly ass aesthetic and/or internet persona you built for yourself
youre not “cynical” and “real” youre just a pain to be around ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Why bother with fancy SCADA malware when you could just DDoS the grid.
The “Internet of Things” was a mistake.
The researchers don’t actually point to any vulnerabilities in specific household devices, or suggest how exactly they might be hacked. Instead, they start from the premise that a large number of those devices could somehow be compromised and silently controlled by a hacker.
Wow, it’s nothing.
Unsecured Devices on an Unsecured network is “nothing?”
Shit man, most folks don’t bother setting Passwords, so all an unscrupulous fella needs to do is pick a factory password.
“Most of the devices, Proofpoint found, weren’t subject to a sophisticated attack. Instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords had left them open on public networks and therefore vulnerable to this kind of attack.”
So yeah, it is something, and it’s bad.
why do we even put computers inside of things that worked perfectly fine without them
When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
This got a lot of responses from people pointing out that evidence is a key part of intellectual inquiry, discourse, and debate. That being able to support your beliefs is a key critical thinking skill. Which is 100% true.
Except that you don’t actually have to participate in intellectual discourse any time some fucko on the Internet tells you to.
There’s a vast difference between “this is an important thing to be able to do,” and “this is a thing that you must be continuously available to perform in public for any stranger who asks.”
It’s important people read and understand this.
Honestly the only time I ever bother asking for evidence or a source is when people are making outrageous claims against a group of people they don’t like or something concerning rumors cause that’s just straight up misinformation that hurts more than it helps people.
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