EldritchFeminity

On Barq?

This has such MSI "there will be no bad dragons on my watch" vibes.

Based on the photos of the mascots, there's no way they didn't hire a furry to draw those.

throw a parachute on it so it's aligned vertically, make it detonate when it lands, make it blow straight down as opposed to all over the place, and try to get that thing to land on a tank

You've basically just described a HEAT round without the melted copper penetrator.

Life, uh, finds a way.

The 30mm "Barrett" Pattern bolter, created by MARS, Inc. and Barrett, is currently undergoing evaluations by the US Army.

Everything old is new again.

IMO, I think creative people are at the heart of a social media platform. A big part of art is the community aspect of sharing it with others. So they interact with each other as well as create Content (tm) for others. This is especially obvious with platforms like YouTube, but even Twitter is like this. If there weren't people posting photos, drawings, music, game dev posts, and livestreams, Twitter would be a very different place. Creative people are responsible for much of the original content online. Without them, Twitter would basically be news, political rants, and reposted memes.

Twitter was largely considered the best place for artists by process of elimination, and I know plenty of artists were dying for an alternative but didn't have one. Places like DeviantArt don't get traffic from the general populace, and Instagram's algorithm is horrible for discoverability. With Bluesky getting enough people to make it worth the migration, the creative people are moving over, and their followers will join them.

I know the only reason I ever made a Twitter account was because 70% of the people I followed on Tumblr left for Twitter after the porn ban. Hell, Tumblr dropped like 99.7% in value after the porn ban because they drove off almost their entire userbase.

Since the mid-2000s, most companies expect everybody to be pseudo on-call at all times without any additional compensation thanks to cell phones and the internet making everybody reachable at any time. Your boss calling you after work, on the weekends, or while you're on vacation to talk about work is normal and they expect you to be accessible at all hours of the day. At shittier jobs like retail, you can even expect to be called on your days off and asked to come in if somebody doesn't show up or something, even in the middle of the day, and if you aren't available or "flexible" you can expect it to negatively impact your job.

At my first job for a small business, I didn't take a vacation (not even a single day) in 10 years because the boss didn't give us vacation days and instead said that anybody could take days off at anytime and he'd make the schedule work, but we were always understaffed and he'd make you feel guilty for taking days off. That's closer to the norm these days in the US than the 6 weeks of vacation time that is the norm in Europe. Large companies are required to give you 2 weeks plus a handful of sick days, and that's it.

Nor would they care if they knew about it.

I think "leave" is doing some heavy lifting, but I could see plenty of people creating accounts as the site reaches a large enough user base to attract the general public.

I saw a video recently of somebody talking about how they were posting the same thing on Twitter and Bluesky, and despite having a fraction of the followers on Bluesky, the post there had like 6x the engagement compared to Twitter. As they put it, "The creatives have moved to Bluesky."

They did it a second time, too.

You should look into Operation Wetback 1 and 2, where the US deported a bunch of Mexican immigrants (legal, illegal, documented and undocumented alike) and US citizens to Mexico for "looking too Mexican."

Citizenship means nothing to racists.

Tumblr used to let you edit other people's comments. That's close, right?