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Comment · 1 year ago
>A verification badge used to signal trustworthiness, now it can be bought.

They gave those out to Gawker bloggers. The only think the OG blue checkmark stood for was "someone who was friends with a Twitter insider".

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm old enough to remember when the media tried to astroturf Threads like this.
Comment · 1 year ago
This. It used to be not that uncommon for kids to arrive in Kindergarten already capable of reading and writing. Now it's not that uncommon to see kids graduating high school unable to read and write. Our education system is a disgrace.
Comment · 1 year ago
Moving the HQ of the gaming and movie business to California was a mistake. Sony needs to return to its roots and base all major decision-making in Japan.
Comment · 1 year ago
"[X] searches spike after [X] election"

Journalism, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Comment · 1 year ago
I tried thinking about Electron apps but I ran out of RAM.
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Comment · 1 year ago
They are like this literally any time a Republican is in the White House. They were like this when Dubya was President too, even though today they act like he's some sort of elder statesman just because he hates Trump.
Comment · 1 year ago
Imma let you finish, but since Trump won the popular vote by millions of votes, the word "reasonable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the poster intended to make a contrast between US postwar vassals versus Soviet postwar vassals.

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