@AndyNicolaides Yes, Americans still have this “murder-ready” mindset provided by arms dealers where they are able. Giving (and nurturing) life is feminine and soft, but ending it is real hard man freedom.

@kq yeah, you made yourself understood I think. And it only took a sentence. I’m flailing for four paragraphs just to say, “Uh, maybe not only…” 😳

@cleverdevil check. if we put every word in quotes where the hell would we be? :-)

And true, if the shift from app conception to protocol conception finds root, so no owners, cool. But maybe it never happens, like instant msging?

@BenSouthwood @vincent and a close second is "Just charge the pencil on the iPad. Nothing will go wrong. Just put your arm in this mail slot and then...lift...your...legs..."

@cleverdevil honestly, Apollo makes reddit useable, although the idea of "owning open" is a bit wobbly...

@cheesemaker talk about safe spaces... ❤︎

@BenSouthwood like pasta, tofu is the rhythm section to saucy solos and protein riffs.

@BenSouthwood cheers!

@kq you are free to see it that way.

I see it as sadly the exact opposite of nonverbal communication in that they are strictly and only verbal, it is a single word (like or boost or whatevs) in the end. And a record remains of the incident. not true in nonverbal.

And there is not as much a communication as there is a tally.

No one is having non-verbal communication with more than, say, a few people at a time, occasionally, never mind hundreds of people, hundreds of times a day.

It would be cool to build what you are describing, its just that no one has.

If I left the pub at the end of the evening and looked at my receipt for the drinks, and also saw that I had five nods, four winks, three pats on the back, and one hearty guffaw; I’d ask myself, What the fuck am I doing reading this receipt?

@jtr necessarily? im hoping that better verbs could reduce the harm if not completely obviate the behavior. I resist the notion it is a volume effect which causes collapse. I suggest instead it is bad tech, ie the wrong verb/nouns, coupled with economic preferences deforming design, enshittification, which causes it.