this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

I wasn’t a nerd back then frankly. I mean it wasn’t good look for surviving the school. The only one was bullied like fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

ah. well, my commiserations, the us seems to thrive on pitting people against each other.

anyways, my point is that usenet had every type of crank you can see these days on twitter. this is not new.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Well probably but what’s the point if some extremely small minority used it?

The point with iPad kids is that it is so common. The kids played outside and stuff well into 2000s.

Still I guess iPads are better than dxm tabs but as the old wisdom says: why not both?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@Emmie “it wasn’t full of twitter fake news etc as we know it”

Maybe you should say what your point is.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I thought I did, the fuck ya want from me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

"this only matters now because I only became aware of it today" is not, y'know, a very compelling argument

for, well, anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don’t even remember what it was about now tbh, must not been super important

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