SexyTimeSasquatch

I was really just comparing to generic. Annie's isn't generic. I still prefer Kraft, but I'd take Annie's over generic too.

Kraft mac and cheese, all the store brands are superficially similar but taste bland and or have weird textures.

Well you should probably just do the dishes instead of making memes about it.

If you ran for 24 hours straight you'd have burned off a ton more than 2k calories...

Oh, it's a total guarantee they won't, ugh.

I'm not saying it is identical, there are some key differences, and yet social media platforms are much more like a publishing company than they are a town square. Just because they're choosing to publish your tweets/posts for free and you're choosing to create content without pay doesn't mean it's not a better analogy than saying their the equivalent of a public space. They're very clearly not a public space. Using the street analogy, these are storefronts on the street, not the street itself. Again, the Internet itself is the street. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy, or whatever social media platform, are not the street or the town square. They are not and should not be considered to be public spaces any more than a mall or a Walmart is.

There is a key difference here. Social media companies have some liability with what gets shared on the platform. They also have a financial interest in what gets said and how it gets promoted by algorithms. The fact is, these are not public spaces. These are not streets. They're more akin to newspapers, or really the people printing and publishing leaflets. The Internet itself is the street in your analogy.

I expect that Elon is going to buy them and just get rid of the useless Ma part of the name.

Make better coleslaw maybe?

Well, I mean, to be fair, Hamas frequently does actually use hospitals and refugee camps as human shields. It doesn't make blowing up thousands of innocent people okay, but don't act like Israel is blowing up camps for no reason. They're doing it because Hamas are cowardly pieces of shit who hide behind children and sick people. Everyone is horrible in this except the innocent people dying in the crossfire.

I dunno man, every time I was in Europe and told people I was from Seattle they were like, Nirvana!!! Even like decades after Cobain killed himself.

I mean it's more Fern Gully than pure Pocahontas.