Are you proposing the existence of monopolarbears?

This image implies they could also be mutually attracted to rub their butts together.

Nothing to throw a hissssssssy fit over =P

I have despised twitter since basically its inception.

1. The character (original) character limit fundamentally means you are strongly encouraged to limit conversation to basically soundbites, slogans, and pithy comments. Even though this was changed later, it still created a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.

While its true that brevity is the soul of wit, wit is not the same thing as a detailed and nuanced discussion of a complex topic.

It thus lends itself to being an optimal tool for political slogans, celebrity gossip, and direct corporate advertisement.

2. Twitter is far, far, faaar too open ended, as in one to many kind of network connections. Its a dream come true also for narcissistic, attention seeking individuals who want to win Twitter.

3. Twitter blew up before Facebook completely shifted (enshittified?) their entire model from being focused on actually connecting friend groups, and directly pushed Facebook toward just being an unmitigated firehose of ‘content’ from every which way, which just became the norm for ‘social media’ design.

Of course X now is even fucking worse, but I am so glad its dying.

The way I see it, Twitter contributed heavily toward destroying the older, more personal formats of social media, it helped destroy the old forum culture of the net where people had communities and a measure of intellect, privacy and respect.

It took the sincerity out of online discourse, and was foundational in shifting the internet from a ‘place’ with lots of weird locales, into some kind of Eldritch god’s sick joke of a species level omni-mirror, reducing online humanity to a popularity contest of political slogans, narcissistic clout chasers, gossip mongers, and corporate sloganeering and brand worship… and giving all of this to us in an undifferentiated constant flow.

Though there are in some cases specific reasons to use certain brands, its usually just due to marketing, branding, and near total ignorance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddle_point

Basically, its a mathematical function where if you start at 0,0, you might falsely believe you are at the (or a) maximum or minimum of the function, as the slope at 0,0 is 0.

But, if you go any direction in the x axis, your function value rises, any direction in the y axis, your function value falls.

Thus a saddle point is an illusory, false impression of being at the extreme extent of a function, when in fact you are not.

The idea is that there is more to determining if you’re truly at a global max or min of a function than only finding a single point where the slope is 0.

Wait till this guy sees a frontal MRI of a human head.

To prevent a crash in the commercial office real estate market.

… Its a Korean beauty contest. The country with the highest rates of cosmetic plastic surgery in the world.

I… I get what you’re driving at, that people in general shouldn’t be so driven toward perfection in outward appearance.

But its a beauty contest, in a society where over 25% of women under 40 have had some kind of plastic surgery. and a huge cultural emphasis on perfection of physical appearance, where using AI enhanced filters is also hugely prevalent.

I’m not saying this is good, I personally don’t like beauty contests, I don’t like widespread unrealistic beauty standards… but I don’t see how this question, absent its fumbled lingo adding overt sexual connotations, is surprising at all.

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It’s like being a vegan who is confused and angered by someone asking contestants at a hot dog eating contest how they prep before the contest:

Why isn’t the issue of meat eating being addressed at this meat eating contest?

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Context should answer your question of ‘why do people at a beauty contest get asked how they would improve their beauty?’

Ok, so we are now at the performative ‘I have a family’ stage of our conservative politicians realizing they don’t actually have any meaningful, truthfully held values.

Republicans sure talk about hating post modernism, but they’ve done so, so much to prove that empty signifiers are the entirety of their politics.

Well, that and hurting people they don’t like.

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Maybe when they say ‘think of the children’ they really do just mean it as an entirely solipsistic thought exercise.

QAnon and Trump taught Republicans that its totally ok to live in an alternate reality where they are always correct and never have to admit to being wrong, or if they do want to admit to being wrong, its because of a vast elaborate conspiracy.

They live in a delusional fantasy land. Its basically mass hallucination/psychosis in service of a cult leader, but because there’s a lot of them, its not seriously considered a mental illness.

1. God is punishing us all for allowing the gays and the trans and abortion to exist, and not mandating bible study in k-12.

2. General misdirect toward incompetent government bureaucracy being the culprit, therefore we should get rid of more of it and privatize more stuff.

3. Its all because of private and public DEI hires of illegal immigrants who also don’t work and get too many benefits thus bankrupting us

4. Secret deepstate illuminati cabal runs everything, we need more sweeping authoritarian powers to stop them

1 - 3 basically are the talking points they’ve used since the 80s, 4 has always been there but is now openly used for about a decade.

It could be a cool or lukewarm beverage with caffeine, and I have seen people drink and eat stuff their dentists tell them not to after an oral surgery, and tonsilectomies can leave open wounds if the dentist doesn’t fully cauterize them or bandage them properly… and I have also seen people remove bandages/gauze faster than they are instructed to for all kinds of wounds…

But southsamurai seems confident that the difference between absorption into exposed oral capillaries and just normally through your gums/mouth is negligible.

“We already trained and built our models on all your data without compensating you whatsoever, that’s all history, but, moving forward, we’ll be interested in paying a pittance for ‘high quality’ data.”

Made me spit out my covfefe!

Could having open wounds in your mouth allow caffeine in a beverage to directly enter your blood stream much more quickly than when it is processed by your digestive system?

Wow, within 24 hours of the determination that everyone near East Palestine is owed compensation from them burning off chemicals in situ for no actual reason, this happens.

Way to go, Ohio.

E.G.G.M.A.N.

Just… taking a step back from the politics… all that…

Imagine attempting to explain the bare basics of this to an 8 year old.

The CEO… of the Anti Defamation League … publicly defamed a Congresswoman.