“They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e’er you hear the name again. And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers… our names will be as like… household names! And those who are not here… be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy! Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!
My favorite thing about early Internet forum culture was the default understanding that people live in different time zones and work off shifts or what have you and that some or most of the people engaged in an ongoing conversation were probably AFK while you’re online. You got mercilessly mocked for making a stink about someone not replying fast enough.
Read receipts are literally of the devil. If you send me a message and it takes me a few hours or days to reply to it, I’m probably asleep (from 8-9 am to 5 pm US Eastern) or spending time with my family or experiencing symptoms of mental illness or otherwise doing hot girl shit, and if I don’t reply fast enough for your tastes then sweetie that’s a you problem.
i think gen z ppl need to stop trying to moderate social media– which is impossible to moderate– and just go on forums already. “this is for mlm, wlw dni” bruh i’m telling you, if you discover mlm forums you’ll go bananas. everyone there will be mlm, i promise. this is genuinely friendly advice. stop wasting your time trying to control your twitter and tik tok, it won’t work because it’s designed to not be controlled.
I’ve said it before but the loss of forums in place of homogenized mass social media is a huge blow to the development of communities, and trying to implement forum rules, logic & expectations on social media is doomed to failure and just results in unnecessary hostility and argument.
Reading about medieval magic like “Oh hey turns out a lot the fathers of the church wrote extensively on magic. I wonder where they got these ideas from they sound kinda familiar.“ Then you get to the translation footnotes at the bottom like
Source: Pliny the Elder
Like, I’m a huge proponent of the idea that a lot of classical magic actually had an underlying empirical method and that much of what modern scholarship disregards as folk practices and mysticism actually has a consistent and comprehensible logic that is more than worthy of study.
I also think Pliny the Elder enjoyed just kinda making shit up.
