Before I clicked through to read your post I was greatly intrigued as to the relationship of the kitten pic to the content of your article, because that pic could be interpreted in so many different ways, and now I have to interpret it in the single worst one. Because people 😤
This is a nice tie-in to your previous post about SEO, which is all about grifting the free service of having the web indexed and closely related to email-spam, which is of course another misuse of a free affordance.
And giving things a cost doesn't necessarily solve the problem: it prevents some legitimate use-cases and doesn't prevent use by anyone who's grift is worth more than the fixed cost to them.
I think I may know Kitten Guy. I’ve had to deal with many Kitten Guy types over the years, but the pandemic really brought the fuckers out of the woodwork.
Some numpty ex sweet potato farmer from Bundaberg tried to hit us up for several hundred million and tried to bring all kinds of pressure to bear when we couldn’t cough it up. Luckily our UK opposite numbers weren’t so discerning and he eventually left us be. About a year later it all blew up rather spectacularly though.
Before I clicked through to read your post I was greatly intrigued as to the relationship of the kitten pic to the content of your article, because that pic could be interpreted in so many different ways, and now I have to interpret it in the single worst one. Because people 😤
People. They ruin everything.
This is a nice tie-in to your previous post about SEO, which is all about grifting the free service of having the web indexed and closely related to email-spam, which is of course another misuse of a free affordance.
And giving things a cost doesn't necessarily solve the problem: it prevents some legitimate use-cases and doesn't prevent use by anyone who's grift is worth more than the fixed cost to them.
I think I may know Kitten Guy. I’ve had to deal with many Kitten Guy types over the years, but the pandemic really brought the fuckers out of the woodwork.
Some numpty ex sweet potato farmer from Bundaberg tried to hit us up for several hundred million and tried to bring all kinds of pressure to bear when we couldn’t cough it up. Luckily our UK opposite numbers weren’t so discerning and he eventually left us be. About a year later it all blew up rather spectacularly though.
I'm a bit woozy and read the title as "The tragedy of the commas.
Or, People are the worst." I read it and it was really interesting, but surprisingly finished before it mention commas. So I reread the title again.
I’m totally stealing ‘tragedy of the commas’ thank you.
i read that SEO article and you could almost cut and paste it in for this one (but with ads so someone could make money off it)