[byjove]

Every time a school shooting is perpetrated by a student, there is this discussion around how they were ‘driven’ to this point by bullying and loneliness due to their snotty peers. The truth is that their peers had every fucking reason to want to stay the hell away from them and often that ‘bullying’ was telling the teachers and other students about the jaw-droppingly violent and bigoted shit the kid was saying. The awkward gay kid with no friends who is intensely bullied is not the kid shooting up the school, the sweet nerd with a heart of gold no one has seen yet is not the kid shooting up the school. It is the angry, vengeful, hate-filled kid who has outcast himself from his peers by terrifying the fuck out of them. There were signs. There were so many signs. But every authority figure is afraid to ‘ruin a young boy’s life’ by intervening and fucking doing something.

[dronestruck]

i bet it has nothing to do with schools being run like prisons

[arahir]

i just can't convey the frustration and sorrow that it's been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an infinite abyss of ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mash of pulp back to us at a premium.

[shoppinghauer]

the internet started as a military project. Became popular when they noticed the commercial potential. It has always sucked ass. Facebook sucked in 2010, it started as a ranking of his female classmates. The whole social media idea had whats happening today as a goal. Remember the dot com bubble in the usa? Cmon the only thing that changed is that youre old enough to notice

[dronestruck]

if you understood how different the wild west unregulated web was from the sanitized celluloid mind control it is today, you would understand

there was a time before facebook. the dot com bubble didn't affect the user groups. the world was different. you thinking things haven't changed shows a lack of care for history.