"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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Null is just mad because ICE made him eat a box of this when he reentered America to prove he's a True and Honest Murican
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Kulee Baba said:
You have to cut America a break, American trash food is culmination of a rapidly changing society Post-WW2 and the conveniences of new tech. Easy to make was the celebrated style, why go through the trouble of making a "roux" and creating a cheese sauce when you could open Velveeta? Why make a soup when you can use Campbell's, etc, etc.

Now supermarkets carry real gruyere, parmigiana reggiano, gouda from Germany, you get the point. Maybe that's not the case if you live in the middle of nowhere and your supermarket is the Walmart, if so I feel bad for
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Post war food culture is bizarre to look back on. Their was this weird "engineered food product is better than the real thing" push, a push to associate convince/processed food with wealth, and a general view of cooking as an arduous inconvenience. And people were obsessed with gelatin salads.
 
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waffle said:
Post war food culture is bizarre to look back on. Their was this weird "engineered food product is better than the real thing" push, a push to associate convince/processed food with wealth, and a general view of cooking as an arduous inconvenience. And people were obsessed with gelatin salads.
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Engineering food had solved several serious childhood health problems in the recent past at that point- enriching flour and cereal largely eliminated childhood anemia, and vitamin D added to milk prevented most cases of rickets. iodized salt was introduced to prevent goiter, but it ended up raising the IQ of the population by like ten points bc it prevents some kinds of mental retardation. it would be very hard to look on it as anything but a miracle at the time.
 
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Claude Sigma said:
To be fair, some things are a lot better now that individual forums are dead and that every forum is on Reddit.
As much as centralization is very dangerous and Reddit is an absolute cancer, there are subreddits for things that would have never gotten a forum and even less participation because people don't like to make a new account for every site.
Do you think there would have had a niche forum specialized in talking about my rare genetic autoimmune disease? Of course not, but you bet that there is a subreddit with people from all over talking about it.
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We had a wonderful thing called Ezboard way back in the day. Ezboard forums were set up in the traditional message-board format, and they looked and functioned remarkably the same as what we use today in the form of Xenforo, Vbulletin, phpBB, etc. But Ezboard was also a centralized service with a front page, where the member communities (today's "subreddits") would be ranked, showcased, grouped by interest, and so on. It had global user accounts. It offered TONS of flexibility to forum admins, in fact they could straight up write their own HTML/CSS if they wanted, as long as it didn't create an undue burden on Ezboard's servers. (Fun trivia: the "quick reply" rich-text field at the bottom of a thread - as we know it today - was originally the brainchild of this guy called Vector, who implemented it as a custom Javascript on the Sonic HQ ezboard. Ezboard themselves went on to adapt the concept and everyone else since then has copied it along.)

I don't think Ezboard's homepage ever had a global text-search function, but honestly you could just use google for that, because google wasn't all pozzed up and SEO'd to hell back then.

The company always struggled to stay afloat after the dot-com bubble burst. They had to ask both individual users and forum admins to voluntarily sign up for paid memberships. Of course there was much reeeing, but a decent chunk of people actually went along with it.

Ultimately, Ezboard became a victim of its own success, because it, incredibly, stored EVERYTHING in fucking TEXT FILES. No databases, no SQL. They were always behind the 8-ball trying to have enough server muscle to keep the behemoth chugging along. (Naturally, this was before "cloud"-anything existed, either.) Bleeding red ink, they gradually got more aggressive with removal of features from freeloader accounts. This pissed off a lot of the old guard enough to convince them to jump ship.

The last nail in the coffin was a catastrophic data loss event in 2005. Countless admins of HUGE forums - ancient tomes with years' worth of posts - woke up one day to find a lot of their shit wiped out. A flood of complaints to Ezboard support went unanswered; eventually they claimed they were hacked, and would try to restore whatever they could from backups, which turned out to be not a lot. The "hack" was probably just a cover for their own incompetence. It was known around that time that Ezboard had FINALLY been trying to migrate everything into a proper database. Originally a pretty small company with maybe a couple dozen core employees, they were bringing on newhires left and right at this time. Well, some code jockey probably touched the computer in its naughty zone, and the company's attitude towards redundancy/backups had been quite lackadaisical all along, and so - POOF.

A mere three weeks later, Reddit opened its doors. The next year, Facebook opened public registrations, and Twitter hit the block. You know the rest of the story.

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The main reason Ezboard was way better than current day Reddit was that 99.9% of the content moderation was left up to the individual forums. It was almost unheard of for a super-janny overlord to swoop in from on high and sweep up your post or ban your account. I really miss those days and shit like this is a big reason why I'm on KF.
 
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MasterBaiter said:
Can someone jog my memory wasn't the money going straight in escrow account and he can't touch it? It goes straight to the lawyers?

I think he is moving since the president of serbia started posting some omnious shit on insta.
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I heard the same thing from @s2_underground on yt/xitter.
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It’s 2028. American President Donald J Trump posts a complaint about the quality of the modern happy meal on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.

Null immediately grabs his go bag, his hamster and his favorite pepper plant, and gets into his 1995 Lincoln Continental, to head for the elaborate network of tunnels deep inside the old Minuteman silo complex.
 
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Unique User Name said:
Remember when Null wanted all the cheese arguing out of his MATI thread, so he made a specific cheese arguing thread? Then he closed it and weeks later people are back arguing about cheese in his MATI thread?

Pretty kino shit.
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When the Cat's away, the mice will play(with cheese).
 
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JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS




[VERSE]
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS
AND ALL OF KIWI FARMS
HAS DECENDED INTO CHAOS
TWO WEEKS OF ANARCHY

[CHORUS]
WE LOVE YOU
YOU HATE US
YOU WENT ON A HIATUS
THE USER CRIES
THE FORUM DIES
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS

[VERSE]
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS
AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY
IS HE DEAD? IS HE IN JAIL?
DID HE WALK STRAIGHT INTO HELL?

[CHORUS]
WE LOVE YOU
YOU HATE US
YOU WENT ON A HIATUS
THE USER CRIES
THE FORUM DIES
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS

[BRIDGE]
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS
IT'S SO OVER
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS
I CAN'T SNEED
JOSH MOON IS ON HIATUS
HE HAS DROPPED KIWI FARMS

[CHORUS]
WE LOVE YOU
YOU HATE US
YOU WENT ON A HIATUS
THE USER CRIES
THE FORUM DIES

I MISS MAD AT THE INTERNET
 
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T-21 said:
If you're a regular Invidious user, I have bad news for you. The Pajeet CEO of JewTube has successfully borked all available Invidious instances since 2 days ago.
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I thought that was a me problem. What I really do to get around that since there's a lot of trackers is I don't stay logged into a youtube account in the browser I use KF in, and I just click the URL below the instance. I use a VPN anyway so it's not like they're tracking my real account activity or my real IP.
 
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