People forgot the MASSIVE backlash against Disney for hiring incompetent H1bs and forcing people to train their replacements.
This was 2015.
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Didn't something like this happen in the 90's as well while Clinton was there and also in the same state? Maybe this is why a lot of RINO Establishment types are run there in both federal and local Arizona elections.Back in 2010, Arizona was a particular U.S. state that actually enacted [rightfully] its immigration laws against the wetbacks, and thus this caused a huge shitstorm in the media. The current thing for the leftoids to protest was Arizona and how it was an authoritarian Nazi state.
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The blue checkmark was originally for verifying the accounts of major public figures. Then around 2015 they started revoking blue checks from people who expressed wrongthink and giving them out like candy to political allies.Twitter was always awful, pre and post musk buyout. There's some revisionist ass history where people claim Twitter was a much more usable, kinder community pre-musk, but that was absolutely never the case. Twitter was dox/cancel central for years. And blue verified checkmarks were assigned not based on a person's popularity or status, but more based on their political standing. I remember many more controversial or right leaning users not receiving verification, not because they weren't widely popular or recognized, but because Twitter staff simply didn't want to give them recognition.
Twitter was always awful, pre and post musk buyout. There's some revisionist ass history where people claim Twitter was a much more usable, kinder community pre-musk, but that was absolutely never the case. Twitter was dox/cancel central for years. And blue verified checkmarks were assigned not based on a person's popularity or status, but more based on their political standing. I remember many more controversial or right leaning users not receiving verification, not because they weren't widely popular or recognized, but because Twitter staff simply didn't want to give them recognition.
The blue checkmark was originally for verifying the accounts of major public figures. Then around 2015 they started revoking blue checks from people who expressed wrongthink and giving them out like candy to political allies.
Or there is a cure and only the elite are using it while they get rich off treating everyone else.Another one I've just thought of is cancer, Cancer Research charity etc.
It used to be said that 1 in 3 people will get cancer during their lifetime. Now it's 1 in 2.
So, either these people trying to find a cure for cancer are so bad at it that they've made it worse, or the money is being spaffed away, or the progress is being purposefully throttled.
I completely agree with you.Or there is a cure and only the elite are using it while they get rich off treating everyone else.
Bluesky isn't a hugbox either. The CEO there mocked the userbase when people called her out for banning people that spoke ill of Charlie Kirk while not banning the most blocked user on the site, Jessie Signal, a transphobic journalist.Twitter is no longer a hugbox like BlueSky is.
Post-lockdown, the Far North of Scotland had no jobs, no culture, no hope, no future. The kids had been off school for 2 years and got no qualifications, turning to drugs and crime. The notorious "county lines" child slavery drug gangs that plague the UK reached Inverness for the first time, getting 10-year-olds into drug debt and enslaving them as drug mules. Even the forestry and oil and gas industries had huge layoffs because of reduced demand. The local football club went bust. There were no jobs, and nothing to do.
That sounds almost identical to Appalachia and the "Rust Belt" here in America. All the good jobs are gone, huge issues with drug/alcohol abuse, and a ton of brain-drain since anyone with the means to do so gets out as soon as they can. Only real difference is that the 2008 recession was what really gutted those regions instead of Covid.I imagine it's similar in the remote, rural parts of wherever you life. Nobody will talk about it, despite people STILL dying to it
2014 is ancient on the internet these days but back then when ISIS was at its peak, they were selling sex slaves on Twitter. There was some mild controversy about how Twitter would do nothing about it and then it was revealed that some Saudi owned 10 percent of Twitter. Twitter was always a scummy platform.Twitter was always awful, pre and post musk buyout. There's some revisionist ass history where people claim Twitter was a much more usable, kinder community pre-musk, but that was absolutely never the case. Twitter was dox/cancel central for years. And blue verified checkmarks were assigned not based on a person's popularity or status, but more based on their political standing. I remember many more controversial or right leaning users not receiving verification, not because they weren't widely popular or recognized, but because Twitter staff simply didn't want to give them recognition.
Jesus, 12 years ago. I would be lying if I said I didn't die a little inside after reading that. The 2010's were an absolutely chaotic decade, but I want to stay optimistic and assume things will get better. At least from an American perspective, things were fucked in the 30's but then boomed in the late 40's and 50's, then they went to shit in the 60's and 70's before the pendulum swung back to the 80's and 90's. Give me my rainbows, but the 00's, 2010's, and 2020's will be our shitty time before things get better in the 2030's and 2040's, but then again we haven't had to deal with a competency crisis of this scale before.2014 is ancient on the internet these days but back then when ISIS was at its peak, they were selling sex slaves on Twitter. There was some mild controversy about how Twitter would do nothing about it and then it was revealed that some Saudi owned 10 percent of Twitter. Twitter was always a scummy platform.
The porn biz were very early adopters when it came to Twitter. They even released videos with titles such as "Pornstar Tweet" and "Twitter my Shitter".Twitter was always a scummy platform.
There was a hole in the ozone layer.We were told that there was a hole in the ozone layer.

Acid rain was a real problem. It's why old sandstone and limestone statues sometimes have a melted or pitted appearance.We were told to fear Acid Rain.


They were given out in a semirandom manner for ages, you had people who had tiny accounts with ~50 followers having blue checkmarks because they went drinking with Jack Dorsey or some shit. Muchmore egregious was the fact that Twitter management made the decision (during the late Obama era?) to turn people with blue checkmarks into unaccountable, untouchable internet nobility who had their reach boosted and were exempt from TOS enforcement unless they went full retard and posted CP on main.The blue checkmark was originally for verifying the accounts of major public figures.
Acid rain and CFC were a problem.There was a hole in the ozone layer.
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They banned chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which is why it got harder to throw away old fridges and why you don't see Halon used as a fire suppressant any more. So the ozone layer recovered. It's an example of "this is a serious problem" -> "let's do something about this serious problem" -> "the problem has gone away", kinda like the Y2K bug. It only feels like a psyop because competent people prevented it getting worse.
Acid rain was a real problem. It's why old sandstone and limestone statues sometimes have a melted or pitted appearance.
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That second photo shows a statue in Herten Castle in 1908 and 1969.
Acid rain was killing forests and killing aquatic life. One hallmark of it was these beautiful crystal clear lakes you'd sometime see - they were crystal clear because everything in them was dead, so nothing could create murk. Various interventions like cracking down on high sulphur containing coal, mandating flue gas desulphurisation and enforcing catalytic converters on cars very much resolved the issue in the West, although it's a growing problem in China.
Once again, the reason this doesn't feel like a problem now is because competent people prevented it getting worse. Although ironically the 2020 ban on high sulphur shipping fuel has reversed what's called the "aerosol masking effect" and is why the weather's been so weird recently, because it stops sulphur seeding clouds and reflecting heat energy back into space.