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Larry Sanger

@lsanger@sangerfeed.org

Young women who want to be respected and truly loved should dress in pretty and modest clothes, not seeking to inspire lust by showing skin. Lust is not respect and definitely not love.

Men should boldly signal to women that this is what they actually prefer. This involves actively disdaining women who are underdressed and making it clear that is the reason for your disdain.

By the way you might notice I’ve been saying “X.com” rather than “X”. This is the right move, I think, because “X” is quite simply much too generic to be a brand name. It’s a variable name, it’s a dirty movie rating, it’s associated with various movies and movie franchises, etc. It’s almost as if, by using the letter by itself as a brand, we are being manipulated to acknowledge the coolness of it, due to the several associations of “X”. It’s affected, gimmicky, and contrived. Not to mention the vanity of Elon’s personal associations with this, and also not to mention the occult connections.

Given all that, I think self-consciously preferring “X.com” is the right response.

I also think “X.com” is preferable to “Twitter” because we need a distinctive name for the bad old website as it was before Elon.

To be quite honest, I’m not feeling a strong pull to get back into X.com. I do not feel moved to make profound comments about terrorism, or the impending end of the world, or whatever other distractions we are being fed. I’ve been working on my book. You people better appreciate all the work I’ve put into this, that’s all I’m saying! 😁

I did finally receive that refund of the $84, however. So, there’s that.

Why don’t social media companies make their posts more widely available using the standard data format RSS—as Minifeed, the software that runs this WordPress install, and as BitChute do?

I’ll tell you why: it’s because RSS makes data easier to share and build on, and sites like X and Facebook claim ownership over your data and want you confined to their walled gardens.

RSS is not old, outdated tech. It was suppressed because Big Tech preferred closed, walled gardens. When Jack Dorsey and crew started Twitter, it was available to build on using RSS. It was an open network. Then they deliberately closed it. Hmm… 🤔

Happy New Year anyway, y’all!

Hi Jonny—I couldn’t agree more.

I was subscribed to Twitter+ in order to improve my reach as I sold ZWIBook drives. I was frankly shocked at how poor my reach was, even after subscribing, compared to 2019-20. Basically 1/10th of what it used to be, and that’s *with* the subscription. Then they went and raised the price by $6 per month. That’s just insulting. Forget it. I’d rather work more on my own dang sites and build up a more solid reach, that can’t be stolen from me.

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