ElTacoEsMiPastor

is this common for xkcd? because then I’ve been missing a whole layer of all the comics I’ve stumbled upon.

I’ll forever be skeptical of a degoogled OS that runs only on phones engineered by Google.

It’s not like marketing has to be an essential part of the browsing experience, either.

How would the interest break without ads? I can’t see that happening.

Exactly! That, and I can tweak my writing to see if it conveys what I want. I cannot just hit ctrl+z when I’m talking.

Most times I feel I’m having these galaxy-brain thoughts but they come across as pea-brain sentences when trying to articulate them (how long is long enough for a rant/explanation?). Going meta has also not gone well for me. By that I mean discussing about how we’re discussing the topic at hand. It seems to be shrugged off as a tangent or distraction, when I believe it’s a good baseline for the current and future conversations I might have with the person.

Discourse online is better suited for the exchanges I like to have with others (such as the folks on this very thread), because arguments can be better fleshed out and people are less afraid to share their rationale. Ideas and perspectives can clash, but it’s not necessarily bad. Just like peer review in science papers.

Exactly! Now I’m sad/disappointed the threads will be drowned with commands.

Yes, it’s neat to have these tools but it doesn’t actually provide anything to the discussion at hand.

No? The votes are for what contributes (or not) to a conversation, and deepens the dialogue.

That’s why it’s infuriating when someone is downvoted when they have an unpopular but well-structured opinion, while a one-liner joke gets a million upvotes.

What would be a good search engine alternative?