Over the past couple years, as I've had a steady writing job and ascended from "utter nobody" to "D-list pundit," I find it harder and harder to have discussions online. Twitter is the only social network I like and where I talk to people the most, but as your number of followers increases, the user experience becomes steadily more hostile to conversation. Here's my theory as to why this happens. First is Twitter's powerful tendency to create cliques and groupthink. Back in forum and blog comment section days, people would more often hang out in places where a certain interest or baseline understanding could be assumed. (Now, there were often epic fights, cliques, and gratuitous cruelty on forums too, particularly the joke or insult variety, but in my experience it was also much easier to just have a reasonable conversation.) On Twitter, people rather naturally form those same communities of like interest, but are trapped in the same space with differe
Dude let me tell you about snow in DC.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it snows in DC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_5%E2%80%936,_2010_North_American_blizzard
That whole winter was nucking futs.
Very cool pic, Ry. Digging the shabbiness and authenticity. You are by far my favorite chemist.
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty fucking shabby, and let me tell you, writing that check for a single room that is $100 more than we paid for an entire 4 bedroom house back in Portland chafes my fucking strap.
ReplyDeleteGood view though.