We looked into this recently... you could start any TLD you want for only $185,000!
squiblet
joined 1 year ago
I had an account since 2009 and mainly used it to post really ridiculous phrases that I found funny, like 'turnip thieves' or 'nursing burqa'. I tried posting various other things like programming related stuff, or pics and observations from my travels, and got absolutely zero engagement. But then in 2020 I was suddenly homeless in downtown portland after a breakup RIGHT when the Floyd protests started (I was driving right by the Federal center and the Elk statue like "huh, why are there are these cop cars and what are these people doing standing in the street?" and I needed up-to-date info about wtf was going on. Twitter was the best place to find that. Reddit was hours behind, fuck facebook, and local news is like a day behind, but local reporters were posting to-the-minute updates on twitter.
Then I started using it to follow some communities I'm into, like niche games and certain autoimmune diseases, and I liked the feel of personality people had. I felt like I got to know the personality of people who posted way more than on reddit, without the bullshit of facebook or whatever. I got sick of the horror of political slimebags by growing a block list of 8,000 accounts. But then: Elron. When Elron came it became clear that he was a massive douchebag and was going to destroy the site. I didn't wait around to watch: I downloaded my archive and just deleted my account.
Twitter was sort of like a code-golf game when it was 140. Annoying, but it was their gimmick... it also made sense when theoretically people posted by SMS. 280 was freer but then it becomes more like any other social media... and people would just post as threads anyway, which was pretty much like a reddit or facebook post with the most confusing interface ever, and the ability to reply to or 'like' sentences individually, which is interesting but not super useful.
A whole lot more than game engines uses C#.
Jim Jordan doesn’t quit that easily.
Sleeping is a decent one
Once it became clear they Elron was going to smash the place into a cesspool of douchery, the decision was simple.
Wow, I sure would hate to get a text from Jim Jordan.
I think they're referring to the Prisoner, not Austin Powers.
Yeah, I have celiac and all I think when people reference epic toilet struggles is “hmm, either you don’t eat any fiber or… you may have a serious health problem”
(since nobody seems to know, this is a scene from the Prisoner, which is what "who does #2 work for" is a reference to)
Yeah, then if you get it, you also have to operate a registry, however much that costs, in terms of retail and maintaining a zone file, and pay $6000 a quarter plus .25 per domain for revenue over $50,000.