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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I feel like that’s a conversation you should have had with your parents by now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

"When a failing social media platform and a billionaire narcissist love each other very much..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

We’re going to send X to a farm upstate.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Really soft core porn. You need to get into the triple Xs to get to the good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

I'm glad we can rely on @Fapper_[email protected] for solid words of advice on this subject.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The one who's gonna give it to ya.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

But do they deliver to ya?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's weird that this post called it by the short name. The full name, as you typically see in articles, is "X (formerly Twitter)".

It's kinda like "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". A few places tried to call him "The Artist", but no one ever knew what that meant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"The formerly successful website known as Twitter"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

A letter in the alphabet.