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Cory F. Jaeger @Quarl

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Oh mystery button, grant me freedom.

Posted by Quarl - 1 month ago


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Seriously though, what happens? Does it just delete all your stuff? Does Tom Fulp magically appear in your house to comfort you with a panini? Do you unlock an achievement like "CONGRATULATIUONS! YOU WIN!" My inner child sees that button and wonders if it's just a massive psychological trick, like does it lead to another page that makes fun of you for trying to escape?


Weird jokes aside, I do wish there was a Facebook-esque temporary deactivation button so that you can take mental breaks or hide your identity from fascist regimes. Perhaps just a setting that makes your main page invisible but keeps your work intact? I've deactivated my Facebook account, feels good to leave it but I know my data is still there. One day I'll log back into Facebook and download all my happy cat videos and old pictures so that I can leave that digital hell scape and never return to their addictive platform and all the manipulative political shit it does. Current global affairs leaves me to wonder if safety will soon become an issue for me. I've always been super open here about my experiences and feelings, to a fault. Would be rather peaceful to just disappear quietly...


Oh mystery button, grant me the freedom I crave. Grant me the wisdom of not giving a shit anymore. "Request" is such an interesting word, what does it even mean? Does clicking that button summon a therapist? I am so fucking curious, can someone link me to the blog post that Tom definitely made when that button was implemented so that I don't have to google it myself? FUCK IT, I'M GOING TO GOOGLE IT MYSELF D:<


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Oh fuck, that's actually a legitimately sad webpage. NOW I'M SAD. I guess I have no choice but to go watch John Oliver because his content literally never makes me sad about anything. John Oliver has a way with happy-fun-time content that always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. There is nothing John Oliver can say that can ever bring me down, he is my rock in hard times! He is the joy that brightens my day!



Nevermind, everything is broken. This species is hellbent on making everything worse, there is no god, we are the makers of our own destruction. Everything is fucked, humanity is a paradoxical word that simultaneously represents evil and benevolence but more often than not it represents pure ignorance. I jumped on Reddit yesterday at 4:00 AM to see a video from Pakistan involving recent tensions, escalations, and attacks. The video was nothing the average person hasn't seen through a screen before, just a child with his head blown open, dead and rag-dolled while people held his lifeless body. There is a sort of peace that comes from ignorance, digging your head in the sand. For some there is an illusion that some kind of paradise awaits us when we die but I simply believe in an endless slumber. If heaven requires the knowledge that some of us get to party while children are bombed or dying of hunger somewhere else then none of us deserve peace. A paradise far away from all the suffering is just another escape that solves nothing. We are all monsters.


Oh mystery button, what things could I accomplish if I wasn't here making dumb electronic music? What things could our species accomplish if we didn't need to suffer at the hands of each other? In America we print "In God We Trust" on our currency; dirty paper and coin that buys weapons, enables slavery, and provides ignorance from the cold hard realities that humans perpetuate. A few individuals hold enough of that currency to provide genuine benevolence, lasting peace, education for the masses but it's still just paper, coin, and an unspoken agreement that it represents the toil, sweat, blood, and tears of an oppressed person somewhere else. Fuck our species, fuck our ignorance, fuck our "freedom." Those of us that have studied history see the signs, conflict is always in our future because it is always in our nature.


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OH, FUCK YOU ISAYAMA. I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A FUN MANGA ABOUT BIG PEOPLE EATING LITTLE PEOPLE... oh. Oh wait... that's the metaphor. It's always about big people eating little people... what the fuck is this blog even about? Damn I wish that button could summon a therapist.


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You actually suggested an interesting compromise; we currently don't have an option to deactivate an account because it would require adding a "hidden" state to every project, every forum post, review, blog post, playlist, etc. and filtering accordingly. The ability to just turn off a profile page while retaining the content is a lot more doable, so I think we should take a stab at that.

Good luck! Don't forget to drop a panini on the floor before you go break stuff, I really just wanted a panini >:C

YEAH! This is a fucking necessary feature! I'm glad Tom Fulp embraced the idea!

For real, I do like this place. The idea of going incognito is unfortunate but a possible necessity for some people in an ever changing world...

Unfortunately, without deleting anything, there's no option to ignore awful things and awful people but to just shield your eyes. But occasionally I wish there WAS that option. Glad to hear it's potentially in the works.

It's honestly becoming a safety issue in my country, ICE is just indiscriminately arresting anyone they want including politicians. I want to be invisible right now.

@Quarl Will respond to this privately

@TomFulp i can understand the complication of deactivating stuff. but maybe there should be like a block filter thing like bluesky does, so words can be filtered out. i think its easier but idk

i honestly think u should take a break.

4 real. I yelled at my shadow the other day like THIS IS UNHEALTHY SUZAN D:<

@Quarl hehe. but seriously. maybe a few weeks/months off could be good. just want to help.

Yeah. Yep. Yes. Yar. Yip.

I loved this news post :)

That is interesting that there isn't an option to deactivate an account but not delete it entirely!

Also you watch LastWeekTonight to feel better? Awesome. I love the show and the light it sheds on serious issues in the world and in American society. Though if you're in the right mindset it can only make things more depressing.

At this point I have hardly any real "faith" in the human race or life itself either. It all just seems like we're competing for nothing here yknow? I think we as living beings and as humans as a whole ought to be a bit less self-important. Realize that we all are from nothing and will end up as such. That might sound a bit grim, yes, but I think that should make us realize that life really can be nice if we make it that way instead of getting involved in useless battles over resources. Even though we are one species, on one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy, in one universe.

@Quarl i think you should also download unhook for your devices. its a good youtube add on that also blocks reccomendations and other parts of youtube. depending on your browser it could work rlly well

But how will I watch all my Maroon 5 music videos if unhook is blocking parts of YouTube? I thought YouTube was 99% Maroon 5 music videos, you mean there's more to YouTube than Maroon 5, what D:<

@Quarl lol

it has a hide list so u choose what u want to block.