Benjamin Stringer

I used to enjoy social media. Early Facebook was quite good and had potential to get even better. Other platforms as well. I now rarely post, and on the rare occasions I scroll, I come away feeling like I've made a poor choice for my well-being. Like eating an entire package of Oreos.

I had been holding off on using Elenkia much because I know we are going to do a server wipe in the near future. In my mind, this is all still "just a test." But what am I waiting for? If I post something I really want to keep, I'll just re-upload it after the wipe. For now, I'm going to pretend it's 2008 again. This is now officially my main SNS, for everything I want to put out there. For the other folks who have signed up feel free to introduce yourselves and share anything you would normally post on another platform. Cheers!

Lately I was wondering: Is the 6-7 meme a means of gauging anti-youth chauvinism? Supposedly, the meme is completely empty of any meaning whatsoever. It is basically a sugar pill. So if you send it out there, you can watch and see who pretends to have a reaction to the placebo. Who declares it to be Satanic? Who tries to have it banned from schools? It's a narcissist detector. You can watch as your enemies out themselves by pretending to discern objectionable content in an empty symbol. (Their real objection is clear: "I don't like your group having any affinity which I don't originate, approve, understand, or control.")

A few new people have joined recently, so I thought I'd give an opportunity to test our duolog system. Below I've posted a discussion question to get started. Give me your best take! Just click the "Request Duolog" button to get started.

Here's the question:
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Are we morally responsible for the things from which we benefit, or only for our personal actions?

Thank you to everyone who signed up recently! I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the platform and how we can improve it.

The best way to get familiar with the platform's unique features is simply to use them. To get the ball rolling, I'm going to post a deliberately questionable hot take below. Click "Request Duolog" and give it a try. Challenge me, defend me, or take the discussion in a completely unexpected direction.

(Since the server will be wiped at the end of this testing phase, I'm saving my actual controversial opinions for later.)

🔥 Hot Take:

A tomato may be botanically a fruit, but in ordinary life it behaves like a vegetable. You put it in salads and sandwiches, not fruit salad or dessert. Therefore, functionally speaking, a tomato is not a fruit.

@DarthInfernus @marleneheidi @one @andrewf @Tom @thamesdarwin @cwseidel @frankenship @teddy1234 @Hajonious @allen @BD_Quick @Donnie @

I want to have another gander at the citations system, so I'm starting a duolog with myself.

I broke the last one, so here we go again.

I am posting this so that I can start a duolog with myself.

You know it. I know it. Everybody says it's true. Believe me. We all know a hotdog is a sandwich. Everyone except the lying fake news media.

The underhand toilet paper orientation is the only arrangement consistent with reason, restraint, and a minimally civilized society. The overhand faction, predictably, mistakes exposure for progress. They celebrate the vulgar spectacle of freely cascading paper, as though hygiene were improved by theatrical display. Underhand, by contrast, imposes a modest discipline—a small, civilizing friction between impulse and action. It frustrates the anarchic ambitions of cats, children, and other agents of entropy. Moreover, it rejects the gaudy curl of overhand excess in favor of quiet, wall-bound discretion. In short, underhand is not merely preferable; it is the last fragile defense against domestic barbarism masquerading as convenience.

Let's try posting something.