I'm finding it increasingly difficult to balance sentiments like this with the fact that there's no real way to retract anything on the internet. The submit button might as well read "set in stone" or "permanently etch into your life history". Once you hit it and let the content sit, it will be scraped up by google, archive.org, the NSA, and god knows who else. And you can't take it back.
But it's fun reading edgy, not-so-sober content. It's fun writing it too. Though since everything is permanent, the line of acceptability is different. You can't make private, off the cuff remarks online without adding them to your permanent record. So wherever the line is, you really don't want to cross it. I guess there's a Ballmer Peak for everything.
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I'm finding it increasingly difficult to balance sentiments like this with the fact that there's no real way to retract anything on the internet. The submit button might as well read "set in stone" or "permanently etch into your life history". Once you hit it and let the content sit, it will be scraped up by google, archive.org, the NSA, and god knows who else. And you can't take it back.
But it's fun reading edgy, not-so-sober content. It's fun writing it too. Though since everything is permanent, the line of acceptability is different. You can't make private, off the cuff remarks online without adding them to your permanent record. So wherever the line is, you really don't want to cross it. I guess there's a Ballmer Peak for everything.
Maybe write it while you're drugged, and edit it while you're sober.