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Red bricks and other varieties are kiln fired, not unlike ceramics and glass.

Concrete cinder blocks are cured in a mold, as with all concrete.

Adobe is often sun-baked in desert climates, but it's not as practical in other climates.

Cobble stones are hewn from found or quarried rock. Not all rock can withstand all environments, based on frost action and other factors. Graveyards tend to regulate head stone selection for this reason.

So it all really depends on your brick selection, and what will work for where you are, and how much you want to spend.

Having one third of the earth’s population touch your site at least once won’t matter if you do nothing particularly useful.

Facebook does almost nothing useful. It’s kind irritating to actually try to do anything with the user interface, since everything is slippery funnels.

Whatever isn’t an inductive dark pattern is otherwise emotional blackmail. The options and settings provided to the user don’t make sense, and are all defaulted to the worst choices imaginable.

Hmmm, not quite. See, that’s the part about the boredom cure I mentioned.

People really are that bored. People’s lives are frequently very lackluster and uneventful. This is plainly obvious, because whenever someone delightfully ordinary (yet comfortable with that) comes along, it seems like such a breath of fresh air amongst all the puffed out try-hards that grab so much attention.

The cringey reality check is the depressing part that creates the anxiety of never wanting to leave the house. People have a hard time differentiating between bullshit and not bullshit.

It’s not entirely correct to blame Facebook in particular for the inadequacy felt, when comparing one’s self to someone else’s carefully currated (yet seemingly natural) photo album.

That part of the debate is just the bulemia-caused-by-waif-as-fashion-model-redux. You can’t fix that by removing Facebook from the equation, because people will never stop beautifying their profile pics and cherry picking exclusive-yet-swollen friend lists.

So we’ll cure it by all jumping ship to Mastodon, where the photo albums will be crappier and less enviable, and we’ll all be less cringey? That’s the plan?

This isn’t about elections at all, is it?

Except Facebook isn’t cigarettes, dude. No matter how much you want it to be cigarettes, it just isn’t.

Facebook is a boredom cure at best, and at times it can be a version of the cold, hard, cringey truth. You might complain that Facebook harms mental health, but the reality is that sometimes the truth is the most depressing thing to learn.

If Facebook does harm by preventing enough escapism, there’s no regulatory cure to fix that. You’ll just have to wait for the tide to shift. But hey, look at that, today’s your lucky day...

And even if anyone ever considers it "complete," the reality is, that it's just going to be white wash and bullshit.

Why waste the fucking money. Quit being sentimental. Just trash Facebook and pivot (lol pivot). Be a real motherfucker, and let Facebook burn. Make something cooler than Facebook. Fuck this audit stupidity.

Come on, man.

I'd imagine that any company building its own hardware will continue to develop at least some code in C++ for another 25 years.