KovuThreads attracts 30M users in 24 hours despite design flaws, privacy concerns | Ars Technica
stanleytweedle‘Despite’ seems out of place here. Those 30M users didn’t sign up ‘despite’ the flaws, they give no fucks about how flawed their social media is.
Like me saying I eat bacon sandwiches despite the health consequences.
iAmTheTot... What do you think despite means?
despite not knowing what it means, in this context, it means whatever affords me the chance to nitpick. in essence, despite lacking any authority to make such a decision, and the absence of any motivation to the contrary, i define words how i like. the result is that, despite my efforts, my arguments are incoherent. however, in lieu of better alternatives, despite, which heretofore had usually be defined such that it always was in reference to spiting a particular thing.