I tried to rate limit myself, but I never hit it. I don’t think the is so much a policy as an engineering fuckup (maybe some combo of losing the Google cloud compute and the limiting of viewing without being logged in)
“Read” means they are displayed in your browser. I used to have Twitter open and hit reload once in a while during work, I definitely loaded more than 300 Tweets per day, especially when clicking on an interesting one once in a while loading all the replies automatically.
Ahha, as I suspected. Of course, despite having stats for each and every tweet in database, they wouldn’t even care to check if some particular tweet was loaded for the user. That’s not an issue though, Twitter is just a walled garbage.
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Convenience of driving to the cinema with kids and dealing with their shenanigans, then finally getting in the cinema where they sit and watch the film for 2 hours without disturbing you. You are paying for that convenience.
Somewhere at Twitter Headquarters… Intern 1: Oh look, I found two PDF’s with the company’s financial plan. Intern 2: Really? Intern 1: Yeah, this one’s called “Show to the IRS” and this one’s called “Don’t Show to the IRS.”
Somewhere at Twitter Headquarters… Intern 1: Oh look, I found two PDF’s with the company’s financial plan. Intern 2: Really, what do they say? Intern 1: Yeah, this one’s called “Show to the IRS” and this one’s called “Don’t Show to the IRS.”
Nah, it’s not that it’s gotten more expensive, it’s that most of the films are shit or otherwise unsatisfying. Maybe a combination of the two? :)
Of the films I’ve seen at the cinema recently, the last one I remember really enjoying was Joker (which is not even recent), and the most recent one I mostly enjoyed, but then it had a shit cliffhanger ending instead of feeling like a complete film in its own right. I was literally saying to my friend before the film started that Dune pissed me off because of the absolutely shit ending, and then the same fucking thing happened. I don’t go to the cinema and pay $15-20 for the ticket to come out feeling like I watched half a season of some Netflix show. I could have a month of Netflix for the same money, watch what I want at my own convenience and pause/rewind if I need the toilet or want to check something.
I still like going to the cinema, but I feel like the movies have got to be more varied, more surprising, and fucking end properly instead of teasing a second part in a fucking year. I would love it if they were more respecting of my time and didn’t run on for three fucking hours too. I’d love more movies like Terminator 2 where there is zero fluff and the whole thing ends in 2 hours? That’s what the cinema is for!
Yes and no. I have a Velodyne 15HGS sub that is hidden in the corner to the right (got that baby in a mass buy in ‘01, still going strong), and picked up a 7 speaker Velodyne satellite-style surround set on clearance for this room (edit: orig installation was in ~2007). It’s not amazing, per se (it’s no M&K, that’s for sure), but the effect in my small-ish room (15’x15’x7.5’) along with the LFE from the sub is enveloping.
Two years ago I was hoping the same thing for Mastodon and, to be honest, that’s kind of panning out. I’ve really found some awesome stuff and people that I’m genuinely interested in interacting with.
It partially sucks because so much of it is walled into like a dozen sites. It’s convenient for a lot of reasons but we’re starting to see that having our own blog/forum/business site might be for the best even if it takes more effort
Same for where I work. We’ve dramatically redused what we post on social media, and have beefed up our web presence and is starting to build up e-mail lists. The traffic is much more valuable
Hopefully this leads to Twitter not being the public square of the internet anymore at least mainstream wise. The man is doing everything to make the site worse.
I made a Twitter account in like 2009, in order to follow breaking hockey trades and free agent signings.
Then I realized that these are all posted to hockey forums at ludicrous speed, so I just stayed on the hockey forums.
There must be people refreshing Twitter just to be first to repost stuff to other social media sites for clout. It’s part of what makes Twitter so gross.
Also, what Twitter has done to ‘journalism’ where 99/100 ‘journalistic articles’ are just writing about what the author read on Twitter that day. It’s all just so gross to me.
Sorry, I rambled. I meant to just agree that I also signed up for Twitter for a niche interest. Although I quickly dropped it again, way before all the activism took over the platform and people started losing their jobs over tweets they liked or made.
Your point about articles that are just reposts of what the journalist read that day hits home so hard.
At what point did it become generally acceptable to throw some incredibly bland commentary along with embedded tweets or reddit posts and call it an article?
I quit like 6 months before Elon musk ever even mentioned buying Twitter. This is all pretty hilarious for me. Although I did occasionally poke my head in using a front end open source alternative like fritter or nitter or you don’t need to log in.
But those haven’t been working either because of the latest s***
It’s been more than six months since the purchase went through. I believe he closed the deal in Oct 2022. He fought that for a while before it happened. The claim of intent to purchase happened earlier that year.
Don’t worry. My sense of time has been fucked up ever since the first pan lockdowns, too.
This is what I’m saying, I think people are just really addicted to Twitter and refuse to let it die combined with a lot of people online being far left and hating anything right of Antifa
You don’t need to simultaneously say something stupid and loudly announce you’re a right-winger - only one of those things is needed to get the message.
Fence sitter implies I’m neutral and not decided about issues. No, I’m decided in my beliefs, I just don’t fit into either side. For example, I’m pro unrestricted civilian gun ownership but I’m also pro abortion. I’m anti illegal immigration but also anti religion.
Yes, it does mean you’re undecided, but worse yet, your wording tells me you haven’t even been made aware of what you should decide about in the first place. The issues you’ve raised have been contrasted as if dichotomies, when that’s not even close to true. It’s good that you agree abortions are the choice of the mother, as that’s the bare minimum we should expect of a rational human being who’s not evil. Then you immediately contrast it by asserting you haven’t even thought about your own morality yet – what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean? Could I roll up to your front yard in a Panzer? Maybe you’d invite me in for some coffee as I hold a glock made of pure Uranium? Besides that, “anti illegal immigration” is a largely meaningless statement – everyone is, even “illegal immigrants”. They’d rather have the stupid law allow them to visit legally.
Point is, the divide doesn’t lie between political parties, but between choosing to be evil and support a capitalist dystopia where money is worth more than lives, or be good.
between choosing to be evil and support a capitalist dystopia where money is worth more than lives
So you are a communist. What makes you think that you have the right of saying what should be decided or not? If I had to pick between hypercapitalism and communism, I would pick capitalism. Why? Because my country was raped by communists for over 40 years. Are you American? You sound American.
It’s good that you agree abortions are the choice of the mother,
No, I think it should be a decision for both parties, because by nature you need a father and a mother.
what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean? Could I roll up to your front yard in a Panzer?
If it’s road legal and insured, why not? Actually in many European countries you can own a tank legally, just without the weaponry
Maybe you’d invite me in for some coffee as I hold a glock made of pure Uranium?
Uranium no, that would kill both of us, but polymer why not? There is a shooting range 3 blocks away, lets blast some targets!
– what does “unrestricted civilian gun ownership” even mean?
That you should be able to legally own really any form of firearm (nuclear weaponry to be considered at some other time). Want a fully automatic AR15 or a Kalach? Go for it. What I don’t mean by unrestricted is licenses. Guns owners should be licensed, weapons registered. Hmmm, almost like we already have this system all over the planet with motor vehicles, so just copy that system.
They’d rather have the stupid law allow them to visit legally.
It’s called a visa. And what gives them a “right” to any particular country? If I cross to work in Germany, I can do so legally because I’m a European citizen. However, if I wanted to work in the US or Canada, I would need a work visa. That is the legal way. Nobody is entitled to anything. Not me, not you, not economic migrants. The only people who deserve our help are actual war refugees. You know, like in Ukraine. They don’t run to Germany for cash, they ran to the nearest safe country (Slovakia, Poland) for actual safety, ie no rocket in their home.
the divide doesn’t lie between political parties
Given you think anything left is good, anything center or right is bad, the divide is between US political parties for you.
But feel free to give me any more questions that you think I’m “undecided” about. I’m very well decided on pretty much anything. Or you can just do “too long don’t read”, I don’t really mind either way.
I’m not American. Capitalism has been raping my country for 100 years and is now raping yours as a bonus.
Actually in many European countries you can own a tank legally, just without the weaponry
I.e. you can own a vehicle. You took out the thing which made it a tank. Superb insight.
No, I think it should be a decision for both parties, because by nature you need a father and a mother.
I’ll agree with you as soon as a father has to expell a baby through his penis after carrying it about for 9 months
And what gives them a “right” to any particular country?
What gives you right to yours? It’s an arbitrary piece of land, certainly stolen from previous inhabitants.
Uranium no, that would kill both of us
Every gun’s only purpose is to kill. What’s the difference?
Given you think anything left is good, anything center or right is bad, the divide is between US political parties for you.
Again, not American. Again, it’s not about parties. Right-wingers, however, are unified in fucking people over for a slightly more favorable bottom line.
I’m not American. Capitalism has been raping my country for 100 years and is now raping yours as a bonus. You sure act like an American. Better dead than Red
I.e. you can own a vehicle. You took out the thing which made it a tank. Superb insight.
Technically yes.
I’ll agree with you as soon as a father has to expell a baby through his penis after carrying it about for 9 months
Okay, but no child support payments if mother refuses to abort and father demands. Is that fair?
What gives you right to yours? It’s an arbitrary piece of land, certainly stolen from previous inhabitants.
Yes, previous inhabitants of… 2500 years ago. What gives me the right? I was born here. I pay taxes. I follow the laws. And so did my ancestors.
Every gun’s only purpose is to kill. What’s the difference?
Passive vs active. Me putting a piece of uranium under your bed vs shooting you in the face when you try to rob my house are two different things. Both end up in death, sure, but don’t rob people if you value your life more than their stuff. And I do value my property more than your life.
Right-wingers, however, are unified in fucking people over for a slightly more favorable bottom line.
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