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Kradek posted...

So you're not aware that currently regular users can only view 600 posts and Verified users get to view 6000 a day?

I spend basically all my free time scrolling Twitter: this may have been put in place briefly while they put out some self-started fire but I haven't encountered any rate limit issues since last weekend.

Musk described it as a policy because he wanted people to think he's making choices rather than flailing.

Update: I saw Asteroid City. It really was my sort of thing.

MorbidFaithless posted...

is he wrong

I have never seen a Wes Anderson movie!

This is way too many posts for a vegy topic

Asked me if I'd seen his new movie because he "thought it might be your sort of thing."

It's noteworthy that the women in the article are older, of a generation where there was more expectation for women to dedicate themselves to homemaking rather than careers outside of the home.

My girlfriend complains that she can't use imesaage with me (from her laptop rather than her phone) but that hasn't derailed our relationship yet.

I played through the first chapter or so, really liked it, but just haven't gone back to it

Doesn't seem like a fair comparison given the head start Threads had of

1. being made by an existing platform
2. at a time when a competitor is alienating its users

I respect myself

The Compromise of 1877 was a real disaster in American history

The man is out of touch with his public

TheHorus posted...

Not everyone is agreeing with the ban of these cluster weapons, as evident by United States Russia and Ukraine .

Just generally it's a red flag when the US and Russia are international outliers on an issue.

Gonna be useless for live-posting sports or news events and you can't make jokes about the brands or post nudity but other than that it's a perfect Twitter replacement.

s0nicfan posted...

really not fair to compare the US's cluster bombs with their 1% failure rate to Russia's 40% failure rate ones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/us/cluster-weapons-duds-ukraine.html
The Pentagons statements indicate that the cluster munitions that will be sent to Ukraine contain older grenades known to have a failure rate of 14 percent or more.

Imagine a country where irreconcilable differences preventing governance result in fresh elections to sort things out.

This site ain't it
https://twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1677462522461396992

Good topic

An example of term limits being a problem.

Most of my first dates were on weeknights. People more often have plans on weekends, and it does raise certain specters that you can do without on date one.

Personally I do not think it would be good to send nukes into a warzone.

I guess you could say she's
*puts on sunglasses*
Not that innocent

https://twitter.com/KeaneBhatt/status/1677434629580529664

https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-police-investigating-claims-officers-022600514.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

The Chicago Police Department acknowledged an internal investigation Thursday into allegations that four officers assigned to a West Side patrol district engaged in sexual relationships with migrants who were living in a police station.

The department said in an email late Thursday that the bureau of internal affairs, as well as the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, had opened an investigation, but a department spokesperson did not address questions about when the investigation began or if any officers were stripped of their police powers.

A representative for COPA did not respond to an inquiry Thursday night.

The Police Department said the allegations concern four officers assigned to the Ogden District, which covers the Little Village and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.

Few details were available late Thursday about the scope of the investigation. Also a focus was whether some of the migrants allegedly involved in the matter were minors, sources with knowledge of the internal review said.

Edit: raped*

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He was averaging 3.2 million viewers nightly. TV ratings are an average of the people watching over the program's duration, Twitter counts a view if you watch a video for two seconds.

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1677414621446012928

The Fandom approach
https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/1677381711737532416

I think companies attitudes and posturing is a reflection of the fact that a lot of Americans define politics as "icky stuff." The idea, once common, that the economy is itself a site of politics, is absent.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/05/ukraine-cluster-bombs-biden/

ON THE MORNING of July 22 last year, a Ukrainian woman living in the town of Izium, then occupied by invading Russian troops, was killed in shelling launched by the Ukrainian military. The bomb that killed her was no ordinary weapon.

According to investigators from Human Rights Watch, who visited the scene of the attack, her death was caused by a cluster munition, a weapon much of the world has moved to ban due to the indiscriminate harm that they cause to civilians. The salvo was allegedly fired from the Ukrainian side, according to witnesses, and detonated near the womans home, killing her and her dog.

The attack was very scary. Very loud. I was outside and there were a lot of explosions. The wife of my ex-husband came and told me to hurry to get inside, one witness told Human Rights Watch, according to a report released late Wednesday night. Another witness, who viewed the victims body in the aftermath and helped bury her in a local cemetery, said that her face and body were severely mutilated by the explosion.

As the Ukraine war drags on, the Biden administration is now reportedly in the final stages of deciding whether to send more of the bombs to the Ukrainian military. The decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine would likely be seen as a setback to nonproliferation efforts aimed at stopping use of the weapon.

The report by Human Rights Watch analyzing the impact of previous cluster munition attacks carried out last summer by the Ukrainian military found numerous dead and wounded civilians in Izium who were hit by exploding cluster bomblets.

Ukrainian cluster munition rocket attacks in the city of Izium in 2022 killed at least 8 civilians and wounded 15 more, the report said, adding that the true number of casualties was likely greater, as many wounded people had been taken to Russia for medical care and not returned.

Although investigators found forensic evidence pointing to Ukrainian culpability, the Ukrainian defense ministry said in a written letter to Human Rights Watch that cluster munitions were not used within or around the city of Izium in 2022 when it was under Russian occupation. The town was liberated by Ukrainian forces in the fall of that year.
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According to the Washington Post, the administration has recently been taking the temperature of members of Congress on the forthcoming decision. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith, D-Wash., said he was open to giving Ukraine the weapons. When asked by The Intercept, a number of House Democrats declined to say whether they were for or against the move.

The move to transfer cluster munitions to the Ukrainian military comes on the heels of other U.S. initiatives to train Ukrainians on advanced fighter aircraft, and possibly provide them long-range missiles capable of striking deep into Russian-held territory. The transfer of cluster bombs to the Ukrainians would be much more ethically fraught.

Cluster munitions are controversial due to the manner in which bomblets are scattered around a targeted area, creating secondary explosions that can cause death and injury even long after a conflict has ceased.

The use of cluster attacks during the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon killed and wounded hundreds of civilians. A decade later, swaths of southern Lebanon are still dangerous for civilians who are periodically killed or maimed by stray bomblets.

The bombs are currently at the center of an international campaign to ban their use in armed conflict. More than 100 states have signed an international convention on cluster munitions vowing not to employ them in war, produce them domestically, or encourage their use in foreign conflicts. Despite public pressure to join, the U.S. has not become a signatory to the convention.

This is like when you ask a presidential candidate to define the middle class and they say anybody making less than $400k.

Weird country we have going on here.

COVxy posted...

Seems like tit-for-tat destuction of the few elements of structure in our government, elements that often play the role of tampening down governmental response to rapid shifts of policy due to elections and what not, might not have the desired goal.

We should want a government that responds, through policy, to elections. The alternative, where people come to realize that the government doesn't respond to elections, is a long road to a bad place.

Tyranny_jubilex

It's a testament to how bad Musk has fucked up Twitter that people are flocking to a poorly designed Zuckerberg-owned alternative

Cops are an obstacle to every progressive goal.

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1677120182940991491

AI_TechGam3FAQS posted...

You missed the bigger point about the The Jungle

I'm fascinated to know what you think that was.

Bump

DrizztLink posted...

How about reality, since that's where the fact checking comes from?

Not always.

My Antonia, by Willa Cather - I was kinda skeptical about this going in, because nostalgia and sentiment for life on the plains is not really my deal in general. But I found it well written and an enjoyable read. Also, after reading Cather's Wikipedia page it's hard not to read the book as having queer undertones, which I wouldn't have expected given the era it was written.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, by Mario Vargas Llosa - loved this. It's the funniest book I've read in years. If you're familiar with If on a Winter's Night a Traveler you'll click with the structure and meta humor the author is playing with.

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair - yes, this book becomes explicit socialist propaganda in the last 50 pages and Sinclair's optimism sure seems tragic more than a century later. But it also has just some magnificent passages of prose, right up there with Fitzgerald.

My girlfriend really liked that book.

Thanks for the update

To paraphrase Louis CK, it "brings them back to owning land and people."

Vigero posted...

Not to mention, to push aside politics and social crap for a second and look at it purely at a Business 101 standpoint, you're an ice cream company. Focus on that and less on things that don't benefit your business or your PR.

I just wanna harp on something here: the organization of society along "business 101" lines is bad. The maximization of profit is, necessarily, the minimization of other concerns, and frankly I care a lot more about those things than I do the quarterly earnings of Ben and Jerry's or Disney or any other company. You should too.

Who has used a hashtag in the last 8 years?

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Yes.

Read the topic title as Trump search history, and tbh, I'm disappointed that's not what it actually says.

People wanna boil down intelligence to one number like an RPG stat, but I don't think it works like that.

Serious_Cat posted...

They're suing for use of Meta's trade secrets and intellectual property in the new app. They're claiming Meta hired former Twitter employees to help develop the new platform. They're not just suing over similarities, thus not going after Truth as well.

https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1677036691901788160?t=sl4I0XjqHCHB6rSEHnb2QQ&s=19

Yes, it's funny that the mayor of the country's biggest city believes that God speaks to him personally. And that he called a holocaust survivor a plantation owner. But what's not funny is that he is also bad in ways that have real effects.

Climate change is going to be disastrous for the economy