Twitter is literally being dismantled. It’s a shell of what it previously was, and does not work for organizing protests and other counter-culture due to the billionaires buying and taking it apart piece by piece.
The whole point of Twitter was reach. None of the other platforms have the same reach.
Also the other platforms are doing their best to follow twitters lead. So yes, it’s being dismantled.
None ever had the organizational reach Twitter did. FB/Instagram require more personal data and are much worse for discoverability. Mastodon and BlueSky have the issue of nobody using them (in the grand scheme of things). Lemmy and Reddit don’t work well because of reach and censorship respectively.
There still isn’t something out there that replaces the use cases of Twitter.
Have you attempted to use the platform since the rate limiting? It’s approximately 2-3 searches before you’re rate limited out of the app for 24+ hours.
You’re also unable to view comments unless you’re logged in, so you’re required to give them semi-accurate information for an account too.
It’s literally useless for organizing unless you pay for it, which defeats the entire purpose of wide spread reach like it used to have.
Rate limiting and heavily pushed “premium” options have made Twitter near useless for large scale organizing.
They put laws in place that reflect their desire for control. Is your head so far up your own ass that you think that the people setting those laws actually follow them?
There’s separate laws for the ruling class. They don’t give a flying fuck about “values”, they just want control
West coast of the US. Their default mode is to treat everyone like everything in their cart is stolen
And this is why we’re treated like criminals every time we leave grocery stores here. Everywhere has heavily kitted up security (though I don’t believe armed) that stops you every time you try to leave.
Grocery shopping is a stressful occasion now
I think most agree.
The biggest problem I saw was that if you didn’t watch Rebels you would have a much harder time understanding the story. They treated it as the final season of rebels more than anything, and while that was fine for people invested in the story, casual watchers were always going to suffer.
The writing wasn’t awful, but it didn’t stand out either. Combine that with some questionable plot decisions and dialogue/actions and it’s not going to be great, just meh.
Yep. 100% this. I’m not going plant based. I’m well aware meat isn’t great for the environment, but my single personal choice won’t make any difference to the industry, and will only result in me hating the little food I eat even more.
Plant based in general is textures that are so repulsive to eat that I’d rather starve.
100% this
They’re trying to shift the blame entirely to the pilot (who was primarily at fault) rather than their policies that allowed a pilot to fly on no sleep for 40 hours
I’m glad someone else sees it too, cause Elon Smurf was not what I was expecting from Thrawn and I’m not sure how to feel about it.
Just do Bane
Explains the Sith in a lot more detail and I bet people would love it.
I disagree. I’m an atheist, and we shouldn’t restrict anyone’s ability to practice their religion unless it actually harms others. This isn’t a safe space, it’s simply persecuting a single religion because the population dislikes Muslims.
Religion is not an exclusively bad thing. It has done harm, but it also does have good effects.
This is BS
Let people wear what they want. If they want to wear religious clothing, let them. It’s not hurting anyone. This law, while technically applying equally to all religions is very clearly targeted at a single group that has been persecuted for this before
Unhoused is a common term used in official documents. It’s a much better definition than homeless.
Again, let’s not use slurs. It’s not that hard.
I did read the article. The contents don’t matter. The title fits the article and should have been used instead of your inflammatory, editorialized one.
How about you don’t use slurs? How about not editorializing headlines to entirely misrepresent the article?
It’s not hard to not be an asshole
Editorializing titles is a bad practice and this was deliberately done to mislead the readers. Stop complaining that everyone is calling you out for it.
Use the headlines provided. They’re less imflamatory
I can’t stand being in those things when they function correctly, I can’t imagine being in one in this shape.
This probably cements my resolve to never get in a cable car again though.
Orchestra positions are often jobs that these people will keep for life or until a seat in a new orchestra opens up. There’s an extremely limited number of jobs. I had a fairly distant cousin audition for the Seattle Symphony, for the single open trumpet seat there were north of 200 applicants. It’s such an incredibly competitive field that if you walk out, you might just possibly never get back in.