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Comment The Decision that Destroyed Twitter/X (Score 5, Interesting) 157

Musk aside, the #1 change that absolutely destroyed X as a platform was by default sorting a users feed by likes rather than by post date.

The entire point of Twitter was to see what that account is doing right now and not what the most popular thing that account ever did was.

And no. I don't want to login to sort by date and then be tracked by some algorithm so it screws up my random feed like YouTube does when all I want to do is look at a tweet from a news article. Especially when I didn't have to do that before the X changeover. I also don't want it to be a walled garden like Facebook where I have to login to see anything.

Comment Re:Unfortunately this doesnt look like an April fo (Score 1) 48

Now if they were to engineer in some harmaline/telepathine and put it into a tomato you could make some very special marinara sauce.

Why stop there? Most modern cuisines use tomatoes, giving you lots of possibilities. How about a adult-grade version of catsup or salsa? Or, if you prefer, tex-mex chili with a new type of kick to it?

Comment Re:Win the battle, lose the war (Score 1) 79

Sure. Just a reminder, back in the old days, before the NLRB forced owners and unions to negotiate in good faith... Factories and warehouses burned to the ground during labor disputes, people were beaten and killed.

And for all of you out there who think that that's exaggerated, take a look at the Ludlow Massacre with its body count of approximately 21, mostly women and children.

Comment Re: Son, are you winning? (Score 1) 74

No, we were involved in blowing away members of the NVA who were invading the Republic of South Vietnam at the time. Much of the time we were using reverse slope trajectories to hit targets on the backside of a mountain, and once to the backside of the second mountain back. Our ship had a very good reputation with the spotting planes giving us the locations of targets.

Comment Re:Son, are you winning? (Score 1) 74

If we have a draft today the level of resistance will cripple the country. Nobody will tolerate the Government pulling that. That move could break the country.

Yes, and I give him full credit for that. And please note that the reason we don't need a draft now isn't because there's no more conflict but because there are enough men and women willing to serve their country without it.

Comment Re: Son, are you winning? (Score 2) 74

I was on what was then called a Destroyer Escort (Later changed to a Fast Frigate to fit in with NATO.) doing shore bombardment on the Gun Line for the most part. Our ship was targetted by counter-battery twice; once at night when I was sleeping, and once in the daytime when I was the one who reported that there were 6" shells landing about 30 yards off our fantail.

Comment Re:Son, are you winning? (Score -1, Troll) 74

Trust me, most of us came back without any long-term mental issues. The stereotype of the unhinged 'Nam vet was created by leftist journalists and writers to give them something to point at when they wanted an excuse to make anybody who didn't march in lock-step with their leftist beliefs look evil. Do yourself a favor and take a good look at their propaganda and you'll see for yourself how phony it is.

Comment Let's have some fun! (Score 1) 69

If and when you find yourself in a jurisdiction where some sort of age verification law is in effect, just remember that it's very unlikely that the law will require the date to be given in the Gregorian Calendar. There are many other possibilities, and as an example, here's a website that can convert your birth date into the Hebrew Calendar. This has many advantages: first, the date is written from right to left, not left to right, which should have interesting effects on any software trying to use it. Also, of course, the names of the months are different as is the year number. And, just to make things even more confusing, the conversion is different for different years, largely because some of the months have a different number of days in different years to avoid certain holidays landing on the wrong day of the week, and Hebrew leap years are done by duplicating a specific month. I'm sure that there are other examples, but this is the one I'm familiar with. Feel free to list other interesting possibilities.

Comment Re:In town or reclamation bond. (Score 1) 120

To be fair this is the correct play.

Most of those communities are used to the noise from a steel mill and would welcome any tax revenue even if it's low. Electric grid is either already in place or worse case needs to be refurbished rather than completely built and rezoned for large line runs, Truck and Rail lines are usually available for large scale shipping if necessary and most brownfields are close to a water source such as a river or municipal plant which can be further filtered if necessary.

The Youngstown/Warren and Akron/Canton areas alone could provide miles of usable brownfield for data center space.

Comment Re:People are confused because judges lie (Score 1) 243

No, the judge isn't lying to the jury, the judge is reading a set of jury instructions that were agreed on by all of the lawyers involved in the case during a conference with the judge. And, each of the instructions is in written form and must be read out to the jury exactly as written. If one or more of those instructions includes a statement that under certain specific circumstances that the jury MUST find the defendant guilty, that's what the judge tells the jury, no ifs ands or buts.

Comment Re:How? (Score 4, Interesting) 24

People don't even want to work in the office. Why expect someone to come in for an interview?

Just make an in-person interview part of the hiring process. If they want to know why, give them some mumbo jumbo about security requirements. And don't worry about chasing away legitimate applicants; if they're not willing to come in for an interview, they're unlikely to make good employees.

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