Trump’s Social Network In Danger Of Closure | Talking Points Memo

[ficus7813]

I can speak to this idea a little bit …

I’m on a dev team for an app written in Flutter, and the most experienced member of our team complains a lot any time we have to resort to using webviews (which is what you’re referencing).

While webviews are nice because you can use HTML and javascript (and hence use packages that already exist in javascript), the price you pay is in performance. You get “janky” scrolling and slower performance overall. A scrolling-intensive app like a Twitter clone would really suck if you did this.

[darrtown]

@tsp

Where is your homage to @tena for the use of that phrase!?!?!?!?

OOOOPPPSSSIE!!!
My bad… it’s fixed now

[darrtown]

@garrybee

Cleo

And a reply…just cuz it’s Sunday…

[zenicetus]

Classic photo, and as it happens I’m making pancakes for some house guests this morning (after they wake up). Or is that a flapjack on the bunny?

[darrtown]

@zenicetus

Or is that a flapjack on the bunny?

Just a gently placed pancake. On the head of a tolerant bunny.

[21zna9]

OT:

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[globalguy]

@mattinpa

You do what the bosses want and hold your mouth right long enough and you’ll get rewarded with a column, in which many of the time-server mediocrities thus elevated simply air their views like any barstool bore.

Then I would definitely avoid Mr. Von Drehle’s latest “the MSM is unfairly and viciously piling onto Joe Rogan” dreck over at WaPo!

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[mattinpa]

Yeah, I don’t think that’ll fit on the sked for today, got a few other things to do.

[Anarchy_Bunker]

@LeeHarveyGriswold

Exhibit A.

Big fan eh?

[dogselfie]

“Dr” Gorka would know all about clowns. And underpowered Mustangs.

[occamscoin]

@castor_troy

Meme stocks have broken all the classic investment rules about things like a company actually producing goods or services as a reason to toss some money in the pot.

That’s not new. Goes back more than 20 years to the “web2.0” boom.

[occamscoin]

@darrtown

There was an epidemiology office in Beijing and one in Wuhan as of 2017 but by the end of 2018 both were gone

They were eliminated so he could reallocate the money to build Wall*, whether that reallocation was legal or not.

*yes, that’s how they referred to it at the time. Just “Wall”. Not “the wall”, or “a wall”.

[castor_troy]

Maybe I’m off, but this time feels different. Meme stocks and crypto don’t even pretend to deliver anything more than they do, and people just manipulate them to play Monopoly with their cash.

At least web 2.0 stuff was attempting to deliver services in new ways, may have been oversold and certainly some scams, but players like Amazon have demonstrated over time that the ideas were in the right place.

[occamscoin]

@castor_troy

but this time feels different.

If “this time” did not feel different, then that would be different.

@castor_troy

least web 2.0 stuff was attempting to deliver services in new ways

and doing things like pretending the gross value of transactions they facilitated between two third parties could be counted as their own revenue.
…and still today we have companies like uber who are subsidizing their “services” with investor cash while pretending to have invented a new business model.

@castor_troy

players like Amazon have demonstrated over tim

Amazon was never considered a web2.0 company, though many web2.0 companies attempted to explain away their own lack of a viable business model by comparing themselves with AMZ since AMZ “also” did not turn a profit, while studiously ignoring that AMZ covered their operating costs from cash flow, and that any excess cash flow was plowed back in to grow the business.

[LeeHarveyGriswold]

The child-carrying over-alls are known in the burbs as Mumsies, a brand name.

[mattinpa]

I see. I still have questions but I’m committed to just saying fuck it. A person should mean what he or she says, dammit.

[mattinpa]

@occamscoin

They were eliminated so he could reallocate the money to build Wall*, whether that reallocation was legal or not.

*yes, that’s how they referred to it at the time. Just “Wall”. Not “the wall”, or “a wall”.

Totally remember that. Weird linguistic quirks stick in my mind, far more than ways to make money. Trump said “wall” like once, and then the others took it up, never mind the weirdness, the way Pence once saw Trump put his water on the floor and immediately put his own water on the floor. Why should you put your water on the floor? Who the fuck knows? You looking for trouble?

[occamscoin]

@mattinpa

Weird linguistic quirks stick in my mind

First time I head “Democrat Party” was by bush the lesser in the early 2000s, spoken with trademark smirk. and yes, it instantly raised my hackles as I’m sure was intended.

[Anarchy_Bunker]

@occamscoin

First time I head “Democrat Party” was by bush the lesser in the early 2000s, spoken with trademark smirk.

[midnight_rambler]

@chelsea530

His fans don’t include the rural voters.

Huh? It definitely includes them.

How many people are actually in the stock market? Who’s really fueling this latest grift?

Quite a lot, especially thanks to trading apps like RobinHood. If you can get 100,000 fools to spend their only $1000 in savings – or 1 million to plunk down $100, or better yet both – to get in early on Trump’s surefire media company that will definitely be the next Apple or Facebook, that’s a huge chunk of money.