1975: There is mass panic in Adelaide after a house painter / part time psychic claimed God was about to send a tsunami to wipe out the city, should a plan to legalise homosexuality become law, with news reports reaching as far as London.
In response to the media frenzy, and to reassure the public, Premier Don Dunstan announced that he will be travelling to the beach to fight the sea, where he was met by hundreds of locals who had used the apocalypse as an excuse to take the day off work.
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The really hilariously ill-conceived part of the Twitter rate limiting thing is that comments and retweets are the same kind of entity as tweets in the back-end database, they’re just “parented” to whatever tweet they’re commenting on or retweeting, and the rate limit they’ve placed on the API simply counts how many of those entities you’ve requested without checking a. whether they’re the children of another entity or not, nor b. whether you’ve already seen that particular entity today.
Thus, the limit isn’t really “600 tweets”. A tweet, each comment on that tweet, and each retweet of that tweet all count against the limit as you view them. For example, if a quote-retweet crosses your dashboard, the quote-retweet itself and the little preview of what it’s responding to that appears above it each count separately against the limit. Click into that quote-retweet to read the comments? They both get counted against your limit a second time, as does each individual comment you read – and heaven help you if any of those comments were themselves commented upon!
The upshot is that if your account isn’t verified, using Twitter in the manner that its own monetisation model assumes – and, indeed demands – it will be used can easily exhaust your entire daily allocation of tweet views in as little as a couple dozen engagements.
so that’s why i ran out in like two hours
If anything, two hours reflects a very restrained usage pattern. Owing to the way that tweet views are counted, somebody who’s using the site the way its user experience “wants” it to be used might readily burn through their daily 600 views in five to ten minutes!
Wait, wait, wait, so, Twitter now works like those mobile games that give you free “lives” and once you’re out, sorry! Wait til tomorrow… or pay!
It’s a bit worse than that, because the verified limit is only 6000 views, and there’s presently no way to increase it beyond that. That might feel like a big number, but for the reasons outlined above, even a paying user with an ideal usage pattern will be able to use site for perhaps 60 minutes a day before they get put on hold, too.
[ID: A tweet from Elon Musk’s official Twitter account that says, “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: - Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day - Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day - New unverified accounts to 300/day”. End ID.]
Already made a post about this but there’s a good chance Elon’s lying and the servers are just completely unstable because he refused to pay a contract with Google
Apparently they’ve started paying their bills hahahahaha
there is a demon in your house named CARBON MONOXIDE. he enchants your mind with confusion and your body with exhaustion. you need to call a powerful exorcist named HVAC TECHNICIAN
I need more artwork of Merlin and Arthur kissing. For science
Specifically I need Merlin pashing Arthur within an inch of his repressed life. More manhandling!Merlin please. More I’m-half-an-inch-taller-and-I’m-going-to-press-the-advantage!Merlin please. More season-five-thicc!Merlin please. I want to see Arthur babygirlified as he deserves.
People who consider themselves perfectly logical rationalists are the biggest fucking marks on the planet. People are not computers, nobody is above motivated reasoning and superstition. High control groups are full of smart people who consider themselves too smart to be tricked.
I don’t call myself a rationalist, but I think there’s a missing mood here. If superstition is wrong and often harmful, and everyone is superstitious anyway and that can’t be changed, isn’t that sad?
Not at all! Humans are imperfect beings that make flawed choices all the time. The important thing is to do our best, and be forgiving and compassionate whenever we can.
It’s sad in the same way that people die and get sick. They are inevitable elements of the human condition that come to define the human condition. Just like we can and should do everything we can to fight disease, it’s always going to be a part of being human.
Do you think the WGA strike will have a negative impact on the success of Good Omens 2 because it could impact its promotion, therefore the amplitude of its viewership and consequently the approval of a third season? I know that there are more factors to the success of a show than its promotion but it did raise an interesting question that I would like to ask you. How do you stay true to your fight and beliefs as a writer when you join a strike like the WGA's but also guarantee that your work is sort of successful?
I hope you're doing well and that your fight for the respect, recognition and fairness that you and all writers deserve is a victorious one. Stay #WGAStrong!!!
Absolutely, it will have a negative effect on the promotion and success of Good Omens, just as it will have a negative effect on Anansi Boys (which has just gone to “picture lock” on all six episodes without me signing off on the edits) and on Sandman (which will be shooting without anyone rewriting the scripts, which were frozen as of May 31st). But it’s worth it.
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