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I’d do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I’m not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it’s just first name.

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we’d follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there’s no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I’d kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

huh, whatever that is, doesn’t federate to kbin

do you use the swiping function of it? I’ve found that to be TERRIBLE at “prediction based on context” e.g. understanding if I want “if” or “of” it does the one that doesn’t make sense in context. and it doesn’t understand that if I type a word, and then delete it and retype it, maybe it should give me something different the 2nd time around (particularly irritating for if/of).

It was a way to view multiple lists at once, your home feed, various accounts, hashtags, your mentions, notifications, DMs, etc. Super useful. I stopped using Twitter altogether when they updated it earlier this year and made it significantly clunkier UX + promised to make it paid.

Absolutely

Sure thing!

sorry, I X’d out of twitter before X X’d twitter, so I can’t actually X about Twitter or X on X,

I’ll take this at face value and assume u are asking “why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid”

The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, “vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act” to mean that, “vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]”

So the EPA issued a letter saying “corporations you’re totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can’t have a ‘haha i repaired it lol’ loophole”

yea ik but i meant this one when u can’t get via \shrug like u can in dc

¯\(ツ)/¯`

I’m so confused, I thought Salesforce bought them, but I guess I’m confusing shitty companies. Anyway yeah I also thought the deal went through already, HN was really depressed for a day.

TL;DW:

• Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can’t repair your own shit due to “emissions concerns.”
• Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
• Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji

isn’t it pretty hard to determine if it’s worthwhile if they aren’t going all-in on making it an interesting place with breaking news & accounts for certain types of news etc?

Was quite confused that this is Microsoft Excel and not Excel Esports, the very real esports organization that competes in actual esports.

Maybe edit the title? I completely glossed over this and wondered what is a generic esports event doing in /m/technology for a while until I thought “wait is this maybe not about the esports org”

I would never fucking say s*** on the internet

A little harsh on /kbin given that it’s been released for less than two months and the author doesn’t even mention this. Otherwise seems reasonable.

I still think if you look at his investors it spells out leaders who want Twitter not to be viable as a platform for coordinating democratic efforts. So yes, he did it deliberately.

so, I’m just going out on a limb here, but instead of liking something, do you now “x-rate” something?

Keep in mind that it’s in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they’ve been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that’s straight-up infringement.

This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn’t actively using their X trademark, and it’s not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it’s not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.

Also,

Twitter auto-replied to Insider’s request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.

Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??