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Alright. It's been fun y'all, but @elonmusk's reinstatement of Trump based on a poll of his followers is the proverbial straw.
I'm out.
Vox populi, vox dei.
Think it might be time for me to say goodbye to @Twitter. My feed is generally pretty wholesome today, just nerd stuff (space, alexa, games). But I disagree with Elon's fundamental assertion that anything that is technically legal should be on Twitter.
How are others feeling?
Imagine you travelled thousands of miles to apply for asylum in what is supposed to be the greatest country in the world, but instead of open arms, or even an antagonistic bureaucrat, you're met with cartoon villainy.
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There's a callousness to today's GOP for which my only reference point is the mean girls and jocks in teenage movies from the 80s - ruining someone's life and then having a good laugh about it.
As a note - the choice of Tacoma, Washington (my hometown) as one of the targets here is a clear and sadistic nod to "The Tacoma Method": tacomamethod.com/
As if the act by itself wasn't bad enough, they tacked on an open brag about the racist facet of it.
IMO @Venmo's app is full of anti-patterns and I'm angry at you - the broader internet - for making them a de facto standard. People pay me, then that money gets sequestered where I can't use it to pay my friends nor transfer it out because of their dumb policies and broken UX.
I hate the intentional anti-pattern where online shopping sites purposely provide no mechanism for you to go from cart back to site. Like "whoops, I messed up my order, guess I just have to live with the consequences and pay for the wrong things".
This week a group of friends and I finished the #ClankLegacy campaign we've been playing for 9 months. Our group was mixed re: legacy games, Clank!, and AcqInc, but everyone was absolutely enamored with it.
Highly recommend.
Thanks for the ride, @TychoBrahe @cwgabriel @direwolf
As an addendum (which seems appropriate):
I enjoy board games, but I don't think I've ever played a game that made me so consistently chuckle. @TychoBrahe's writing shines above all and is delightful. For a group emerging from isolation in 2021 it was just what we needed. 🙏
How much more funding would it take to hire enough substitute drivers to bring the average number of daily cancellations down by an order of magnitude? Or to solve the notification problem? It can't be that much, right?
Because the effect of not solving it is setting back our city's transit oriented design by years or even decades, and permanently making downtown a place that less people want to go. I wish @kcmetrobus and @SeattleCouncil (@CMDanStrauss) would come up with a solution.
End rant.