OT 19/3: A Warning to Future Generations

[Felonious Python]

A rep for the company that installed the stadium’s roof, Geiger Engineers, did not return messages from NBC News seeking comment Thursday. A rep on Friday said the firm would not discuss the matter.

However in an interview with The New York Times, a top Geiger Engineers official appeared to shift blame for the roof’s destruction to the stadium owners and operators.

That roof was “well past its intended service life,” Geiger Engineers principal David Campbell told the newspaper. The Trop’s roofing fabric has a lifespan of 25 years, he said. Tropicana Field opened to the public in 1990 and still had its original roof.

 

[Felonious Python]

The Black Friday sale has already begun for Surfshark, if you need a streaming VPN for the upcoming season.

 

[JoVel]

Can't see any tweets here since this morning. Anyone else?

 

[Felonious Python]

Can't see any tweets here since this morning. Anyone else?

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Tweets are fine for me. It could be a browser setting issue. If you've got any ad blocking or tracking protection going on, then maybe take a look at that.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Can't see any tweets here since this morning. Anyone else?

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Same for me on iPhone. Same error message as you got. Started yesterday I think.

Have you tried the usual (clearing browser history and cookies)? Did the trick for me for now.

 

[JoVel]

Same for me on iPhone. Same error message as you got. Started yesterday I think.

Have you tried the usual (clearing browser history and cookies)? Did the trick for me for now.

No luck with that.

 

[JoVel]

I'm instantly turned off when any TV show pulls that shit of making you think a character is dead and then a little later oops, they were alive the entire time. It's so dumb and never works.

 

[Felonious Python]

I'm instantly turned off when any TV show pulls that shit of making you think a character is dead and then a little later oops, they were alive the entire time. It's so dumb and never works.

Yet you watch the Lightning...

 

[JoVel]

Yet you watch the Lightning...

Never claimed to enjoy it.

 

[FinnLightning26]

What is the HFLightning album of the year? I'm having a really tough time deciding between the brand new Fit for an Autopsy album and the Knocked Loose album.

The Red Horizon is such a powerful song that it's got to be my AOTY.

 

[Felonious Python]

Should mascots get into the 'talking button' viral craze, or is that too weird?

I haven't seen it on social media (yet), but it would reconceptualize mascots in a weird way. The buttons are more about the humans filming them, who think their pets (learners?) not only have a strong grasp of the English language, but can think in abstract terms.

I feel that the angle would be to essentially turntables. The mascot, as we know, has a human level of understanding, is literate (literally), so the buttons keep getting willfully misinterpreted by others.

 

[DMB06]

Good day for America.

All I'm going to say.

 

[JoVel]

Good day for America.

All I'm going to say.

Did they announce Cars 4?

 

[Felonious Python]

Wasn't the 'X' logo for Twitter supposed to be a placeholder?

 

[JoVel]

I am just now watching the final season of Prison Break, because I only watched the first four when they first came out.

Is this series telling me these guys sail from Yemen to Greece through the Suez in 12 hours in a small fishing boat? Yeah, sure.

 

[Felonious Python]

RE:Scam is a New Zealand website where you forward your scam e-mails, and they use a bot to waste their time. I've got an old e-mail address that got rumbled some time ago, so I get maybe one or two scams a week.

I think my latest forward has just about run its course, but if you want to read the log: RE:Scam conversation

 

[LightningStrikes]

RE:Scam is a New Zealand website where you forward your scam e-mails, and they use a bot to waste their time. I've got an old e-mail address that got rumbled some time ago, so I get maybe one or two scams a week.

I think my latest forward has just about run its course, but if you want to read the log: RE:Scam conversation

Hey there, Thanks for the information! Interesting stuff! Could you maybe elaborate on the process? Mikayla Blanda

 

[Felonious Python]

Hey there, Thanks for the information! Interesting stuff! Could you maybe elaborate on the process? Mikayla Blanda

I thought the scammer was about done with it, but he's still going.

 

[Felonious Python]

Is there an alternative to yup.io for aggregating Twitter, Bluesky, etc.?

Twitter is worse than it used to be, but it's also not quite bad enough for users to leave quickly en masse. There would need to be a significant hindrance to users (think Digg v4) to push people out.

 

[Felonious Python]

Transformers One is currently a 7.7 on IMDb. In no way is that movie a 7.7.

Gravity is a 7.7. Black Hawk Down is a 7.7. Malcolm X is a 7.7. The Lego Movie is a 7.7. Cinema.

Transformers One is like a 6.5 at best.

 

[Felonious Python]

Doug Baxter better be polishing up that resume right about now.

 

[JoVel]

Is there an alternative to yup.io for aggregating Twitter, Bluesky, etc.?

Twitter is worse than it used to be, but it's also not quite bad enough for users to leave quickly en masse. There would need to be a significant hindrance to users (think Digg v4) to push people out.

Is there anything Bluesky is doing differently to all the other Twitter clones for one to be interested in it?

 

[Felonious Python]

Is there anything Bluesky is doing differently to all the other Twitter clones for one to be interested in it?

It's not been flooded with bots and differing opinions (so far).

Bluesky hasn't really been seriously tested yet, but if the old Twitter base is going to get Balkanized, then just being able to aggregate everything would be useful.

 

[JoVel]

It's not been flooded with bots and differing opinions (so far).

Bluesky hasn't really been seriously tested yet, but if the old Twitter base is going to get Balkanized, then just being able to aggregate everything would be useful.

I would just like to have Twitter back to my own sports news bubble that it was pre Musk days. I'm not sure that is possible to do in its current form no matter how many accounts you block. I don't have much hope for a platform for any political talk on the internet that wouldn't turn into a pile of shit.

 

[Felonious Python]

I would just like to have Twitter back to my own sports news bubble that it was pre Musk days. I'm not sure that is possible to do in its current form no matter how many accounts you block. I don't have much hope for a platform for any political talk on the internet that wouldn't turn into a pile of shit.

If you force Twitter (X) to go to the 'Following' tab, rather than the 'For You' tab, then you just get who you follow.