OT 19/3: A Warning to Future Generations

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If you force Twitter (X) to go to the 'Following' tab, rather than the 'For You' tab, then you just get who you follow.
I am aware of that, but I think then there's just one chance of seeing specific posts as they're only in chronological order? Also from sports teams accounts etc. a lot of posts are nonsense that I'm not interested in, which Twitter has done quite well in filtering out as I've not interacted with them at all, even if I follow the account.
 
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Felonious Python

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I am aware of that, but I think then there's just one chance of seeing specific posts as they're only in chronological order? Also from sports teams accounts etc. a lot of posts are nonsense that I'm not interested in, which Twitter has done quite well in filtering out as I've not interacted with them at all, even if I follow the account.
A chronological timeline would mean you see tweets once (barring ICYMI posts or retweets). 'For You' is a mix of follows and things Elon think you'll engage with. His tweets, mostly.
 

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Safe to say he’s also a bot?
Highly, highly unlikely. Running a bot is costly, and still pretty sophisticated to set up. He also took Sunday off. This guy gets tired and frustrated.

These advance-fee scams can be profitable operations, but they're often in the developing world, and if they were two bots, there'd be thousands of emails by now.

Scammers still go for that personal touch.
 
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Felonious Python

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The Black Friday streaming deals are starting to look pretty similar to last year.

Max is $2.99 for 6 months on Roku. Not on the main site yet.
Peacock is $20/year or $2/month for six months
Walmart+ is $50/year and comes with Paramount+

You can have an existing account and resubscribe, no problem. My Peacock account only expired yesterday, and I got another year for $20 just now.
 

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This Hulu deal won't get you the ESPN+/Hulu games.

ESPN+ doesn't get discounted too much. There's a deal right now to get a year for the cost of 9 months, but that's not too interesting, IMO. The cheapest path seems to be getting ESPN+ on one account, and then a Hulu & Disney Black Friday deal.

ESPN+ by itself would be $12/mo and the Hulu/Disney bundle would be $3/mo

The Disney Trio is $17/mo, so you'd only really be saving $2/mo. An unimpressive amount, but if you cancel ESPN+ during the summer, then you can keep your Hulu and/or Disney+.


So if the season is like 9 months, that would be $153 with the Trio plan, (canceling the whole thing in the summer) or $144 if you part the deal out and only cancel ESPN+ for three months.
 
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Felonious Python

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There's no way the UHC CEO was killed by a hitman, although my knowledge of hitmen pretty much extends to only the video game and Calgary variety.

If I'm to believe that someone paid a hitman to kill a CEO on a busy NYC street, with words engraved on the bullet shells, the client would have needed to contact multiple hitmen, with none of them actually being undercover cops, in order to find one wanting to act out a cliché movie plot.

It'd also likely be an extremely expensive job, given the high profile and level of risk. The odds of someone having that money, but being motivated by an insurance denial, seems low.

The way I could see an actual hitman doing a job like that would be with a high-powered rifle from a concealed position. Shooting from a building would make figuring out who to even look for much more difficult, and give plenty of time for an anonymous getaway.

They got footage of this guy at Starbucks beforehand, and escaping on an e-bike into Central Park. Pretty sloppy work.
 

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It's a good day for LEGO games. Skywalker Saga is free on Epic Games Store, and Humble has a bundle for a few more hours of 18 more games.
 

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