GDT: Canes vs. Wild, 8:00 p.m.

[robbieberns]

Hopefully we can use this coming summer to re-tool and maybe get a re-sign done before the ‘24 offseason of madness. Staal’s 6 million, Patches’ 7, both goaltenders gone is 20 million.

 

[chaz4hockey]

We’re are 4th after a 10 game sub par skid and now we aren’t making the playoffs?

Well, I wouldn’t be so smug about it. 2 of these 10 will drop out. Detroit and…..

 

[AD Skinner]

We have essentially the same record as the lightning. Are their fans wringing their hands about how they're going to miss the playoffs? Maybe they are, i don't know. But if you asked me "would you be ok with the same results tampa is getting over the first 20ish games" I'd take it

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

I DIDN'T SEE THE GAME EITHER BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN TOO BUSY TWEETING UP A STORM BECAUSE I CAN NOW DO SO WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL AHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Twitter used to be onesided cespool of degeneracy.

NOW IT’S A WHIRLPOOL OF A FREE FOR ALL DEGENERACY GOING IN EVERY SINGLE PATH.

 

[Negan4Coach]

Twitter used to be onesided cespool of degeneracy.

NOW IT’S A WHIRLPOOL OF A FREE FOR ALL DEGENERACY GOING IN EVERY SINGLE PATH.

YES ITS REALLY TERRIBLE NOW THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY EXPRESS OURSELVES OR MAYBE EVEN TALK ABOUT A CERTAIN LAPTOP WITHOUT HAVING THE POST DELETED AND ACCOUNT LOCKED OH THE HUMANITY AAAAA

 

[Borsig]

YES ITS REALLY TERRIBLE NOW THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY EXPRESS OURSELVES OR MAYBE EVEN TALK ABOUT A CERTAIN LAPTOP WITHOUT HAVING THE POST DELETED AND ACCOUNT LOCKED OH THE HUMANITY AAAAA

I think the twitter stuff is great, even though I have like 1 follower and 3 posts.

Free speech is a thing. And ubridled censorship, and control of the flow of information is how you get a "democracy" where 51% of the people think that 49% of the people should be put in camps.

 

[Canes]

We have essentially the same record as the lightning. Are their fans wringing their hands about how they're going to miss the playoffs? Maybe they are, i don't know. But if you asked me "would you be ok with the same results tampa is getting over the first 20ish games" I'd take it

2 straight Cup wins with another Cup finals appearance last season. Yeah I'd be just fine if that were us too.

 

[MinJaBen]

Hopefully we can use this coming summer to re-tool and maybe get a re-sign done before the ‘24 offseason of madness. Staal’s 6 million, Patches’ 7, both goaltenders gone is 20 million.

I think Staal's $6M will be replaced by Staal's $6M. I don't see him going anywhere and I don't see the contract changing enough that we will be jumping for joy.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

We have essentially the same record as the lightning. Are their fans wringing their hands about how they're going to miss the playoffs? Maybe they are, i don't know. But if you asked me "would you be ok with the same results tampa is getting over the first 20ish games" I'd take it

The difference is one of those teams can take it a bit easier in the regular season and then seemingly turn it up on command come the playoffs while the other team notoriously fizzles out once the games become most important.

 

[raynman]

I think Staal's $6M will be replaced by Staal's $6M. I don't see him going anywhere and I don't see the contract changing enough that we will be jumping for joy.

I don’t think he’ll get 6 but he’s definitely not coming back on a “cheap” contract. His lines, no matter the wingers, are always at the top of the league possession wise and tasked with playing the tough matchups. AND he’s outperforming the guy brought in to be the 2nd line heir apparent.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

YES ITS REALLY TERRIBLE NOW THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY EXPRESS OURSELVES OR MAYBE EVEN TALK ABOUT A CERTAIN LAPTOP WITHOUT HAVING THE POST DELETED AND ACCOUNT LOCKED OH THE HUMANITY AAAAA

I THINK TWITTER IS FULL OF IDIOTS IN GENERAL. I HONESTLY USE IT TO FOLLOW URINATINGTREE.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

YES ITS REALLY TERRIBLE NOW THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY EXPRESS OURSELVES OR MAYBE EVEN TALK ABOUT A CERTAIN LAPTOP WITHOUT HAVING THE POST DELETED AND ACCOUNT LOCKED OH THE HUMANITY AAAAA

Believe me, you could talk about the laptop before Musk took over. Doesn’t make it any less of a ridiculous topic now as it was then.

But hey, at least Kayne’s free to tweet anti-Semitic shit again! Free expression, yay!

 

[AD Skinner]

The difference is one of those teams can take it a bit easier in the regular season and then seemingly turn it up on command come the playoffs while the other team notoriously fizzles out once the games become most important.

I kinda think the canes are trying that approach- Brind’Amour would never say he was ok with it but I think a lot of the players may have the mentality at this point that if they need to save some gas for the end of the year instead of pedal to the metal from game 1. Thats why I'm so hesitant to make any judgements until we see them against the bruins or rangers or capitals and those games mean a little more

 

[tarheelhockey]

So what I’m taking away from this is that Twitter is about to enter its Facebook life stage.

 

[Svechhammer]

So what I’m taking away from this is that Twitter is about to enter its Facebook life stage.

Twitter is going to skip right over Facebook and go straight to MySpace.

All of its advertisers have bailed, and a significant portion of the user base is bailing by the minute, only for the CEO to come out and openly encourage everyone left to bail as well. Oh, and Twitter's workforce has been gutted by around 83% over the last 2 weeks, with entire teams, such as platform security, completely wiped away. When that app breaks, and it will break, they won't have enough experienced people left to bring it back up, and there's a growing amount of speculation that the Saudis might have paid off Elon to make this happen.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I also hate that it no longer saves my settings of "Latest tweets first" and keeps "Popular tweets first", which means everytime I open the site, the first thing I see is the most insanely pretentious thing Musk has tweeted out

 

[hblueridgegal]

Well, I wouldn’t be so smug about it. 2 of these 10 will drop out. Detroit and…..
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I am hoping that those nearly 15k season ticket holders that they have now would serve as motivation to act and preserve a playoff spot if need be. It cost a lot to get them and I can’t imagine they’d easily risk losing them so fast.

 

[Svechhammer]

I also hate that it no longer saves my settings of "Latest tweets first" and keeps "Popular tweets first", which means everytime I open the site, the first thing I see is the most insanely pretentious thing Musk has tweeted out

I've also noticed that, ever since the Twitter staff resigned in swaths, I'm no longer being force fed controversial political topics on my feeds.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Twitter is going to skip right over Facebook and go straight to MySpace.

All of its advertisers have bailed, and a significant portion of the user base is bailing by the minute, only for the CEO to come out and openly encourage everyone left to bail as well. Oh, and Twitter's workforce has been gutted by around 83% over the last 2 weeks, with entire teams, such as platform security, completely wiped away. When that app breaks, and it will break, they won't have enough experienced people left to bring it back up, and there's a growing amount of speculation that the Saudis might have paid off Elon to make this happen.

Even if it’s not as dramatic as all that, there’s a tipping point where a platform’s user experience outweighs its usefulness.

With Facebook it was the moment when the over-50 crowd flooded the feed with political memes, which interrupted the over-30s flood of irrelevant baby pictures, and at some point you realize the site isn’t actually doing anything for you anymore. With Twitter the tipping point happens when instead of reading the published insights of celebrities and experts, you’re just getting screeched at by trolls and political meme accounts who bought a blue check for $8. The vast majority of the user base doesn’t want to exist in that landscape.

In both cases, the experience of being connected to the platform feels like an essential source of information, up until about 48 hours after you delete your account. The word keeps turning and you don’t feel like you’re missing anything.

 

[Daeavorn]

I work in IT and twitter does not need that many people to keep it running. 1-2 sys admins, 2-3 network admins, maybe 2-3 desktop support and 3-4 helpdesk.

There were swaths of people that went on record stating they only worked like 4-6 hours a week.

The app isn't going to break and it's not gonna go MySpace either.

 

[Svechhammer]

Even if it’s not as dramatic as all that, there’s a tipping point where a platform’s user experience outweighs its usefulness.

With Facebook it was the moment when the over-50 crowd flooded the feed with political memes, which interrupted the over-30s flood of irrelevant baby pictures, and at some point you realize the site isn’t actually doing anything for you anymore. With Twitter the tipping point happens when instead of reading the published insights of celebrities and experts, you’re just getting screeched at by trolls and political meme accounts who bought a blue check for $8. The vast majority of the user base doesn’t want to exist in that landscape.

In both cases, the experience of being connected to the platform feels like an essential source of information, up until about 48 hours after you delete your account. The word keeps turning and you don’t feel like you’re missing anything.

Twitter was great for those who wanted to keep on top of the news by following verified accounts and filtering out the rest of the noise. In fact, it was probably the strongest platform for up to the minute reporting of ongoing current events if you knew how to leverage it properly. Unfortunately, Elon f***ed that 3 times over by allowing anyone to become verified with an $8 payment, immediately diluting that pool and drowning the actual news in a sea of trolls. Watching stock prices plummet because of a blue check mark on a troll account was the tipping point, and there's really no coming back from it. You can't trust the platform anymore, you can't trust the company, and you can't trust the ownership. And you're never going to get that back.

 

[Chrispy]

Twitter was great for those who wanted to keep on top of the news by following verified accounts and filtering out the rest of the noise. In fact, it was probably the strongest platform for up to the minute reporting of ongoing current events if you knew how to leverage it properly. Unfortunately, Elon f***ed that 3 times over by allowing anyone to become verified with an $8 payment, immediately diluting that pool and drowning the actual news in a sea of trolls. Watching stock prices plummet because of a blue check mark on a troll account was the tipping point, and there's really no coming back from it. You can't trust the platform anymore, you can't trust the company, and you can't trust the ownership. And you're never going to get that back.

I don't know about never getting it back as a platform or company, but I don't see a change at the top coming soon. And until Musk is no longer in charge, I doubt anyone is going to use it as a news aggregation source because of that dilution of actual news.

I do think that can be restored. I just don't think Musk will, or that he will be trusted if he does, as you point out.

 

[MinJaBen]

Seems like the perfect opportunity for someone from the previous Twitter staff to start a new company.

 

[Daeavorn]

Twitter as a "news-aggregation source" had too much influence on our society. I am glad that has been ruined, our country will be better off for it.

 

[MinJaBen]

Twitter as a "news-aggregation source" had too much influence on our society. I am glad that has been ruined, our country will be better off for it.

What I will miss is the ability to see "news" about things "the News" thinks is not worth their time today. For example, what the people of Iran are doing is getting almost no coverage in the US currently by most media. Seeing stuff like this is what I am looking for. I think Musk's plans will be a boon for autocrats every where.