twitter has both the best and worst content in the world
like imagine you’re walking along a fair, and at one booth is the actual goddess Athena, and at the next booth is some crusty pervert covered in dried cum and Cheeto dust, replying to e-girls
and both have 220 followers
— visa is doing marketing consulting again! DM me (@visakanv) October 13, 2019
Context collapse and context conflation like this is something that we just absolutely do not seem able to handle cogntively. It is beyond us.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Today is Laura Dern's birthday. 🎂
To celebrate, here she is in a perfect shot from a perfect movie. pic.twitter.com/gmGT5UGYur
— One Perfect Shot (@OnePerfectShot) February 10, 2022
Yeah, truly great scene.
And that 1990s-style handheld dramatic zoom shot really works a treat there.
Comments like this are usually heavily downvoted on Ars because folks there tend to swallow the party line, so I am surprised this one was not:
That’s exactly it. All that Mozilla was doing to “help” their position actually killed it.
Is there a term in software engineering where you get so bogged down in various edge cases that you create unmanageable spaghetti code? 🤔
— Janie Larson (@RedQueenCoder) February 19, 2022
Yeah, it’s just called “software engineering.” 😉