@TwitterSupport please, please, please make the Twitter feed stable and stop updating when I'm halfway through reading a tweet and then have to leave the new tweets you just put in my field of vision and start scrolling for the tweet I was trying to read.
This is dumb. Stop.
It happens CONSTANTLY. I never read the new tweets. I hunt for the tweet I was trying to read. If I want new tweets, I can hit refresh. Why would you do this? Especially when I have only been looking at my Twitter feed for 45 seconds. Don't need it to refresh when I just got here
Oh FFS, my mouse was just over the ❤️ button of a tweet I was about to 'like' and my feed jumped yet again. Now I have to go find the tweet. Trying to like a tweet shouldn't be like trying to swat a fly.
Ferchrisakes. When I went back to my feed to start scrolling for that tweet, my feed refreshed YET AGAIN and now I'm just going to have to scroll further past more new tweets. What the hell is going on?
It just did that again. I already have more tweets that I can pay attention to without having another dozen dropped in my lap every two minutes while spiriting away the tweet I was reading.
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It's hard to believe how thirsty my tomatillos and chiles are. I started a kitchen garden in 2018 which helped me understand farming a bit better in little ways. #fafdlstorm 1/8
But nothing compares to the way I've completely internalized the revolutionary nature of the invention of irrigation 600 years or so. 2/8
When it's hot and sunny and hasn't rained in weeks, the trees and shrubs and plants in my neighborhood stay green and plumped with turgor pressure, while my crops require watering every day and sometimes twice a day or they wilt in a matter of hours and die within days. 3/8
"The saying, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” suggests that materialism drives us. It’s even harder to get a man to understand something when his community and identity depend on his not understanding it"
It's easy to point the way this is true among Trumpists and Republicans when it comes to COVID, masking, vaccines, Trump's corruption and incompetence, and the authoritarianism of Trumpism.
I'm not a fan of Sinema, but people are dragging her on this when it looks like she might get the $1.2 trillion bipartisan plan into the endzone while asking for some cuts to the $3.5 trillion plan (not torpedoing it).
Most people aren't old enough to remember, but there was a time two or three years ago when big spending bills were denominated in $100s of billions while $trillion infrastructure plans were the stuff of mirages and messaging bills.
I think there is a lot more room for federal spending and I'm really happy that the general consensus has moved in that direction. But it is not surprising to see pushback against sums considered science fiction just a few years back. The full $3.5 trillion was always unlikely.
This is a point I made back in 2014:
When we label people as anti-science, we are usually talking about someone who considers themselves pro-science but is just particularly bad at it. 1/10 fafdl.org/blog/2017/04/2…
We've all had countless encounters with people who believe obviously erroneous things who then turn out to have a bottomless library of bookmarks for study after study after study to support their view. 2/10
I first saw it among friends and acquaintances during the fluoride debate in my hometown of Portland, OR in 2013. They were just really bad at separating the signal from the noise and evaluating the credibility of sources while fearful and anchored to the status quo. 3/10
Dunno. Seems problematic to me that it is the (proto)CRT that's tearing the town apart rather than the mock slave trade of their Black neighbors. But your mileage may vary.
As rule, I try never to bother picking fights with headlines rather than the substance of the article. But that was ridiculous.
If anyone is trying to teach the White kids to feel ashamed of their whiteness, it's not working very well ... because they are holding slave auctions of their Black peers. FFS.
One comment by Richard at the end really got me thinking about a pet peeve of mine. 1/25 #fafdlstorm
After mentioning seafood as a feed additive could cut the methane emissions in cows by as much as 80% and a commercial feed additive (3-NOP) that could cut methane by 30%, a nitrification inhibitor that could help with managing emissions in crop fertilization ... 2/25