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Yet another underemployed man in STEM trying to be creative. Sad, really. Fiction writing, theater, photography, cooking and maybe other things, as well.
Jul 4 5 tweets 2 min read
@sighing_sadly @chicagolandish For the record ... Sigh (@sighing_sadly) later mentioned having been blocked by @AcyRunway13 in another tweet.



She told me that when she tried to append a note to her own tweet (the one above), the system wouldn't offer her the option of doing so. @sighing_sadly @chicagolandish Interesting. The OP's handle did not create a link to his profile.



I can only view his behavior in this matter with great bewilderment. Who blocks another user in response to a compliment, and then tries to silence her?

That's unheard of.x.com/AcyRunway13
Jul 4 6 tweets 2 min read
@chuck247 @goddeketal You can't, Chuck. This is why one doesn't take part in pointless clinical trials.

You know that saying, "you can't unscramble an egg"? You're the egg. Sorry, buddy. Taking an experimental medicine is not like changing your clothes. You can't just un-take it. @chuck247 @goddeketal Nobody, not even doctors, comes close to fully understanding how the human body works. You let somebody put an untested foreign substance into your own body, changing how it works in ways that nobody can fully understand.

This is why clinical testing is inherently risky.
Jun 20, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
@X_O_O_A_A @visegrad24 Meanwhile, Russia is sending ships to one of our neighbors (Cuba), sending a very clear message: "we get to do that which we'll forbid you to do, and threaten you with a nuclear attack over if you don't back down."



"Accept our double standard, or else." @X_O_O_A_A @visegrad24 This is the point at which we should stop caring about the threats. Boots on the ground, massive response, wipe them out.

If the Russians want to respond to that, we have nuclear weapons, too. Enough is enough.
Jun 20, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
@SMSREDD @StefanieMcMaken They keep doing these things, because we, as users, keep on refusing to punish them for doing so, even though we have a simple, easy and devastating way of doing so -

By boycotting Twitter and withholding content from the site. @SMSREDD @StefanieMcMaken As an individual user, one can easily post the bare minimum needed to keep one's account from being deleted for inactivity (or less), until the company / Elon reverses the decisions we find objectionable.
Jun 21, 2023 6 tweets 6 min read
@internetarchive @NThylstrup @nytimes Hello. The Wayback Machine is broken. When I go from an archived copy of a thread unroll to still existing tweets that are directly linked to from the unroll, I keep seeing this error message ... @internetarchive @NThylstrup @nytimes "Hrm.
The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.

This page is not available on the web

because page does not exist"
Jun 21, 2023 7 tweets 7 min read
@Alex_Neverm1nd @HuukedOnFonix @Jtrap161 @CultureCrave "He provided different scenarios,"

^ another Dunning-Kruger case heard from

"and you get a stick up your ass?"

Look, f u c k w i t - which scenario was under discussion was made clear by context, context which your fellow t r o l l chose to ignore. @Alex_Neverm1nd @HuukedOnFonix @Jtrap161 @CultureCrave "Fucking s t u p i d."

Yes, you are.

"People like you shouldn't be on SM if they are so damn weak minded."

And you go on either not getting it, or more likely, t r o l l i s h l y pretending to not get it.
Jun 20, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
@liz_beybey @Phil_Lewis_ Liz. Water is a highly lossy medium. Getting the Internet down there would be some trick.

Not completely impossible, but highly impractical. @liz_beybey @Phil_Lewis_ How would they do it? Run a cable down to the sub, and hope it didn't break or, worse, get tangled on something (like, say, a disintegrating shipwreck) and leave the sub trapped after it failed to disconnect?
Jun 20, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
@WeatherBotHV Basic manners: I'm assuming that the bot is just a bot, and that nobody will be seeing these replies, which I'm using to assemble something on my profile. If I'm wrong, and I'm bothering you, @WeatherBotHV, please speak up and I'll stop doing that right away. @WeatherBotHV Don't want to be a pest.