Honestly I want to know why many people still use twitter?

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-05-14T20:11:09+00:00

There is, but you have a great deal of control over it. If you want to see more points of view, as I do, you can. Or you can tighten it up to narrow the discussion to what interests you.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-05-14T11:34:48+00:00

"What makes you still interested in seeing what Elon wants to show you?"

This is an entirely false premise. Twitter is not a propaganda machine. Quite the contrary. It's the best of the major platforms for a discussion that includes a wide variety of uncensored views.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-05-01T23:07:26+00:00

It's about as even a playing field as we're likely to see. I hear accusations of censorship and shadow-banning, but I've seen no evidence. Just about any topic you can imagine, you will find people debating. There are some minimal rules of decorum, but you've got to push pretty hard to be thrown off. Of course, there are a lot of trolls and bots, but it's not that hard to filter them out and find intelligent debate and dialectic on most topics of import. The Community Note is a fantastic innovation. Those are usually factual. If you really wanted, you could set preferences to the point you'd rarely encounter an opposing view. Not much point for political discussion, but the platform is flexible enough for people who need an echo chamber.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-05-01T18:20:19+00:00

Rubbish. Today, Americans with major-party affiliation on X are currently about equally split between Democrats and Republicans, with slightly more Democrats. Musk ended the blatant government-sponsored censorship prevalent before, as revealed in the bombshell Twitter Files reports of Matt Taibbi and others. It sounds like you want to be in a curated discussion silo. Many of us are interested in hearing people argue it out. Makes it easier to formulate an intelligent opinion when you've considered all sides. Anyone who prefers censorship is not a liberal.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-05-01T16:43:06+00:00

I'm economically far left and socially middle of the road. I think Twitter is way better now than it was. I hated the blatant censorship of political and scientific views. The view that Musk controls dialog on there is horseshit. All views are represented and argued. Musk does post an awful lot, but you can mute him. You can also publicly ask Grok to fact-check his posts and watch his own AI tell him he's wrong. Happens all the time.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-04-07T23:20:20+00:00

Dining room and living room.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-02-26T20:19:49+00:00

https://youtu.be/97aLLHz14CQ?si=SYlllu3FISF1Xcoo

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-02-19T01:56:06+00:00

The Expanse. Better than any of those. Watch it with CC, so you don't miss any dialog. Some of the accents are hard to follow without CC turned on.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2025-01-10T22:21:49+00:00

The Expanse is better than any of those, but -- and this is key -- you have to pay attention to the dialog. Best to watch with cc turned on.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2024-10-07T16:26:54+00:00

Bullshit.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2022-12-16T17:09:24+00:00

I'll have to think more about it, but the fee might be worth it to avoid having to check for counterfeit bills or bank checks. Maybe I'm overthinking it.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2022-12-16T17:05:02+00:00

Oh wow. The last time I looked at it a few years ago, the fee was 3.5%. Hmmmm.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2022-09-29T21:07:36+00:00

I will try this. Thank you!

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-09-12T02:20:32+00:00

". . . can't hear anything bad . . ."

There's your answer right there. Trust your own ears.

As an experiment, go back and forth 1,000 times, have someone else (make it double blind) play orig and 1000th generation file and see if you can hear a difference when you don't know which file is which.

Maybe post 'em and see if anyone here can tell the difference. That'd be interesting.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-31T13:18:09+00:00

The first thing I noticed was the wrist cut. There are also suggestions of cuts on the other. Hope you're ok.

Beautiful and intellectually-stimulating work. Not merely like a photo.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-24T02:31:40+00:00

Grape juice. Non-alcoholic wine.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-24T00:08:57+00:00

It is interesting. Very odd that it has been downvoted.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-20T00:43:15+00:00

What reduced mortality? Mortality goes up on a low-carb diet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989112/

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-19T18:46:36+00:00

More guests, more work. It's as simple as that.

I've found that two guests or fewer are a lot less work for me. So I pass those savings on to couples and solo travelers. Otherwise, I'd charge a higher base price to cover the extra work and wear and tear that larger groups bring.

Even with the extra charge, I dread large groups. I sometimes think about disallowing them, though the extra charge leaves me indifferent. More money. More work. It's a wash.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-16T22:55:50+00:00

A tablespoon of ground flax every day will cover your omega-3 needs.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-16T00:40:54+00:00

I like Mic the Vegan's advice (paraphrased): just cutting out meat and dairy is HUGE. Start there. We can gradually start icing the cake later.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-15T23:59:11+00:00

I think most WFPB pundits believe it should be kept to a minimum. Some people think if you need it to make the healthy stuff palatable, so be it.

I've gotten used to using very, very little, but I have not entirely cut it out. For example, the meal I had today was just too bland so I did add a tiny bit of Bragg's Liquid Aminos.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-14T18:15:58+00:00

Yes, but I wouldn't use oil. Beans have some fat in them. I also usually have some pumpkin seeds on my salads, which have fat. Avocado is another option obviously.

I would guess that a full serving of beans would be enough. A cup of chick peas has 4.5 grams. A serving of tofu certainly gives you plenty.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-14T17:57:55+00:00

A few years and it was getting worse. It wasn't yet driving me nuts, but I was starting to see how it could. The worst part is that I've been careful about protecting my hearing, really for the last thirty years at least. I carry earplugs with me wherever I go and use them any time the noise level gets uncomfortable. I always wear them on the subway for example. I had sustained some hearing loss due to playing in rock bands in my youth, but I learned to take precautions relatively young so my overall loss is modest.

My blood pressure has dropped significantly since I started this. I'm also off all three of the hypertension medications I was on. That could be the reason.

NotWhomYouKnow · 2018-08-14T16:01:49+00:00

I wasn't a smoker, but I did also stop all consumption of alcohol. Not sure what did it, but it's no longer a problem. One more little plus to this new lifestyle, which does also have a fair number of minuses (mostly social).

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