This is my issue with the article.
Headline: Here's what we know about EG.5 so far
Body: Apparently not much. We uhh, know the name of it? Severity, how contagious it may be, symptoms, breakthrough rate...like umm, anything??
I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either "the biggest twat on the planet" or "this dipshit", depending on which works better syntactically.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Text Replace
// @version 0.1
// @description Text Replace
// @author SiameseDream
// @include *
// @grant none
// @namespace beepboop
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
var replaceArry = [
[/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
[/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
[/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
[/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
[/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
[/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
// etc.
];
var numTerms = replaceArry.length;
var txtWalker = document.createTreeWalker (
document.body,
NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
{ acceptNode: function (node) {
//-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
}
},
false
);
var txtNode = null;
while (txtNode = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
var oldTxt = txtNode.nodeValue;
for (var J = 0; J < numTerms; J++) {
oldTxt = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
}
txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
}
})();
In practice it looks like this
Funny that he was "extremely concerned" when a report came out last month on how Instagram algorithms were promoting child exploitation, yet he completely gutted the Child Safety team at Twitter and then went out of his way to let everyone know that he was personally behind the decision to reinstate some conspiracy theory nutjob who's posting this garbage on his site.
The NYT is reporting that it was actually produced by the DeSantis campaign, which is doing nothing to disavow the notion.
How about the New York Times, and it turns out it wasn't just shared by the DeSantis campaign, but produced by it and then sent to an "outside supporter" to actually tweet, so they could maintain plausible deniability.
One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was the campaign’s sharing of a bizarre video on Twitter that attacked Mr. Trump as too friendly to L.G.B.T.Q. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.
But it turns out to be more of a self-inflicted wound than was previously known: A DeSantis campaign aide had originally produced the video internally, passing it off to an outside supporter to post it first and making it appear as if it was generated independently, according to a person with knowledge of the incident.
Doubtlessly true, but by the same token I suspect they're running better than ever without Elon around to "help". Their employees certainly seem to think so.
Didn't do much for me. I tried a few different things and they were mostly a waste of time. I did recently pick up the Sylvania restoration kits and that shit was like night and day difference.
The only trick is that their "3 step" process is bullshit. It's a lot of sanding and cleaning and sanding and cleaning and before you know it you'll be on step 12 of 3 and only halfway through. But it works and the difference at night is definitely noticable.
Definitely. I posted this yesterday in a similar thread about clickbait content:
This is one of the things that I'm struggling with right now as well. My reddit experience was heavily curated in favor of smaller subreddits, to the almost complete exclusion of top subreddits. The thing is, since Lemmy is so new, it hasn't had the opportunity to build up a diverse array of specialized communities the same way. So basically right now all we have are mainly versions of the "big" Reddit communities, along with ones that decided to emigrate here from Reddit.
But it turns out, content from "big" communities is often the same low-effort, lowest-common denominator stuff regardless which platform is hosting it. Memes, clickbait, and ragebait permeate the top results, because well shucks, that's what people want to see and engage with, apparently.
I'm hopeful that if/when Lemmy continues to grow, that it'll become home to more active specialized communities. In the meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the experience as much as possible by A) trying to subscribe to more communities and B) slamming that block community button like I'm playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.
I think it boils down to the fact that a smaller userbase is going to naturally gravitate towards lowest common denominator content because there isn't enough critical mass to form niche communities yet. It's low-hanging fruit to post an angry meme about Reddit, since people being angry about Reddit is why Lemmy/kbin suddenly have so many people. But of those, how many want to talk about inflatable kayaks or vintage calculators?
As far as finding new communities, maybe this page will be helpful.
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August's numbers are August's problem.
Here's are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they'll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
I'd have some hesitation to tag those in due to the number of times I've had internal hose splitters/timers get broken or worn out, and develop a leak. It's no big deal if I'm replacing a $10 splitter, but it would sure sting when that $76 controller develops a leak.
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