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Hate to bring this up

NacthoMan wrote:

Lano wrote:

NacthoMan wrote:


[quote from Lano]

i never was a twitter guy until elon bought em out. i think its worth checking out!

Really the only thing i can tell is different with elon in charge: more intrusive ads, and making it so you can buy tweet visibility in a very sneaky way.

If it wasn't that there are smart people on there worth following inwould not use it.

allow me to correct myself, i mean to say twitter was not something i bothered with until the hype with elon.. the media really made him out to look like a bad guy.. anyways.. so i checked out twitter.. as a non user, doesnt seem much different from other platforms.

I think ADs are always gonna weasle their way in what not.

** sorry for low caps.. i have a pinky syndrome that makes it difficult to press shift

He was controversial because of his approach to content moderatation. Honestly i have barely noticed anything that wise and it wouldn't effect my experience because of how i use twitter.

I don't know that much about Elon. I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is very smart about engineering and maybe also smart about some business stuff (but not that smart, as buying twitter was such an obviously bad investment for himself that he made at precisely the wrong time just-to-be-a-legend).

But i hate how he changed how the verified thing works, its dumb. If he wanted to let people buy twitter visibility, fine, but don't make it the blue checkmark, he should have made it something different.

Twitter always had ads but now you are seeing them more frequently and even in the middle of threads which didn't used to happen.

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Hate to bring this up

NacthoMan wrote:

Lano wrote:
I do twitter. Its actually how i get a lot of my news. I know that sounds bad but the accounts i follow are journalists, scientists, and academics.

i never was a twitter guy until elon bought em out. i think its worth checking out!

Really the only thing i can tell is different with elon in charge: more intrusive ads, and making it so you can buy tweet visibility in a very sneaky way.

If it wasn't that there are smart people on there worth following inwould not use it.

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Hate to bring this up

I do twitter. Its actually how i get a lot of my news. I know that sounds bad but the accounts i follow are journalists, scientists, and academics.

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I dunno if its me

I think a lot of people drive with their high beams on.

Like way more people than you would think.

Its nuts.

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Are you still being affected by covid19?

A family member caught it and was not able to join us for christmas. They are isolating and are doing ok.

I got my bivalent booster. I don't wear masks really anymore though.

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We have another hurricane coming this way.

Hope everything was ok.

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How to explain this grammar question...

You know it occurs to me that you said English student and i assumed it meant esl as opposed to teaching an english speaker about their own grammar.

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Hello, HelpQA~~I was a member of the original Help.com years ago and a member of the QA as well.

Welcome back.

Posting has been pretty quiet for a while unfortunately.

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Hurricane Ian came over and we are safe.

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How to explain this grammar question...

This probably isn't the best way to explain it but just a thought (not an original one):

Prepositions are largely arbitrary when not being used in a literal, spatial sense.

So while "in" makes the most sense there in English, in their native language "by" might make more sense. Taking the preposition in the literal sense, the meat isn't being cut "in" pieces (of meat). It's being cut in a room, or in the kitchen, etc.

Another example "We spoke about that." Though it's not used this way in American English as much, "about" more or less means "around." But if you said "We spoke around that" it would sound weird, or imply you almost the opposite of "we spoke about that."

In italian or spanish, if i remember correctly, you'd rather say "we spoke of that."

#grammarthoughts

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