Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@ajbobo @lauren Interesting. I've never explored the problem.

@ajbobo @lauren One of the things discussed in this long thread was scraping everything without using Twitter's API at all. Although that could be detected and rate-limited too.

@peachfront Maybe the gator attracts flies that the birds are interested in.

@lauren Bummer. ;-)

@lauren Did you get in on the action?

Why I Hate Winter

* Black / clear ice on the streets and sidewalks
* Frigid air with high winds
* Increased frequency of colds and other diseases
* Having to generate lots of CO2 just to stay alive
* Dry skin and chapped lips unless I humidify which requires still more energy
* Washing three times as much laundry as in summer
* Near constant discomfort
* Doing anything requires more motivation than in summer
* Work on outdoor projects is on hold for months
* The dog can't enjoy sunning herself on the back porch

Kids and teens enjoy winter because their world is in an unusual state so it's interesting and fun. Bundling up and braving the slippery walk only to find your car covered with clear ice and the doors frozen shut is fun and amusing to a child. It's not amusing to an adult.

#rant #winter

@mapache_tico Florida?

@lauren @admin Yeah, there's a difference between search engines displaying snippets and making all of the scraped data available.

@wdlindsy Our institutions are composed of people and enough of those people in key positions have lost faith in our form of government, lost their loyalty, and can be compromised by hostile foreign actors.

@lauren @admin Akshually, it's rarely the top result, but it's on the first page. ;-) No complaints and ads are okay with me.

@notpike It might not be broken at all.

@lauren @admin Well, the two concerns are not mutually exclusive.

@lauren @admin Yeah. I don't mind ads. Ads are inescapable on a commercial Internet. What I don't like is being creeped out by ads for work gloves appearing everywhere I go because last night I bought a pair of work gloves on Amazon.

@lauren @admin I don't block ads, I block trackers. So I see lots of ads, probably 99 percent of ads get through, minus their trackers. Once in a while there will be a tracker, usually Facebook, where the ad and tracker cannot be separated and then I see a notice telling me why the ad was blocked.

@lauren What's to stop someone from setting up a service that gives access to the API for free or a tiny fee?

@mgrass That right there is the best medicine for the common cold, in my opinion.