Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Hey #SoftwareEngineers, listen up, this is important.

If you create an "endless scroll" UI for content that is not endless, and you don't include "jump to top/bottom" buttons, you're going immediately to hell after you die.

This is an easy sin to avoid. Fix your shit.

Boy, the way Mastodon is reacting, you'd think they'd never heard of a double-standard before in their lives. #uspol

@JasonPerseus Agreed. More responsible adults should shoulder such a burden. We may not always be able to wait for someone else to save us.

@tehuti88 Who "told [you] to just take Trump's word for literally everything"? They sound like an idiot.

It's a good ad, but he needs to do this kind of thing live on national TV.

#uspol

https://youtube.com/watch?v=U-XXfex0_3Q&si=Pk9zDGY_LEHUmKFe

@Waitnwallflower We really learned nothing from Hillary, huh?

@Waitnwallflower Link here: https://journa.host/@w7voa/112723867026507486

@Waitnwallflower I mean, you could look at the new poll today that shows Trump up 6 points after the debate.

Those aren't democrats defecting.

@Waitnwallflower I agree, but probably not in the way you were thinking.

@Waitnwallflower That's just not how the middle of the country sees it. And we need them to win.

@Waitnwallflower Of course he is. But he doesn't need to GOTV in the middle. He just needs to depress turnout enough that the slanted nature of the electoral college delivers him a victory.
Moreover, against all odds he managed to be much more coherent than Biden during the debate.
This is a serious danger, not something we can just "vote harder" to get past.

@Waitnwallflower That would be an uphill battle with a functioning candidate. With a faltering one, it's quixotic.

@n8 I strongly disagree with that assessment.

The very fact that anyone would still want to search it is proof that it drives traffic to Musk's site. For a site that lives on attracting eyeballs to user content, the idea that deleting user content wouldn't have a negative effect on the platform is ludicrous.

You may find it disappointing that people don't want to host their content on a site that enriches a shitty human being, but maybe you should blame the shitty human being for that, not the decent people who are rebuking him.

@Waitnwallflower Why? We don't think he can take us past the finish line, so we're appealing to his better nature to pass the torch to someone who can beat Trump.

It's either that or just sit back and watch Trump kick Biden's declining ass.

@Waitnwallflower The problem isn't that liberals are considering voting for Trump because Biden sucked at the debate.

The problem is that Biden's inability to articulate his positions could cause him to fail to GOTV from the middle and lead to a Trump presidency.

We're not criticizing him because we're considering switching to Trump; we're criticizing him because we want to avoid a Trump presidency!

@rooster@chaosfem.tw Here's one that nobody else will probably suggest:

Shadow Complex