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What is the point of this website? I see it often but doesn't Twitter and Nitter etc automatically provide this functionality? Genuine question.
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27 years since the Financial Times killed one of England’s finest poets
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#32that sounds like very much the way I'd like to go.
The only way I'd like to go is not to go at all. Death scares the hell out of me and living forever is the only acceptable choice.
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#33Threaded: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584116278150602752.html >
What is the point of this website? I see it often but doesn't Twitter and Nitter etc automatically provide this functionality? Genuine question.
Twitter throws up multiple dark patterns for me and tends strongly to unreadable/inaccessible at best.
Threadreader presents just the thread, formatted for easy reading, without all the additional Twitter crud. The experience with Threadreader is vastly superior in my experience.
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> drank himself to death Having a boozy lunch at 79 years old and happening to die that night isn't "Drinking yourself to death". It's called enjoying your last few years on earth.
Personally I think of alcohol as liquid heroin, but I also don't care if people want to use heroin, so I guess aging heroin addicts are also enjoying their last few years on earth. Most people who drink don't care much for that comparison for some reason, however.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> drank himself to death Having a boozy lunch at 79 years old and happening to die that night isn't "Drinking yourself to death". It's called enjoying your last few years on earth.
Personally I think of alcohol as liquid heroin, but I also don't care if people want to use heroin, so I guess aging heroin addicts are also enjoying their last few years on earth. Most people who drink don't care much for that comparison for some reason, however.
if you lived in the UK/Ire and see how much normal people drink perhaps you'd see its pshysiological effects compared with habitual heron use aren't exactly comparable
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> drank himself to death Having a boozy lunch at 79 years old and happening to die that night isn't "Drinking yourself to death". It's called enjoying your last few years on earth.
Personally I think of alcohol as liquid heroin, but I also don't care if people want to use heroin, so I guess aging heroin addicts are also enjoying their last few years on earth. Most people who drink don't care much for that comparison for some reason, however.
You are indeed free to make whatever wrong comparison you like. The people I knew who used heroin are all dead. Almost everyone else I know drinks at least a small amount every day and is not.
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#37Why does the article open with speculating that it might be the most expensive lunch ever. It even ends the first paragraph making it clear that it means expensive as in "final bill to the restaurant" and not a broader "loss to humanity". And what does the fact that menus weren't printed until 2003 have to do with discerning if this was an expensive bill or not?
Contemporary "Lunch with the FT" columns show exactly what items were ordered and the total cost in a little summary box (including cost of the various items, like a restaurant bill). This format did not take hold until 2003, according to the linked Twitter posts, so there is no way to discern from the 1995 column how much was spent.
The linked posts indicate that the FT recently checked with the its accounting department but could not quickly find the record for a lunch more than 25 years ago.
It would have been clearer if the posts/FT said "menus and prices were not printed until 2003" instead of "menus were not printed until 2003", but perhaps this was seen as redundant as most menus include prices.
(Updated and corrected once I re-read the original thread. This is much simpler to answer than I first thought!)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> drank himself to death Having a boozy lunch at 79 years old and happening to die that night isn't "Drinking yourself to death". It's called enjoying your last few years on earth.
Personally I think of alcohol as liquid heroin, but I also don't care if people want to use heroin, so I guess aging heroin addicts are also enjoying their last few years on earth. Most people who drink don't care much for that comparison for some reason, however.
Maybe go to a pub a few times, you might lighten up and understand why it's been a foundational part of civilization.
Some time in Europe or Asia might open your eyes a bit.
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It does and it doesn't: first, twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in; and second, it groups the posts together into something you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear.
>twitter often only lets you see the first few posts if you are not logged in that would be a reason, but I've never personally encountered it. I see full threads even when logged out. >you can read without distracting interspersed comments, like the forum posts of yesteryear. I've never encountered interspersed comments on Twitter threads. they're visible the way they're visible in the thread reader website, one aft…
I don't need to see an avatar, date and username above each sentence of a blog post. Twitter monologue threads are dumb, the whole premise of the service is to write under 280 characters (used to be 140).