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Ah my bad, if it's an app instead of a website, I understand how it is appropriate to use the passing of your mom as a metaphor in a blog post named "The Shit S

Ah my bad, if it's an app instead of a website, I understand how it is appropriate to use the passing of your mom as a metaphor in a blog post named "The Shit Show".

lapcat 4y ago
This feels like concern trolling. Did your mom just die a few weeks ago? The author experienced two personally traumatic events in a short period of time. Maybe your sense of "tastefulness" isn't relevant here.
- system2 4y ago
  One is business, the other one is family life. His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. Why would anyone involve their mother's death in an Elon Musk post?
  - lapcat 4y ago
    > His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. This is absurd. His business decision worked for 16 years, which is longer than many jobs or even companies last. The point is that the new owner of Twitter has no respect for the people who contributed to the platform over the years. Twitter won't even announce that they've shut down the 3rd party API. How cowardly is that?
    - system2 4y ago
      How is that absurd? His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. I think investing in social media platform APIs is risky because they keep changing their business models and policies.
      - lapcat 4y ago
        > His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. This is also absurd. If the app is so pointless, then why did so many people buy it?
      - kanbara 4y ago
        twitterific and tweetbot were amazing polished UIs that made twitter better, before twitter even had a first party app. and twitterific coined tonnes of metaphors and UI that twitter uses to this day. if you don't know the history of the third-party twitter clients, maybe don't make stuff up about how useless they are
        system2 4y ago
        You sound hurt. Please take a break from online.
vore 4y ago
Do you think it's appropriate to tell others how to grieve? Should they only be allowed to grieve by your standards? If the author thinks it's appropriate to draw a parallel between the two, it's not your place to tell them otherwise. It's not you losing your passion project, and it's not you losing your mother.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago
  The first sentence of my first comment was literally "I guess everyone griefs differently". But apparently we're not allowed to express our opinion anymore?
  - lapcat 4y ago
    > The first sentence of my first comment was literally "I guess everyone griefs differently". How is this comment even meaningful if you don't support the article author's own way of grieving? > But apparently we're not allowed to express our opinion anymore? This is ironic when you consider the article author's expression of his opinion to be "particularly distasteful". You're not even disagreeing on substantive points, you just seem to think it was wrong of him to express his opinion in the way that he did. Nothing more than tone policing.

Ah my bad, if it's an app instead of a website, I understand how it is appropriate to use the passing of your mom as a metaphor in a blog post named "The Shit Show".

lapcat 4y ago

This feels like concern trolling. Did your mom just die a few weeks ago? The author experienced two personally traumatic events in a short period of time. Maybe your sense of "tastefulness" isn't relevant here.

system2 4y ago
One is business, the other one is family life. His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. Why would anyone involve their mother's death in an Elon Musk post?
- lapcat 4y ago
  > His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. This is absurd. His business decision worked for 16 years, which is longer than many jobs or even companies last. The point is that the new owner of Twitter has no respect for the people who contributed to the platform over the years. Twitter won't even announce that they've shut down the 3rd party API. How cowardly is that?
  - system2 4y ago
    How is that absurd? His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. I think investing in social media platform APIs is risky because they keep changing their business models and policies.
    - lapcat 4y ago
      > His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. This is also absurd. If the app is so pointless, then why did so many people buy it?
    - kanbara 4y ago
      twitterific and tweetbot were amazing polished UIs that made twitter better, before twitter even had a first party app. and twitterific coined tonnes of metaphors and UI that twitter uses to this day. if you don't know the history of the third-party twitter clients, maybe don't make stuff up about how useless they are
      - system2 4y ago
        You sound hurt. Please take a break from online.

vore 4y ago

Do you think it's appropriate to tell others how to grieve? Should they only be allowed to grieve by your standards? If the author thinks it's appropriate to draw a parallel between the two, it's not your place to tell them otherwise. It's not you losing your passion project, and it's not you losing your mother.

iLoveOncall 4y ago
The first sentence of my first comment was literally "I guess everyone griefs differently". But apparently we're not allowed to express our opinion anymore?
- lapcat 4y ago
  > The first sentence of my first comment was literally "I guess everyone griefs differently". How is this comment even meaningful if you don't support the article author's own way of grieving? > But apparently we're not allowed to express our opinion anymore? This is ironic when you consider the article author's expression of his opinion to be "particularly distasteful". You're not even disagreeing on substantive points, you just seem to think it was wrong of him to express his opinion in the way that he did. Nothing more than tone policing.