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This is one of those stories that’s so good that you have to double check it’s not parody.
The talk of the stock market right now involves GameStop (among other stocks) and a group of Reddit users that decided to play Wall Street’s own game against them. If you don’t understand stock trades, it can be a bit in the weeds, but the general idea is simple. A bunch of hedge fund managers shorted stock trying to make money. In response, a group of Reddit users banded together to legally buy up those stocks and squeeze the short.
Hey, at least New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is letting a few thousand people attend an upcoming Buffalo Bills playoff game but mostly because he also wants to go.
It means World War 3 only lasted 10 months so far, and the west has been nearly destroyed without one single bullet fired.
The amount of $ given to foreign governments in this bill is astounding. What a joke. No wonder why no one likes Congress https://t.co/fR7WXz7g6t
I’m not even sure what the “Asia Reassurance Initiative Act” is, but I know we shouldn’t be sending money to it during a pandemic while Americans are going bankrupt due to government shut downs. And obviously, giving $135 million to Nepal and $700 million to Sudan is not going to help your neighbor keep their business open. Congress doesn’t care though. They are going to feed their special interests and high-browed initiatives regardless.
Those changes have been rolled back. Here’s Twitter’s explanation:
After learning from this product experience, we’re sharing an update: today Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before.
Here s what we saw while we prompted Quote Tweets (1/4): https://t.co/MzoDKy3d69
Our goal with prompting QTs (instead of Retweets) was to encourage more thoughtful amplification. We don’t believe that this happened, in practice. The use of Quote Tweets increased, but 45% of them included single-word affirmations and 70% had less than 25 characters. (2/4)
The increase in Quote Tweets was also offset by an overall 20% decrease in sharing through both Retweets and Quote Tweets. Considering this, we ll no longer prompt Quote Tweets from the Retweet icon. For more details: https://t.co/Were7yWdOz (3/4)
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This is just one in a series of moves by major companies from Silicon Valley or New York to Texas or Florida.
Hewlett-Packard is moving to Houston:
Another tech giant bites the dust, moves to a more business and lifestyle friendly state.
HP is one of the reasons Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley. Steve Wozniak worked there before founding Apple. One of the anchors of the tech industry there. Now gone https://t.co/6ptrTe8Mca
Elon Musk has announced that Tesla/SpaceX will move to an, as yet, unidentified site in South Texas:
Elon Musk confirms he personally relocated to Texas from California, citing California’s regulations on tech companies https://t.co/160pGyDewvpic.twitter.com/6knu3i8tKk