
I wonder...
...who will be supplying the contract(s) to update all those old legacy systems that can't be written back to?
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"They need to take a supply of Aberdeen rowies (aka butteries). They were developed back when fishing fleets could be away for weeks - bread rolls so full of fat and salt that nothing could live on them (and so make them inedible). Not necessarily the healthiest food but OK as part of an otherwise good diet."
"The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot."
There's a key word here being used that underpins everything.
Public.
The assumption that the platform is public is only reinforced by the fact that members of the public can use it. This does not mean that the platform itself is public.
Twitter X is a company, not a public platform. His Muskiness can do whatever he likes with it. And this is what everyone has woken up to.
I have to say as a Pratchett fan, reading your post footnotes was extremely gratifying!
Maybe try adding a little something1 for a bit of sizzle2?
1 - A well placed superscript does wonders for the soul
2 - As any street-based hot snack purveyor understands, in order to sell the sausage, you have to sell the sizzle first3
3 - Sausage-in-a-bun, sir? Finest pig, I can assure you
"Aliens come who knows how many light years, at an unimaginable cost of energy. On arrival, the only Government that notices is the US.gov, and said aliens don't make themselves known to any others. Somehow, everybody concerned has managed to keep quiet about it since the 1940s. Today, the only people who seem to believe it are known wackjobs in Congress... and even Donald "loosest lips of the Century" Trump hasn't babbled about the news in the eightish years since he became Idiot In Chief..."
Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them, meaning that they find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.
All rather silly, really