October 15th, 2022
- there's a motte-bailey here, and it's not pretty tbh. the acronym IS NOT SIMPLY SHORTHAND, when used publicly (it can be in private notes) because it creates an ingroup of people who understand it
and an outgroup of people who don't want to be called it - and meanwhile I've heard from various people, publicly and privately, that they don't want to be affiliated with "tpot"
- ....
.... - this is a situation where "this part of twitter" would be WAY better, because then in some sense "this part of twitter" ends up being *defined* by being the part of twitter where this is true (same as lemon's tweet about courtesy likes!)
- (could also just literally use "twitter" here although it is more true around these parts)
- I started drafting this reply but didn't send it
- I'd say that this is what people are doing on all of twitter, it's just that in other regions people are bad at thinking & modularity
- > A bald-headed bearded stranger stopped in town and went into an small old hotel to check in. He asked to go check out the rooms first so, in good faith, he left a $100 bill—a deposit of sorts—with the hotel owner. The hotel owner immediately ran next door to pay his grocery bill. The grocer ran it across the street to pay one of his suppliers. The supplier used it to pay off his co-op bill. The co-op guy ran it back across the street to pay the local hooker who had taken up residence in the aforementioned hotel. The hooker ran it downstairs to pay her hotel bill just ahead of the returning traveler, who picked the $100 bill off the desk and left saying that the rooms were not satisfactory.
- (I've also heard a version of this where the $100 turns out to be counterfeit)