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I have a confession to make - while you're out doing dad and boyfriend things, and being a wonderful part of society, I study, do my homework, read into this shit like a desperate housewife clinging to tabloids. Good on you pal. 
lol I also came back to say that your name and "Aeron" sound the same and you should've just gotten that.
I looked in to what you said a bit more about an authorized dealer vs HM themselves. The HM subreddit says the same too. The Aeron I specced out for my dad was $1600 but I figured it was an investment in his comfort for the next decade, at least, but people are saying they go similar discounts like you did.
I feel it's going to add some time (some chairs take 5+ months) but it might be worth it if it's just 4-8 weeks to get it for several hundred cheaper. It turns out DWR is basically a simp for HM so their prices mirror HM's website but only HM's website offers the 30 day return. DWR and other authorized dealers do not have a return policy at all so that could be risky if something isn't what we expected.
I have 4 designers in the Chicago area that are HM authorized so I'll send some emails out and see if they can order two chairs for a decent discount. Otherwise I'll just get it from HM and be done with it. I'm really hoping the wait time isn't 4+ months like the HM website says for the more expensive chairs. Brushed aluminum bases alone seem to add 4 weeks to the shipping time.
Elizabeth Holmes should buy Facebook, with everyone else's money.
Twitter saw mass deactivations and huge fluctuations in follower numbers for some of the platform’s highest-profile users in the days after Musk for men agreed to a takeover deal. People like Obama and Katy Perry lost hundreds of thousands of followers, while right-wing nut-jobs gained. Yet it'll take about a year for the deal to be finalized and Musk can make any changes. Meanwhile, Tesla shares have sunk, wiping out $125 billion in value.
I don't know if a less stringent policy on abuse is going to change much. Everything is already being said on there now. He also wants to get rid of spam bots as much as possible, which might be a good thing. We'll see. There's more important bad things coming to worry about than Twitter
Twitter saw mass deactivations and huge fluctuations in follower numbers for some of the platform’s highest-profile users in the days after Musk for men agreed to a takeover deal. People like Obama and Katy Perry lost hundreds of thousands of followers, while right-wing nut-jobs gained. Yet it'll take about a year for the deal to be finalized and Musk can make any changes. Meanwhile, Tesla shares have sunk, wiping out $125 billion in value.
I don't know if a less stringent policy on abuse is going to change much. Everything is already being said on there now. He also wants to get rid of spam bots as much as possible, which might be a good thing. We'll see. There's more important bad things coming to worry about than Twitter
No. It's brain fog snowflakes or lying gatekeepers. The rest of us don't care what Tweeter does.
The dude wants to build factories on mars. I repeat, Musk wants to build factories on mars.
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Notable Twitter Suspensions
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades - Unspecified but likely connected to Hamas's classification in the US and elsewhere as a terrorist organization.
Jack Dorsey - After restoring his account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an "internal mistake".
Al Jazeera Arabic - Unkown
Joseph Cox - Targeted by bots after writing story about suspicious activity by pro-Kremlin bots
@nemuismywife - Account permanently suspended for making a death threat towards a dead mosquito.
Alex Boivin - Suspended for sexual harassment of the cereal mascot Tony the Tiger.
Elizabeth Johnston - Criticizing article of Teen Vogue which promoted anal sex amongst teenagers.
Robert Delaware - Mistaken for a Russian troll account.
Candace Owens - Banned in error after tweeting the content of several Sarah Jeong's controversial tweets about white people, and changing races and religions mentioned in the tweets.
Candace Owens - Banned after tweeting criticism of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order and encouraging the state's citizens to violate the directive.
Kris Paronto - Using the word retard
Dozens of Occupy movement activists - No explanation from Twitter.
Meghan Murphy - Banned for "hateful conduct" following a heated exchange which involved misgendering a transgender woman.
Correo del Orinoco - Unspecified; occurred during the 2019 Venezuela uprising
Diario VEA - Unspecified; occurred during the 2019 Venezuela uprising
@TheTweetOfGod - Tweeting, "If gay people are a mistake, they're a mistake I've made hundreds of millions of times, which proves I'm incompetent and shouldn't be relied upon for anything."
Louis Farrakhan - Banned for using "language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion"
200,000 Chinese accounts - Believed the accounts were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the (CIA) protest movement in Hong Kong.
Raúl Castro - Unspecified breach of rules.
DotDev.ae - Spreading information about Qatar and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Conservative Party of New York State - An automated spam filter had misidentified the party account as disseminating spam. Twitter undid the error on 10 September, two months after the erroneous suspension.
Donald Trump Jr. - locked for 12 hours for spreading the debunked claim that Hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19.
Dozen accounts associated with Venezuela's government and military - Unspecified.
Jack Burkman - Tweeted unevidenced claims about impending nationwide food shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic, following repeated infractions of Twitter rules, including making false statements about COVID-19.
Li-Meng Yan - Li-Meng Yan's first account permanently suspended for linking to an upload of an unpublished pre-print paper claiming SARS-CoV-2 was made in a laboratory
New York Post - Official account locked for tweeting articles alleging corruption and attempted collusion between Burisma and Joe Biden.
Many Twitter accounts who posted the word "Memphis" - Technical issues, possibly caused by an internal misconfiguration intended to prevent sharing of a private address.
Naomi Wolf - Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Nation of Islam - Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Alex Berenson - Banned for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation policy
Nicki Minaj - Minaj claimed to be suspended for spreading misinformation about COVID-19, however, this claim was disputed by Twitter.
Jim Banks - Temporarily suspended for misgendering assistant secretary of health Rachel Levine.
Robert W. Malone - Banned for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation policy.
Ali Khamenei - Permanently suspended after releasing an animation targeting former US President Donald Trump in revenge for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
The dude wants to build factories on mars. I repeat, Musk wants to build factories on mars.
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Notable Twitter Suspensions
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades - Unspecified but likely connected to Hamas's classification in the US and elsewhere as a terrorist organization.
Jack Dorsey - After restoring his account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an "internal mistake".
Al Jazeera Arabic - Unkown
Joseph Cox - Targeted by bots after writing story about suspicious activity by pro-Kremlin bots
@nemuismywife - Account permanently suspended for making a death threat towards a dead mosquito.
Alex Boivin - Suspended for sexual harassment of the cereal mascot Tony the Tiger.
Elizabeth Johnston - Criticizing article of Teen Vogue which promoted anal sex amongst teenagers.
Robert Delaware - Mistaken for a Russian troll account.
Candace Owens - Banned in error after tweeting the content of several Sarah Jeong's controversial tweets about white people, and changing races and religions mentioned in the tweets.
Candace Owens - Banned after tweeting criticism of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order and encouraging the state's citizens to violate the directive.
Kris Paronto - Using the word retard
Dozens of Occupy movement activists - No explanation from Twitter.
Meghan Murphy - Banned for "hateful conduct" following a heated exchange which involved misgendering a transgender woman.
Correo del Orinoco - Unspecified; occurred during the 2019 Venezuela uprising
Diario VEA - Unspecified; occurred during the 2019 Venezuela uprising
@TheTweetOfGod - Tweeting, "If gay people are a mistake, they're a mistake I've made hundreds of millions of times, which proves I'm incompetent and shouldn't be relied upon for anything."
Louis Farrakhan - Banned for using "language that dehumanizes others on the basis of religion"
200,000 Chinese accounts - Believed the accounts were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the (CIA) protest movement in Hong Kong.
Raúl Castro - Unspecified breach of rules.
DotDev.ae - Spreading information about Qatar and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Conservative Party of New York State - An automated spam filter had misidentified the party account as disseminating spam. Twitter undid the error on 10 September, two months after the erroneous suspension.
Donald Trump Jr. - locked for 12 hours for spreading the debunked claim that Hydroxychloroquine can prevent COVID-19.
Dozen accounts associated with Venezuela's government and military - Unspecified.
Jack Burkman - Tweeted unevidenced claims about impending nationwide food shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic, following repeated infractions of Twitter rules, including making false statements about COVID-19.
Li-Meng Yan - Li-Meng Yan's first account permanently suspended for linking to an upload of an unpublished pre-print paper claiming SARS-CoV-2 was made in a laboratory
New York Post - Official account locked for tweeting articles alleging corruption and attempted collusion between Burisma and Joe Biden.
Many Twitter accounts who posted the word "Memphis" - Technical issues, possibly caused by an internal misconfiguration intended to prevent sharing of a private address.
Naomi Wolf - Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Nation of Islam - Spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Alex Berenson - Banned for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation policy
Nicki Minaj - Minaj claimed to be suspended for spreading misinformation about COVID-19, however, this claim was disputed by Twitter.
Jim Banks - Temporarily suspended for misgendering assistant secretary of health Rachel Levine.
Robert W. Malone - Banned for repeatedly violating Twitter's COVID-19 misinformation policy.
Ali Khamenei - Permanently suspended after releasing an animation targeting former US President Donald Trump in revenge for the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
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I smell US intelligence cooked in Mossad. It wouldn't make any difference to me if Musk shuts down the operation.
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CIA Funding Companies that Specialize in Social Media Spying
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ding-companies-specialize-social-media-spying
In-Q-Tel: The Central Intelligence Agency as Venture Capitalist
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1739&context=njilb
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Is Musk going to drain the social media swamp? hahahaha NO.
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CIA Funding Companies that Specialize in Social Media Spying
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ding-companies-specialize-social-media-spying
In-Q-Tel: The Central Intelligence Agency as Venture Capitalist
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1739&context=njilb
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Is Musk going to drain the social media swamp? hahahaha NO.
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I'm still going to use Twitter. As I've mentioned many times before, I follow news of all sorts on there, be it gaming, auto, sports, or world news. It's better than Google Reader was ten years ago and it's so simple. I rarely ever read the comments and the comment section on any social media platform usually has a few good posts and then a bunch of garbage, so Twitter isn't unique in that sense. Lots of people still love to dump on Twitter for being the worst but I find that it reflects upon who they choose to follow.
I still have questions about Elon buying it and what the results will be as far as who gets to spout their nonsense and how dangerous it will be, but I still think I can box myself in with just the people I choose to follow and see no difference there.
You want to see moderation chaos? Go to Reddit. Again, I follow mostly niche subs, usually sports and tech related stuff so the comments still get to the level of cancerous but if you venture out to News or Worldnews (the former from which I was recently banned), then you can start to see the bots come out and the astroturfing.
I think we see Reddit die before we see Facebook, Twitter, etc. die. I was there when Digg died and there was a mass exodus to Reddit in 2009 or 2010. I know that crowd can easily be riled up and will make the pilgrimage to a new platform. You saw it happen with Voat and a few other sites, but on a much smaller scale.
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