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  • It wasn’t about video length, it was about the Twitter leadership at that time being categorically incapable of monetizing any of their products.

    Combine that with the orders-of-magnitude higher cost of running Vine compared to the bird, and it was always either going to be sold off or shut down.

    It’s easy to forget that this was back in the time when these companies thought they were changing the planet for the better and drinking their own Kool aid by the gallon.













  • The original comment I replied to made a definition of evolutionary success and I made a counter-definition. I’m not sure what conversation that you’re referring to before that. There was only one other comment above it in the chain and it had little do with defining the evolutionary success of chickens or what that might entail.

    If you’re perceiving an agenda where there is none while also not understanding the point being made then, not to be rude, but thats a comprehension issue.

    It’s possible I’m explaining it poorly, but I’ve run out of ways to approach this so I can’t offer you anything more.


  • You’re implying that I’m making a case for evolution achieving some sort of perfection, and linking that to a definition of success, which, again, isn’t what I said.

    If you can’t have an honest conversation about it then I’m not interested. I don’t doubt that you understand evolution, you’ve said enough to demonstrate that, but you certainly do not understand the point I’m making.

    And billions was an autocorrect.


  • Then call it reproductive success instead of dishonestly causing it evolutionary success. And I didn’t state that evolution requires or doesn’t require anything, you brought that up - we’re talking about whether it’s considered successful, which is a philosophical question.

    Artificial selection is not a reflection of a species’ ability to survive in the natural world and to me that is not an example of success over the longer, think-billions-of-years, term.