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  • Price is not value. Gold is more valuable (useful) than lead, whatever the price. Clean air was cheap and valuable, now it must be created in a lab.

  • Oh. I didn't see hate like that. I hate it when my toes get wet after I've walked through a puddle. I hate clam dishes. All your mom did was resemble mine.

  • I've never met her, but I hate her. My mom is almost as bad, going to weird lengths to misunderstand.

    A conservative distro of Linux is more reliable than Windows. Debian or something. Overwrite the Windows so it can't break the boot menu. Apple I don't know about.

  • If we delete all disinfo including the canonical lunatic post I suggest, we'll push the lunatics into their echo chambers with no-one to prove them wrong, and then they'll vote wrong in elections. Somebody has to refute the russian propaganda in a place where the believers read it. My idea is a way to do it without letting disinfo flood Lemmy.

  • If the blocklist subscription isn't part of Lemmy registration procedure, a new user will see tankies and leave.

  • Let’s say every community allows one lunatic post. It’s downvoted to hell and thoroughly refuted in the comments.

    Every time someone tries to say the same thing again under a different post, the comment gets a reply “[lunatic opinion] was refuted under [lunatic post link] - you may comment there” and then the stray lunatic comment is removed. Only the reply stays to inform other lunatics. Other comments saying the same lunatic opinion again are removed, because the canonical reply linking the canonical lunatic post is already in the comments. All discussion about the lunatic opinion will be contained under the canonical lunatic post.

    Would this work?

  • And then you trampled your own human rights by privatising healthcare and legalising propaganda.

  • It is wrong that way, but the cat also likes food, warmth, and companionship.

    What would the cat choose? I tried: The cat went outside many times a day for hours at a time. Brought back some dead mice, birds, a squirrel, a rabbit, and fight wounds on himself. What did the victims think, and how to weigh their opinion in the pet equation?

  • If those skills don't overlap, you'll be half as good at each. Some jobs need a dedicated specialist.

  • Application writing is a completely different skill from application writing.

  • Enshittified public toilet

    It cheats you in through a back door, looking like an ad-covered kiosk. The main entrance is on the other side.

    In stalls, there are two screens playing ads, sound coming from the one you're facing.
    Toilet paper brands advertise on dispensers, all brands owned by the same conglomerate.
    Softest toilet paper has printed portraits of the toilet company's political enemies.

    Facial recognition measures usage, you pay at exit.
    Exiting after 5 minutes is expensive, but a monthly plan is cheaper.

  • OkCupid used to be the best for finding matching people: they crowdsourced thousands of relevant multiple choice questions from which you built your search filter: which answers you accept, how important each is to you, and a voluntary explanation. The questions and match results were factored into friendship, dating, and sex.

    Then Match Group bought it. First they let it be, but then they:

    • removed the factoring - no more looking for friends or sex, only complete packages
    • removed search - no more finding the best matches anywhere on the planet, now you just swipe like Tinder
    • removed keyword search - no more finding rare interests not included in the questions, like "furry"
    • removed the search filter - now everything has to be the same to match: both of you must have or not have tattoos for example, never mind what you like - one of my likes went from 95% to 50% match
    • deleted the voluntary explanations without warning, so no one could back theirs up
    • deleted ~95% of the match questions without warning
    • deleted all accumulated likes, which were my best matching people around the world with the maximum couple/friend/sex partner potential except location for now. I had the links saved, but they broke all of them.
    • they delete matches (mutual likes) if they haven't been messaging in a while, as if that meant they're not a match - no, we're just distant for now
    • they police inconvenient statements in the users' introductions as the political situation evolves - the day after the mass murderer CEO got shot, the section in my profile containing "fuck the healthcare system - make a better one" was deleted without sending me a copy to edit

    Avoid the whole Match Group.

    Now that I think of it, the destruction of OkCupid looks like a politically motivated attack against the minorities and intellectual power users who used to flock there.

  • Surely "banned from community" would give a message saying so?

    It says "400 Bad Request" and "JSON error: language_not_allowed" . Oh. English is not allowed in "Guns". Unselected that, and comment was posted. Why is there no message saying so to my face instead of under the table?