eric @ ericisshort @lemmy.world

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Almost no one out there is supporting Hamas, and if you unilaterally support Israel, you are anti-Palestinian. The fact that you think fighting Hamas includes indiscriminately bombing civilians shows you are in support of the ongoing genocide of an ethnic minority. And to call yourself a minority to try to gain sympathy is pathetic at best. The KKK is also a minority, so by your logic, we should all try to sympathize with their plight.

Yes, my point was that you can use it. I know because I did use it, and the quote was there to back up my experience.

I was never assuming any anus touched a seat. I was only talking about cheeks.

That’s not usually the reason companies deliberately destroy inventory, and this has nothing to do with insurance. It’s a write-off, meaning they write the loss off on their taxes.

Retailers destroy inventory all the time, but it’s almost always to artificially keep scarcity high. Adidas would not be concerned with scarcity on these products because they have no intention to sell them in the future and are not interested in retaining the Yeezy brand.

Why would you assume that?

There’s nothing in the article that says they will be destroyed, just “written off,” and adidas execs already said that giving them away was one option they are considering with the last batch of Yeezys before they decided selling them and giving proceeds away to charity was the better option.

You obviously haven’t looked at the sales and resell value for the last round of Yeezys if you think any of these will be worth $300 let alone $3k on the resale market. Some vendors had to return part of their stock to Adidas because no one wanted them.

I can completely understand that conclusion. It’s the first and last piece of art that I’ve literally shit on, and it felt weird doing it. It also made me contemplate why toilet seats are the only item in the world that we are ok touching with our skin after many strangers’ bare asses have touched it.

Assuming you’re not joking, that would not work to break even. It would decrease their output and therefore the amount they can charge their clients, so they would have less income to pay their workers. They most probable way that they’ll try to break even is to push their workers for higher output to offset the higher labor costs.

I imagine they sleep pretty well considering people with no moral compass rarely lose sleep over their misdeeds.

When I was there, there was a short line to use it, so after I learned it was a special toilet, I just got in line. I try not to poop in public toilets as a rule, but this seemed like the ideal exception to make.

E: also, it’s a real shame that you weren’t allowed to use it, as use was the primary intention of the artist. I googled it to make sure I wasn’t misremembering…

From the Guggenheim’s website:

Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately, allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art.

I recognize that toilet! No joke, I pooped in it when it was installed in the NYC Guggenheim (where this article’s photo was taken).

You’d think as an oppressed minority in the world, you’d be more outraged at Israel for their continued oppression of Palestinians. I know plenty of other Jews that feel this way.

Yep, here is a link to the monologue.

It’s a useless feature that almost no one uses that everyone keeps adding to their product when they are all out of ideas.

While collecting more data is better, it is also more time consuming. And honestly who checks more than the last dozen comments when looking at a user? I would always do that in addition to looking at the score. Now I only look at the last comments and therefore have less data on which to draw a conclusion.

No. Currently it only shows you the post and comment count.

Example:

Posts = 3
Comments = 10

In some instances/apps, it used to show you a score of your total upvotes for those posts and comments. So if you had 3 posts that each net 7 upvotes and 10 comments that each net 5 upvotes, your score would be:

Posts = 21
Comments = 50

The entire score has been removed, so you can rejoice.

I really think you are grossly oversimplifying the problem.

When I click on any user’s profile, I’m seeing content from a lot of posts that my app instance hasn’t seen before. Each user follows different communities and accesses the app at different times, so each user’s instance will only have data on the posts that they have clicked through when they are browsing. The score calculation that you are suggesting would vary wildly depending on how much overlap you’ve had with that user previously. 5 or 6 posts out of hundreds or thousands would not be enough to consistently see a valid trend.