There’s a difference between “win without even trying” and “barely holding up”

To a certain extent yes, but at least on most social you at least follow single creators you enjoy, and you are usually presented with a lost of content they made so you choose. With tik tok you are served a random video and the algorithm chooses the next one, I don’t even know if when finished to see a video you can get a list of reccommended of you are served one only. It’s just a differenr structure.

Tik Tok, mostly because it represent “fast entertainment” and is the epitome of “the algorithm chooses for you” which is what I despise the most. Now everythink tries to be like it because it’s famous, and everythink is more shitty.

Also, how many pizza parties are you getting that are worth a raise? If you consider a 1000$ raise per year, which is I guess nothing on a US salary, it’s like 50 pizzas. If you eat two whole pizzas at every single pizza party, that would be almost two parties per month. Is that a realistic amount of parties?

Sounds like a relatively confrting description for death

Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or “trust me bro” level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it’s people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I’m of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000’s, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010’s and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

Remeber when facebook was about “connecting with old friends” and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was “broadcast yourself” and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because “more future customers pay for the present ones”

I’ve only seen Legal Eagle’s highly edited reaction to the first episode, but holy hell from the little I saw I never want to see any.

Bad writing, well above the level of suspension of disbelief, totally stupid scenarios that come straight out of a 7 years-old idea of what’s like being a lawyer. Like I get it, nobody expects perfect realism from a tv show, but you don’t need to be a practicing laywer to feel the writers are pretending you are stupid and try and write scenes thay thought as fake arguments under the shower.

And the characters are these obnoxious alpha-male machos that try and fuck over each other and desperately try to not seem weak in front of others. Maybe this show is so meta to ridiculize the current 21st century man that it goes all around, who knows.

IQ does not measure intelligence, it measures different fields of intellect, mostly about logic, language comprehension and memory. It doesn’t measure intelligence per se, but if you have a low score <70, you can be sure your life is going to be impacted negatively in some way, either because you don’t understand other people, you don’t understand the world or you cannot chain together complex logical chains.

I used modern gnome and I seriously don’t understand how it’s “more modern”, most changes feel a downgrade, I cannot divide apps by categories anymore, I only have a big menu that takes all my screen and shows me like 15 apps at a time, unlike “traditional” desktop apps I can control with Alt+Some keys I have the same toolbar filled with burger menus and icons with no text so difficult to use, gnome file manager is objectively inferior in features to Nemo, and don’t get me started on the desktop, when you click an application icon on the application bar it doesn’t even minimize like on every other desktop interface.

Either ubuntu ships a broken version of gnome or it just sucks, and there are also all kind of management issues that make development very inefficient.

Global warming is not about producing more energy, it’s about burning fossil fuels instead of clean energy (renewables, nuclear…) and about wasting energy.

But it’s not as easy, technically everytime you use your car you become “part of the problem”, or everytime you buy some useless single-use crap from temu, but I think it’s unfair to blame yourself for it. The system allows and encourages wastes and “problematic behaviour” because it’s either more profitable (see bigger cars in the US) or changing is more difficult and politically inconvenient.

As far as I know Mint and Fedora have the same choice of Desktop Environment more or less, I’m really curious to know what you refer to when you say “modeen interface”

Especially since they technically exploited a bug in my own code.

Yeah that’s called an intrusion, hackers do that and it’s illegal. If you accidentaly leave you house door unlocked is it your fault if someone trashes your house?

Report them, no damage was done and it’s a relatively minor thing so I wouldn’t expect grave consequences, but maybe this person will be more more responsible in the future.

We sometimes think of our memory as an hard drive we can read files from with an index, that’s really not true, our memory resembles Content-Addressible Memory, where the data itself (of at least something similar to) is the key to unlock the data. You recall a piece of memory only when you are epxeriencing something similar. This also explain the “unlocked memories” of things you did in the past you completely forget until you find an object related to it.

The mind is fucking weird.

Please elaborate, I don’t remeber this wtf

If a password is centrally assigned and managed it is not a safe passqword, regardless of other security measures

Ok who says that a straight male should be attracted to female gender? Sexual attraction is physical (to most people) so a straight male od attracted to people with female primary (vulva) and secondary (boobs, ass, etc…) sexual characteristics. Just because a biological male with male sexual organs and a male-presenting body identifies as female, and a straight male ks not attracted to her it’s not disrespectful, fetishizing, transphobe, “super straight”, it’s just straight. In the same way as a generally straight man will likely not be attracted to a female transgender person who did hormome therapy and looks like a female but didn’t do the surgigal operation to transform her male genitalia in female genitalia, as straight male will probably not be attracted to a “woman with a penis” and that’s perfectly ok

Overturism can and usually is a cost and a nuisance for a popular city, especially when there are just too many tourists. Usually the price is quite low (a few € per day, much less than you would spend on accomodation or food), and it’s limited to the most crowded spots in the most popular time of year, and it’s just enough to discourage a little number of people

Unfortunately that doesn’t always work. For example on linux there are not high-quality DRMs available so streaming platforms are stuck at 480p/720p, forget your 4k

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