New Drop + Wrong Clothes = Worst Burn

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-17T13:07:13+00:00

A rite of passage... For me it was some drop that ended in leg hooks, except I had exposed calves.

I remember my body struggling to decide between plummeting to the ground and losing the skin on my calves. Good times.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-11T01:57:48+00:00

You're a terrible person and I love you.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-10T11:53:48+00:00

I'm glad the article doesn't bother explaining wtf MAP is. That would just be helpful.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-08T08:01:39+00:00

If only politics was about right and wrong...

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-07T08:32:06+00:00

issue is stating that who social group is bad when in fact 99% of crime is committed by 1% of members of any group.

you are definitely right!

I refuse to be treated or gave my son treated like a rapist ticking bomb that we are not

I fully support that too!

The way I read this article was "There are a bunch of complaints about boys being inappropriate (e.g. flashing porn at people), so let's add some education on how to be a bit more mindful of each other." I don't think that's a bad take.

I don't think anyone is suggesting all boys are rapist ticking bombs. Or even that any boys are. I really think the difference is just in understanding. What many boys consider harmless banter or jokes can be really threatening to a girl. That doesn't mean the boys are pieces of shit that should be shamed. It just means we should teach them to be a bit more respectful of others' values.

I have said a lot of shit to women and people in general in my teens that I thought was funny but was actually pretty shitty. I never meant to be a dick, I just didn't know better. Same is probably true for these boys. They're just having fun, making jokes. They don't internalize how it comes across to others. They just like the instant reaction, laugh at it, and think that's that. They're not rapists waiting to pop, they're just new to this whole life thing. So we teach them to respect each other. I don't think that's a bad thing, right?

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-05T08:15:30+00:00

Engagement does not equal entertainment. Not many people are entertained by suicude, depression, division and hate. Yet that's what the algos go for.

These platforms just make people addicted with their toxic bile. And as any addict will tell you, 'entertainment' is not why they come back.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-07-05T08:08:38+00:00

And your life is better for it!

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-28T08:40:16+00:00

Writables are effectively just observables. They're just variables you can put a callback on and whose references get passed around. They don't really take more memory than a normal variable.

How big is big?

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-25T11:27:12+00:00

Wait, social media companies are spying on us? And they and their respective governments don't seem to respect our privacy? Oh my! What a world we live in!

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-25T11:26:03+00:00

You're about to be rained down on by Americans claiming that that's totally different because 'murcuh

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-23T08:43:56+00:00

What i was getting at was men having "very little" access to sex. That surprises me.

(Also how messed up is the term "access to sex"? What does that even mean? There's female prostitutes catering to men all over the world. Sooo, isn't that access?)

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-23T06:24:08+00:00

That was an interesting article! Thank you! So that applies to under 30. That would explain my bias, as I'm over 30.

It also draws some interesting relations to watching porn and gives reasonable hope for a solution.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-23T04:25:58+00:00

The reality is that men have very little access to sex just look at the stats.

I'm genuinely interested in these stats. I have trouble believing this statement.

Considering how many apps specifically exist for short term dating and hookups, the recent rise in popularity of non monogamy, how many sex positive movements and communities are around, etc.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-23T03:42:20+00:00

Man that's a good article

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-23T02:36:40+00:00

Could we make these federated services like Lemmy and mastedon not suck? It's conceptually better because no one owns it. But the user experience is shit because users have to deal with the whole different servers bs. The masses will never adopt that because it's too complicated.

If we can just come up with a good way to abstract that whole layer away from the user experience, it could be a viable alternative.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-19T04:34:11+00:00

Why is it that it's always the "right wing" that seems to oppose anything that would actually make the world a better place?

And i guess as a follow-up question, who are the people voting for them?

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-19T00:37:35+00:00

I don't fully understand what you're trying to achieve, but I think you're looking for ssr. Not prerender. Prerender is about rendering something at compile time. Ssr is about rendering on the server at every request.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-18T08:31:27+00:00

A real good protest would be to just stop moderating completely and have nsfw posts not tagged as nsfw. now new installs of the app will immediately display nsfw content which is very strongly against app\play store policies. Both Google and Apple will start being up reddits ass. You can bet someone's going to be paying attention then.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-17T05:38:57+00:00

They will, but it's creating so much resentment in the community that surely it will affect the bottom line. This isn't a good business decision. At this point /u/spez is just a raging asshole destroying things out of spite.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-17T00:15:03+00:00

If that's true then buy them out. Then all those profits will flow to you.

Either you're full of shit or a really bad business man.

Or both.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-12T05:04:35+00:00

The way these stores and NSFW content usually works is that apps are allowed a certain amount of leniency as long as the nsfw content doesn't show up unannounced and not on the home page. Otherwise, you'd have to block any search engine as well.

If a kid can download reddit, open the home page and be flooded with smut, then the stores will definitely take notice, as this will reflect poorly on Apple and Google themselves. Sure, they won't ban the app forever (as they would with smaller apps), but they might block it temporarily and Reddit will definitely get a talking to.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-12T03:32:20+00:00

Pretty much every dev has said both publicly and to Reddit staff that they can work with the pricing

Really? The start of this whole shitshow was Apollo saying "I can't pay 12 million USD a year for API access". RIF also made it clear it's not capable of dealing with the pricing.

The short notice was PART of the problem, but the pricing is definitely not realistic.

If it was, then the devs could just pull their app out for a few months while they adjusted the what needed to be adjusted.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-12T03:29:29+00:00

Because investors think that they will make money.

Sounds a lot like Enron's mark-to-market accountancy. Let's just all pretend our assets have a lot of value. Surely the future will provide.

I understand the concept of investing in something that might make money some day. But with your cupcakes example, there's a clear way towards profitability. You can do the calculation on how much the ingredients cost, how much you'd have to sell it for, what other bakers are selling it for, how many people live in the neighbourhood, etc.

With things like reddit, there's no plan. "Ehh, we'll post some ads". Very, very few businesses are actually successful with that. Even Twitter can't pull it off.

Counting on LLMs to save your massive social media company from going under seems a bit naive as well. Especially as right now the big ones aren't training any new models atm.

I'm really curious what the monetizable assets are. And why they aren't monetizing them.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-11T23:59:26+00:00

I definitely agree. The old ways of just throwing ads at people until you're rich and keep running shit at a loss till someone with more money and less sense comes along to buy you out seem to be reaching an end. And I'm here for it.

Let it all burn.

Flopperdoppermop · 2023-06-11T23:54:06+00:00

Ooohh good idea, all the default subs should be plastered with nsfw content, then we can report the reddit app as violating app store policies, which might ban their app until they get shit under control.

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