I feel like stupid is consistent. Someone who is stupid will wear these glasses, and also act like the manager in this story.

Because they’re blood soaked assholes who would be facing very uncomfortable consequences if there was justice in the world.

The Republicans are not competent. That’s assuming they even care about what they talk about. They don’t live in a fact driven reality.

I don’t know. I think some things are important. Someone who loves live music and goes to see something a few nights a week would probably be happier with someone else who, all other things equal, had a similar interest. If you’re looking to pair people up in ways that won’t work long term, because you’re a company of ghouls looking to make money, then matching the music lover with the music disliker is better for your business. With enough data points, you can probably make some confident predictions.

Hinge also isn’t making you pick from dichotomies. You enter free text for most of it, and pick as many from a list as you like for others.

Oh funny I just wrote in another thread that I’m not going to buy Microsoft stuff, even though I used to be a big Diablo fan in my youth. Fuck em.

This was Hinge, which is owned by Match Group (who own okcupid and many others). It’s the least bad, I found, but that is extremely faint praise.

I used to use OKCupid way back. It used to be better. I’m pretty sure you could search. Like you could just type in “Star Trek” or “Dark Souls” and find people who had that on their profile. Nowadays you just take what the algorithm gives you.

Glad I finally am in a position where I’m not on the apps (knock on wood, etc). I was getting dates but I could always tell it was in spite of their best efforts.

And even the person I’m with now, I feel like the app algorithm thought we’d be like an 80%. On paper it doesn’t seem like it’d be a long term fit- i have a cat, she has a dog. I like a lot of metal, she likes jam bands. Lot of room for the algorithm to predict we’d have a few dates and then it wouldn’t work out.

And as someone else said, most of them are owned by Match group. Even the myths of capitalism require competition for products to be good. Match should be broken up.

Maybe I can work this fact in the next time I’m going on about how cars are bad for us

Though APD fired Eder on July 17, prosecutors officially refused to move forward with felony stalking charges in the case.

Prosecutors are part of the problem

A fine article, but maga types aren’t going to read and think about it. They just feel

Where’s that comic with the guy saying “I’ve been SILENCED” on like tv, radio, and a book tour?

The right wing are a bunch of insecure idiots who can’t grapple with the complexity of real life, and so demand everything be simplified into hierarchical in-group and out-group. They’re failures. Even dogs can figure that out.

You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.

A big problem is often lack of competition.

Anyone who knew how anything relevant worked could have predicted this. Unfortunately, most people don’t know shit about fuck, but they vote trump anyway.

No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.

I’m pretty sure local models still induce pyschosis and hallucinate. Maybe the cat’s out of the bag, but they still suck.

My job told us all to use AI more, as its own metric. I had it walk through how capitalism is unjust. Not exactly a secret but probably the ghouls in management would probably be mad.

This is important to remember. Grand juries are simple majority. No defense is present. If they don’t get an indictment it’s because they didn’t want it.

Remember that every time a right wing darling (like a cop or maga drunk) gets away without an indictment.

YouTube and other platforms are guilty for platforming this stuff, too.

This supreme court is a farce. But my understanding of history is that that’s actually the norm.

We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.