A better question is can a dating app be good?

Around 2010, every tech bro that’s creaming shorts over AI today was trying to figure out how to make money behind the fact that everyone had smartphones. But it turned out, that smartphones can’t solve every problem.

Dating I would argue, is just one of those things tech made worse. Never mind how often the damn thing fails, think about the conditions where it would function well. A dystopian world where everything is shallow and operating on incel-math.

And how could it be otherwise? Dating apps are just math people trying to solve for love. This is the plot to a comedy movie, not a business plan.

Fentanyl is so dangerous that cops can OD just by thinking about it.

What if the great filter is just when civilizations learn to live sustainably at home? Perhaps the assumption of infinite population growth, resource consumption, and expansion is flawed.

That’s my optimistic thought for the day.

several independent investigations were not able to substantiate the claims.

Tyson was investigated by National Geographic and Fox to protect the shows they were producing starring him. I suppose the Natural History Museum looked into it enough to decide not to fire their star celebrity academic.

So the investigations had massive conflicts of interest actually. And none of them had an interest in his actual guilt. An none of them were victim advocates.

The accusations against Tyson are credible and they’ve never been properly investigated.

Almost as interesting as a robot who builds a museum.

Once again, Linux is late with a feature that Microsoft not only has had for years, but is famous for.

Paying for news? lol

This is conspiratorial garbage. Like it’s so unbelievable that an American shot themselves, only happens about 40 thousand times a year.

John Barnett killed himself. So did Gary Webb. So did Jeffery Epstein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

Like almost any marginalized group, atheists get caricatured by their most vocal members.

I probably would have become atheist a decade sooner if I hadn’t associated it with the logocentric, Western chauvinist, and plain old bigots who first represented atheism to me.

There are plenty of us who aren’t obsessed with religious debates; we don’t hate religious people; and our cultural, political, and philosophical ideas are not frozen in 18^th Century Europe.

I bet that this corrupt asshole has been sniffing for counteroffers since Oliver’s show.

I’ll bet the biggest stick in his eye is not that everyone is laughing at him, it’s that he sees how cheaply he sold out.

It’s a myth that circumcision is a religious practice in the US. It was actually started by a bunch of 19^th Century health obsessed, vegetarian, noFap weirdos. It was a health fad to save your body, not your soul.

I mention the vegetarianism to emphasize that these people were progressive, it’s just that many of their ideals were garbage.

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

One of the things not addressed in this interview is how the ideology of libertarianism is central to the transition from markets to fiefdoms. All the big tech bros are huge libertarians and that’s not an accident.

And I do think this is a new phenomena unlike classic capitalism. Marx thought that a post-scarcity society would mean more leisure, he didn’t anticipate that that leisure was just another source of value to exploit. Think of reddit selling it’s “content” to an AI company. That content wasn’t produced by coerced labor paid unfairly, it was produced by voluntary labor paid nothing.

when the courts operate on the basis of “innocent until proven guilty”.

This is a slogan, a hypothetical that applies to a spherical defendant in a vacuum. In over 90% of all US criminal convictions, the prosecution has no burden of proof.

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gross

Now we know why his voice is like that.

That’s kinda the problem. He’s much more comfortable behind a microphone than behind a telescope.

I collect irony and Elon funding a labor dispute is a rare treat.

The time isn’t exact. I don’t know why it drifts, they should be able to use the GPS signal, but I have two devices, one with an alarm, and another with a notification that goes off at the same time. They’re never more than a second apart, but which one goes off first changes.

Becoming proficient in an aircraft in a “study” sim is like taking a college course. But at the end of the day, you’re flying a desk.

I’m saying that as someone who has rudder pedals under mine.