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Of all the industries to profit from bored ape NFTs, I was not expecting white cane manufacturing to be one of them.

Thank you for your contributions.

That is how it works, yeah. Very good point. Nobody needs to be actively malicious or conspiratorial, and it’s silly to imagine people being that conniving: The most profitable matching algorithm on a dating app just happens to be ineffective for most people, and whoever happens to stumble on that algorithm first ends up making the most profitable dating app – no need to know why it works, just that it does.

People find love through dating apps

That is part of the business model, actually: if these apps absolutely never work, then there will be no word of mouth, no success stories to use in promotional material, and users would pretty quickly figure out that it isn’t entirely their own fault that they haven’t made the progress that they’re expecting.

Also, like, language learning apps suffer from the same problem as dating apps: if these apps could actually teach you a language, you’d eventually get proficient enough at the language to no longer need the app — and if you no longer need the app, then it can’t harvest your data or subscription money anymore, and line goes down. So the app always needs to give you the impression that you’re making progress, while actually sabotaging your learning at every step.

This isn’t to say that these apps don’t have a place in the language learning process, but rather I’m saying that you need to be incredibly wary not just of the privacy issues, but of how to actually use these apps effectively. If you’re aware of their tricks, then they become less effective.

got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.

Surely you mean while he’s “Still Alive”, right?

Come to think of it, it could’ve also been that that community maybe actually did show up in the sh.itjust.works search results when you searched for just “piracy”, but that the community was lower down on the page and sort of blended in with the other results, so you didn’t notice it.

You can try searching just “piracy”, and then choosing “communities” from the drop-down menu just to the left of the “subscribed” button. That should make the search results show only communities, so that it’s harder for communities to get buried by or hidden among irrelevant results.

Try searching for [email protected] on sh.itjust.works while logged in.

I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.

Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.

“Oh, no, I just got this flag from my cousin, Chucky Arlaw.”

I’m using Alexandrite and see no thumbnail.

What if I hyphenate it and put it before the noun instead of after it?

I put a Kbin and Lemmy community in the sidebar of /r/vexillology shortly after the beginning of the API protest.