gnome_chomsky

> Most ‘oh its simple – why don’t they just…’ overlook (or are not aware) of the many, many good reasons why greater minds than yours or mine haven’t already implemented it.

The forums they are referring to have been operating with the "10 bux" model implemented on top of a highly customized version of vBulletin for over 20 years.

I cancelled my years long nytimes subscription a few years ago once someone told me that they had to call in and suffer through customer service retention reps in order to cancel their sub. I just couldn't stand the thought of being bled for cash due to their making it too inconvenient for subscribers to cancel.

> * People also stopped taking care of themselves during the pandemic, at the same time everyone started working from home.

I'm healthier than ever. I bought an exercise bike, have a home weight setup and my diet is cleaner. I have several coworkers who have done similarly.

It does feel like there have been 48 months this year

The more people that adopt Signal, the better. I've been using it for years due to privacy concerns and usually ask everyone that I regularly communicate with to adopt it. I don't think it indicates any subversive or illegal behavior, but merely a desire to have private communications remain private.

M&A often involve conservative brand strategies, at least in part to promote a veneer of competition and diversity, while the insidious effects of consolidation are left unsaid and off the public radar after the M&A event. Imagine if all those purchases renamed to include Amazon in their name.

You're conflating ecofascism with activists who know that neoliberal tinkering with carbon taxes is a recipe for failure.

Cool, it doesn't matter, carbon doesn't care about your rhetorical exercises. We're heading towards an extinction event and once this realization reaches critical mass, it's going to get ugly.

Stepping stones would have worked 40 years ago. We are at the precipice now and must take radical action if we are to mitigate the damage that is baked into the current climate model given the carbon ppm levels we're at now.

I was experiencing hip pain after too much sitting and not moving enough. Went for some consultations and ended up with a surgeon that wanted to operate because I was told I had a labral tear, amongst other things. I read more about this and it turns out that most people when evaluated with imaging have a variety of indicators that doctors use to suggest that surgical intervention is required to fix. The problem is is that most people don't have any pain associated with the indicators. Also, the recovery seemed painful and long and from reading around, the outcome seemed dubious, if not net negative. They really put their thumb on the scale in terms of measuring success. Anyways, long story short, I spent about 2 months with a variety of stretches and deep tissue work on the muscles on my legs and hips and the pain completely vanished. I started lifting weights again (squats and deadlifts with plenty of deep tissue work and stretching) and I haven't had hip pain since.

Anyone else get creeped out and realize just deep and tangled our mindsets are when reading these articles lauding consumer products? The biggest and best companies are all laser focused on producing as much throw away consumer crap as they can while we are hurtling towards catastrophic climate destruction. These write ups lauding the innovative business strategies of convenient, throw-away luxury items feels like anesthetic. The world's on fire and the best and brightest have fatalistic attitudes towards doing anything meaningful and we're just heaping on more tinder.

Truth, I remember reddit cratering the active user base there ten years ago, but I've found myself going back again over the past few years again, craving the type of community there vs the lowest common denominator and ad filled garbage that is reddit.

I don't think designers want them. The data probably shows that it increases conversions or whatever metric, so the product owners and business pushes the designers to jam in the dark ux patterns.

You're posting Whataboutisms. It's not all or nothing.

The second-system effect is definitely real and is a trap most developers will fall into. I think gold plating introduces liability and it would be better to ship early. I am, however, conflating my own behavior and anecdotal observations to paint broad strokes.

Not all developers are gold platers. That seems to be a more common behavior among inexperienced developers.

If you don't wear makeup, you will often not notice others wearing makeup if they use just enough to enhance their natural appearance and hide blemishes.

I don't think introversion or extroversion has any correlation to programming skill. And that is coming from an introvert. When it comes down to it, after many years in industry, I think that being extroverted is an advantage because this is an extrovert's world. And I have worked with several incredibly intelligent and savvy extroverts. Of course, this is all just anecdotal.

I'm sorry that you experienced such an inhumane ordeal. Were you incarcerated at a publicly or privately operated facility?

This isn't true. Poorer people have fewer assets. You can live in a smaller space and still be wealthy in terms of assets.

The only supplement vegans and vegetarians need to take is B-12. The rest comes from having a varied and balanced plant based diet. Something interesting to note is that many people, regardless of diet, are at least somewhat deficient in B-12 and should supplement. And the meat that contains B-12 usually comes from supplementing the feed given to livestock with B-12.