Every recommendation algorithm except for TikTok seems to have this problem and I find it frustrating. This is their real secret sauce
Spotify, Twitter & YouTube are also big culprits in assuming if you engaged with some content once then they need to drown you with it for days. https://t.co/kipB1Tweb9
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) July 25, 2022
Try watching women’s tennis on YouTube and see what happens. 🙁
Whenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s. pic.twitter.com/0qqfngmDWz
— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) July 25, 2022
My grandmother was a 1950s housewife. To her, pizza was an exotic food that she would actually eat. Mexican or Chinese food was far too strange and exotic to even consider partaking of.
Also: Do people not understand that the reason we station nukes in allied countries is so that those countries don't feel the need to get their own nuclear weapons?
Is this not a commonly understood fact?
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2022
Most people do not commonly understand a goddamn fucking thing. Most people know so close to nothing as not being worth talking with.
Think that makes me arrogant? FUCKING GOOD. CRY HARDER.
Housing is not highly subsidized by the government; though there's a mortgage interest tax deduction, it's generally outweighed by property tax. As for renters, few get help from government. https://t.co/xGBk0YjboF
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) July 25, 2022
Wrong. Housing is extremely heavily subsidized in harmful ways by the government indirectly: the Fed buying up bundles of mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac backstopping loans that would otherwise be unprofitable to make, and a long history of too-low interest rates. Those are all subsidies that greatly pushed up housing costs.
China is not coming to Russia’s rescue.
Ian Welsh is in his basement weeping now.
Icons for Mac apps used to be so cool. I remember sitting next to Christian at Cultured Code as she showed me how he used Maya to create the 3D model before filling in the details in Photoshop. pic.twitter.com/4hTdtO45Ra
— Collin Donnell (@collindonnell) July 20, 2022
I remember when applications had color and actual functionality. They looked nice and could do what you wanted them to do. Now we’re locked into brutalist authoritarianism in everything for “security” (read: scamming the rubes). We’re not even allowed to have color anymore.
Why you may want to double that workout.
Oh, trust me, I do.
bruh human beings harvest each other's creativity. u think human painters aren't basically just building on top of what other people have done? cant believe humans have the *audacity* to go charge for work they made built on the shoulders of a human civilization's worth of art https://t.co/V5L5X8na7k
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) July 25, 2022
I think Aella is in the right here. Everyone having original ideas all the time is just bullshit, and I think this stance that one should be doing that is an artifact of academia and the tenure system. Academics must not “plagiarize,” which means cleverly hiding the fact that your ideas are not your own while pretending they are novel to you, all in order to advance and, eventually, achieve tenure.
That belief system infected the rest of society for obvious reasons (copyright cartels also had something to do with it, too).
Wow. I almost certainly have a tendency to over-attribute negative events as the consequences of lockdowns, but I genuinely didn't think that this would be one. https://t.co/2NqqJEOrgb pic.twitter.com/IkvHPWnYLB
— Tratten (@TrattenRabbit) July 25, 2022
LOL. Lockdowns were the likely cause of the hepatitis cases in kids. Will never get over how big a failure they were as an idea and how many eagerly embraced them, crowing all the time about how no one needs social contact, etc.
Human society is full of situations that are broadly analogous to birds flying directly into windows or moths into lamps but it’s harder to tell because of the greater complexity.
— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) August 9, 2018
Thanks for putting in just a few words something I’d been thinking about for ages but hadn’t been able to condense into less than a book. The best I’d done was “bad idea trap,” but that’s only a bit related because what Misha is talking about and a “bad idea trap” aren’t really the same thing.
There are easily-avoidable calamities that we just don’t avoid. Hard to explain.
The church of satan has 11 rules (basically their 10 commandments) and #11 is my favorite:
“When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop: Destroy him.”
— Ally Maynard (@allymayn) July 23, 2022
So they operate by North Florida rules. Should’ve figured.
The liberals are failing politically because they made wallowing in loserdom their unofficial religion while the conservatives are dominating because they built political and judicial power and are now wielding it.
Not shocking, really.
I think I probably underestimate how hard it is for other people to control their eating. I’m just extremely, off-the-charts stubborn, so there’s nothing easier in the world to me than not doing something. I can not do something all week. Saying “no” to things comes so very naturally to me.
Guess it’s not like that for other folks. I’ve never been in their skin, so it’s hard to say. But I get that sense.
Do men really find lesbian sex hot and gay sex disgusting?
I don’t find lesbian sex particularly hot and I don’t find gay sex disgusting, but it doesn’t really turn me on to watch either one. I mean, attractive women can arouse me (I am male and straight, after all) but the lesbian sex itself doesn’t matter to me. Perhaps if it didn’t seem so fake in porn it might be better. But…meh.
One thing that’s weird about being a man is that you get rejected constantly, so you expect it. But perhaps the strangest thing about being a man is that most men get rejected fairly regularly by women they have expressed absolutely no romantic interest in of any kind and aren’t even attracted to.
What is that, preemptive rejection? I don’t think most women know how often that occurs, even though they are the ones perpetrating it. Is telling men “no” who are not interested in you at all just some sort of fun game? I don’t get it.