I’ll say that (pre-)2016 OkCupid still was able to work like a charm without paying for anything. The idealized purpose of dating apps is, or was, to have you find the right partner that you might not otherwise would have found and you might have settled for a partner that you’re ultimately only okay with, because they’re the least-bad option in your area. These apps and websites provide a place where everyone has the expectation that they want to get romantic with each other (opposed to randomly messaging people on their website / social media profile) and also the wide range of the internet, connecting people that would have never met otherwise.

My story of 2016 OkCupid: I had freshly signed up for a week or two and my now-wife just returned from a long hiatus for only a day or so before we found each other with a 99% (at one, short, point even 100%) match But I recognise that even back then it was almost “are you sure you’re not being paid to advertise OkCupid?”-levels of coincidence

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Really? I thought it was mostly solved by regulations that require filters at the industrial sites (and aren’t those used in Diesel cars, too?). Actually, what happens with the gunked-up filter material? Can the captured sulfur and nitrogen be used? I think you can use nitrogen as a fertilizer?

True, i looked up a bit more information on it and apparently it was at its height around the 80s, so I may have misremembered time a little bit.

Acidic rain.

I don’t remember any of the specifics anymore but it boils down to: Trees and plants died in masses, scientists and the general population got together and we changed what caused it.

That’s a very lovely visualisation! I would love to receive (distinguishable-from-background-noise) alien communication some day in my lifetime. It’s basically a certainty that other intelligent life exists. Unfortunately, receiving some communication (let alone anything faster than one message every few dozen years) has become a matter of faith to me, since it’s just that unlikely.

I think we could even be more specific in the sports seperation and let each sport figure out specific physical qualities to group their competitors into. Let me try an example: Runners could be grouped by leg and arm to body ratio (I think it’s pretty uncontroversial to say that long-legged and -armed people have an inherent advantage in running on flat ground) Probably the same for swimmers…and spear throwing…okay, fuck, maybe I don’t know enough about sports to find a differing example or there’s no olympic sport where small and slender people have a natural advantage over talls. Maybe archery? I could imagine that a beefy upper body is more important in archery than having long arms (or at least more important than having long legs)?

I wanted to continue with “have these physical qualities as baseline groupings and allow individuals who over- or underperform despite their physicality jump into a higher/lower grouping”, which I still think is a good idea and I’m not sure if that isn’t already a thing. I’m not a sports people, as you may gather by reading this

Wow that casts a healthy dose of doubt on the entire study. Thank you for pointing it all out so thoroughly!

I just access it via the Firefox browser. Mostly because I’m tired of everything wanting to have its own app which turns out to just be a more colourful container to load the webpage (my tinfoil hat hypothesis is that they do it to bypass adblocks). And the other reason is that I couldn’t find anything I need to do on Lemmy that I’m not just as able to do from the browser.

I can bring in friends who used to work on this architectural project called “The Death Star”

Yes, although I would prefer to update the phrase to “My boss makes ten dollars, I make a dime…” to more accurately reflect today’s reality.

Thanks for correcting me. I was almost certain that I read something a while ago about the new Selbstbestimmungsgesetz but couldn’t remember if I had just imagined it. Yay, Germany. We’re making progress. It might be very slow and the AfD is growing at a worrying pace but at least, for the moment, we’re still progressing (unless our politicians are bribed by the automobile industry again)

You can tell your friend yourself that it is actually much rarer in the EU to have non-binary options for official documents than I thought. And those that do only have it for citizens or permanent residents. In Germany, for example, you have the option to put Diverse on your ID and other national official documents, but only if you have a medical certificate that confirms yourself as being intersex. So transgender people or other non-binaries are not included and do not have this option.

Good point I haven’t thought about. I have a Fairphone 4 and that is pretty much on the brink of what’s still okay/comfortable to use one-handed. (I also looked up the FP6 dimensions, dreading the size increase, but I just found that it’s actually slightly smaller than my current phone, yay)

I want to believe it’s that others have the same problem as me that holding the phone to their ear+cheek makes that face-part real moist after a minute or two. And I choose to believe the speakerphone-speakers just never realised they could slightly tilt/lift the phone away from their skin and still hear perfectly fine.

But I fear that @[email protected] might be correct on this topic and it’s simply a case of media/influencers portraying phone conversations that way for better filmability.

I just finished the article and yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing for Palantir

I know that CEOs are out of touch with reality, but come on, even they don’t get new TVs this frequently. But the projected target audience also can’t be megalomaniac billionaires because, even though they might switch TVs with every few showers, they just buy the stuff outright instead of going through the hassle of subscription services, no? I genuinely fail to see a use-case for this. Maybe as a sort of paid trial/test period to see if you really need that 2000€ TV?

I think it’s time to showcase Grok’s abilities to put Pentagon officials into transparent bikinis. I can’t imagine management would keep using a tool that uploads non-consensual NSFW images of them straight to the comment section.

I can’t quite remember when or why I ever first visited that site. My brain wants to tell me it was in the years leading up to my Abitur when I got myself a pair of combat boots and wanted to be more quirky with the lacing than what they initially had. Either way, Ian’s site really is the best and I’m never wearing shoes without using his Secure Knot or at least the fast knot (for the few laces that hold together that way or just aren’t long enough for the secure one). When the site eventually goes down, I’ll be so sad.

My favourite part of today is about to come in half an hour when we eat the burritos for which we prepared the filling in the morning today