Manticore @ Manticore @lemmy.nz

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First we have to convince them exists XD they keep leaving us off maps

I'm not good at linking communities on mobile but. MapsWithoutNZ on lemmy.nz (or Reddit, for far far far more examples, because IT KEEPS HAPPENING)

Trying to get other cartographers to take the hint

Tbf, that was true of the Germans and the Nazi party too. People talk about Nazis and Hitler as if Hitler himself was the main guy who did everything, a monster cut from whole cloth... but they were democratically elected because they spoke to the fears, anxieties, and antisemitism of voting Germans at the time.

Oh I thought this was gonna be like... the bride's 'Brother....... in Christ'

My point is they dont work together. I can believe Nvidia 'started' it, but it doesnt matter or help me solve my problem. I've decided I want to try Linux but I can't afford another card so I'm doing what I can.

Damn, sorry you've had these experiences. That sounds exhausting. I've decided to never even try Tinder for similar reasons, it has such a bad reputation... though I may look at Hinge and Bumble in the future.

I think a lot of people just swipe/like broadly without really reading or considering profiles, and then only look at profiles after getting a match to decide if they're actually interested. Especially true on apps that have your photos front and centre, like Tinder dies.

I suppose if you're choosing to swipe/like multiple times a day, you conclude it saves time/effort to only read profiles on the actual matches you make every month or so.

In reality, those people end up being deprioritised by algorithms because you're assessed as 'undiscerning'/'low match rate' and are mostly shown people doing the same thing. You save time on the matching experience but you're far less likely to make matches that mean anything if you're matching people you've nothing in common with.

From what Ive heard of Hinge, it's the only modern large-scale app that's actually trying to describe who people are and not just what they look like, so it has a better reputation for meaningful matches.

Similar for me. All the talk about what software Linux couldn't handle, I didn't learn that Linux is incompatible with Nvidia until AFTER I updated my GPU. I don't want to buy another GPU after less than a year, but Windows makes me want to do a sudoku in protest... but also my work and design software wont run properly on Linux and all anybody can talk about is browsers and games.

I'm damned whether I switch or not.

Damn this dude already looks like a political caricature of himself

Tried one for the first time about a year ago, but only for a few days. Bi poly woman, looking for any poly individuals of any gender. (Not interested in being a unicorn for bicurious couples.)

I figured Feeld would be a good choice since its kink/queer-friendly.

• within one day I had over 70 likes. Despite living in a small town and setting <20km range. Almost every single one was from a (gender declared as) man that hadn't bothered to fill out their profiles with anything at all. Maybe a third didn't even have a picture (not that it would've mattered, because I want to meet people not bodies, but who do they think is going to swipe right on a sunset, or on Wrath of the Lich King box art?)
• Plenty of couples looking for unicorns that listed themselves as one person to be on my feed anyway. Always with vague filler that tells me nothing about them or what they're looking for, stuff like 'connect and see where it goes'.
• plenty of (hypothetical) women that were theoretically looking, but actually the profile was their male partner, whom you had to talk to first, despite saying nothing about her. No photos, no hobbies, nothing about her as a person. Idk if he was standing guard to feel in control and soothe his relationship insecurities, or if she wanted him to protect her from all the risk/effort, but either way: nope. They're almost never looking for a mutual experience, theyre looking for a volunteer to perform her fantasies for free
• I had every permutation of individual switched on: trans men, women (cis or trans), enbies etc included... but 99% of what I saw was cis men. I don't know if they were promoted by the app or they really are almost all of the users, but the app would literally start looping through the same empty profiles of cis men without ever showing me a queer woman (that wasn't a couple pretending)
• Once I stopped including cis men (which i felt very conflicted about but i was so fucking overwhelmed), I finally started seeing queer women (and more unicorn hunters ofc). Almost all of them had fully filled out profiles but the amount of likes dropped to like... 2 over the remaining 3 days I had the app installed.
• one pan man put a 'super like' on me which let me see him directly, he'd actually filled put his profile which was great because it gave me something to open with. We had a great conversation but I slowed down on meeting up in person right away because I needed to attend to some real-life needs and invited him to connect outside the app while that happened, which he agreed with but then kinda disappeared without doing so. Maybe he assumed I wasn't actually interested or I would take too long, idk. A shame because I did like him

I have a (mostly) straight male partner and he showed me his app experience: most of the straight women didn't bother filling out their profiles at all either, nor did gay men. It seemed only queer women filled it out almost every time? We theorised that the queer dating pool is really small so it's understood you have to represent yourself to be seen, and women want to have an idea of who you are before they reach out.

Meeting other women is hard so I'd probably need to get back on apps at some point, but damn. Really do feel sorry for everybody out there. All of the people I've actually dated have been met in-person.

I can only assume they're putting in layers. It's not just Netflix, it's also the cost of your internet, of running your TV, of your AC while at home, of your lights, etc... maybe even the footprint of your food. Maybe the cost of any AI upscaling or framerate generation, if Netflix does that.

They may have looked at everything you might use in that 30 min, then compared it to the rate at an arbitrary car's fuel efficiency. Technically true statistics are very easy to deceive people with, especially if most people don't know how to read them.

Assuming ofc, they didn't just make the shit up, too.

How am I claiming the opposite? I prefer food that is nice to eat. I continue to maintain I prefer food that is nice to eat. I enjoy home-grown tomatoes. I don't buy supermarket tomatoes because they are not nice to eat.

Did you miss the part where 'shitty' is a personal assessment with no objective value? If all you care about is profit margins, then hybrid breeds aren't shitty, that's why they use them. But I'm not a person who sells fruit, I'm a person who eats them. Therefore, shitty is a measure of how nice they are to eat.

You are a stranger on the internet. I thought you were asking why a person might consider them shitty, and I answered in good faith. Then you made it obvious you just want to sea lion.

If you think my job is to convince you why you think they're shitty, that makes no fucking sense, and I'm not going to do that. Your opinions are yours. Enjoy your water balloons.

Because they taste like shit? They're also less nutritious too. The entire fucking point of food is to eat it, and we've developed varieties that taste bland, are unsatisfying, and are less nutritionally complex. We have un-fooded our food.

Shitty flavour. Shitty nutrition. Shitty anti-trust profit practices.

'Shitty' is an adjective for value. Value is personal. Any answer for why somebody would value the food less and consider it shitty is the question you're asking, and if you don't like that answer, then your question is dishonest.

Scaled markets prefer patented hybrid seeds (yes, that's real) that have high shelf life, resistance to bruising, and a uniform shape that makes them easy to pack. And high-yield of course. The flavour isn't really relevant to the corporate farming system, certainly not as much as crop yield and longevity for shipping them is. And of course these patented hybrids are all sterile so farmers have to buy more seeds each year.

Go to a smaller independent business however, and they're often using different breeds. Maybe they can't afford (or qualify for) these fancy hybrids. Maybe they just don't want them.

If you want a tomato that is full of flavour and ripened on the plant, fed with sugar from the stalk, you can't get one from a supermarket. It's just cheaper to pick them early while they're green, ship them, and let them 'ripen' (or turn red) in an enzyme bin, even if they're not gaining any sugars that way without the plant.

I prefer local home-grown because I prefer delicious tomatoes that last a week in the fridge more than I do sour water-balloons that look pristine and shiny on the counter for twice as long. I buy my food to eat it, not look at it.

I'm OK with that tbh. If we normalise disclosures for any use of AI, ever, the some AI vibe-code slop gets declared the same way as a meticulously crafted game (but the devs used AI for research/brainstorming), or even 'devs used Google and they may have been inspired by the search AI' etc

I think AI as a tech is pretty cool. I think using AI is less cool, since it is using far more resources than we can afford to give it, so I avoid using AI at all, even if I think the tech itself is morally neutral.

And I think the way we're using AI is horrifying. Not just how companies push it, but the common use, too. People are outsourcing their thinking and comprehension to AI, and their own personal development is stagnating. This is particularly terrifying in children and college students. Would I rather have a doctor/social worker/financial advisor that gained a degree through AI and couldn't adapt to real world exceptions? Or none at all? Hmm.

I think there is a space for devs to use AI and not have it undermine what they're doing, is what I mean. And so I don't want to label those people the same as the ones who'll get AI to do everything. Otherwise, with how much AI is used on our behalf even without consent, the AI label will become the norm... at which point, it ceases to mean anything.

Oh yeah each times Sean does this shit, forums and chats are filled with people mock-angrily ranting that now they need to find some more friends to buy it for lol. I've bought it for several friends myself. And some people buy it for several different platforms

And that meme of the dad with the belt? Every update, there's a version on the reddit sub of Sean's avatar "ITS FREE UPDATE TIME" (sometimes they put the update img on the belt), and the cowering kid being like "SEAN PLS NO! I have money"

Warframe is also the only f2p model game I've ever actually felt fairly treated in, they've even changed systems when they noticed they were 'too' profitable and didn't feel comfortable with how that was affecting the players paying for them. Warframe is a live service game by design, but it also has a community of players happy to pay for it because they love it and want to show that to devs, rather than being strong-armed.

Players - or rather, people - really are willing to be a contributing part of the things and communities we love. We WANT the things we care about to succeed. Fear/control is easier, simpler; but love is so much more powerful.

It's kinda insane what No Man's Sky is doing, too. Multiple free updates a year. They recently pushed an update to design and build your own corvette-class spaceships, and broke all their records for players ever.

NMS isn't even a live service game! Sean and his team just do that free, and keep putting the game on huge sales at the same time. WTF Sean

Oh my God i thought the death of Flash meant it was gone for good TTATT thank you

It's OK, I miss Homestar Runner, too.... :'(

The far army has the number on the vertices (4), the close army has the number on the base (3).

I see the symbols as like checkboxes or matrices. The 'X' has been filled in as yes, the O has been left empty