Tesla is lucky no one took matters into their own hands. Sleep deprivation makes people crazy. Keeping people up all hours with dubiously legal construction noises and lights? If I was on the jury for someone who burned the place down, I'd nullify.
The other day I saw someone posting about wanting to bring webrings back.
Unfortunately, it's really hard to get people to care about things. "This site is convenient and your friends are here" trumps "and it's run by nazi sympathizers" for most people, somehow.
One of the reasons I'm glad I live in the city. There're free concerts in the parks. Free movies, sometimes. I can bike or train to the beach. There're meetups for all sorts of interests. When I lived in the suburbs, it was a wasteland. At best you could drive somewhere interesting.
I read a fiction in high school about like the afterlife, and it mentioned the best English playwright wasn't Shakespeare. It was some nobody who only showed his writing to his neighbor, but the neighbor was an asshole and told him it was trash. Don't remember anything else about it but that stuck with me.
In my experience, tinder is pretty bad. I don't use facebook so I can't vouch for that one, but I assume it's also bad. I never got a single match on Bumble.
Hinge, I got pretty good results on. Even though they're all owned by the same Match Group, hinge seemed to work better. I could get about a date a week on hinge, as an average guy.
I think it worked better for me because you can send a note when you see someone you like, so if you can write complete sentences you're already a cut above the average guy.
The CEO of my old company, who is middle eastern, said that "the republicans will unlock the economy". He seemed sincere in his belief that it would be better for everyone.
I kind of hope ICE disappears him because the irony would be weapons grade, but I'm not sure even that would get him to admit that maybe trump and musk aren't great.
Tell us more about your current usage. What are you doing and where is it failing?
Some of the other posts already hit the highlights. Have a variety of well lit photos. Your profile should be short, but with some unique-ish hooks for people to talk about (eg: "reading 'such and such' for my book club!" - several things for someone to ask about there).
When you do match with people, don't send generic messages. Don't just send "hey". Go read https://nohello.net/en/ for a post about that in other contexts.
After you've had one or two successful exchanges, clear any deal breakers you might have (eg: "really enjoying this conversation but wanted to make sure you saw on my profile I have a toddler. Are you okay with that?"). If that succeeds, ask them out.
Don't provide too many choices. People get overwhelmed easily. "I'd love to talk more about (whatever we we were talking about). Do you want to go on a date? I like (local bar), but (other bar) in your neighborhood looks fun, too!". Two choices. They'll probably pick one.
More specific advice may be available if you tell us more about your specific experience
“Poor people are bad with money. That’s why they are poor.”
I personally think a lot of rich people are bad with money. They're just shielded from consequences because if you blow $200,000 on an expensive watch, and you have another $3,000,000 in the bank, it's not going to ruin you. I've seen numerous examples of rich people just blowing money on bullshit. Meanwhile, poor people are like snipping coupons and making $1000 last a whole month.
I mean, there's always going to be scams. You probably want to address that with education more than expensive "you're not allowed to buy salsa with your government money" stuff.
Well, the lunch is being eaten either way. Personally I feel like "AI" stuff is not great for anybody except the people selling it (and even they are often losing money)
A couple CEOs have made statements about how they're not hiring anyone in favor of "AI". Somehow Saint Luigi hasn't visited any of them, but I think a couple had to reverse course after the "AI" was bad.
Labor should unite. We don't need infinite growth and profits. Dignity and a sustainable environment are more important
I'm just waiting for someone to Mario Party their boss after a return to office mandate. It would be deserved.
I had a recruiter (in the US) message me about some jobs. They're all on-site 6 (six!) days a week. That should be a crime and everyone involved in that banished from the land. This wasn't climate change work or anything important. It was like ai fintech nonsense.
If republicans had empathy or critical thinking skills, they wouldn't be republicans. They're little better than toddlers.