That’s fair. I may generally be a bit over suspicious at times, but the apps definitely struck me as off very early on. As to charging men, while it does suck, I get it. It similar to “ladies’ night” at clubs (do they still do that?). It isn’t hard to get men in the door, but it is significantly harder to get women to attend, oftentimes due to some of the behaviors exhibited by the men. With the gender differences on app usage, it would likely drive that disparity even higher if they charged women.

Will they criminalise denial of the Gaza genocide, you know, the one that is currently underway?

Bubble wasn’t around when I last engaged with dating apps, though I wouldn’t give any app the benefit of the doubt, including in any conceivable future. While there are exceptions to the rule, as you mentioned, I’d say most people will be better off without dating apps, with or without a partner.

I can’t speak to women’s experiences, but as a man, it was pretty clear that these apps were dogshit designed to steal information while keeping you engaged with bots so they can further steal from you, including financially. Much like Facebook, I was an early rejector of dating apps, and I’ve been proven correct on both fronts. From what I can tell, the tech has only gotten better at taking advantage of lonely/stupid men. While dating isn’t really a concern for me anymore, when I was actively dating, it was never difficult to meet women. It just requires a willingness to be open and accept rejection. Also, be willing to cut off interaction for relationships that aren’t healthy. It’s better to be alone than in a shitty relationship.

Can’t wait for that 20hr campaign while they dump all the effort into selling sharkbucks or whatever…

This is the only use of ai that I approve of. Angering Maga pissbabies.

I’m not sure why people downvoted instead of educating. To answer your question: no, it isn’t. It has been awhile since I’ve used torrents, so this may be a little out of date, but typically, within your P2P client you’ll have active “seeds,” including while you’re downloading. Some people immediately delete files from “active” after their download is complete. It is generally considered proper etiquette to leave the torrent active (at least) until it you have uploaded approximately 2x what you have downloaded. This helps keep torrents active and relatively quick, while not placing the bulk of the bandwidth burden on a few seeders.

Some people, yes. I’m not interested in being nice. I’m interested in putting an end to 400+ years of racist trash making life difficult and creating as much suffering as they possibly can.

Life in prison is not enough. That may have been an option after the civil war if they had done what needed to be done at the time. Unfortunately, this go around, there will need to be more drastic measures, and this doesn’t just involve the officials, but the supporters as well. There is a blood debt that will need to be paid if we’ll ever move beyond this for good.

Given the demographic for these “products,” in not surprised.

Exactly. They were too busy trying to court the right that would never vote for them.

I’m sure the fact she was African didn’t play a part in any of that decision making…

Not only that, but you’re often not getting the quality you’re paying for due to the limitations of streaming. So, I’m not going to pay $20+ a month for what equates to 720i with garbage audio. Absolutely not.

They did this to whatever hbo plan I was on a while back. It was 4k with atmos, and they switched it to 1080 with standard audio while expecting me to continue paying the same price. Canceled as soon as I received that email.

Advising is a far cry from allowing them to access the personal information of millions of people and alter the code of our infrastructure. This is definitely unprecedented and unacceptable.

The fact that anyone is going along with this is absurd. These people are not actually a part of the government, so these requests should just be refused outright. They have not been hired, elected, appointed, or vetted.

It isn’t whataboutism. I’m not listening to anything supporters of genocide have to say. They can’t decide genocide is only bad if it happens to them.

Are they boycotting Israel? If not, they can stfu.

Yup. Gene Sharp outlines successful nonviolent action in his book “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” I’m not opposed to violent action, but nonviolent is preferred if possible.

That’s a terrible summary of my statement. I didn’t say I agree, I said it has happened, the course is set. This one election in one country isn’t the root cause, even if they are accelerationists. The world is a cruel place, always has been. I’m done spending my energy worrying about it, I’m resigned to humanity’s well-earned fate.