Ok so there’s like 0 chance the person who wrote that knows this, but with a browser plugin like adblock or scriptmonkey, or probably even a custom css sheet thing, you could change the color.

Or they were being a troll and don’t care.

I’m pretty sure these scam calls are because the phone companies don’t care enough to build better systems. We just all accept a shitty world because Verizon can’t be bothered.

But if I’m on example.com/feed and I see posts [1,2,3] based on my user and whatever algorithm is there, and you’re on example.com/feed and you see posts [4,5,6], how would it know? Same url, completely different content.

I guess it would work on pages that have a fixed url, like news articles.

How would it work, technically, on a dynamic website? Any given url may load different content.

In the romulan disruptor kind of way?

I wonder if “I know it when I see it” would be good enough if it had to pass a public vote. Do you think the regular people on the street would vote to support gerrymandering? Getting good voter turnout and education is its own set of problems, admittedly.

Gerrymandering should be a crime and conviction should mean removal from office and a life long ban on working in politics.

Now we just need a way to do that that isn’t vigilante violence.

It is kind of frustrating how every system needs to resist people (usually conservatives) from acting in bad faith.

Yeah, 2nd person is pretty rare. the “Broken Earth” books by NK Jemisen are 2nd person, if i recall.

I thought this was a quote from the article until the end

Cool. I’ll subscribe, thanks

I’m not aware of any NYC communities, even inactive ones, on the fediverse, though I haven’t looked very hard. That link you provided errors out, if it’s supposed to work.

I walk past a couple bars a lot and they seem to have the same amount of people. All the outside tables had folks last night.

I’m not going to bars because I’m unemployed. Like I say, if capital wants me to spend money they can give me some, first.

I’d like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.

I’d like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.

Most people don’t know or care about reddit details. Every post could kick a puppy and people would be like “oh I forgot. But it’s where the content is so”

Mint didn’t work at all on my last desktop. I should have tested more with the live disk before installing.

The mint discord I found was pretty helpful though.

That’s good but there’s a lot of room between creepy and effective

I never paid for it out of stubbornness.

Are you writing good messages to potential matches?

What part of the world are you in?

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.

I’ve been buying mostly mostly from Bandcamp. It’s worked out well. I have a big library, and the people making music got paid.

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