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[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hate to be a downer, but...

Building,, running and maintaining a website isn't free. Building, running and maintaining a popular website is fucking expensive. Somebody's got to pay those bills.

As the saying goes, if it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product. Corollary, if it's not free, you still might be the product.

Furthermore, these days I would assume that 99.9% of profiles on a "free" dating site are scammers, or bots, or scammer bots, many of which are probably run by the people running the website.

And to double down on the downerism, subscription based dating sites/apps are financially motivated to keep you paying for as long as possible. They are not motivated to help you find a match, cancel your subscription, and live happily ever after.

In an attempt to not be a total downer jerk, my suggestion would be to find local meetup groups that interest you (even if just barely) and start going to those consistently.

That's how I met my spouse almost 14 years ago. We were both on the dating apps but not finding each other. Eventually we met through a meetup group that I ran, and after months of casually chatting occasionally at group meetings, sparks spontaneously started flying. 🤷

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The research concludes that policymakers need to better explain the purposes of environmental legislation in culturally sensitive ways

I am so sick of the willfully ignorant expecting society to repeatedly bend over backwards to slowly drag them out of the dark ages without hurting their feelings. Fuck!

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 44 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

The community is more highly affected by poverty,

Durable reusable utensils are wayyyy cheaper in the long run than disposable. So, bullshit. Poverty has absolutely nothing to do with this.

and families are often large, making affordable disposable kitchenware useful in easing the heavy burden of housework.

Wut? With that many people you can very efficiently distribute the work load and get things done a lot faster than one person living alone can do the equivalent amount of housework. So, again, utter bullshit.

This just sounds like self-righteous laziness.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The post title is not the same as the article title and doesn't even make sense. That first comma changes the entire meaning of the sentence to nonsense. Then yanking out whole phrases just makes it worse.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The news is cool, but that image is just AI nonsense.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Right? The past tense on this one feels moderately aggressive.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

The democratic primary was ranked choice. The general election is still the old broken system.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ok, nevermind. I guess we'll just do nothing. 🙄

 

Elon Musk is done at DOGE, but we're just getting started.

Elon is still deeply tied to the Trump regime, still fueling conspiracies and fascist rhetoric, and still using his immense wealth to warp government policy and buy elections around the globe.

On June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead.

And our birthday gift to the Broligarch in Chief? A global party with one powerful message: Musk Must Fall.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done.

And that's saying something.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He wants to flood the FPTP ballot with progressive and centrist candidates so that those votes are spread so thin, the single conservative candidate is a shoe in with a landslide 3% of the votes.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

I don't suppose anyone here has a link to a high(ish) resolution version of it? Asking for a friend.

 

June 4 (Reuters) - Karine Jean-Pierre, who was former President Joe Biden's press secretary at the White House from 2022 until 2025, has left the Democratic Party and is now an independent, according to the publisher of her forthcoming book.

"We need to be clear-eyed and questioning, rather than blindly loyal and obedient as we may have been in the past," she was quoted as saying by Legacy Lit, part of the Hachette Book Group, that will release her book 'Independent' in October.

https://archive.ph/6SlZZ

 

The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning “a bunch of schizoposters” who believe “they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30459966

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House will fix errors in a much-anticipated federal government report spearheaded by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which decried America’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs.

Kennedy’s wide-ranging “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, cited hundreds of studies, but a closer look by the news organization NOTUS found that some of those studies did not actually exist.

Asked about the report’s problems, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report will be updated.

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