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Or if you aren’t sure if someone is being sarcastic and forgot the /s.

I’ve also used it to try to find out what country someone was in when relevant to the discuss (ie, they’re talking about relevant laws in whatever jurisdiction they’re in)

In middle school someone’s motorola flip phone been chunked across the band hall over and over in hopes that it would break so that the owner would have an excuse to get a new one (this was when the razrs would the cool phone to have).

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

And interestingly 38-39 is when your expected remaining is your age.

Yes, Reddit posts have subjectively felt more repost-y and soulless, but we don’t have the insight.

Even before the API changes, half the content seemed to be bots reposting stuff. Think it’s gonna be hard to judge how much worse it is if bots get better at not obviously being bots. Entirely possible bots keep the site moving enough that casual users who just want to browse memes or get some news while on a break don’t care if its almost entirely bots and AI.

There’s some people who’s probably be more likely to buy it after a price increase. Kinda curious if the top end models are veblen goods.

There are times where there’s something I want, but won’t get it unless it happens to be convenient while getting things I need. Like ice cream; on my way out I’m going through exactly 1 frozen food aisle and if there’s something else I want to check that’s not in the ice cream aisle, then I just don’t get ice cream (and if I do go through that aisle and I’m still unlikely to get it unless its on sale). The exposure only matters because being exposed to it means its convenient, not that I suddenly want something I hadn’t considered.

You say it doesn’t exist, but you promoted the anti-virgin and anti-single norms (whether you believe in them or not) and try to tie complex multifaceted issues like depression and loneliness to your single pet issue. You say I’m acting in bad faith, but I take personal issue with the ideas you are promoting incidental to your main point (which isn’t something I’m really responding to at all).

There’s obviously issues. I grew up in a time that pressured people into doing things like dating and having sex they didn’t want. Real issue men face. Are you dismissing that issue?

Women were under the opposite pressure: to stay a virgin. Also, some people don’t want to be in relationships. In middle/high school, a lot of dating was obviously performative and they were only “dating” because of social pressures to do so. I’m no longer a teen, so I have no clue what the pressures are now. It could be the pressures are still there and more people are failing to meet them (hence, the incel community). I know they’re not completely gone, because I still sometimes hear about things like people dating because they want to have someone for prom or whatever.

Given how complex mental health is, trying to tie it to just one thing that correlates with it is not very convincing. Likewise, even if incel culture is on the rise, it seems much more reasonable to connect that to the growth of the internet and the niche communities it allows to fester and become visible.

Feel like a higher rate of virgins could be a good sign that people aren’t feeling pressured to do things they don’t want to.

This is reddit, right? /s(lowpoke)

The existence of it.

Had to look back at the comic to figure out what you were talking about.

Pwa works just like an app… A bit too well. Would prefer still having some features of web browsers sometimes.

I’m subbed to 34 community, majority aren’t on kbin (they’re on various lemmy instances). Think part of the problem is a lot of the communities I regulared on reddit had a lot of people go to raddle instead of fediverse because like 2 mods (on different subreddits) heard lemmy = tankies and pushed people to raddle instead.

That’s how I used reddit. But kbin is still too inactive for that still (for the communities I primarily engaged with). At least I get a few dozen threads in a day now instead of a couple of thread in a day on my sub list like I did a few weeks ago (mostly from more activity, but also subscribed to some more communities). Hope it’ll get to the point where I rarely use all soon though.

Could just be a best practice type thing. If even like 20% of people strongly believed in such, that would probably be enough to make the communities formed on a relevant instance become the dominant/main community. Would be up to communities to decide how the want to divide things via organic processes.

Fediverse includes both twitter-likes and reddit-likes. Pretty sure they were just trying to distinguish between the two.