Some things can get progressively worse over time. Even at a materialistic (tm) level, online dating has become more deliberately difficult (the algorithms are now known to deliberately make poorer matches, especially for free tiers and new accounts) because that means more engagement, more subscriptions, and people being dissatisfied longer to keep buying in. Dating fucking sucking and getting worse is to the benefit of Match.com style online dating interests. :the-more-you-know:
As another example, Google used to be actually a quite good search engine that pushed the competition to obscurity and collapse because it was that useful and easy to use.
Over time, SEO bloat and monopolistic rot has made Google a worse product over time, to the point where the "Google it" :very-intelligent: thought terminating cliche has some actual exceptions to it, depending on what you're looking for now.
Especially when it comes to applications of the same technological paradigm (online dating compared to "riding down to the Sody-Pop shop to see if any boys want to buy you a malt" as you put it), it's a fairly predictable outcome that :porky-happy: will extract more and more profit at the expense of the actual product or service's quality over time, and the cycle repeats the next time something replaces the old technology.
I predict chatbots and related technology will have a similar "worse and greedier" trending rate over time in the near future, too.
I enjoy the options. It doesn't take effort to remember them if I've used them a few times before. :edgeworth-shrug:
Also, if I used less emojis and used those fewer varieties more often, I'd likely get shit for using those particular emojis too often instead. :no-choice:
Considering how he's passionately and even vindictively defended for his repeated emphasis on "historically accurate" :awooga: :libertarian-alert: (this one especially in the novels) :hypersus: in a historically accurate tale of ice zombies and dragons where the takeaway message is "yeah things are bad but trying to make them better is naive, just enjoy the historically accurate :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: in a totally not hog hungry way like millions of consumers surely do," yeah sure I'd use that one.
Some things can get progressively worse over time. Even at a materialistic (tm) level, online dating has become more deliberately difficult (the algorithms are now known to deliberately make poorer matches, especially for free tiers and new accounts) because that means more engagement, more subscriptions, and people being dissatisfied longer to keep buying in. Dating fucking sucking and getting worse is to the benefit of Match.com style online dating interests. :the-more-you-know:
Enshittification is a term for this that seems to be really taking off. Cory Doctorow is the best techbro to leftist pipeline going atm.
Yeah, his take rings true.
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As another example, Google used to be actually a quite good search engine that pushed the competition to obscurity and collapse because it was that useful and easy to use.
Over time, SEO bloat and monopolistic rot has made Google a worse product over time, to the point where the "Google it" :very-intelligent: thought terminating cliche has some actual exceptions to it, depending on what you're looking for now.
Especially when it comes to applications of the same technological paradigm (online dating compared to "riding down to the Sody-Pop shop to see if any boys want to buy you a malt" as you put it), it's a fairly predictable outcome that :porky-happy: will extract more and more profit at the expense of the actual product or service's quality over time, and the cycle repeats the next time something replaces the old technology.
I predict chatbots and related technology will have a similar "worse and greedier" trending rate over time in the near future, too.
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:standards:
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I have favorites. There's a lot of emojis I don't remember the names of even if I want to use them. :spaghett:
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I enjoy the options. It doesn't take effort to remember them if I've used them a few times before. :edgeworth-shrug:
Also, if I used less emojis and used those fewer varieties more often, I'd likely get shit for using those particular emojis too often instead. :no-choice:
When do we get :treats:
I haven't used that word contextually like that for almost half a year now. Not worth the backlash. :debord-tired:
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Considering how he's passionately and even vindictively defended for his repeated emphasis on "historically accurate" :awooga: :libertarian-alert: (this one especially in the novels) :hypersus: in a historically accurate tale of ice zombies and dragons where the takeaway message is "yeah things are bad but trying to make them better is naive, just enjoy the historically accurate :awooga: :libertarian-alert: :hypersus: in a totally not hog hungry way like millions of consumers surely do," yeah sure I'd use that one.
We need an entirely separate site that's just a marked up index of all the emotes that you can search through.
:soup:
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It's not even an anime reference, it's a reference to a parody video of an anime.
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@WhyEssEff explain yourself
why was he buying clothes at the soup store :theory-gary:
:very-smart:
You can use the emote picker or type a : and use the drop down that pops up
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True and the picker is slow
Online dating can suck. Online dating is not representative of dating today.
why not? sounds like it's more popular than meeting people offline now :(