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Clbull

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  • I'm 34. Youngest would probably be 23, oldest would be late 40s. I'm getting to that age where I wouldn't feel comfortable dating a college student. Plus I kinda do prefer older women.

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  • Rehab and Back To Black by Amy Winehouse. Both songs were heavily overplayed on the radio.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”

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  • If that's a serious question, 34/M/Bristol.

  • Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”

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  • In the context of online dating, I actually agree with implementing the same level of KYC checks that banks and credit card issuers have adopted. I also think the FTC needs to step in and break up the monopoly Match Group has created.

    All of these platforms are littered with fake profiles, scammers and foreign women searching for the means to a green card. It's made them practically unusable.

  • The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

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  • Google tried to break regional US monopolies with Google Fiber, which to my surprise is still going despite Google's best efforts to kill off projects that aren't immediately successful and is active in 19 US states or around 40 different cities.

    The only way I can see this catastrophe ending is one of three ways:

    1. Satellite internet - Elon Musk would need to massively drop the price of Starlink to encourage others to switch, or a competitor would need to pop up and offer similar service at a lower price point, likely through Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic.
    2. The US collectively vote the Republicans out of office by a landslide and bring in a left-wing Democrat leader. Won't happen for so many reasons.
    3. Mesh networks. Something like Freifunk but on a much bigger scale.

  • Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith

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  • You had us in the first half, not gonna lie!

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • I'm not from the US so you can't really say that I lost.

    I live in the UK where we are facing a similar predicament. A lot of people vote on class lines and for the same two parties based on the lesser-of-two-evils because they don't want to waste their vote and give the worse party power.

    The difference is that our two main establishment parties (the Conservatives and Labour) have catastrophically fucked things up over the past fifteen years, and now a MAGA-like far-right party headed by Nigel Farage is being overwhelmingly pushed by the press. People here overwhelmingly disagree with things like zero-hours contracts and privatizing the NHS, yet haven't read into any of Reform UK's policies and will vote for Farage anyway because he seems a bit more charismatic and the media oligarchs are heavily pushing him.

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • I'm sorry that I understand how a two-party state run by two ruling parties funded by billionaire lobbyists works...

  • Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

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  • If you voted against Harris because of her Gaza stance, or daresay... voted for Trump because you thought he'd do a better job, congratulations, you elected a candidate who probably has his head even further up Netanyahu's arse than the Biden Administration did...

    You reap what you sow.

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • Sadly the current status quo is the best solution.

  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • Can't tell if the UK's Electoral Commission did this concept better or worse...

  • Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

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  • Literally Spez right now...

    (I'd post the uncensored image but IIRC Lemmy World is German-based and have strict laws against Nazi iconography)

    He's wilfully given the data of users who have criticized Trump and ICE, AND he looks like a spitting image of Tintin...

  • Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction

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  • Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Kids back in the eighties were coding in BASIC, running command line prompts and using home computers like the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore 64. The most I did in terms of coursework for my IT classes during my secondary school days was make a personal webpage about my hobbies & interests using Microsoft Frontpage. Sixth form (where I did A Level Computing, basically 11th & 12th Grade equivalents) was even worse, It was 2010 and they were still fucking teaching us Visual Basic 6 and the Waterfall Model of system development!

    Something like an introduction to unix and programming should be mandatory. They seem to think that kids need to “learn to use a computer and the internet.” It’s a fucking point-and-click interface. What is there to learn? The software industry is very skilled at making it all so easy that a chimpanzee can use it.

    This may be infuriating or sad for you to read, but very young kids who have been brought up on smartphones, TikTok and YouTube Kids these days can't even do basic shit like this. Like, I've genuinely heard about kids starting kindergarten and reception who cannot even turn pages on a book and try to swipe left/right on them like they're a touchscreen. Some even struggle to work with a physical keyboard or a gamepad that actually has tactile inputs.

    The only other group where I've personally seen such ineptitude with technology is in old people. I used to work in customer support for a major right-wing British newspaper, and it was mainly things like website account access issues, basic tablet/smartphone tech support, and promotion enquiries I dealt with. I genuinely hated that job for a lot of reasons, but a big part of it is that trying to guide a senile 75+ year old pensioner through a basic password reset or explain how to redeem an e-voucher.

    My dad is 80 years old and as the younger autistic one in the family who got economically screwed and is still living with my parents, I'm left with having to continually explain how to do basic email or phone tasks to him.

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  • We didn't have graphing calculators in school. The most we used were scientific ones which had sine, cosine, factorials, that kind of stuff.

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  • This may be the millennial in me talking but I've generally found schools to be fucking dire when it comes to implementing technology in the classroom.

    During Year 10 (equivalent to 9th Grade for any Yanks here), our school enrolled in a government programme to start using PDAs in the classroom. So they offered every kid in our year a Pocket LOOX 720 at a heavily subsidized price.

    They were never used in lessons.

    Pupils instead used them as music/video playback devices and to play games, since it was 2007, smartphones weren't yet a thing and YouTube was just in its infancy.

    Maybe things have improved since I left secondary school.

  • Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • The Machiavellian part of me thinks Ring screwed up by not raising the stakes. Search Party and the way they advertised it makes you go "awww' when you see the golden retriever and then "wait, WHAT?" when they show all their Ring doorbells going full surveillance mode in locating the missing dog.

    A lengthier ad showing a pedophile being tracked down and arrested by law enforcement mid-abduction, their victim rescued, then the nonce being served justice may have had a more positive response.

    I mean, "think of the children" has been the perfect strawman argument to justify mass surveillance, after all...

  • Lonely people of the internet, What are your thoughts on valentimes day?

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  • I also see it as a cruel reminder of my ineptitude with women, and I write this as somebody who lost their virginity on Valentines Day last year.

    That being said, my hatred for the holiday has diminished over the years. You don't really need a special holiday to justify going on a spontaneous date or showering your SO with sexy lingerie.