porksoda

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porksoda,

What’s a tankie? I keep seeing that term on Lemmy and nowhere else. I feel like I should know it by now.

porksoda,

Thanks for the in-depth explanation.

porksoda,

If it is, it’s news to me. I co-owned an education data consultancy (before realizing there was no money in education) that used a .org; we were for-profit.

porksoda,

2013-2014 was when the timeline shifted from being a chronological timeline to a feed. The algo took over and it went to shit.

porksoda,

Damn, you’re so enlightened.

porksoda,

Since this is sort of related, what are y’all using for a tiling manager? I really miss Fancy Zones from Windows and would literally pay for a clone on Linux Mint.

porksoda,

Thanks, I’ll check this out.

porksoda,

$1000? I have a hard cap at $600 on principle. Just get a phone one generation old and it’s easy.

porksoda,

Eh, the ones I know are contrarian assholes.

porksoda,

It’s the Costco of health insurance, and given the competition, that’s a good thing. Literal one-stop-shop for healthcare is pretty fucking nice in the world of networks, specialists, referrals, and “coverage”.

But yeah, they fucked up here.

porksoda,

Hah, well time to tell our CEO I’m shutting down our prod servers.

Arizona Republicans denounce revived 1864 abortion ban in sudden reversal (www.theguardian.com)

Hours after Arizona’s supreme court declared on Tuesday that a 160-year-old abortion ban is now enforceable, Republicans in the state took a surprising stance for a party that has historically championed abortion restrictions – they denounced the decision....

porksoda,

Yet to be seen if they get run over. That part is up to us.

porksoda,

One of the gas stations by my house does something similar but actually cool. They show about 2 minutes of sports highlights from the night before (think SportsCenter Top 10 but also with scores) and then some non-political news headlines.

I actually stand there watching the whole time. They get my business.

porksoda,

That’s a fair criticism. I guess I was just thinking it’s better than ads, but not if you don’t enjoy sports.

porksoda,

Thank you for putting into words some of the emotions I’ve felt over the last 9 months.

porksoda,

What does this title mean?

porksoda,

Got it. I hadn’t seen that one before.

I love El Caminos. My best friend’s dad bought a 1974 beater when he and I were in middle school and we helped him restore it all through HS. His dad gave it to him as a HS graduation present.

porksoda,

My neck hurts reading this comment lol

Not a bad concept though.

porksoda, (edited )

Back when I was on reddit, I subscribed to about 120 subreddits. Starting a couple years ago though, I noticed that my front page really only showed content for 15-20 subreddits at a time and it was heavily weighted towards recent visits and interactions.

For example, if I hadn’t visited r/3DPrinting in a couple weeks, it slowly faded from my front page until it disappeared all together. It was so bad that I ended up writing a browser automation script to visit all 120 of my subreddits at night and click the top link. This ended up giving me a more balanced front page that mixed in all of my subreddits and interests.

My point is these algorithms are fucking toxic. They’re focused 100% on increasing time on page and interaction with zero consideration for side effects. I would love to see social media algorithms required by law to be open source. We have a public interest in knowing how we’re being manipulated.

porksoda, (edited )

Tell me more about her history in Washington state, please.

porksoda,

In what capacity did she put people in jail in Washington state? Let’s follow this thing through to the end.

porksoda,

Right? Like it’s my job to research his claim that he’s “pretty sure” about.

porksoda,

No because he’s just parroting a talking point that he’s heard here without even being accurate.

He could at least acknowledge that her position has changed and we’re close to progress.

porksoda,

Or, and hear me out on this, her position truly changed.

I used to think billionaires were cool. Now I think they’re detrimental to society and represent a lot of what’s wrong with wealth inequality in this country. People learn, opinions change - we should welcome that.

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