I'd say the target audience of newspaper comic Arlo and Janis readers, they were intended to be a boomer comic when the comic strip launched in 1985. obviously like almost all comic strips, the characters haven't aged so, when the comic strip was written they were boomers in 1985.

It is worth noting that the comic specifically is noted as being kind of a reversal of normal boomer humor, as the normal tropes of comedy in that era was more on being annoyed with your spouse etc.... and it more often actually made the relationship mostly healthy.

And yeah you know how good something is when you push it on people.

Honestly I'm kind of baffled that big tech seems to have such a long history of the opposite working in usage.

IE facebook - started off exclusive to specific colleges, gradually rolled out to all colleges, then to the general population. IMO the long timeframe of "it's out there but you can't have it", was marketing brilliance that made people demand it.

gmail - google announced it on april 1st, to make people think it wasn't even real, Did a slow gradual rollout in which a relatively small pool could get accounts, then had their existing members be able to invite others. People sold their invites on ebay and similar, the demand was through the roof for them.

Google plus. Now you'd think google having both of those examples would have done the math... Nope "Hey you already have a gmail account, we decided you should use google plus too!, Your account is there. Hey we've tweaked your youtube account to use your real name so that you can already be ready to combine it with your google plus account! Hey USE GOOGLE PLUS NOW IT'S GREAT!!!!

IMO google plus was as ahead of facebook at the time as facebook was ahead of myspace. Hell I'd still say it's prime features make it actually usable in ways facebook never became capable of (circles as a core feature was IMO was the thing to make it perfectly usable. IE every post set so you can have friends that say care about video games, or dogs, or have compatible politics etc..., and effortlessly post to that group without annoying or starting a fight with others). But it's nature of telling people what to do... was a huge drawback. MS's products are seemingly doing that even more, admitted part of it is just the automatic built in drawback of being "microsoft", I don't think anyone hears the name microsoft and thinks "this is going to be a product that I WANT to run".

But I think the bottom line is, when you are telling the users they want to use it... you've pretty much already lost.

I think his point is, that's where the conservatives love to go. IE this image is most likely to be sent in a "we need to cut medicaid and social security" arguement, because that's what the conservatives do, they fearmonger about the deficate, slash everything that helps regular citizens and allows for the economy to grow in healthy ways, then stop talking about it when it's time to start a new war or pay for the crap that they want.

yup was going to say, greatest problem with design of dating apps. Working is a failure. Not giving hope is also a failure, so the sweet spot of capitalism for them is basically to run like a casino... set up as many people into a game you know they won't win, with just a sliver of false hope to make them think they can win.... while knowing that most won't.

I'd hope, but basically they are only protecting downloading, for the most part 99% of piracy prosecution has already shifted focus to uploading, and really the focus is far more on the companies hosting etc... because they learned in the napster era that suing grandmothers and children doesn't really win the PR wars.

They don’t need to be mutually exclusive.

They aren't exclusive, but they aren't the same thing, so there's no real confirmation that a pornstar knows more than your average woman on, enjoyable sex rather than looking like she enjoys it.

Concept of Pornstars teaching satisfying sex is to me on par with WWE wrestlers teaching self defense classes. Sure some WWE wrestlers probably have actual training in that category. But there's probably more people with just a focus on actual self defense fighting that could do the job better.

They make the world worse so their lobbiest friends can make more money. I'd say lawyers are pretty far down on that line. They've got shares in big tech, health insurance, Oil, Weapon manufacturing etc... I think all of those are bigger money makers.

yeah reminds me a bit of the quote in futurama about blernsball

"Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine!", "Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns!

George Orwell might be trending but it’s still outside the range of standard reading material.

I don't know I've heard no shortage of conservatives referencing 1984.... with the assumption that it's what would happen if the democrats took power, and a total lack of realizing which party is currently pushing those style of policies and building spy cams everywhere.

Man... I think it would be hilarious if a democratic president created a "doge" like organization, except instead of blanket cutting the government, they just explicitly cut exactly what each politician chose to cut for normal people. IE everyone who voted for this, has the AC turned off in their office and is banned from the water cooler.

Amusingly I learned about this with one of my dogs. He was significantly bigger than the rest of his litter by a huge margain, when we told the vet about it the guy just said "must have a different dad". like it was the most common thing on earth.

They basically flip the term around. IE criticizing a specific government, is anti-semetic. Blanket blaming an entire population of people for things they aren't even directly associated with, is OK.

My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.

on a job interview in IT, an interviewer asked me if I understood the difference between TCP and UDP. After giving the best technical explanation I could, I ended with

I could tell you a UDP joke, but I'm not sure if you'd get it.

He said go ahead

I paused, that was it.

Kind of awkward.

I didn't get the job.

Whole concept of "how much AI you used", is so flipping stupid of a metric I can't even wrap my head around. I mean even if we assume it's their own AI they are using... that's their power etc... That's like a leaderboard for most gas used up, or miles driven by your truck drivers.

So TL:DR, chrome is like internet explorer was before firefox. It does some things outside the standard, and because it's the modern day "default". sites sloppily code to work with it, and other browsers are left carrying the bag because if tiktok doesn't work on firefox, people will view that as a firefox problem. Even if firefox is the one actually following the standards when tiktok and chrome aren't.

Why do you think some of the most advertised things are... predatory loans and gambling.

Honestly for me the worse of it is, basically on linkedin and similar, people pretending to be recruiters, opening with a fake job posting and asking for your resume, then to follow it up with "Hey you know I don't think this resume is going to get by, can I put you in contact with my resume company, they will sharpen up your resume for $300. Umm... so yeah, don't know if you guessed this, but I have no clue when my next paycheck is coming in, this isn't the time to ask me to drop a large amount of money on something that may not do anything.

" problematic under current security standards."

Is there an understatement of the year award.

It's slightly troublesome that not only were a bunch of 20ish year olds, at least one in his past was fired for posting company secrets on discord... not only are able to walk into any government agency and get classified information... but are also, notably posting them to the public. (and that's just what we see them doing publicly... lord knows if anything is traveling through any hidden channels etc...

That's "problematic" in the way 9/11 was a "troubling event".

We need to respect the victims, that's why we can't release it.

Now watch the real thing be released full of victim names as he calls for harrasing them... but all the perpetrators names redacted.

Pretty sure the flow chart for identifying scams goes.

"Is trump in the name?" With yes leading to "it's a scam"