BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 5 days ago:
You’re going to get a lot of advise about what makes life worth living, but it sounds like you have low level depression. Talking to a therapist and looking at an antidepressant are your first steps, along with the other things that can help with low level depression.
- Comment on ai comments on cbs videos, but why 1 week ago:
“Subtle” thirst trap. Trying to get people to click on the profile which will have a link to whatever spam they’re peddling.
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 3 weeks ago:
Sorta related, if you’re really interested in using them and are a straight cis person I highly recommend trying them out from the other side. Create a more or less generic account of the opposite gender and see what kinds of messages, likes, or whatever you end up with. It will be mind boggling how different it is from what you are used to and give you an idea of what you will need to do to actually make a match.
- Comment on Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning? 3 weeks ago:
Well, sorta. As someone else pointed out the economic incentives for most dating app owners are diametrically opposed to the needs of the users. There is also a huge consolation in the market with the majority of the apps by user count being owned by a single company.
There are a few exceptions but they very much aren’t for everyone.
OKCupid from 20 years ago was great before it sold out. But it’s only accessible to time travelers.
Next are the more event based apps which tend to cater to kinksters, swingers, poly, and queer folk. I’m thinking of things like FetLife, Grinder and Plura. They work well for their audience since those communities tend to have events that people will keep coming back for even if they have successfully found someone on the app. In fact success finding someone might make them more likely to keep on the app and bring in their friends.
But for monogamous straight people? Dating apps are a hellscape.
- Comment on Don't put it in a crazy 4 weeks ago:
Looking at my dating history… yeah, that tracks.
- Comment on I mean... I'm not complaining... 2 months ago:
Saluton Sro. Zamenhof!
- Comment on Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs 2 months ago:
Huh. Thief 1&2, System Shock 1&2 and Deus Ex make up half of my top 10 games list. But multiplayer? I donno, maybe if there is also a good single player campaign I’ll be interested. I’d be happy with a modern Thief 1&2 remaster. NewDark and TheDarkMod are great, but I’d love to have full raytracing in Thief.
- Comment on What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified? 2 months ago:
The first one that comes to mind is Jimmy Hoffa, but they never found the body. He was almost certainly killed by the Mafia, but no specific person was ever prosecuted for it.
- Comment on What is stopping a scammer from HTTPS certificating a "nonsense.ReputableBank.com" 2 months ago:
To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.
- Comment on Not the worst sales technique. 3 months ago:
My motorcycle dealer has a similar sign about being sad and ugly.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 3 months ago:
“That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 months ago:
I’ve left two jobs because they were toxic. I always had something else lined up beforehand though.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 4 months ago:
I’m not saying it doesn’t work. I’ve set several things from GoG up using Lutris. But in Steam it’s a two step process:
- Click Install
- Click Play
I want that level of ease from GoG.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 4 months ago:
Now can we get proton support for GoG that is as convient and reliable as it is in Steam?
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 4 months ago:
… the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about.
- Comment on I've bean missing these memes 5 months ago:
Have you ever actually tried doing it? Yes it works and works well. But damn is it a lot of labor to keep everything growing correctly and to harvest it all.
- Comment on Anon pretends to be a girl online 5 months ago:
This is the meet cute for a bi rom com, right?
- Comment on Freak in the Sheets 7 months ago:
Also, me eating a fig.
- Comment on TIL 8 months ago:
Also, me eating a fig.
- Comment on fossils 11 months ago:
Dinosaurs aren’t reptiles, they’re birds.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 11 months ago:
Much like all of life. Expectations cause suffering.
- Comment on What is a "tax write off"? 1 year ago:
A write off is a colloquialism that refers to reducing your effective taxed income. A more realistic example would be, let’s say you make $250k, but you’re self employed and spent $50k on business expenses like a car and office space. Then you can write off that $50k and only pay taxes like you made $200k.
- Comment on What’s a “sovereign citizen “? 1 year ago:
They are people who have fallen for and/or are grifting for a deeply unhinged conspiracy theory that national laws don’t apply to them if they do some certain set of pseudo legal things. What exactly those things are, as well as what laws don’t apply to them,vary widely, but are usually centered around driver’s licenses and car registration, tax evasion and not paying child support.
Past that it’s hard to explain what their beliefs are because it is so vague and ever changing.
- Comment on This default wallpaper. 1 year ago:
Literally unusable. 🤣