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luzojedaon Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US

What if people enjoy their privacy at homes? Leave them be...

Which would the rest be? Asking genuinely as a 4 YOE dev

luzojedaon The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable

They are terrible for everyone except Maduro, his family and friends and the same about Kim Jong Un in North Korea.

I many times suspect that people who yearn for communism/socialism just wish to be those who come out on top from the revolution such as the Castros, the Chavez, Maduro, Guevara, Ortega, etc.

luzojedaon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

Of course. But the discussion gets partially derailed against Facebook and Instagram and not about the original article about TikTok.

luzojedaon Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony

Why do threads about TikTok _always_ have posts with whataboutism regarding Instagram and other social network apps? It's a pattern I started noticing.

luzojedaon Dating apps lose their luster with college students

>When you hear someone say, "sounds like you had a bad experience there friend, maybe you should try again and do something different," admit that yes, you got taken at a casino, and the different thing to do is to not spend your time in casinos.

And also those that say "I've met my wonderful wife/husband in Tinder, maybe you should keep trying" and most of those cases (in my personal experience) date back to 2016 and before. When there weren't so many people just trying to get followers, bots, scammers, etc. etc. Besides survivorship bias, of course.

luzojedaon Current thoughts on social media

I feel it is not being moderated _at all_ now.

luzojedaon 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps

Nobody _owes_ you love nor sex. Nobody at all.