Tinder was a paradigm shift. It’s success around 2015 started to flip public perception of online dating. Suddenly it was for all kinds of young people that were looking for the convenience of profile matching. A rising tide lifts all boats so legacy platforms shared in the popularity, also getting runoff from the non-target audience of the newer apps. The change in perception of online dating allowed people to appreciate its pragmatism. We’re in an age of busy people optimizing their lives. The structure and accessibility of online dating just fits with those kinds of people.
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limitedduck@awful.systemsto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When I try to go on a ricing journey again7·26 days agoIn school I had a physics teacher who thought it was a good idea one day to use whiteboard markers on the glass windows instead of the whiteboard. I didn’t learn anything that lesson.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Games@lemmy.world•EA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer gamesEnglish7·2 months agoOn what?
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can you apply "think before you speak" if it isn't feasible to pause for 15 seconds between every sentence you say mid conversation????1·2 months agoSocial skills, as the name implies, are meant to be trained, maintained, and expanded over a lifetime so don’t discount yourself because you feel like you’re too old or have tried and failed for too long. Have you considered seeking behavioral therapy? Perhaps you’re not picking up on the myriad non-verbal social cues that could help you better inform your conversations. Behavioral therapy can help identify where you’re lacking and give you the opportunity to practice skills and receive feedback from a professional.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can you apply "think before you speak" if it isn't feasible to pause for 15 seconds between every sentence you say mid conversation????5·2 months agoYou don’t need to give explicit details of your coworkers’ lives, but from your writing it really seemed to me that you were more interested in mechanically optimizing conversation. This isn’t necessarily a bad perspective, but people already do that organically by understanding each other more and learning their history. The route of good conversation follows logically from there through empathy.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can you apply "think before you speak" if it isn't feasible to pause for 15 seconds between every sentence you say mid conversation????62·2 months agoYou’re descriptions kind of make your coworkers like NPCs. If you want to have better conversations you should probably get to know them better as people. That can allow you to understand the why of their particulars and eventually guide your conversations more organically.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Funny@sh.itjust.works•I'm a 6'1" (185 cm) man with stupidly small size 3 US (EU 34) feet. I've never met another adult with smaller feet than me. It makes me look like a reverse hobbit.38·3 months agoDoes your cock run down to your knee or your ankle
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What YouTubers did you used to watch back then but not anymore?8·10 months agoThe DJ Khaled one was him just completely embarassing himself unintentionally. Funny because he’s so full of himself. Conan’s was funny, but you knew it was going to be before watching because it’s Conan
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What YouTubers did you used to watch back then but not anymore?5·10 months agoAfter the DJ Khaled episode I knew nothing else would be as entertaining for me so I stopped there
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limitedduck@awful.systemsto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?42·10 months agoWhile the obesity part is kind of a digression, I think they were pretty clear: protein powder is a waste if you have a typical American diet and are not exercising, which is apparently most Americans. While protein powder on its own isn’t snake oil, it effectively is for most people.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car washEnglish2·1 year agoI believe it also closes vents
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is anyone else having trouble with DuckDNS today?English4·1 year agoThis will be of zero help to you if your registrar isn’t Porkbun, but I’ve recently stopped using DuckDNS in lieu of this.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is anyone else having trouble with DuckDNS today?English2·1 year agoDuckdns has been inconsistent for me as well for the past year. Have you considered alternatives?
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is anyone else having trouble with DuckDNS today?English3·1 year agoI believe the nameservers are what respond to domain resolution requests. Nameservers not responding could mean they are down. If there’s no backup and the domain is resolved using one of those servers, then that might explain it not working.
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•TV Station Launches Multiple 4K Broadcasts OTA on ATSC 1.0English3·1 year agoHe kind of looks like a discount Tobuscus, which would probably be better than regular Tobuscus
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The "Well, actually..." people who dissect and pick apart your analogy/metaphor in online discussions are probably the worst people to go to a comedy club with.183·1 year agoOP posts complaining about all the wellactually’s
Immediately gets wellactually’d
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limitedduck@awful.systemsto Technology@lemmy.world•Vikunja - The open-source, self-hostable to-do appEnglish4·1 year agoGlad they’re finally starting to combine services for fewer docker containers
limitedduck@awful.systemsto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong1·1 year agoMy Xmas starts and ends with a good old bedmas
Because it’s the same kind of tired “I knew it all along” comment that’s under every depressing post like this - a comment that simultaneously undervalues both deep analysis and scientific rigor in service of a cheap, emotional moment of superiority over those who “haven’t figured it out yet”.