Because I’m not a sociopath. In this theoretical happily-ever-after dating app, I want to make people happy by connecting them with the right other people. Ongoing business comes from happy couples giving word of mouth recommendations to their friends and family, not from trying to lock in a misery subscription.

Maybe I’m old fashioned. I remember a time when capitalism meant “make money by doing something helpful for people” instead of rent-seeking bamboozle profits.

Wait, Starbuck is in Star Wars now? Which show was this?

any kind of dating app is self-detrimental for revenue

It doesn’t have to be. In the US, about 4 million people turn 18 every year. Let’s say you get all of them signed up and all of them optimally paired off. You still have another 4 million new signups next year. Until the world falls off a demographic cliff, you’ve got an evergreen customer population.

That being said, the well is VERY poisoned at this point. The match group is a cancer on our society.

That’s what you get when you monkey around.

Heh, I’ve also heard 33x for a 3% rule, but that really starts to get into “well, how cautious ARE you?”

I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(

I’ve heard 25x

As proud clankerists, we can all agree that technological progress has gone too far! And we’ll get right on that as soon as we vanquish the real threat – the clankerites, those splitters!

cilantro would also be good in that soup

Agreed! Unfortunately for me, we forgot to get it out of the fridge when the soup was ready.

Cilantro in general is tough. It comes in large enough bundles from the store that we really struggle to use it all before it goes bad.

True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.

Any mushroom is edible…once.

reductio ad absurdum, actually.

You claimed that this statement was not true:

There are no nutrients that are exclusively available via meat/dairy.

i.e. claimed that there are some nutrients that can only be sourced via meat or dairy.

An obligate carnivore must eat meat to live, like, say, if the only source of needed nutrients is meat?

Where did I lose you on this? Is it the “or dairy” escape hatch?

FFS, you could have just given an example of a nutrient you mistakenly think is only available via meat or dairy. Then I could have judged your post on its merits instead of this displeasure of a thread.

manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.

Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.

(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)

That’s not –

Wait –

You magnificent bastard

that’s not true

Are you sure about that? Got any examples of nutrients that make humans obligate carnivores?

PRNDL

My brain wants this to be “Purndle”

It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.

We make this black bean soup pretty regularly at my house. I still can’t believe how good it is for how simple it is to cook!

ETA: I crib quite a lot of recipes from eatingwell these days. This chickpea casserole is quite good, too.

Ha, fair enough! It just feels like sort of a dodge in this kind of setting with a sort of implied bias towards linux on the desktop.

But we do not grant you the title of Spice Master.