and so I no longer watch ScarJo movies because she took Sky from us.
OTOH, Sky sounded more like Rashida Jones.
Readit Newsteaneedz commented on Do Not Mess with Scarlett Johansson thezvi.substack.com/p/do-... · Posted by u/paulpauper
teaneedz commented on Gen Z wants less sex in TV and movies npr.org/2023/10/25/120843... · Posted by u/lxm
Also less cursing please! Every streamed original or movie seems to be in some kind of competition for f-bombs and comes across as so forced and unnecessary.
Watch the IPO dollars. That’s what this is all about. Whoever is hitching their wagon to this IPO should be taking a serious look at management and comments made by the CEO which were clearly demonstrating immaturity and a loss of touch with both product and community. Reddit for the base is dead. What that means for the IPO will be interesting. Devaluation is in the process.
teaneedz commented on Join our CEO tomorrow to discuss the API reddit.com/r/reddit/comme... · Posted by u/throw7
My assumption is that there won't be a mass exodus from Reddit, at least not one that materially affects Reddit's bottom line. People will grumble, but most of them will continue to go there as before. I'm just basing this off historical episodes of internet outrage.
For comparison, when Digg 2.0 came out, people just moved to Reddit immediately, they didn't complain about it on Digg, and vow to leave eventually. They just left and never looked back. I'm generalizing; of course there are counterexamples.
I think we've made an internet where there aren't a ton of viable competitors, so there is no easy path out. The choice is to either get the dopamine hit from the same place as before, or forego the dopamine hit altogether, and for a lot of people the answer is clear.
I'd love to be wrong about this though.
Oh there will be financial repercussions. Anyone hitching their wagon to this IPO is looking closely at management. The IPO is likely driving this in the first place but it’s based on very short term and faulty assumptions. Reddit is already on fire with moderators and content producers. The reality of this short sightedness hasn’t had enough time to sink in yet. It will though.
Having tried to use Apollo several times over several years, I keep coming back to the official Reddit app. It works and I'm just used to it. I like the UI much better and it feels normal. Nothing Apollo provides was that much of an improvement over the default app IMO.
Are you a dev for the app or Reddit employee? The official app is a case study in bad UX design. The only positive reviews in the app store are easily identified as bot or part of paid for campaigns. The recent reviews though tell how more average users view the official app…and it’s not very good.
teaneedz commented on Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use blog.nephics.se/2022/06/0... · Posted by u/nephics
> Adding a currently playing song to a playlist will stop the music and clear the play queue.
This bugs me to no end. I'm always asking myself if a song is worth the listening interruption that will happen when I add it to a playlist.
Such a stupid low hanging bug.
teaneedz commented on Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web techrights.org/2021/02/06... · Posted by u/URfejk
How many of us did the RSS mashups with Yahoo Pipes?
Those were good days.
teaneedz commented on Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed? psyche.co/ideas/are-peopl... · Posted by u/known
Sociopaths are great at empathy. Empathy is the ability to observe and understand others emotions without actually connecting. It’s absolutely essential to be a successful dark triad tape.
Sympathy is the “light” counterpart, where you actually emotionally resonate with the other person. Obviously this makes nasty behavior less attractive since you feel the emotional effects too.
And now you know why corporate psychobabble always goes on about user empathy.
source? seems like a rather twisted definition of empathy.
teaneedz commented on Are people with dark personality traits more likely to succeed? psyche.co/ideas/are-peopl... · Posted by u/known
back in the day, they were just called bad people as we wondered why they were still around.
The problem is not the "WP" in their name but their specific usage of "WordPress" and "WooCommerce" on their website and marketing. You don't have to literally use the trademarked in your brand name for infringement. Legal threshold, AFAIK, is around 15% of the people thinking you are officially related to the owner or the licensees of the trademark.
https://automattic.com/2024/09/25/open-source-trademarks-wp-...