Don’t deny me a GIF of my man Rodney!

The hard to swallow answer here is this:

Dating apps, like all apps, are majorly funded by giant companies, because there’s no realistic path to scaling up from 100 users to millions of users without a bunch of investment money.

Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.

Well, if it gets any amount of quick adoption, I’ll be going from really low costs to astronomical hosting costs almost overnight. Often, the “checks haven’t cleared” as they say and while you’ve technically been paid, it’s all waiting in escrow or bank transfers or what fucking have you and you have giant bills falling due and no way to pay them

That’s why this happens to every single app under the sun. They’re left making tough decisions and selling out to unscrupulous people.

Because what no one wants to admit is that the funding model to how to make almost anything function on the internet at-scale where millions of people use it is fundamentally broken.

I mean fuck, isn’t that why we’re on the federated splinter-net where people can justify the costs of their small corner of federation, easing the overall load of financial demand?

Corporate internet is broken and they’re chasing ridiculously thin numbers to constantly be making more.

So, you’d probably need some kind of federated solution to not have it be destroyed by corporatized enshittification.

Just searched, and it looks like you’re correct.

Also, apparently there’s an episode where Spacely and Cogswell are arguing about real estate and they discuss a rule of Orbit City which requires all buildings to be at least 2200 feet off the ground (I assume from their “bottom”), which would make their homes roughly the top floors of the Burj Khalifa

For a minute, I thought this was Geto Boys - Still

Die motherfuckers, die motherfuckers, still

I got a killer up inside of me

I can’t talk to my mother, so I talk to my diary

We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine

And the machine is bleeding to death

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues

This kind of goes for all the Mountain Goats songs about The Alpha Couple.

Soon:

I think we call them “widgets.”

Fuck that, I’d rather have Penny’s Computer Book.

*puts hand in pocket

Oh wait.

Nah, I’m just outjerking the jerk.

I mean, is Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law considered canon? If so, then yep, 100% true.

Yeah, this is seriously manipulative. I actually wouldn’t consider it gaslighting per se, which is a much more specific thing where a person is trying to make you think you’re losing your mind. This is just bog-standard manipulative behavior.

As someone who is in a long-term relationship with a partner who struggled with these kind of issues when we met…

She has to be willing to understand this is a problem, and even if her fears are justified, she needs help, because berating you and being manipulative by asking super loaded questions (especially in the middle of the night, wtf. she needs some work on boundaries, too) is in no way shape or form a normal or healthy aspect of any functioning relationship.

Be ready to accept that sometimes things like manipulative behavior come from things like fears of abandonment. It doesn’t make them okay, but it should give us pause and consider that people aren’t doing it because they want to hurt us. It took me a while to understand my partner was doing things that pushed me away because she was scared of losing me, because it’s totally backwards in my mind. It just means you have to consider the possibility that this isn’t because she’s selfish, but actually potentially dealing with other kinds of mental health issues. She still needs to work on it, and she still needs help for it, but please have a little compassion.

Be willing to go to counseling with her if you want to try to make it work, but she has to be able to see what she has done, show sincere regret, and want to change. It can take time, and everyone deserves that chance, but only if they’re willing to put in the work.

If she’s unable or unwilling to accept how hurtful and manipulative what she did was, and that she at the very least needs counseling, then you need to consider ending it.

EDIT: I should be clear that “putting in the work” means up to and including: getting a mental health diagnosis, getting medication, getting a psychiatrist, getting a counselor whose field is focused on helping people with specifically this diagnosis, and then working through their problems.

Step 1. Get a desktop instead.

Step 2. ???

Step 3. Profit

God Bless Cherry 2000.

Exactly. When the person who holds your purse strings decides they don’t like something, they can influence you by simply… taking away your financial backing.

Hush now, you’re interrupting the circlejerk.

Who hides in a Pineapple from the FCC?

EDIT:

Mmmmmm, yellowcake.

FlUber?

Don’t forget:

• Out of control sea level rise due to climate change, which is why they all live up in the sky

• Mutants in the lower levels

I think the Soviets and the space race with the USA would prove that the “We have to build it faster, first!” isn’t just a capitalist thing.

Capitalism incentivizes it, absolutely. To be clear, I’m not making some “it’s human nature” argument, culture plays a huge role. Capitalist culture influences it greatly, but I think humans “racing” to achieve something before another does is outside the scope of just capitalism.