elbigbad

It’s also, like, Reddit. Not some financial or health database. It’s an Internet forum largely populated by literal children and teens.

And among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.

Just in case anyone sees this and takes it seriously: this is absolutely not now that works.

Can you talk more about this source of error? When I google this, your post is the main thing that comes up for the term…

The sports cars analogy doesn’t resonate with me because there’s a functional difference between regular cars and sports cars. And plenty of people buy sports cars like Miatas, which have less than zero cachet or coolness factor, and thus can’t really project being “above” anyone.

Clothing with the modifier “extremely” probably makes sense though.

I found Apollo to be fairly shady. I paid for the app and they “lost” my account or something so suddenly I could no longer use the pro features. Pretty lame, no amount of support could help, so I used the app for a while as a free user because I didn’t want to pay twice. One day they pushed like 50 modals over the course of a day to “upgrade to pro” and eventually moved to a monthly subscription service, which suddenly made me realize why they “couldn’t find” my previous account.

Love the features, but feels shady to me still. The API pricing thing does suck, but at this point I’m not willing to throw any money at them.

Better discoverability and so people could very easily install and run. Git adds more overhead.

Cixin Liu of course. Now let me tell you about “elbigbad’s Theory of Relativity” (hat tip to Einstein who had a hand in its development). More modernly phrased: “‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ -Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott

I’m guessing the admin stopped caring as much about the mission of the site, which actually seems quite compelling, or it wasn’t as profitable as they thought, and was looking for a reason to divest themselves of it. Spam is hard to fight, it does suck in that manner, but certainly possible and certainly pulling the plug on an otherwise passion project screams “don’t care anymore.”

I don’t know who Yancy is but they have some complete lack of shame to steal someone else’s idea almost word for word and prepend their name to it. I don’t know what I could muster that absolute “I don’t care at all what people think of me” if I tried, and I have here and there I just don’t have it in me.

Of course it’s not. Neither of my children’s faces have ever appeared on social media. It just requires a little discipline on the parents part, which seems to be in short supply these days.

The most woo woo articles somehow get traction outside core hours.

The largest city in the world is Tokyo which is about 40M people.

Boomers love this sort of thing. Or at least talking about loving this sort of thing. Maybe they’re too addicted to Candy Crush style games though where they won’t actually patronize these sorts of places though.

I had to look this up to make sure this wasn’t some low effort trolling. It does seem real, which raises the question: With regard to getting people to listen to your advice, wouldn’t it have been better if you had created or done something notable in the past 25 years rather than be a self-titled “Visionary” on LinkedIn?