Because liberal mystification with fancy-sounding concepts made to make you feel dumb so you don’t realize it’s just creative surplus labor value expropriation

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

Wow, I thought for sure this was DALL-E.

Shows, I suppose how the existence of these things cheapens what would otherwise be a sense of awe or appreciation.

vertical_horizon_everything_you_want.mp3

track id???

Lmao, I remember trying to do that dance and skinning my foot on a jagged floorboard

My friends’ parents were mad but in retrospect, sorta on them for having that janky floor

c/misleadingthumbnails

What if the malady is mere pain and inadequate well-being perception?

Covering edge cases in leetcode be like

Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices

This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out

False; it says “100% Safe & Secured” right there on that logo. How could that possisbly be a scam?

Disengaged.

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

What did they test for, exactly? Meat allergy?

Excellent instance name

There was the incident of Target or some store realizing someone was pregnant before they did themselves, which seems relevant here.

good morning

!cico@lemmy.world feels this in their soul

give space to your own creativity

This is key. One will inevitably make many different design and UX decisions vs whatever preexisting projects are out there, making one’s project more suited to at least a few contexts than anything preexisting.

In addition to being plain demotivating, looking at other stuff too early basically encourages one to just make the same decisions as others, becoming much more like just a second implementation of what already exists.