If you are in one of the supported locations, I can recommend Breeze. Via Breeze you can’t chat after matching. Instead you get a date planner in front of you. You pay for actual dates, meaning the app wants you to go on dates, since that is what gives them money. Cancelling dates is penalized via badges on your profile, and less priority in the algorithm. Hence, swiping right is a serious action, even more so than a message on the more serious sites. You also get a limited amount of profiles per day (around 5 to 10 or so), so you don’t get lost in swiping sessions. And yes, you do get dates with people who you really don’t click with. But the hour or two spend having a drink are still less of a waste of energy than chatting for 2 weeks to come to the same conclusion.

*How long ago

To which the answer is: 23 days.

How would untrackable digital currency even work?

Any transaction is a request from one to another entity, with some authority registering the exchange of funds. Even bitcoin works like this, where the authority is the consensus of the network, instead of a bank.

Any system without some central authority seems impossible to keep safe from fraud to me. But while I’m skeptical, I’d love to be proven wrong here.

Het probleem met THC, is dat het heel lang in je bloed blijft. Ook lang nadat het uitgewerkt is. Zware gebruikers zijn niet 10 uur na een jointje nog high, terwijl hun bloed de hele dag THC zal bevatten. Dit betekent dat iemand niet 's avonds een jointje kan roken, en 's ochtends legaal de auto in kan stappen. Geen idee wat we er mee moeten, maar het geeft bij dit soort onderzoeken wel een vertekend beeld, want mensen gaan natuurlijk wel gewoon op pad.

If you literally put a line about dealbreakers in your main profile text, it can be quite offputting for the same reasons that the interview style dates are offputting.

Instead, write around the thing you want to say in a more positive way. For example: “I love to take sponteneous weekend trips. Where have you been last?” It filters out most people with fixed responsibiltites like kids and dogs, while opening up a conversation.

Or: “Unfortunately I meed to carry an epipen for when a cute dog does get to close. Fortunately my cat can snuggle with me all day”. Again, you filter the people with dogs, but provide an opening to people who are still interested.

No, but Leonardo is a pretty big defence company. For example, the deck gun on the Isearli corvettes is a Leonardo gun. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa'ar_6-class_corvette (Oto Melara is part of Leonardo).

Kinda. But once you pay them, you also start to expect things from them. You inadvertenty put pressure on them. This will drive some of the volunteers away.

This regime won’t go away just because they loose an election. Trump might, but not the people who put him in power.

The constant threat that the checks and balances will fail again, will forever be present. Only if the USA has a massive political overhaul may the worries subside. Hence, any trust in the USA as a reliable partner is broken, until something big changes. Democrats winning the next 20 years of elections will still not fix what has been broken in the last few years.

Welcome to a great method on getting soldiers to throw their lives away for someone elses glory. Has been shown to be extremely effective throughout the ages.

Boston looks much easier to navigate though. Much clearer road hierarchy, meaning better flowing traffic, and less traffic near houses and shops.

Disclaimer: above statement is based on the image posted here, not on knowledge on the actual situation.

Things might be ok, but you won’t live long and prosper.

This joke can’t possibly be American. Diesel in the USA is a bit more than 5 dollars per gallon currently (according to a quick search). The cheapest diesel I can get in my town is around 2.23 euro per liter currently. That translates to about 11.50 dollars per gallon. 5 dollars per gallon is a steal! The robbery is the other way around!

Why take pill, when you can install schnapps?

If you do that in Latin, you get names like September, October, and December. Just make sure not to randomly insert two extra months, making sevenuary by the 9th month.

Helldivers. A game which applies over the top levels of sarcastic propaganda for the managed democracy of Super Earth. In the game, you play as a footsoldier (helldiver) for Super Earth. Hence, the whole culture around the game is soaked with sarcastic propaganda.

I don’t mind paying a few bucks a month to get rid of all the youtube nonsense for a bit though. It’s not exactly Netflix level of pricing.

To complete this 2 sentence horror story:

Such code bases are what the Vibe coding AI is trained on.

The large wheel next to the cabin is also messed up. It means the cabin must be smaller than the track width, since the cabin is squized inbetween the wheels. But in reality the cabin is always wider then the wheel base.

I agree that the lines look sharp, but the composition makes no sense. The giant wheel next to the cabin is just weird. Why is the wheel bigger? And why is the cabin not wider than the track width? This looks like a tractor, not a locomotive. The steam is comming from the coal storage, but not from the engine. And why does the coal storage have a chimney anyway? Then there are the weirdly shaped coupling rods. These mistakes make no sense in the context of a steam locomotive, but they look plausable. I’m no AI expert, but it certainly is a weird looking steam locomotive.

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I’m starting to think this was designed wrong intentionally. What better way to farm engagement then to wrongly draw a train in a meme about autism, on Lemmy?

Wacht ff. Er zijn kampioenschappen voor het beSTUREN van een apparaat op rails?