build another software platform

This community is not going to be the one to solve that problem, sorry.

publicdebates 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

HN has some odd people that don't jump to tech solutions for everything. Plus I'm banned from reddit for 3 days for making a dark joke, and besides, my reddit post asking the same thing went nowhere. At least people here engage in good faith and depth.

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fsckboy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

i want to hear the joke

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publicdebates an hour ago | parent [-]

Someone said he said something rude in front of his friend, and is worried she will think badly about him, and asked what to do to fix it.

I said there's no turning back now, time to double down, call her fat and ugly, and punch her dog.

Banned for 3 days for advocating violence.

	▲	fsckboy 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		there are way worse calls to violence every day on reddit! except I guess fat-shaming is also violence

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pixelpoet 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I actually wanted to suggest government funded online dating, so we aren't beholden to godawful Tinder and its clones (OkCupid was great for me until it got bought out and turned into Tinder).

	▲	kylehotchkiss 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have a slightly different angle on that - Government mandated open algorithms, exposure of sort factors (are you in the back of the line in the swipe queue), and monthly disclosure of male/female ratios. Yeah, it'll effectively crush their business models and then they actually need to start solving the problems they've created (extreme superficiality, not background checking users, not addressing bots, not acknowledging that US has an implicit class system) I'm trying to figure out if I have enough energy to try to pitch this to my representatives office, but I don't know if 30-40% adults never marrying or falling birth rates would be arguments that democratic politician would care to act upon.
	▲	platevoltage 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		OkCupid was great before it got turned into a swiping app. Such a shame.