Whoever came up with that deserves credit. Entirely lovely and harmless “superstition” as far as I can tell. No one is hoping for rain so they won’t be disappointed, but everyone has that line (“lucky it’s raining on your wedding day“ or whatever) ready just in case.

I wonder if there are other white lie kinda pro-social quips like that

Ya @cattywampas@lemm.ee let’s send them complaints on this

They gotta give us a way to watch adfree without spying on us

15% if you know about it, if you apply, if you get accepted

Good watch on this stuff, the recent court decision overall

Dude’s so vindicated. Apple lover who HATES their treatment of developers cases like this.

Ya!

Important to keep a semi-reasonable option in the major app stores, unless we want Social-Media-Tor dot Mirror or something to become the new hotness

Thanks. Wonder about reach—if a post there went viral somehow, if it would be allowed to run its natural course onto r/all

Maybe so, such a small sub, might not have any “defenses” against it haha. hmm but suppose it could show in a trending sidebar at some point if they’re still doing that. Ah, guess we could test whether their threads ever get recommended when browsing similar threads on other subs.

Rando-mirror linker version btw:

https://farside.link/https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/

Ya b/c it’s not plastered with ads, what’s even the point of this place if the advertisers haven’t swarmed it? :)

When one reads the room (or the… sidewalk? the coffee shop?), is clever, and well groomed, and all that…

It’s absolutely possible to speak to strangers in public regardless of whether they’re male or female or whatever. Furthermore, sometimes the immediate response is a positive one instead of a polite but obviously disinterested one.

But oh my GOODNESS do we have to be careful not to be an undue burden on others! (Note some scenarios can’t be helped—people who are DEATHLY afraid of ANYONE talking to them ever are in a bad spot, sorry to those folks, but you may have to ignore a polite sentence from me before I apologize/quickly move on.)

I don’t have good cold approach tips for random places in public, but in a nightclub, can be natural to follow this flow:

• comment on venue
• comment on artist
• comment on the person (the person herself)

Maybe it’s adaptable outside the clurb too.

Do know it definitely helps out there if she has a dog. Only speaking to people when there’s a genuinely natural conversation starter, like a cute dog, is probably pretty safe. Maybe “Whoh did you get that hat from <boutique down the street?>” when you’re actually curious. Curiosity shines through, as does your lack of need for a specific outcome, and can lead to good engagement from someone you’ve made comfortable and perhaps who’s chuffed to have had their fancy accessory complimented. (‘Oh actually my friend made it!’ = nice)

And maybe you’re already walking away as you’re talking, just making it so obvious how little a threat you are, how unlikely you are to be aggressive.

We’re allowed to “be excellent to each other” and we’re allowed to get rejected. Nothing like a good rejection, LOVE knowing I tried. Finally hey, some of earth’s 8 billion inhabitants were married in modern times solely thanks to the guy reasonably approaching a stranger, and none of us could tell his wife she was wrong not to reject him (or that he was a jerk for saying hi).

YOU GOT THIS!

Kindly,

brb

Oh nooooo

So sorry those losers were not just losers but also abusers (no offense to good memories you have or good parts of them, if any, just covering my bases here b/c life’s complicated)

Would you like to try to build back some confidence here? Elderly folks can be so very sweet (and/or lonely). Next time you’re at a crosswalk and see someone who couldn’t even suddenly dive at you fast enough to make physical contact, you could broach a conversation.

stare at their phones

Maybe we’d rather, but it’s kinda killing us at least in a sense

Published today: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-death-of-daydreaming

tl;dr interrupting me when I’m on my phone is probably chill (maybe I’ll thank you, or excuse myself if I’m sending a work email/thing)

“Ninja” edit: before folks come @ me for the phone interruption thing (for good reason), mainly advocating for building up those small talk skills that abusers hampered through NO fault of your own

“Don’t we have any other way to motivate our workers?”

Ahaha!!

cool tool

Yeah we spent a ton of energy on that analysis but am necessarily so curious about the state of the art (I’mma tech person) and this was a suitable test case. UC Berkeley/others’s got a project

with SotA available free (but all data hoovered for research)

My other big test was right when it came out after reporting about scary good image analysis, on something where I had a legitimate question. tl;dr take pic of scene IRL, remove EXIF, hop on VPN, and upload to ^ & see if its response/analysis feels creepy or reverse image search is just as good or what

PS: adding missed disclaimer to previous comment

I think the vibe is kind of “works for grandma out of the box“, “someone in the small-but-mighty dev community made an [open-source] app for that”

Yeah frustrates me too but seeing it as a kind of culture would probably help me be less frustrated

Then Apple gets tiny bits of occasional flak for Sherlocking

lol @moe90@feddit.nl posted and logged off, they have a life! (I gotchu moe)

Mod coulda fixed fix huh or maybe that’s dangerous

browser.ml.chat.enabled

Hope ya get back safely @jasep@lemmy.world

I’m going to stick it out for maybe a couple months (past this first ~month period) just to see if maybe they are superior somehow

RIGHT

So why’s it hard to explain why they’re not the same… 🤔

Thanks, I’m guessing what you posted is pretty much right on

Edit: fallible output above per below - thanks @gon@lemm.ee

You got it!

Bet we have more common ground than not!

e.g. what’s oriental?, prob a rug

We haven’t used that in a while

Nor female in the specific way used right here

(^posted kindly, Calipher!)

YES on the ask!!! Seconded big time

@LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee kinda burying lede ish

He’s your princiPAL

no one could remember it without that pneumonic!