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It’s also incredibly offensive to do it directly.

Only if you’re incredibly insecure about yourself.

The polite thing to do (…)

Overall - I agree, to certain degree. In my opinion, however, society is already “falling apart” due to how social media trains younger people for immediate gratification, everything is fast. Dating is also fast, and people don’t want to “waste time” on “incompatible people”.

Dating these days is “let’s have a date and see what happens”, not “let’s get to know each other and see if we want to date”.

Also, lots of people are pretty lonely, so “group activity” is not possible for them.

Yeah, I don’t, because I have enough empathy and intelligence to realise that people who don’t know me… well, don’t know me - and there absolutely are dangerous people out there.

In short: pull your head out of your arse, it’s not about you.

I just don’t think it’s healthy to assume every man is a psycho and then make them prove otherwise, especially if you want to try dating them

It’s a bit difficult to determine just from online interactions, don’t you think?

“Dating” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. These days “dating” means “I swiped right, we talked for an hour or two and now we’re meeting for the first time”.

As long as the other person is upfront about it, I wouldn’t be weirded out if they brought a friend to feel better, honestly, no fucking clue who would have an issue with that. Because it’s not about “all men”, it’s about “I’m meeting a stranger”.

If you’re the person who sees that situation as an attack, you’re better off leaving the other party alone.

[citation needed]

Sounds like setting yourself up to create conflict in a relationship that doesn’t even exist yet.

WTF are you on about, mate?

There’s no other way to read this besides “I think you are a horrible person so I need protection on our public date, why am I going on a date with a horrible person? I wanted dinner”

There absolutely is another way to read it and it’s: “there are lots of horrible people and I wanted to make sure you’re not one of them”.

I guess you reacting to this post in that way puts you bang in the middle of one of those two categories…

Quick! Scan his post and comment history to find something to bring him down!!

That makes the assumption you want to use your phone number at all

Can’t use Signal without a phone number.

There already are. People all over LinkedIn are changing their titles to “AI Code Cleanup Specialist”.

Then talk to your government, get them to make the app, not just the website. Go you!

I almost forgot this is Technology, where the most insane tech views are the norm…

Aaaand we circle back to THIS.

Nearly every weather app that exists is repackaging data from an official, tax funded source

The weather source. Not the application source. A dude needs to sit down and write that part.

You’re desperately trying to spit on me, but forgetting we’re both behind computer screens. Get sober. Don’t spit on your computer.

No, by doing something else with his life because developing an app is not an all-encompassing behavior.

Buddy, are you suggesting that software developers should “do something else to earn money”?

Are you high right now?

No, I’m just not a useful idiot going to bat for people making money off of me.

Go ahead. Quote the bit where anyone in this thread is batting for anybody.

I, personally, have made significantly more complicated apps than what you’re defending

I’m becoming fairly certain that you are high. What exactly am I defending…?

If we can do it, why can’t this scumbag?

We can’t have a discussion if you don’t understand some simple facts of life. Such as: “people need to eat”, or “eating costs money”, or “not everybody has the privilege of being a software developer as a side-gig”, or “not everybody wants or can be a farmer”.

Please, tell me more about how ignorant and innocent you are. It’s cute and predictable.

Get sober, then read what you wrote again.

Yeah, that’s true. Often people will take the money from users AND from selling data. But you can (usually) verify if that’s the case by checking the app’s permissions required.

The point stands, however: you either pay for the software with money, or with data - with the only exception being the unusually rare FOSS project here and there, which either lives in relative obscurity or grows to become large enough for the creators to either start requiring money, or just fold under the load…

He can eat without selling people’s data.

Yes. By making your app paid, not free. 90% of Apple Store/Google Play store users don’t want to pay for apps with their money.

This isn’t about putting food on the table and you’re a dipshit if you believe otherwise.

You’re childishly naive if you think it’s malice 100% of the way top to bottom.

I guess calling it “Project Barad Dur” was a bit too on the nose after they named themselves Palantir.

Show me one weather app that’s state-sponsored (therefore: paid by taxes) that sells data to boost income.

If you want the weather info sponsored by your taxes, use the browser.

If you want a convenient widget, someone needs to make it, and the developer who made that widget needs to eat too.

You can either buy an app or pay with your data.