It's like the classic argument about IRC vs Discord. IRC is more convoluted to use, the clients are subpar, you need to set up a BNC to receive messages when offline, but Discord requires you to give up your phone number.

Some people find IRC less accessible, but I find having a phone number that I'm willing to give to a third party is a much more difficult requirement.

Don't forget the next part: whenever you point out that Discord requires you to give them your phone number, hundreds of Agent Smiths appear in the replies to say that actually you don't. Who are we to believe - the repliers, or our own lying eyes?

(The Agent Smith effect is something conspiracy theorists made up to explain why every time they show off their conspiracy theory in public, every single person around them suddenly gains the same opinion of them. I'm using it humourously)

> Who are we to believe - the repliers, or our own lying eyes?

Believe the repliers: I created an account in May 2024 and I have not added a phone number. Here's a screenshot from my settings: https://imgur.com/a/Q7kJpDv

But also, your eyes aren't lying to you: some servers require accounts to have confirmed phone number in order to join. So there is probably a lot of people who have had the experience of creating a Discord account, trying to join a server / accept an invite, and immediately seeing a "you must provide a phone number" prompt.

The explanation is pretty simple: The most fervent users of discord also have overlap with the longest users of discord, and their account age and usage patterns means that discord's risk systems have never demanded a phone number from them.

So they don't let you use grep? Sounds like hell.

Another example: Instead of paying writers, get an LLM to turn a paragraph of information into a long article that says the same thing thrice in different ways. Readers get annoyed and take a mental note of your website as being low effort drivel, but you save a bit of money!

I can't tell if you're trying to insult the post or speaking to a more general phenomenon.

>I've seen what a week's worth of groceries looks like for four people

>short of a rickshaw you ain't getting all of that on a bicycle with or without panniers

Four Americans, maybe.

Pfft. 56,000 calories doesn't pack but so dense unless you're routinely feeding your family pemmican.

It is possible to draw on a map in other ways, yes.

Might not be related but "Nazar" means vision in Hindi.

Looks to me like Greenwich is really mean on timekeeping devices.

First cloud-based* password manager.

Yes, this website.

"A breath is a breath, you can't say it's only a half"

Okay there, TA "89" 03... ;)