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[–] [email protected] 103 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Had to read the article to find out if the headline was describing a good trend or a bad trend. I'm so old 👴

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So good trend or bad trend?

I can't read the article, does anyone have an archive link?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good trend.

Why it matters: The consequences are steeper for those supporting former President Trump.

By the numbers: 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they’d have a more negative view of a date if told they voted for Trump, according to a new Generation Lab poll.

17% say they’d have a more positive view, and 40% say the information would make no difference.

[–] Hideakikarate 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The 17% is worrying, but that 40% is worse.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The 17% is worrying

Agreed

but that 40% is worse

I'm assuming those 40% just want to get laid and that's all they care about. Lol, I'm not young, but I remember being young.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Keep in mind Trumpers hate birth control and that one night stand might turn to an 18 year marathon with a crazy parent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Do we know how many of the 40% were dudes?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

What happens when you attempt to read the article? It's an Axios article. Free with no paywall.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not OP, but for me a window popped up and asked for my email, without any button or other option to opt out/make it go away. I got around it by using “Reader” Mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm. On my phone, the link just opens the article in a browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It has an annoying nagwall asking you to sign up with an email, but that doesn't show up if javascript is disabled or if using reader mode on your browser. It's also easy enough to get rid of by using developer tools in your browser if you're a bit tech minded.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Right? How am I supposed to know what "left" implies in some random app's context?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Left and right are a de facto standard in dating apps. It's a terrible UI but they all do it now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Smartphones didn't even exist last time I was dating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The thing that trips me up, as a dinosaur, is whether "swipe left" refers to the direction your hand moves or the direction that the viewport is traveling. If I scroll by moving my finger to the left, now I'm looking at stuff that was previously on my right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

In tinder when you swipe, the picture itself moves, not the whole screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have this issue with my stove top, which burner goes to with nob/diagram. Does the picture line flat or flip over. I only every end up using the one with both high and low cause it's easy to tell which it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am a weirdo and always get things backwards that the rest of the population has no trouble with.

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey made no sense when I was a kid because I focused on the bottom of the thing I was spinning instead of the top.

Same with the stove. Wtf is the "front" burner? I mapped the four burners to the four seats of a car in my head, and I thought the front burner would be the ones farther away from me. 🫨

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I mapped the four burners to the four seats of a car in my head, and I thought the front burner would be the ones farther away from me

That's absolutely right, but you forgot to account for the fact that the stove doesn't face the same way you do, you're facing it and it is facing you, like a head on car collision

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Does the picture line flat or flip over

I'm gonna need a drawing or video to describe this in 3d terms because it makes little sense

The burners should be in a representation that when looking at them dead-on you're looking at them as you would the burners top-down

So if you squat down and make the burner icon eye-level to you, then stand up and look down at the burners at a 90 degree angle down, that's how they line up

A | B

C | D

If that's your image then A is the back-left burner on your stovetop, and D would be the one closest to you on the right

[–] stringere 2 points 3 weeks ago

And why are they stealing it? I don't even know where to start planning a caper involving left theft. Guess I could start from the right...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I met my (now) wife over 20 years ago. I blissfully missed app dating and I always make sure she wears her seatbelt and what-not so that never changes.

[–] stringere 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

always make sure she wears her seatbelt and what-not

Got a good brand recommendation for what-nots? My wife's been asking for one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I usually check Etsy, but you can often find good ones thrifting too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

"wears her seatbelt"?