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by Blankenface 5y ago
I've noticed that HN has a bizarre preference for really strange news outlets and blogs over more credible and reputable outlets. Like..there will be some major news even in tech or science and HN is like "link to a major site? Na
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by Blankenface 5y ago
What's dehumanizing is a white woman confronting you because your PoC child is playing on the sidewalk in front of her condo and demanding you leave because your child is inside napping (by the way, Sidewalk Suzie was the executive dir
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by Blankenface 5y ago
That article has a photo of a rich white woman (with a long history of abusing the legal system to get what she wants, it turns out) pointing a handgun at black people peacefully walking on the street in front of her house. Doesn't rea
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by Blankenface 5y ago
Lately I've seen HN people linking to sites like Newswars (which is infowars rebranded, it seems) and whatnot. > It's not in the same OMGWTF category as newsmax or OAN despite what some HN people will tell you. Drudge has a his
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by Blankenface 5y ago
Apparently it's been changed, and I guess the mod team is in on the gag, because it's just an anti-churn email. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/okcupid-hot-or-not-list-o...
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by Blankenface 5y ago
We've had a lot. Asbestos, leaded paint, PCBs, Dioxins, plasticizers (not just BPA, bunch of others.) Too many pesticides to count. Fracking chemicals are horrific and completely unregulated. Indoors you've got VOCs like formaldeh
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by Blankenface 5y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but: probably to use the account to romance-scam other users with.
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by Blankenface 5y ago
They never expire. Source: am OKCupid user. As mentioned in another comment: this is one of the reasons I laughed when they made a grab for everyone's phone numbers, claiming it was to prevent people from haxxoring your account.
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by Blankenface 5y ago
There were also articles that ran counter to popular gender theory/politics. This is off memory but I believe their stats showed that men rated women's photos on what resembled a classic bell curve, shifted to the right slightly.
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by Blankenface 5y ago
Sort of. The thing is, a truly massive number of dating sites are owned by Match Group, which used to be part of IAC. Bumble and Coffee Meets Bagel are two examples of major non-Match-Group companies.
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by Blankenface 5y ago
It also really takes the wind out of the sails of their whole "you must give us your phone number for security" song and dance and makes it clear the phone number was only for tying your username to your real world identity.
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by Blankenface 5y ago
The whole top vs bottom 50% attractiveness bit was a gag thing. It's such a common outraged-post topic that the okcupid subreddit has a FAQ about it in the sidebar. OKCupid used to be substantially weirder than it was before it was swa