Or add junk to existing categories. Amazon are sending me a ton of notifications for their “Haul” shop but I have absolutely zero interest in the cheapest made shit. No way to turn off those notifications without disabling the entire category.

> Only a Zionist would call equal rights and the right to self-determination a "maximalist" position.

To be clear, this was not Hamas’ position during negotiations.

> The widespread "Facebook is listening to me" belief is my favorite proxy for this ... Because, it sorta is - just... Not in the way folks think. Don't need ears if you see everything!

Getting folks to install “like” and “share” widgets all over their websites was a genius move.

I suspect a lot of retailers simply aren’t aware that that data is being collected and sold off to their competitors (or to ad networks so their competitors can poach their audience)

> liberal arts annotator

Tell us more about this axe you appear to need to grind.

Man, I have nothing against liberal arts per se. On the contrary, I think that a tragedy of our time is that people disconnected from things like literature, history and art in the name of over-specialization and an excessively utilitarian approach towards education.

But I am very critical of what pass as the modern liberal arts academic establishment. To avoid a very long text, let's say that my view is heavily influence by Ortega y Gasset.

Not if they can charge more for “certified” human impressions

I don’t think that’s particularly true. There’s a lot you can do with texture, colours and silhouettes, even within items that are “the same”. I do think most men are pretty unimaginative when it comes to dressing themselves though, and most can’t even do basic things like getting trousers hemmed to fit them properly.

Never forget the Australian newscaster who wore the same suit for a year and no one noticed/called him out for it. His broadcasting partner, a woman, had been called out for wearing the same outfit previously. There may be subtle variations available to men, but the simple fact is that many fewer people notice or care.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-30069564

> There may be subtle variations available to men, but the simple fact is that many fewer people notice or care.

I wouldn’t say that’s the takeaway, even with a simple navy suit you have a lot of options.

What that article does do though is highlight just how low the bar is for men to dress.

Strava has had a lot of privacy issues over the years, particularly with stuff like flybys.

> and more because of the analysis, dashboards and stuff like that

Which is weird, because if they bought a Garmin device, they already have all that built in.

Which if you've ever had a Garmin device + tried Strava, you'd realize that perhaps Strava provides additional insights on top of what Garmin provides?

Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin.

The social stuff is nice though.

> Genuinely not sure what insights they provide that you don’t get out of the box from Garmin.

Genuinely weird to make statements like "they already have all that built in" if you don't even know what Strava provides, don't you think?

I’ve been using both for ~7 years so I’m pretty familiar with them…

I’ve had “lemon pound cake” stuck in my head all morning thanks to this

I've heard "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch, ooooh oooooh, uuh!" the entire day today after hearing the song yesterday, probably the most catchy one to come out of this whole story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AiuqQpB1U

My mind went to K&P rap confession skit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WE3A0PwVs