Got that on Programmer Humor last year! Finding that kind of unintentional message is always funny
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Upvoting. Pisses me off because I found alternatives (sadly in a G7 area so I cannot answer your question, closest things I know of for my G7 area is NextDoor which does have a decent amount of local participants but is not selling-focused, and BuyNothing which has basically no participants in my area) and they have so little usage, so if I want to participate in random-person-to-random-person selling I HAVE to use Meta's piece of shit. I'm usually not that aggressive and I usually don't namecall. I really hate Facebook.
I just will not participate. I am also lucky enough to be in a financial and material situation where I can middle finger them instead of being forced to use it because I am in desperate need of a cheap deal for some item quick.
Will investigate other options mentioned here, good question.
My heart breaks for cool ideas that got taken by scammers and are now forever associated with financial predators and will probably never see legitimate use.
I'd imagine that you graduate high school at 18 and choose to go to college for the next 4, meaning you graduate as a 22-year old. Add or subtract a year for birthdays that align oddly with the academic year.
On one hand, you should probably indeed take personality quizzes claiming to be scientific online with a grain of salt and actually check if they have that kind of backing.
On another, they're fun. I am indeed the type of person who takes shitty online quizzes! (And their sometimes-higher-quality sibling, the academic survey. I really miss r/samplesize) And that doesn't necessarily make me an idiot. I do wonder how to let my fellow quiz takers know that there are a lot of claims to scientific validity out there that just are not true without being a buzzkill, or condescending to the ones who already know and still participate for fun—because I absolutely get wanting to combat pseudoscience and misinformation.
However, I didn't take this quiz myself, I found this in a post online and thought Programmer Humor subscribers would find it funny.
Thanks for explaining, I didn't think you were insinuating that they were lying at all! I may have been overly influenced by another comment
+1. I do believe the user you are replying to but I believe you too. People can have different experiences without lying or being disingenuous. I'm probably more tech-savvy than the average user but far below average for programming.dev or a Linux community. For me, Linux Just Works out of the box, but I admit I'm on a gaming-specific distro (Nobara, a Fedora derivative) and I'm only using it to be a gaming computer. Sometimes it opens a web browser. Art, music, programming, printing all happen somewhere else (my Mac).
My UI could be prettier but it is not distractingly bad or ugly. Just changed my wallpaper and that's probably the only visual customization I'll do.
Best guess: it's like the innocuous "wrong number" scam or the looking for love email scams. Talk with "her", form a "friendship" or "romance" until she has your trust enough to sucker you into buying whatever scam bitcoin or sending money.
As a Real Woman™ I would never send a blurry candid to introduce my face. The poor lady who got her picture stolen (maybe this is a video screenshot?) probably has nicer shots of herself. Ironically the spammer trying to seem "authentic" with this picture just makes her feel faker. I imagine most people want to put our best foot forward and make a good impression, hence a nice picture.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. My main takeaway is just that while taking a break works for a lot of people a lot of the time, for this person sometimes it doesn't.
People are different and sometimes if you are new to something, it's helpful to see both the popular advice (take a break) and that it might not always work for some people (this poster).
I really wish this existed for other languages. Python is really Not It for me. Maybe this book will change my mind. I have heard about it a lot. Either way, thanks for the rec!