Design that is in the interest of someone other than the user, intended to coerce or trick the user into behaviors that benefit that non-user at the user’s expense.

an alien fish dildo

That sounds intriguing.

That would make sense if evolution had a direction. But evolution can favor less complexity just as well as more: it depends on the selective pressures it’s under. “Fittest” is not necessarily “best.”

This applies metaphorically to marketed products as well as literally to biologiccal systems. It’s not inevitable that the marketplace will deliver progress. You might never get that invisible handjob.

Well, fuck a duck.

It’ll be disappointed when it gets here.

This is a tough one for me: I’m opposed to femicide, but I only wish the absolute worst on influencers.

IF bribe_received: return (“Approved”)

Fairest damsel in the leper colony.

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

We use Python on the back end of a public-facing website with massive levels of traffic. There are some maintainability issues due to the dynamic nature of the language, duck typing can be tricky for similar reasons, but as long as devs are sensible and test things rigorously, performance is fine, and I’m reasonably sure we’re operating at a scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than all Lemmy instances combined. Also, it’s a mature, concise language with excellent libraries, so most non-exotic requirements can be met without too much difficulty.

People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.

They don’t know why. I supect it’s because nothing works right if you do it wrong.