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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Isn’t that right in the definition of the word? They co-operate to form a word.

    Cooperating means working together to accomplish a goal, sometimes by doing different tasks; not necessarily just doing the same thing and duplicating effort, as would be the case if they made the same sound.

    If anything, we should be casting shade at that lazy hyphen who ducked out early instead of sticking around to make the etymology clear.




  • dmention7@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThis amuses me greatly.
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    18 days ago

    Communication is a 2-way street.

    Writing out an incoherent, unpunctuated paragraph is not only lazy on the writer’s part, it’s disrespectful in asking the reader to put in extra work to decipher what the actual hell they are talking about. Fortunately, it’s also a pretty good sign that there’s not a ton of value in whatever they wrote.














  • dmention7@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldWe messed up somewhere along the way
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    3 months ago

    Why would a system for tracking someone’s historical reliability in lending, and then paying back, money be an anomaly? I mean I get the general sense of distaste in being boiled down to a number by financial institutions, but what I don’t get is why anyone seems confused about how or why credit scores exists (other than that it makes for a nice hot take on Twitter)

    In what world would something like a credit score NOT exist, given that a) you have a customer base larger than a couple hundred individuals, and b) you have a technology that allows you to calculate a risk/reward index on those individuals?

    Countless hours have been poured into algorithms to rate things like movies on an easy to digest point system, when the stakes are as low as 2 hours of your time and 15 bucks. OF COURSE there is going to exist a system for communicating the risk of extending a lease or car loan or mortgage to individuals.


  • To add to this, if you compare a dresser (or table or whatever) at ikea to a piece of the same price range from pretty much anywhere else, it’s almost absurd how much better quality the IKEA piece will be. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say it’s absurd how crappy the non-IKEA piece will be.

    Seriously, go to a furniture store and look at the drawer construction and hardware on a $1000 dresser and compare that to a $400 IKEA dresser.

    There is definitely some garbage at the bottom of their price ranges, but their mid range stuff is generally a solid value.