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@mr_engineer Or, hear me out, large public gatherings are a public health hazard in a pandemic that would result in the deaths of thousands of people. So many governments stopped them.

@mr_engineer what could be better in the middle of a pandemic than karen and her entire church group of 200 people crammed together protesting in the middle of a city dont see anything that could go wrong there no risk of death at all /s I also don’t even think protests were exclusively outlawed. Public social gatherings were outlawed because it’s a fucking pandemic!!! twisting that as “outlawing protests” is intellectually dishonest

It isn’t communist. It’s just factually wrong to say that. Communism is an economic political system. Wokeism, or caring about social justice, is not comparable to it. You can be pretty woke, and care about social justice, while running a company. My bosses are a great example. Being woke doesn’t make you a communist, it just means you care about societal wellbeing and social issues, which is not communism.

Mate communism is an economic political system, wokeism is mainly about social injustice, race issues, gender issues or any issues related to typically marginalised groups. The two are only loosely overlapping terms/groups at most. Saying “all wokeism is communism” is Olympic level mental gymnastics. Some of the most wokeist people are likely running profitable businesses in silicone valley and other such places

Ehm, care to explain…? If you take the actual definitions of all of those words as far as I’m aware everything I wrote is true

So in practice, you think that “wokeism is communism”? Would you describe Stalin or Mao as wokeists, then?

If you want a really funny example of what not to do, have a look at this dude https://youtube.com/@DavidBond99 In one of his videos he tells you a great tip for stopping a girl you like from meeting other guys on tinder while you’re chatting to her on there. The simple trick is to share her profile to your several burner phones and report her profile to get her banned! Who knew it was so simple. But the whole premise of his channel is essentially being a rich white dude visiting poorer countries have sex with women. And of course he films it all and gives his piercing insight into his success, which is of course, definitely, far deeper than just being a rich white guy in a poorer country. I don’t think travelling to another country to meet women is bad necessarily but it is quite easy to do it in kind of a scummy way

Saying that “all wokeism is authoritarianism” is false. Saying that “all authoritarianism is communism” is false. Saying that “all communism is authoritarian” is false. Saying that “there were authoritarian implementations of communism in the past” is true. So I have no idea how you are concluding that “wokeism is communism”, it highlights your bias a lot to make a statement like that

Nuh uh, you don’t get to move the goal posts. What you said was that “wokeism is communism” which is categorically silly

Congrats, you win the award for the silliest thing I’ve read all day. And I’ve been browsing a lot of YouTube comments today so you know that’s an achievement

If you live anywhere in Northern Europe there’s a pretty decent chance you’ll be vitamin D deficient, especially if you primarily work inside, and especially during the winter. Ive been taking supplements recently, for about a month. Not sure if it’s enhanced my mood, I’m not depressed but I do struggle with energy sometimes.

"You're all so arrogant and self-asserting", he said in an arrogant and self-asserting manner

I've used it a few times, but I've found there are some issues with it: You still see posts from the user you've ignored if they're quoted by someone else It's very easy to just override the ignore function because every post from an ignored person has a little button to show it. Sometimes that entices me to give the benefit of the doubt to someone I've ignored You still see people replying to ignored users The first and last points aren't really solvable I suppose, but maybe there is some configuration available to fix the middle one? I like the ignore function but it doesn't totally isolate you from users you want to ignore. It's a start I suppose

@lxlichael People can fuck whoever they want to and however often they want to. You can fuck a lot of different people in a high consciousness way, and you can also have only long term relationships in an extremely low consciousness way. Realistically if you are a guy who prioritises sex quite highly, you're going to need to have sex with quite a lot of girls in order to find out what you enjoy the most, and to find a girl who you are sexually compatible with. It's very possible to do that in a high consciousness way. Women should do the same. And, for a lot of guys, they need experience before they'll be able to attract the girl that they would be most satisfied with settling down with. What is the point of marriage? I don't wanna marry, I'd rather just settle down with a girl without needing to get the government and the legal system to force me to stay together with her.

I’ve done both of these. Or just talk to people in the queue and go in with them. That works pretty well too

Oh, one advantage with techno places (again in the UK) is that they are usually welcoming to people going solo I've noticed. So there's that. You can buy a ticket online beforehand and show up on your own and they'll still welcome you happily if you aren't creepy. Bouncers seem like dickheads far less at techno venues in general. Whereas if you go to a normal club here you will almost certainly not get in solo no matter how friendly you seem, and the bouncers are often total dickheads.

I’d like to see what it’s like there actually. I think it’d be cool. There are places here were the ratio is pretty even but it’s usually either the more exclusive or harder to get into clubs or the most popular non-techno clubs

I’ve noticed techno-specific clubs tend to have a much higher ratio of guys to girls, at least in the UK. In normal clubs here by 3am the dance floor is filled with couples making out, grinding etc. but in techno clubs here I see maybe one or two couples doing that on the whole dance floor. Often by 3am it’s approaching 80-90% guys So in terms of actually meeting girls who are down, normal clubs are probably better I also feel like people in techno clubs (again, in the UK) are less friendly and more cliquey overall, and it’s much easier to find people who are really up themselves But I’ve met girls in both types of clubs

Actually what you are often doing is writing lots of words without really fundamentally making any points at all. I’m actually impressed how well you are able to do that. I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not either. It is definitely a very effective tactic for trolling people and dragging them into messy arguments.

I say this in every thread you make but the only reason you care so much about this now is because it directly affects you as an artist. People have been having their economic value extracted and monopolised by corporations since you were born. People have been losing their jobs to technological progress since you were born. Suggesting we draw the line at art and content creation is just very biased and selfish of you. Realistically this is a technology that will change the world just like factory automation and robotics have in the past, but you’re sticking your heels in the mud and saying it’s evil because rather than adapt you want to continue doing things the way you always have. Are there issues with AI and copyright? Absolutely. But rather than talk about how those could be solved you just dismiss the whole technology as harmful and imply we shouldn’t ever use it. You’re in literally the exact the same position as a 1960s factory worker who’s job is threatened by a company producing robots. If you can’t see that bias within you there’s no point in trying to discuss anything with you

Spot the irony haha

Idk, as a guy you just don't stick in a girl's mind at all if you aren't mentally stimulating to her. It's pretty hard to do that in a few texts. Maybe if you met her in person and made a great impression it's different, but even then... Girls forget about most guys very easily You can balance the odds a bit by building some connection over text in the days before whatever date you've setup That's a good idea. I have done this a few times when I cba trying to talk to a girl who is flakey. I wouldn't say the success rate was especially good for me however

It's very rare that a girl I don't build a reasonable connection with over text first wants to go on a date with me

I mean generally girls who are interested put effort into texts as well. If a girl is giving me almost nothing to work with over text I move on because it's not worth the time and effort to try and squeeze water from a stone. Or rather than leaving them on read I'll just ask them out and take a more direct approach. It's worked a few times for me. You basically want to learn how to express yourself authentically, interestingly and naturally over text like you do in real life too so that conversations flow and feel natural + interesting over text as well.

I find Bumble is way worse in terms of match rate where I live. I'm lucky to get a match a week on it. But then when I was in London for a few days I got like 20 in two days which was crazy, while on Tinder there my matches dropped to zero. Meanwhile where I live I can normally maybe get 2-3 matches a day on Tinder if I'm not too picky. Dating apps are weird man. It's very tough to reason about them. I think Tinder loses some popularity in big cities like London because almost every second profile is some fucker who's 6 thousand miles away using passport and you can't hide those users from your feed with the distance settings.