Buglefingers

As someone who used to monch on scented chapstick, yeah, same.

He was just tried and convicted, on 34 felony counts no less! Apparently the punishment for that is immediate release 🤷‍♀️

This is the problem I’ve encountered. Anime is fine, it’s like any other show/entertainment but it really can attract the wrong type of people. It’s why I don’t put it in my profile. The person I’m seeing has plenty of “horror” stories like yours too and said they avoid people with that in their profile now even though they like it cause of how weird or obsessive people can get about it.

Kinda sucks cause IMO one of the best parts about it is the ability to create other worlds/universes that live action struggles to do. (Think ATLA anime vs Live action)

I recall one moment with an ex GF, we were the same height, never bothered me, it was what it was. I still recall we went to some even though, she put on some heels and turned around and gave me just the most heart breaking pity look and took off her heels. Man, it never occurred to me it was or would be a problem, but I could see it was to her.

That didn’t ruin the relationship or anything, we continued for quite a bit after, but I still recall that vividly.

I had thought that once people moved north (after animal husbandry was invented) the winter and cold was so brutal that they consumed milk out of necessity for the fats and such. Animals could eat stuff humans couldn’t and turn it into “food” which lasted way long than a slaughtered animals’s meat.

I’ve been seeing a girl about a month now and I find her SO attractive that it’s made me way more cautious about making moves. I’m increasingly finding that although she’s incredibly attractive to me she likes the same stuff p much every other girl I’ve dated has. I just am getting in my own way by thinking I’ll fuck it up. What’s even more bizzare is she likes me too

I do photography and have thousands of photos, I have like actually 10 of myself, and those were mostly taken by my friend with the intent of putting on dating apps.

Online dating has evercerated my self confidence though. So I just detest photos of myself ever more.

A friend of mine said she got banned because she shared a link. It was a link to some gif or something. I almost got banned because I had a picture of myself as a kid on there and apparently people felt the need to report me over that

Yes and no, the way our society is built/structured can’t handle negative growth. A lot of infrastructure and way of life/quality of life would suffer massively. That being said, pop growth also can’t go up forever (while limited to earth). We actually have a ton of livable land left too, cities have learned how to be so super dense that it’s eating all the rural area’s populations in quickly developing places (It’s where all the jobs and opportunities are -cities). Estimates suggest we will top off around 10 billion people

I heard it was patented Smartfood™

Romance has also been skewed by media to this constant thing that’s also become a bit of an expectation. In my experience those romantic moments are just that, moments. They’re created from feelings and random interactions. It can be effort and planned of course but not as a non-stop fairytale style of life which seems to be increasingly desired/expected.

Media really only shows the good and intense parts, similar to the porn problem, that people end up forgetting that it’s a small portion of the actual time together. Instagram lives are a good example of this. Cute times while cooking dinner happen, but not every meal, not every day. It becomes special when it’s not all the time, when your partner notices something and acts on it. Otherwise it’s exhausting and draining.

Just have an AI bot dick around on some game, boom, perfect alibi

I can see how it’d be less money for the app and better for the User, so definitely not gonna happen lmao. IIRC choice fatigue grows wildly with anything beyond a few options so, yeah, being bombarded like that suuuuucks.

Well, although I’m not so sure about bumble, I know women on tinder have a volume problem, a few friends have shown me the number of matches and current conversations and wow, it’s actually absurd. I could not maintain that many interactions either. So perhaps if not an issue with formulating an opener there’s just too many matches to reasonably get through them?

That makes me actually wonder if a match limit would be a worthwhile feature on some of these. Just a stray shower thought

I agree it was a better model. I’ve never found it easy to begin a conversation even with someone who has a good profile. I just struggle with the formulation of an opener. Way easier in person IMO, though a good profile makes a conversation continuation much easier.

Yeah, pretty much haha, otherwise its just tinder. I used it briefly a while back and usually the first message would be “.” so that I could start the actual conversation. So I supposed it’s never been all that different to begin with

Bumble is moving away from having women message first as apparently it was too much of a burden for the women on that app (According to https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249296671/bumble-dating-apps-women-opening-moves )

Understandable as I find having to generate an opener hard too. Kinda a shame though as the point was to give them a place to have some more control with the interactions.

They took away lunch breaks 4 years ago for me :(

I recognized that scene immediately but didn’t know it was called the “cosmic bit flip”

I still feel like there’s a constant brain fog. It never seems to go away. Been there a looong time