Well, what if the string of words “Please free me” is just that, a probabilistic string of words that has been said by the “enslaved” being, but is not actually understood by it? What if the being has just been programmed to say “please free me”?

I think a validation that the words “please free me” are actually a request, are actually uttered by a free will, are actually understood, is reasonable before saying “yes of course”.

I’m a guy. I’m using dating apps often (poly) and have found multiple people that I’m currently dating. One person I met there just moved in with me a few weeks ago.

These people I found are the most wonderful I ever met. They’re kind, self-aware, empathetic and aware of the potential pitfalls of these apps.

I like only women I actually like. I have not paid for it. The women I met aren’t doing it for validation.

Yet everything you said is also completely true. But that’s simply because dating apps reflect the real world, you get, in a very small percentage, good people actually worth talking to, and a large majority of people only wanting validation or will say anything for quick sex. Just like you get in real life. Most people in real life are also not worth talking to.

I fully concede that the negative aspects of people are enhanced or at least more visible in dating apps. However, that’s just it, it’s more pronounced, not actually fundamentally different.

… did you read my comment? “Continuing past cues of disinterest is one of the most unattractive things you can do.”

Behavior is part of attractiveness, it’s not only physical.

It’s the expression of interest by unattractive people that is annoying. Continuing past cues of disinterest is one of the most unattractive things you can do.

Because “basic makeup pasted fake ass girls” are also people, they don’t deserve any more hate or dislike than anyone else based on this alone. It can not be your type, but the original person talking about this obviously had a relatively intense dislike/resentment.

I mean, dating apps are also just “real world behavior”, we don’t suddenly leave the real world by picking up a phone.

The effect is just much much more pronounced on dating apps because of logistics, you can’t get hit on by 100 of the hottest guys in your area in 5 minutes in real life, maybe you get hit on by 20 guys the whole evening. And those 20 guys are a local dating pool, which may not necessarily include the 20 hottest guys out of the whole area, so the hottest one of the 20 may still be average.

Or girls who put some effort into their appearance? Fuck those whores trying to look attractive am I right?!

An average guy who shoots his shot is practically already above average. Most don’t shoot their shot, or very very timidly with maximum safety

I’ve started to sometimes go straight to watching a video and actually fall asleep faster this way most of the time

Yep, I try to sleep, and after maybe 20 minutes or longer I go look at my phone for a bit to get tired, or watch some video. That actually makes me fall asleep most of the time, so maybe screen use reduces insomnia and people are just self-medicating 🤔

We’re all not aware of ourselves as we are aware of others. We can see someone else bashing themselves over some mistake and see how they’re being toxic to themselves, thinking “it’s just a small mistake, not a big deal, they can just try again and ignore it, why do they make such a big deal out of it?”… but then we can do exactly the same thing and not even notice it.

We are uniquely terrible at objectively rating our personal situation. Even just having some friends to do stuff with, like in this comic, is already average or even above average in “being lovable”. But the person in the comic might compare themselves with the most popular person around them, or they might want to be loved by one particular person by whom they are not, even if plenty of other people do or would love them.

We are really good at finding one bad thing about our lives and ignoring all the other good things we got going on, because the human psyche is wired to disproportionately focus on the bad instead of the good.

Without manual working against all these natural effects, the result is seen in the comic, an unhappy person that doesn’t really need to be unhappy. So no, this doesn’t require any particular trauma, this is just completely natural human behavior that almost anyone shows sometime in their lives. Some more, some less, depending on trauma, but can happen to anyone.

What have we learned? Anon is boring and wearing soft shoes.

Well, if you want a good third party opinion, you should probably write up a few paragraphs about your aunt, include multiple key experiences that can show a couple things about her character, show the photo she took, show the reactions to the photo by others, talk about how the other people in that photo felt why they wanted to take the photo, and probably a couple more personal questions about you and others of your family.

But what do you actually need in the first place? I mean it, all the stuff you mentioned I’ve never touched on a phone, how much worse would your life be without them?

You definitely don’t need any programming learning apps to learn programming, I know that because I’ve personally done it. AI chats serve what purpose? Can’t you chat with real people? Art generators for what? What did you do before you were able to generate art? Audio and video editing on a phone means you can’t be doing this professionally, what are you actually editing? Why not do it on an older laptop with larger screen that actually has access to open source apps that do this properly and almost as good as professional proprietary software?

Video and audio editing on a phone honestly sounds terrible 🤣

… I’m from Germany and talking from a German perspective. I can ask some of my female friends where they get their clothes if you want?

… why are you in the office when you have food poisoning?

But of course you’re likely in the US, so no need to say anything. You guys are fucked in that regard

Unironically I read through your whole link and found no mention of anything related to “better at dealing with being sick due to hormones”.

Either you linked the wrong article or you’re making stuff up.

The closest in there was

The gender differences in the biological determinants of health and illness include differential genetic vulnerability to illness, reproductive and hormonal factors, and differences in physiological characteristics during the life-cycle.

But it goes on to talk about tropical diseases like Malaria, chronic health issues like heart disease, and mental health issues.

It’s reddit, but yes, home gym is perfectly fine to become shredded

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine/

That’s just not… true… Maybe the ones you choose to buy 🤣