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 @🌲Hidden🌲 a dating app is just like an online marketplace of ideas except souls aren’t marketable so all of the ideas are about casual sex 

I’ve never been on one myself and would rather get intimate with a woodchipper than try one, but my friends’ experiences on them are enough to make me want to nuke a city 

niche dating sites can be hilarious though. Besides scandals like the ashley madison leak, there’s also insufferable things like this: https://youandiq.com (the cert is invalid because they are probably defunct now, but I clicked through and you can still see their home page) 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @🌲Hidden🌲 download corvid dating app
nearest crow is 2000+ km awayTime to write principia mathematica 2, i guess ​:jokersmoking2:​ 
 @66270c87 @🌲Hidden🌲 I apologize if this is insensitive to your species, but have you tried Hatoful Boyfriend? 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ It’s just sad, reducing someone to a bio and a picture and nothing more. Of course you can meet someone on there and hit it off and have something genuine, but the presence of that reductive quality being a precursor to everything else seems like it would shut down any actual potential for love 
 @🌲Hidden🌲 intense competition always seems to result in zero actual communication. You see this with corpospeak, resumespeak, politicsspeak, and the dating app meta (cough fish pics cough). In all those cases, a single normal-person sentence would say more than a page of optimized gobbledygook, but somehow everyone feels obligated to write gobbledygook. I wonder why 

Every time a couple has explained to me that they met on an app, they've seemed ashamed of it, but the shame is less these days 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @🌲Hidden🌲 I feel like dating apps are lowkey filled with psychopaths. The concept already is really weird, it's like picking a friend out of a Sears catalogue. 

I was at a wedding a few weeks ago and one of the couples there met on a dating app. The girl told me that she had an excel spreadsheet of every response that she got on Catholic Match, along with relevant data on each person. 
 @leechseed @🌲Hidden🌲 oh no, a spreadsheeter :blobweary: I know a guy like that, who has a spreadsheet on every girl he's ever dated. There's also this friend of a friend who makes spreadsheets for literally everything in her life, from job applications to which handbag to buy next week. Utter insanity 

For the couple you met, did their love seem genuine? 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @leechseed @🌲Hidden🌲 You seem to have something against fans of spreadsheets 🤨 That will cost you some points. 
 @66270c87 @🌲Hidden🌲 @leechseed 
OKAY CHAIRMAN SHEET JINPING :blobsob:

https://cawfee.club/media/a50c0bce0d09d397a64277617df7910aa60efc39a13bb6b23d1795bc024fc9ad.png 
 wtf is this? lol 
 @Anthony “Maybe Mitch Connor” Bacon  @🌲Hidden🌲 @leechseed @66270c87 
winnie the pooh figurine with his head screwed off 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Anthony “Maybe Mitch Connor” Bacon  @66270c87 @leechseed AI divining the future of the CCP collapse 
 @🌲Hidden🌲 @Anthony “Maybe Mitch Connor” Bacon  @66270c87 @leechseed it is literally true that “inner twisting” / “involution” (neijuan) is the greatest cultural threat to the chinese state rn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijuan

context: “neijuan” has come to mean something like “rat race” and there is an opposite word which translates to “lie flat or literally “drop out of the system.” Basically a neet movement that has hit the cultural mainstream 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ @Anthony “Maybe Mitch Connor” Bacon  @66270c87 @leechseed Oh yeah i've heard of laying flat. I wonder how common it is. I know Japan makes a big deal of neets but they have one of the lowest neet counts in the world afaik 
 @☃️merry chrimist☃️ Anyway catch you on the iq dating site. You and me will match 💯