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 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw 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