I tried Bluesky before I found Lemmy. I really wanted to like it but after a few months I decided it wasn’t for me. It’s got a chicken-or-egg problem and you need to bring your own fanbase if want to have any interaction.

I never liked Twitter and don’t feel it’s a particularly good model for actual socializing. I think it was created back when people were still hacking together ideas, it sort of worked, and it hasn’t changed much since.

It’s great for disseminating stuff, terrible at creating space for discussion.

The founders seem like a bunch of young ultra-capitalists who sensed an opening in the market and are just shooting their shot. The app reflects this in subtle ways.

Thanks, I hate it.

I think the two cc’s offend me somehow. But kudos for word making

Nah, sappy yes, but I only laid it on thick in response to the OP who been spamming misogynistic boomer jokes.

Bro oughta take that shit somewhere else.

That’s not the face I’d make.

It would be a face of mild amusement and care as I pulled her into my arms to tell her:

“Yes, baby, I’d love you even if you were a doorknob. You’d be the most beautiful doorknob in the world to me. I’d even have to hire a butler to open all the doors in front of me because you would be the only doorknob I’d ever want to hold in my hand.”

Because at the end of the day, coming home to reassure the person you love is a simple and gracious act and is worth every hour of any 14 hour shift.

Pour one out for Okcupid. In its heyday it was such a fun site.

Stinks like electrician in here. Should also drop a pile of “forbidden confetti” aka wire jacket cuttings.

Right? I might have poured out a bottle of beer into the toilet in an ill considered act of abolition, but drugs are expensive.

Every night, baby!

I’m grinding so hard, I cleared the sigmoid with 3 fingers in 20 minutes and just one pain killer.

No, I won’t.

Fuck your “reason”, people covet their own logical prowess but in reality they didn’t come to their views on their own nor their way of seeing things on their own. In fact, it’s a weakness borrowed from others, based on flawed methodology and is what got you into the situation you’re in now.

I ain’t teaching a class, believe me or don’t, I dgaf.

99% of people are mostly interested in confirming their own myopic view, to the degree that they will commit violence to ensure it. If someone reaches out a hand, I will grab it, but that’s exceedingly rare and it’s not my day job to fish randos out of their own ignorance un-asked.

Good luck. A bit of advice… I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of female friends through the years. Some of them I was quite keen on, some not so much but almost all of them were or are in relationships, more or less happily. Sometimes they feel strongly about me, too, and the chemistry between us is undeniable. Even worse, I often know or am friends with the husband.

The best thing you can do in that situation is keep that shit to yourself.

Be a friend, not a fucker.

I’ve never cheated on my partners but I have been the guy that chicks have cheated on their partners with. It’s not worth it and you don’t want that bad juu juu in your life.

And I have been cheated on (karma). It hurts, deeply, and you don’t want to be a participant in that even if you don’t know the dude.

The silver lining is that even if you never get in their panties or have a romantic relationship with them, if you act right you will have a solid lifelong friendship.

Women may not be mind readers but every one of them knows probably 3 dudes that want to fuck them and would try if she let her guard down. Being a good friend by respecting their relationship makes you more valuable than gold and they will appreciate you in the way close friends do, which is rare in this world.

The minute you open your mouth to tell her how you “really feel” about her is the moment the relationship sours. She probably already can tell but is ignoring it, as soon as you say it out loud, now it’s a thing and it will be awkward. She will pull away and that will be that.

If it is meant to be it will happen without you having to say anything, but if it’s not meant to be then trying to go there with her will only ruin the friendship.

Don’t fuck it up.

François de Cuvillié

Depends on the woman, but in your case it’s probably obvious.

I don’t know shit about mathematics, except that when numbers and letters collude, that’s a fucking conspiracy against me. That said, I strongly suspect that for legit mathematicians, solving thorny math problems is only half of what they do, but rather, by operating from a platform of experience, intuit the nature of numerical systems, what that means in relation to other systems, and how we use them to understand and navigate the world.

The title sounds as ridiculous as proclaiming professors of literature are worried because an LLM can parse a sentence.

There’s a fundamental knowledge, both in the specifics of systems and holistically that can only be gained by solving these quandaries through the lens of human interpretation.

I saved a lot of people on the day I decided to not be a surgeon.

So, a life insurance company?

Regardless of who lives or dies, the house always wins.

No

Don’t spread misinformation. We’re just stupid.

Stick to the facts.

All of our food labeling has the metric equivalent right next to the imperial units.

Coming this Fall, a new blockbuster hit so hot you’ll definitely never get sick of hearing about it every day: The Facebook! Part 2: Reddit. “Look out FB, there’s a new turd in this punchbowl”

Coming to a news feed near you!

For real. I have to travel often for work, which means driving through big cities, little towns and the countryside. If someone never got on the internet, they’d never think things are like the way they sound online. Especially in the rural areas but even in most areas in towns. Houses are all within 50 years of age, all the cars and trucks are new. Crops are growing, streets are being worked on, society is humming right along. Average people seem to be doing just fine.

There’s definitely a corrosion in the fabric of society but when people wonder how the “other side” can vote the way they do, especially in light of xyz, they don’t realize that for many folks their perception of the current state of events is significantly reinforced by their day to day living, which is going reasonably well.

Is it going to stay that way? Maybe. Probably not. But you can’t convince people who are doing well that they need to change their outlook for some imagined future.