AskewLord

way to sink your brand

forced burns are a forest fire management tactic.

wish badgers were as amazing as my horse.

Inflation affects everyone. a $1 price increase is more in line with inflation of the past few years.

the old model of the internet is dead. dating websites were great at first, when they were VC funded, new, and exciting. Their platforms were more open and the people on them more open minded.

Now they are all old, tired, and boring. They like network TV now.

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This is like 75% of women I meet on first dates. Basically get the basic facts and then they trauma dump.

I don’t like it. It’s so weird. Way too many people are unwell and basically think dating someone will fix it… what they need is therapy and better life choices.

why?

some people gender and anthropomorphize everything. some people don’t. i have never named my car, some people make up an entire personality for their car and talk to it like it’s a person.

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people pay $1000s for these dogs, sometimes 10,000+

they are status symbols.

they think it is cute.

I mean, those are the posts that get the most comments and votes… and most posts only come from a handful of people…

https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qualifications

There requirements would eliminate the vast majority of gamers. They want people in perfect physical and mental health (perfect vision and perfect hearing) with bachelors degrees. No drugs. And you have to pass a qualifying exam.

Then you are going to be working 3-4 years at low pay until you are fully certified.

it’s porn. it’s not supposed to make any sense anymore than Marvel movies are. it’s fantasy

it’s taboo. that’s all there is to get.

taboos are sexy.

a relationship is mostly the fanfic of it you make up in your head. romantic partners idealize each other, primarily and tend to overlook glaring personality problems and incompatibilities when in limerance with each other.

relationships end when you realize reality of the other person doesn’t live up to the fantasy of who you think they are. sometimes that takes weeks or months, sometimes years.

for a relationship to last long term you have believe in the ideal of the other person and your future with them, not the day to day reality.

men and women both are turning to AI chatbots. adults do this as well.

because our social/romantic environment is toxic af and they want an escape from it.

Put yourself in the shoes of an angsty insecure teenager.

Why wouldn’t you want to sit around in a fantasy relationship with a chatbot that tells you how wonderful you are hours each day?

When I was an angsty teen I was in chatrooms hours a day looking for validation and socialization from strangers because I wans’t getting at home or at school, because I was in shitty backwater town full of ignorant multi-generational townie morons. I was socially popular and had girlfriends but the insularity of my local community still drove me online to find people who were more open-minded.

And I never got what I was looking for until I got to college, where I finally got to meet people from all over the world who didn’t think I was a secretly a queer for not liking football and preferring soccer. I had professors and friend who praised and congratulated me for being academically inclined, rather than mocking and deriding me for it. I think adults forget how oppressive some communities and families are towards their children, because you forget the fact as a teen/child you have zero control or freedom over your environment and the internet is really the only place you get to exercise control. I’m not sure what I’d have done without the internet as a teen, as my daily life was full of suicidal ideation from the ages of 12-18 due to the ever-present oppression of my environment.

American has such a massive hardon for hating on teachers.

I don’t understand, doesn’t this type of stuff go beyond college club stuff and wouldn’t it violate the code of conduct for the individuals involved?

Then again, schools don’t really seem to give a shit about enforcing rules about cheating anymore, sooo