Sure, I just don’t like how they frame it as “we will literally go extinct and free information will die if we don’t get record gains this year too.”

Yep 100%, I didn’t mean to make it seem like the other side is better, I think online dating is pretty terrible for everyone. I’ll think a long time about if I want to match with someone but I’ve heard many people say “just spam like and then you can decide on the couple matches you actually get.” I don’t go on because I don’t want to see the cardboard personalities, and actually cool women don’t go on for the exact reasons you said.

Hopefully in person hangout spaces become a thing again, since that’s so much better than online.

I mean I would still rather not be the woman in that situation since you don’t know who actually cares about you. Just that it’s pretty unfortunate that we still do the basic evolution thing of “males compete for a female’s interest!” I don’t really want to play that game, and irl I didn’t feel I needed to nearly as much.

While I don’t disagree, many of the women I’ve seen on dating apps have about as much personality as a cardboard box, yet still get tons of matches. It’s just annoying having to be super funny and interesting and etc to get any attention at all, compared to the other person actually just existing and saying “hey.”

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/ Interesting article, ignore the clickbait title. Even the former executive director thinks the foundation spends too much on chapters and other outreach

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_is_a_Wikimedia_Chapter%3F

If you support these things that’s great, but it’s a bit disingenuous for them to beg like they’re barely keeping the lights on when they have record gains every year.

This is something I’ve thought about a lot, is this really true? People say you don’t know someone unless things get bad, but like… if someone improves my life 95% of the time, but then they don’t get sleep or are having a rough time and they treat me really badly, is that 5% the “real them?” Idk just something about that doesn’t sit quite right with me.