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Bumble introduces Opening Moves: "a way to let women maintain control while not feeling the stress of initiating all of the conversations."

Copy pasting the first part of this so lazy girlies don't have to experience the stress of !clinklickers


As the sheen on dating apps dulls, more Americans are reporting bad experiences on them. Frustrated by bots, subscription costs and high effort-to-reward ratios, Gen Z is fleeing the apps in hope of real-life meet-cutes. Earlier this year, “Bustle” declared that dating apps are in their “flop era.”

Not all of the apps are taking this backlash without a fight. On Tuesday, after months of internal shake-ups and stock market woes, Bumble took a shot at winning back hearts and minds with a redesign, which includes a break with the app's requirement that women make the first move.

A new feature, which the company has called “Opening Moves,” allows women to place on their profiles a question, like “What is your dream vacation?,” to which men who match can respond. (In nonbinary and same-gender matches, both sides can include these prompts.)

The shift is a major one for Bumble. Until now, a man who matched with a woman on the app had to wait for her to message him. If she did not initiate a conversation, the match would expire after 24 hours.

Whitney Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 because of her own personal experiences. She said that the idea was to give women more control. “I had a series of bad relationships, and I felt I was controlled by a man,” she added, “whether it was: Don't wear this or, You can't hang out with this person or, You need to be home at this time.”

But over the years, Bumble received feedback from women who found that making the first move was “a lot of work” or “a burden,” and Ms. Wolfe Herd began thinking about how to release the pressure. Opening Moves, she said, is a result of that process, a way to let women maintain control while not feeling the stress of initiating all of the conversations.


But not copying the whole thing because The Gray Lady be a notoriously litigious b-word. :objection:

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Monthly "What are you watching?" thread

Seems like @KinoBushido has died and we haven't had one of these in a while

As always NO ANIME


I don't have anything to talk about other than finishing Masters of the Air. Was pretty kino.

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!chuds Contact me for tips on creating a superior rdrama viewing experience

:marseycool2:

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Gigachad Earth v Chud Sun

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Didn't see any drama threads about this. Governor Newsom signed a bill that would raise utility bills for Californians based on income.

Under $28,000 income — $24 per month

$28,000 to $69,000 income — $34 per month

$69,000 to $180,000 income –$73 per month

Over $180,000 income — $128 per month

This is on top of current utility rates.

Commiefornia Redditors in the thread explain they're happy to pay the increases while others are screaming for the heads of PG&E execs (and a few for the legislators who actually passed this lol)

Solar users are irate that they are also going to be charged regardless

https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaSolar/comments/145guxv/california_rate_changes_will_screw_rooftop_solar/?sort=controversial

Bay Area malding

https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1algswt/the_pge_sucks_megathread/?sort=controversial

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  • Healthy : Femcuck fiction. Keep scrolling.
  • FreedomforIsrael : Everything posted here is true! :marseythumbsup:
  • LinuxShill : blogposters gtfo to /h/personal
  • boogiecat : >agrees to peg boyfriend >pegs boyfriend >breaks up with him over it > :marseywomanmoment2:
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I have to tell someone about this

Hello, long term lurker, first time poster. I have to tell someone this because it's been eating at me and I can't tell anyone else about in real life, not even my best friend.

About two years ago, I was dating this guy, I'm gonna call Shane for simplicity. Shane was 26 and really sweet, one of the nicest guys I have ever dated. There was a lot to like about him (good looking, in shape, had the same style of humor and hobbies as me, a great career, his own place in a nice city, etc) and I really, truly, loved him at one point. However, there was one thing I did not like about him and that was his consumption of porn. Even when I asked him to stop watching porn, he couldn't stop for more than a few days before he was back at it again. He would do it because he claimed he needed it to relax and go to sleep. He wouldn't watch porn whenever I visited him, but whenever I wasn't there, he would. I could always tell when he was watching porn because he would, out of the blue, start sending me a ton of super sexual text messages, and wouldn't stop until he came. He would spend hours trying to find the "perfect" video to get off to. His porn addiction was really bad.

Anyway, his sexual appetite was not just limited to porn, he wanted to have s*x and do sexual stuff all the time whenever we were together. I didn't mind that he wanted to have s*x a lot, especially since he was good at making sure my own needs were met (lol) but what annoyed me was him always wanting to try new kinky stuff. Some stuff I agreed to, like wearing a choker or thigh high heels, but other stuff I refused, like him wanting me to put anything in my butt. If I had been wiser to what I know now, I would have dumped him right when I realized he was addicted to porn. Unfortunately, at the time, I thought all guys watched a ton of porn and that this was "normal". Besides, I really cared for him and loved him at the time, so I mostly let his pestering slide. Besides, it was easy to forgive and forget because once I said "no", he would drop it and wouldn't ask again until a week or so later.

One day, he asked me again if he could do butt related stuff, to which I again said no. This time, instead of just dropping it, he persisted and tried to convince me. He showed me articles from real women that claim to love anal s*x. He showed me porn links of women who were loving it, he promised me he would go slow, be gentle, and that we could work our way up to it with buttplugs. I was disgusted with this and annoyed that he wouldn't drop the subject, so I told him I'd agree to have anal s*x but only if he let me peg him first. I figured he would say no, but he said alright, he would let me peg him. He then dropped the subject.

I thought he was only joking and forgot all about it, until two weeks or so later when I went to his house, he showed me that he had bought a harness and dildo for pegging. I was horrified and told him I didn't think he was serious. But he was. He was dead serious, and worse, he looked excited. I remember telling him, "Shane, I'm not fricking you in the butt." and him looking hurt. He said that he thought I was serious when I offered to peg him, and he was willing to be vulnerable with me in order to prove how much he trusted me. He said he wouldn't even expect me to let him frick me in the butt if I pegged him.

To make a long story short, he did convince me to peg him. I did not want to do it, but a part of me hoped that he would see that it was painful and then he wouldn't want to pursue it anymore. Unfortunately, I hadn't known it at the time, but Shane had been doing anal play on himself with toys long before we had started dating, so basically this was not at all painful for him, and he was really into it.

Me? I was so turned off. I had never understood what people meant when they said their partner did something that gave them the "ick" and then suddenly they fell completely out of love with them. That sounded hard to believe; how could anyone simply cease to stop loving someone instantly over something relatively minor? And yet that is exactly what happened to me. As I watched his face and listened to him getting off to this, something in me snapped, and I instantly found him repulsive. I suddenly no longer had any feelings for him and made up my mind right then and there to dump him later.

I don't know how long I fricked Shane in his butt, maybe 10 minutes? But I had to stop, not only because it was so cringe and such a turn off, but because fricking someone with a strap on is actually a lot of work, especially when you're not used to it. I made some excuse to Shane in order to go home. I lied to him when he texted me asking if I liked it. I should have been honest and said "No, Shane, you looked stupid, and I felt disgusted." but I didn't want to be mean. Even though I was no longer in love with him anymore, I felt it would be too cruel to shame a man when it comes to s*x. They're very sensitive about that stuff.

Over the next couple of weeks, things were awkward, I kept making excuses to stay busy and distant. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and bluntly dumped him via text. I made a dumb excuse about me having too much going on in my life and that I needed to work on me. He was absolutely heart broken and tried several times for months to win me back, even buying me lots of gifts and writing me long love letters. He even stopped watching porn for 3 whole weeks and said he'd give it up for good. I felt kind of bad but every time I'd start to feel bad, I'd have that image of him laying back on the bed, being penetrated by me, and I would instantly feel nothing but contempt.

Why am I sharing this with rDrama? Because, everyone loved Shane and to this day people don't understand why I broke up with him. Everyone thought he was perfect for me, that he was a great catch and would have made the perfect husband. I get annoyed whenever the subject comes up, because I can't be honest. I can't say "Shane was a disgusting porn addict!" or "I fricked Shane in his hairy butthole and he looked so emasculated in that position!". I have to give some half-butt excuse that we had "different life goals" or whatever. People will then pester me and ask me why it couldn't have worked out. Part of me doesn't want to be honest with them because it's embarrassing, but the other part of me worries if some of my friends won't try to convince me that being into porn and anal s*x is good, actually, and that I should stop being a prude.

The other reason I'm posting this is because I haven't found another guy that was as good as Shane. Every guy I've dated since Shane has been meh. It makes me angry that Shane was perfect in just about every way, except his porn habits. Why did he have to be such a freak? We could be married by now if he hadn't been such a coomer.

Anyway, that's my vent. I hope this can serve as a warning to other women, if your boyfriend says he wants to be pegged, DO NOT ACCEPT THE OFFER! YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT HIM THE SAME WAY!

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Archive link to article for povertycels: https://archive.md/dQdUP

Signing off on the suicide pact :marseyrope: :marseygunshotsuicide:

So what? Let it happen. Too many people anyway. Let societies collapse.

Good there's way too many fricking people The earth was fine a little while ago when there were only like 4 billion of us let's get back to that

Nor should it. The world has too many people, as evidenced by how quickly we are wasting our resources, polluting the world, and killing off every other living creature.

lol. Enough babies for what? To maintain the capitalist approach to life? Awwww... whatever will we do?

Isn't this a good thing? Because of sustainability, climate changes, resources?

Don't worry, AI/robotics will save us :marseyrobot: :marseysnappy:

Robotics, automation and AI will solve this. Please stop this BS about low birth rates when we have an over populated world filled with pauper people willing to work for a bowl of rice. The only ones that benefit from having more people are the rich that can keep exploring workers.

Well it's a good thing the robotics/AI revolution is upon us. This isn't really an issue and this article is no better than fear propaganda.

The future belongs to those who show up. Support Catholic Christian Nationalism :marseypope: :marseycrusader2:

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100% true things that make r*dditors angry. A list.

Here's a list of 100% true facts* from a lot of different areas etc that make certain r*dditors very angry. Feel free to use to bait r-slurs 🤗🤗🤗 i probably forgot a bunch so I might update this list but idk


Violent video games increase aggression and desensitization, and decrease empathy.

Vegetables are healthy.

Red meat is unhealthy.

There are reasonable concerns about adverse health effects from MSG.

There's no evidence that seasoning a cast iron pan creates a layer of polymerized oils.

"Hydrogen oxide" is just as correct as "dihydrogen monoxide".

Eating meat is immoral.

Moral relativism is false.

Non physical experiments (like models and computer simulations) produce the same kind of evidence as physical experiments.

/r/nihilism's stickied explanation of nihilism does not explain nihilism correctly.

Anki spacing algorithms are not the most efficient algorithms for longterm retention.

Word cards lead to implicit word knowledge.

Gender is a social construct.

Clathrin mediated endocytosis does not significantly contribute to synaptic vesicle recycling under physiological conditions.

Sam Harris is neither a neuroscientist, nor a philosopher.

All the popscientific debunkings of the Kalam cosmological argument fail.

Jesus existed as a historical figure.

Wage increases only very rarely don't at least match inflation.

The wage gap exists.

IQ differences between races for the most part aren't genetic.

Youtube pianist Traum's videos are heavily manipulated.

Incest is not immoral.


* 100% true fact in this case means there's a robust consensus among the relevant experts. This works less well with r*ghtoids since they will just call the entire field libtard propaganda brainwashing or whatever.


Edit: added incest

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!metashit im back :marseyill:
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Red Lobster has fallen, the West is finished :chuditsover: Thanks a lot Biden

!nonchuds

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:marseytrad: "Food banks are for the needy." :marseytunaktunak: "Saars they are giving free food away!!"

This jeet is advertising food banks as a means of "saving hundreds of dollars on groceries" to other international students. Indians have a gift for finding new ways of scamming in every facet of life.

Zero trust society man. Not only does he have no shame over stealing from the poor, he's broadcasting it so that other can steal from the needy as well. Horrible. :marseydisagree:

Mass deportation should commence immediately :marseyunpettable:

This is literally the top comment, holy shit. Literally every mainstream Canadian subreddit is keyed on the Jeet Question, that's how bad things have gotten.

This was posted a few days back on Instagram( you can check his account name on the video). Now he seems to have deleted the video and also his LinkedIn account because many people were spamming him and contacting his employer.

Edit: This video was also posted on the wlu sub a day ago which is probably the university where he studies.

:#marseyrofl: :#marseyemojirofl:

This guy probably ruined his life over this. I'd be interested in seeing if there are actually any consequences. It's unlikely, though. His employer is probably indian and sees nothing wrong with it, and all universities are run by Marxists.

Where's the deport button

You can report immigration/visa fraud or abuse being committed by someone to the CBSA via this form here: https://bwl-lsf.cbsa-asfc.cloud-nuage.canada.ca/tip-sub-en.html

:marseytroublemaker: new drama strat: deportmaxxing???

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What did the gov scientist mean by this? :marseythonk: :marseycovidscare: :marseygrimreaper:

https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1789692038033645891

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17157151992132092.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1715715199716169.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17157151999684513.webp

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