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They could have hired me to say "blockchain" and "meta" for a lot less money.
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They were being led by a foid what did you expect.
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Can't wait to go on one of these 'metaverse dates' and be ghosted mid-date!
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I would have whoever thought this up immediately shot if I was responsible for Tinder
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I remember talking to people starting dating site in the 2000s and it was fricking mindblowing what they didn't know about men and women (and what probably couldn't be said during meetings.)
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I wanna be in a Tinder board meeting to see them discuss dating while tip-toeing around the glass shards of a progressive working culture.
Truly an experience.
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But it's a really wholesome way to make dating covid policy compliant
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Yea but like, they know people just use the platform to set up meetings and frick, right?
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Metaverse Chadfishing, think of the possibilities!
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Why do all these CEOs have such bizarre names?
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As do many I imagine
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I havnt been on any of this shit for years but i wanna have fun on an upcoming west coast trip, is tinder still the best one if im willing to be a paypig for some disgusting mayo thrussy attention?
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Yeah its still tinder even tho its gone downhill since its heyday. Beats the rest on sheer quantity alone.
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I mean, there are others, but it's a combination of:
you can't message them without paying
it's only 10 users in your local area, 9 of them are offline/deactivated
you browse an endless barrage of bots that match and never respond
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Figured :/
Time to see if my trick of setting interests to men for a week so i get high swipe rights helps boost my algo when i switch back to straggotry
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I think I've heard that's been shadow patched since it got out.
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Yeah it was years since i was cruising on there so i figured theyd cockblock us smart moids. Oh well its clearly p2w now thru n thru
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Here's a fun tip: if they ask you to change platform early and then unmatch right after you switch, they're a scammer!
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I assume all foids are a scam tbh
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What an ugly CEO
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Dear communists, if your ideology is so great why can I strawman it?
So, I haven't bothered reading anything about communism outside of neo-conservatives saying it's bad. And my understanding is that: it is bad. I don't really feel like reading more on it and although I'm not 100% sure how it works, I have some pretty insightful questions I think destroys communism.
Why are you evil? My moral framework says you're bad even though my moral framework was designed to morally discount communism, I believe that this is completely objective and you're bad people.
Why do you have to write so much? I mean, come on. I can't be arsed reading that. Render it down until you can fit it on a post it note please.
Why can't you all agree on every aspect of communism? Marxists, Jucheist? What the heck is all this? Clearly it doesn't count as an ideology because you all disagree with each other.
Why can't you write an extensive apology for every death ever caused by communism? From my completely unbiased calculations, I came to the conclusion that communism kills 300 gorillion a year. You need to give me a full report on why this happened and how you'll avoid it please.
So, anyway, your ideology is destroyed! And no, I will not consider doing any research or looking at things from your perspective. I am simply here to gloat about my superiority.
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