We meet here bro 😘

I met my girlfriend on IRC, we've been living together for 7 years now. She was trolling people with goatse pics and we started talking about philosophy and poetry etc and then it turned out that she's a super cute canadian girl. This is usually not the story we tell people when they ask how we met.

no Linux People Meet?

Are you sure there's no transfemme one?

How is that not an anti-trust issue?

Because we live in the bad place. Conservatives are unlikely to pursue anti-trust unless they're using it as a tool to hurt out-group (eg: they might try to break up an organization they perceive as being too queer).

We don't have a strong left in the US. You get glimmers every so often - Lina Khan was trying to do anti-trust work, but then trump returned and that's all moot.

A lot of problems would go away or be less bad if we stopped letting power consolidate. Unfortunately, this is the bad place.

I don’t get it.

Is it because she’s dead?

Humans are just animals at the end of the day. This is all a sexual display of fitness. Hiking and traveling tell people you're physically and financially fit. You can move around no issue. You are social. You are socially and physically healthy.

They lie a ton and show pics of hiking from 5 years ago and act like they can still do all that. Or they never could and the pics are deceiving... Regardless, it's just a game all genders are playing to show sexual fitness. It looks like carbon copies because it's the best way to communicate "my body moves well and I can afford luxury".

I love walking and hiking, but having to walk uphill takes me out, too.

swipes right

Best philly cheesesteak I've ever had was from a hospital cafeteria.

There's this bengali place I love that is also a grocery store. It's so epic

amen brother.

best places to eat are the places with no white people. whitey has no taste.

but sucks that usually such places don't last and get replaced with generic white person food.

If I see someone attractive screaming in a park they probably have my attention.

I know it's meant to be positive but gives me horror to me, like Hansel and Gretel

I have a suspicion it's one of the default prompts. Or they're just asking an AI or something.

The first time I asked my future wife out she said no to me. Straight no, I felt so bad that day. And the reason was that it felt unnatural at the moment, we were getting closer and I jumped to conclusions too fast.

I guess the moral of the story is you can get a second chance.

Really long story:

I once knew a girl in high school who I, in a rare moment of boldness while we were away from prying eyes, asked if she would be my girlfriend. She had been my friend for a short while and she fucking chuckled immediately in response, almost instinctively and said "No, sorry.". My autistic ass did not exactly immediately understand why she laughed until I ruminated later.

That said, she seemed to be very friendly with me afterward, like maybe she felt bad and still liked me as a friend... And despite feeling hurt by the way she responded I still hung out with her every once in a while. She eventually got a hot confident boyfriend, because she was also hot. And I kind of started avoiding her because it hurt seeing her with a guy who I felt clearly was better than me, caused me to spiral into self loathing when I saw him. I did not know I was autistic, I just knew I was an infamously weird dork.

Fast forward ~11 years later I stumble into her and she looks like shes a different and much sadder person. I don't want to body shame but she looked a lot worse and I was no longer particularly attracted to her, she was ok looking. She was going on about a recent break up with a guy who she said cheated on her to the bartender.

Now I'm polyamorous, and I legit don't understand and actively dislike monogamy, but obviously I have a faint idea of how painful being cheated on would feel like, and she seemed super sad and I felt bad for her. After talking with her and catching up a little for like 20 minutes, she drunkenly tried to make out with me.

I got away from her and the internal anger I felt was supremely intense. Like, what the actual fuck, fuck you. You fucking said no and now that you're washed up and depressed about your ex using me as a fall back.

I cannot describe the feeling of grief flare as well. Like, maybe if she had said yes back then. Maybe I could of had a normal romantic experience as a high schooler instead of being what I was. Sure maybe also wouldn't have worked out like most relationships, but still. I was a really lonely fucked up high schooler with a completely empty romantic life. Just a void.

I'm doing better now romantically but I was also still having trouble getting any romance at this point in my life even 11 year later. I was still painfully lonely. But the absolute bitterness I felt toward her made even pity for her out the fucking window for me and my desperation for any intimacy dried up instantly in that moment.

Part of me wonders if I should have just gone for it and I was being petty. I don't know. It just makes me kind of sad to think about.

That really depends: are you looking for a nerdy man who lacks social skills or are you t4t and super online? If so, yeah probably. If not, feel free to try

There's Alovoa... an open source platform but it's even less densely populated than Lemmy

I bet someone did just that and succeeded

I guess this is another moon landing flat earth sovereign citizen thing.

It started as a joke, and now there are actual people who believe that she was either not a real person, or that her accomplishments were faked. People with disabilities are already assumed to be lesser than able bodied people, and this particular trend is stripping away one of the most prominent examples to the contrary. It is also erasing one of the most prominent examples of a famous socialist woman in American history, and a southern American socialist woman at that. Her story is amazing, but more importantly, she is historically significant. She is an example to so many people, and she has been liberal-washed for a century, and now she's being erased entirely. It's disgusting.

Exactly! She's one of my favorite historical figures, but when if she wasn't, even if our politics did not align so well, she does not deserve to swept into the dustbin like this, liberal washed and eventually erased entirely. It's disgusting.

Shut up Jaden Smith

Clearly the AI thinks you need therapy, financial advice and lectures on how to sell yourself better. Interestingly, I feel like it might be up to something... I know I wouldn't say no to that :)

But then, I'd rather hump an anthill than date a finance person, so maybe not.