This also necessarily incluses the associated type of insufferable man-complaining men do at man hobby gatherings about not being able to find a woman and how it is so hard blah blah blah.

Men talking to other men about men's problems that women have repeatedly said they don't care nor do they want to hear about it? Sounds pretty normal to me tbh.

The secret seems to me that in order to treat women kindly you must treat them as equals but what the hell do I know.

Actually I think it's that third places are dead besides bars, so unless you're a barfly the only place to meet NEW people now that is socially acceptable is online spyware apps owned by Match Group that have an incentive to give you bad matches and keep you paying the subscription, or (apparently) being set up by friends. And on top of that, even when I do meet a woman, not only does she have to like me, I have to like her too. I'm not so desperate as to just take the first being with a vagina who says hello to me, I'm not just looking for sex (if I was, I'd call a FWB), I want a meaningful partnership with someone who loves me and who I love back. It's not just as simple as "oh one talked to me, better have kids and settle down."

The commodification of dating really doesn't seem to be doing ANYONE any favors, but of course if you acknowledge it you're an incel (which is Match Group propaganda, btw, people other than incels can be upset at being treated like a product too.)

(Btw I know I didn't mention the actual article and only talked about the digressions in your comment that I had something to say about, so just for reference: idgaf about trans people in women's sports, I neither watch sports nor bet on them, not my chair not my problem.)

"Wired wired wired"

Meanwhile phones: "3.5mm what now? Never heard of it."

I'm not ditching Graphene to get a phone with more spyware to replace my headphones with wired to avoid the headphone spyware. Seems counterproductive.

AYO now THAT'S an early-mid 00s throwback.

Yeah I'm considering it, but I already carry too much stuff.

You remember those shitty sandisk mp3 players that took an SD card but were pretty small? I Need an updated one but with 1tb microSD.

can be put into a cassette player and actually work.

Alright that is pretty fucking cool, I actually need one of those for my cassette deck. But too big for a carry DAP for me, I need a subcompact.

Yeah but my issue isn't charging while listening (though now that you mention it, that too lol) but the undue plugging and unplugging on my sole port, for the dongle to solve that I'd need to leave it connected 24/7 which would be madness lol.

And put wear and tear on my only charge port, no thank you. If they'd give me two usb-c ports I wouldn't bitch about the lack of 3.5mm as much though, tbf.

Hell yeah, thanks!

Fair enough lol. But still fuck that for like 4 reasons.

SLX BNT 2ER

For 27km down a busy highway before 7am, with a backpack full of tools, manual labor for 8h, and 27km back down that busy highway to get home?

Do you bike 54km to your manual labor job every day?

Welp, guess I'm not going to work tomorrow because there's no busses nor metro (even within the city there's shit for busses and no metro, and I have to travel two towns into the country where busses are mostly conceptual). Does "hopping a freight and hopefully not getting caught by the bulls in the yard and then hoping they slow down enough in the town I need to jump off in" count as "public transport?"

Know what? I think I'll just drive.

Hey thanks for the heads up!

Praise "Bob," but he doesn't answer prayers, he's too busy doing his own thing. Sometimes what you want happens to line up with what "Bob" wants though which is nice. And if you follow "Bob's" teachings you'll learn to surf the Luck Plane yourself and maybe one day find true Slack.

Yes but also no. His tolerance got higher but weed has changed a lot too.

My main problem is a lack of history preservation, apparently all the landrace strains are lost and nobody makes real hash anymore because BHO and rosin.

Hell we might as well switch the HR dept to AI, thr lady in charge of HR is just using chat GPT to make policies now so what's the fucking difference?

Stop. Putting. Internet. In Everything.

AI comments its code now?

I still get Suck My Dog's Dick stuck in my head regularly, mostly when my boss is micromanaging lmao.

"Suck a racehorse's bootyhole, suck a snow leopard's ass, suck a constipated ghost's dick.."

Absolute lyrical genius.

Without seeing the post they're referencing:

Someone probably said they let their cats outside tbh, and then someone chimed in with how they're "personally Holocausting every small bird and lizard within a 600mi radius and for this crime they should be thrown to a tiger and see how they like it."

Yes I was being a little hyperbolic for comedic effect but it's absolutely a thing in the cat comms around here, not sure I've seen death threats specifically about it but people hate outside cats (more to the point, their owners) on lemmy.