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This sounds like a reframing of the feminist idea that patriarchal structures typically harm men as well.

AI is really bad at flirting, making coherent jokes and sharing genuine things about yourself to build connection. These are the three major ways you can actually engage with people on dating apps. You’d probably have to configure it to just push for drinks/coffee date pretty quick, that might work quite well, if you’ve got a solid profile.

I often see people who sleep around being shamed with comments like, “You’re going to catch an STD.” And yeah, the risk definitely increases the more partners you have, and the more partners your partners have had. That said, I’ve been pretty promiscuous over the past four years and haven’t caught anything. Honestly, I’m surprised by that, because I always grew up thinking that if you slept around, you’d almost certainly end up with an STD. I haven’t even picked up HSV-1 or HSV-2, which a huge percentage of people have. Have I just been lucky? Or is STD risk in general just overblown? I always use condoms carefully and practise safe sex within reason, which I assume makes a big difference.

Believe me, I know, and I’m not complaining It shocks me how many of my male friends are completely happy with having unprotected casual sex, and also how many of the girls I’ve been with were pleasantly surprised when I brought a condom out. In some cases some girls even asked not to use one. My overall point is just that if you religiously use condoms and get regularly tested, I think the STD risk of regular casual sex is pretty minimal. Herpes does scare me though, but again I’ve been very promiscuous and avoided it thus far.

There is a risk, but I think if you take proper precaution it isn't something that you need to be extremely anxious about. Obviously the risk is really high if you go sleeping around without a condom and you never get tested. Or if you don't know how to use a condom properly. With the exception of HSV, the majority of commonly caught STDs are treated with a simple course of antibiotics as well. HSV-2 is really the only STD that actually scares me because it's untreatable, has consequences and isn't prevented with a condom. But like I said, statistically I have almost certainly been exposed to it by now but somehow I don't have it. Getting someone pregnant unintentionally is a FAR bigger risk than an STD.

I just don’t see how this is true. Hard drugs will destroy your body, kill you, or leave you in financial ruin. The worst porn can do is fuck with your dopamine circuitry a bit. Even then, it’s only a risk to your mental health if you’re using it as a substitute for relationships or sex, or you use it so excessively that it interferes with your day to day life. Also “between alcohol and meth” is a massive range. Alcohol is probably one of the least naturally addictive drugs while meth is one of the most.

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There are also women who are extremely good looking but in a way that's kind of generic. Almost so perfect that they're boring to look at. That's probably a similar dynamic to what we're talking about here with guys that are 'too attractive.' As humans, we relate most deeply over our shared flaws. If you have no flaws then you become very hard to relate to and you also risk coming across as a bit boring.

Honestly, this post on his instagram doesn't give off the best energy either, especially the last bullet point. Where did you see that he was caught editing it @vinc3nc?

I'm going to give you a very comprehensive overview of my experience with nicotine and how to stop. I don't get the sense that you are fully committed to stopping yet, but I hope this will change that. Fucking listen up dude, I promise it's worth it. ---- I’ve been cutting down on nicotine lately. Over the past few weeks I’ve dropped to two 3mg pouches a day (this is a very small dose of nicotine) and the difference in my mental state is insane. Motivation is way up, everyday things feel enjoyable again, and for the first time in a year (since I started heavy daily use) I actually feel content. What’s strange is that I’m in a good place in life, but I still felt empty and couldn’t figure out why. I think it was the nicotine. High doses hijack your dopamine system so nothing feels rewarding except the next hit. It feels a lot like depression: even basic things like washing dishes, going to the gym, or working feel flat and joyless. When I first started vaping regularly I could feel my excitement for life slipping away, but the nicotine hit was strong so I didn’t care. Eventually the hit fades too and you’re just left with no excitement for life at all. It’s a terrible deal. I can’t stress enough how much I recommend cutting back. Not just for health, but for your brain. Feeling content in life is almost impossible when your brain is constantly flooded with nicotine. Here's exactly what I did to quit, and I have not found it that hard because it's been very gradual. You can absolutely do this, and I promise it's worth it. Buy a re-fillable vape with 10-15mg (1% - 15%) e-liquid Every two weeks drop to the next lowest e-liquid strength e.g. 15mg (1.5%) > 10mg (1%) > 6mg (0.6%) > 3mg (0.3%) Start taking 3mg nicotine pouches on weekdays (I was taking around 5 per day when I switched to this) instead of vaping, but allow yourself to vape on weekends Take fewer and fewer pouches per weekday (I found it much easier to switch to lower pouch strength than lowering vape content) Once you're taking 1-2 pouches per day, you can stop yourself vaping at weekends and only take pouches At this point the health impacts are negligible. Maybe you can stay at this level, or you can make the final push to quit. I haven't reached this point yet, but I already feel 1000x better than when I was smoking and vaping daily.

My instagram is pretty crappy. I just use it to keep in touch with some travel friends and see what they're up to or if we're nearby. It probably does help to have a decent instagram page setup with some good photos, it's like advertising your life to a girl in a similar way to a Tinder/Hinge profile. Having said that, I've gotten by without one. I mostly add girls on WhatsApp which is ubiquitous in the UK and Europe.

You made it sound like that here

There was chemistry there while we were talking, then when it actually came to the sex it just wasn't great. Oddly I've been in a similar position to the guy you hooked up with before too, the girl was in an open relationship and I met her off Feeld. It made me uncomfortable thinking about the boyfriend so I didn't want to see her again. I thought I'd be capable of handling it at first, but I could tell that she wasn't really that into her bf after we slept together, she was talking about how much more she enjoyed sleeping with me than with her BF. Something about that made me feel like I was ruining a relationship and I wasn't OK with that. Maybe that could be part of it in your case too.

Whenever I've hooked up with a girl and she wanted to hook up again but I didn't, it was because the sexual chemistry just wasn't there for me.

What in the fuck did I just read? I feel like I need to wash out my eyeballs with soap and water now

It kind of makes sense that the slower you move the more muscle growth you’ll encourage. The more time your muscles spend under tension the more they tear and the more they grow. The only hill I’ve ever seen Jeff Nippard die on say in terms of how your reps should be timed is that the eccentric should be at least 1 second. Realistically if your eccentric is shorter than 1 second you’re probably lifting with bad form or trying to lift weights that are too heavy for you

Gemini is probably the best value for money for general purpose stuff. ChatGPT quite heavily limits a lot of complex function like image processing while Gemini has much more relaxed limits on them. For coding I like Claude, I pay £10/m to Copilot and I can use Claude for complex agent tasks several times per day without ever hitting the limits.

I feel depressed if I wake up in the pitch black. I want to wake up to blisteringly bright sunshine.

Wow. Dude is proud of himself for going 11 days without smoking and now is already finding a way to rationalise starting to smoke again while proclaiming how 'easy' it is to quit. I hope you're not taking this seriously.

God damn any woman reading this is thinking "I would not touch this guy with a 10ft pole" This is such a weaselly and scummy approach to dating. It's better to just start building a life a girl would actually want to be a part of instead of trying to fake it with all of these schemes. Do cool stuff and you'll get authentic high quality photos of yourself that way which you can use on dating apps, then you'll have far more success. I bet you that you had little success on apps because your photos are terrible or they look fake. Build a social circle, do cool stuff, get cool photos, and go out to busy mixed gender places and talk to girls in person. I cannot imagine how bad my emotional state would be if every night I was scouring men's profiles on instagram to hit on the women they follow, with my completely AI generated profile, telling them about my AI generated pet.

It’s implied by the fact that you have picked out these two single issues as the easiest ways to determine if someone is worth taking seriously. Climate change makes sense, but porn is such an odd hill to die on

I find it bizarre that porn is top of your list for threats to humanity. Like you consider it on the same threat level as climate change which could potentially cause the extinction of humanity? Not to be rude, but that’s kind of crazy. The people who use porn as a substitute for real human connection have an unhealthy relationship with it. If you are otherwise well rounded and jerk off to porn a few times a week it’s not going to suddenly ruin your life

Google simple stuff, ask complex questions here

I don’t mean to be rude, but this is extremely easy information to google