• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      15 days ago

      I did a calculation once about my chances of finding a compatible long-term partner, inspired by the Drake Equation and using many many assumptions. The numbers are not good: ~22 out of 8 billion.

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        As a married man, I gotta say you’re probably selling yourself short or have unrealistic expectations of a partner.

        Remember that whoever you’re going to date is a person, not a robot. People are not quantifiable. One day they may be a dick, the next they may be pleasant. Some people are willing to compromise and others aren’t. Man, woman, or other, it doesn’t matter. If you’re not willing to compromise something, you’re never going to find someone.

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        15 days ago

        I only need to make 1 assumption to solve that equation for me

        0% of people would find me attractive

        QE fucking D

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          15 days ago

          I like reminding my single friends that 73% of Americans are considered overweight. 41% are obese.

          A shocking amount of my male friends are overweight or obese and refuse to date overweight women.

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        15 days ago

        That seems absurdly low. Are you sure that all of your criteria are non-negotiable? And entirely uncorrelated?

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          Look I wasn’t completely serious about it, there’s no way to actually calculate something like that.
          For example what’s the fraction of people that find me attractive. It could range from 0.05 to 0.5. I have no way of knowing.

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    14 days ago

    you, standing on a cliff overlooking the horizon, and ten billion light-years away there is a point you will never, ever be physically capable of reaching because the very expansion of the cosmic medium itself will move it further away from you than it already is now even if you traveled in that direction at the speed of light for ten billion years.

    caption: finding a girl who finds YOU attractive

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    15 days ago

    I feel like this meme was made by a gen z kid that grew up with filtered pictures being normal

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    I’m bi myself and a shut in. How do you find people in general I don’t know.

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      15 days ago

      From what I understand if you just stay in front of the computer that they will magically manifest inside your home.