@SportsAreFake_ @Duderichy Yeah but who cares what the majority of women do as long as you’re able to go on dates with some
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yung EMH
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@Duderichy I’ve gone in a couple dates off of hinge the last couple of months however I found that the majority of women on there simply stop responding after a few messages or will take days/weeks to respond it’s hard to accomplish anything like that
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> 70% of active Hinge users have never gotten a first date.
what
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
@Duderichy A small number of people get very lucky in the first few dates. A medium number get lucky after years on them. For the vast majority it does not work at all. 70% of active Hinge users have never gotten a first date.
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@CorneliaLake $1.5-2.5M per semester? That means if there were 100 brothers everyone’s dues were $15k-$25k per semester. Really?
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To be the social chair in my frat, which was a license to run parties costing ~$1.5-2.5 million per semester…was a bake off between people bidding to pay for the position. The deal was you could skim, the sororities had unlimited social budgets that were contributed to each “event,” but everything had to go smoothly. The “high bidder” almost never won. People knew who would get it done.
Bizlet@bizlet7
You can basically pick the average former White frat star from a state school in his mid 30s and place him in a position of power and he would do a better job than the typical ivy leaguer like Matt Yglesias.
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@he_is_offline @dahvnyc Yes but going up to 35 minutes inflates the number. I would never walk 35 minutes to the grocery store. I care how many stores are within a 15 minute walk maybe, not 35
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@WASPmexicano It’s a bit like saying the median number of children 21yo women isn’t that high. The peak years for sexual partners are probably mid-20’s to late-30’s I’d guess. So the fuller life cycle is more interesting. I do think the # is lower than people think, as you say, though.
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Under 25 is actually lower, which makes sense
Ryan McElroy@RyanMcElro89491
@WASPmexicano I’m curious about the age range on these stats. People in the earlier part of the range could seemingly add many more partners right? It depends on relationship status but a 25yo with 4 “lifetime” partners could easily become a 49yo with 35.
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@sporadica The x axis is unreadable but my guess is pandemic ending
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this is really really great but...why?
i don't see any evidence of this in my life, friends+family, etc, so i have to say i'm inherently distrustful of this data. is it really? and if so, what's causing that?
a16z@a16z
Scrolling is on the decline More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…
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@cobaco123 @Logo_Daedalus A bunch of people have already said it but you’re an idiot :/
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@Logo_Daedalus note the 'large sample' only consists of 2692 responses
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@jeancultamerre @RussoClips I went on 6 hinge dates last year and met my girlfriend on the 7th - I think only one of those dates came from me liking their profile as opposed to them liking me. I sent lots of likes but the resulting matches would always fizzle out. Just my experience 🤷♂️
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@RussoClips I've fucked with a good amount of girls on Hinge and they dont even swap profile most of the time , they just look at the ones who liked their profiles so his strat isnt even working
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Rasmr reveals spending $900/month on Hinge is the new method...
"You buy boosts, its $30/day, do it like 10 times and you literally have the craziest roster in history"
"If other guys are buying boosts they aren't even showing your profile to girls, so you buy the boosts and girls will like you first and it gives you a way higher chance"
"You don't need to spend time jestering, thinking of one liners for random girls... just hit boost every day for 30 days and you get the craziest roster of all time"
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@JohnByr49557173 @danielcberk I was a D2 tennis player and am now a decent powerlifter, and I will never ever run sub 3. I gave running a serious try for a year and couldn’t even break 25 minutes on the 5k lmao
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@danielcberk I'm the least athletics person I know and I ran 2.29. I'm literally hopeless at every other sport. I could weight train forever without even a slight change in physique. It took about 75k miles and 50 marathons but I did it. Running is mainly about the effort you put in.
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At Google, it was considered “fast” if you got promoted to Director by 40.
It was so odd that ostensibly intelligent men judged their own achievements by their peers at the plantation. “I can’t believe he made Director at 32!”
The fact that Larry & Sergey founded Google at 25 was somehow beyond consideration
These people were willing to see themselves as lesser men than the C suite and that’s exactly the kind of mindset that is required to not go crazy working for a large company
Some of these guys looked ancient by the time they got promoted to Director. Was it really worth it to “make it” in your 30s if people thought you were in your 50s?
You’ll never get that time back. You just have a title of “Director” which doesn’t mean anything anyway. It’s not like you’re on the Board of Directors. It’s just a word for a higher rank of slave
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@way_opener This kind of thing has happened to me before. I was traveling and went to a concert alone. A random guy came up and told me to “fuck off becaue she’s clearly not interested” - no idea what he was on about
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Went dancing with my girlfriend and watched a live band. On the way out a random girl I’ve never seen before accused me of “being really weird to her friend, this is your final warning”. I did not interact with anyone but my girlfriend all evening.
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genuinely what does tiktok have. instagram reels is funnier. youtube shorts is more chill. WHAT does tiktok have
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@ramit If they have a high household income (let’s say $200k+) then spending an extra 20% ($40,000)/yr would be crazy. But not taking vacations is also stupid. If they merely cut their savings rate from 60% to 55%, that will free up $10k, which allows for a lot of indulgence.
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"Is pushing for a 60% savings rate destroying my marriage?"
Yes
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@schitcoin I get what you’re saying but isn’t it very obvious that if you work from home you won’t invite your remote coworkers to your wedding
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Tangential but going WFH so early in my career has fundamentally changed who I am. When my fiancée and I sat down to make our wedding guest list, we set fairly strict rules on who makes the cut and who doesn’t. What surprised us is that we both ended up inviting zero coworkers to our wedding.
With a few exceptions, our invited friends are mostly just our university and school friends + their SOs. Since we’ve both been almost entirely WFH since March 2020 we just didn’t have any colleagues or ex colleagues we felt close enough to invite to the wedding.
I started a new job last fall and have been making a conscious effort to go into the office since December. Going in is optional and I am one of 4-5 3x/week regulars. Main reason I go tbh is that it’s a short walk from home + let’s me order lunch on the company Uber Eats card. They’ve got snacks and protein shakes in bulk. It’s been nice. It’s my first time going regularly to an office in 6 years. My coworkers are excited about my upcoming wedding and ask a lot of questions.
If I had started going to work even 6 months before I sent out my wedding invites, I think a couple might have made the cut. But if I’d gotten married in summer 2020 I’d have had 20+ coworkers at my wedding. Now it’s zero. I think about this at the office every day.
My wedding guest list- a very select group of people that will live with me forever- fundamentally altered because of WFH.
daz@MetamateDaz
WFH eliminated the commute, the office attire, the lunches out, the daily coffee etc. for a lot of people that was an extra $5k - $10K a year that's why they took it away from us
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@SinClipd Looksmaxxers are retarded
She's not a 7 but they insist on using a normalized scale which 90% of people can't understand.
And then have to invent MTN, HTN, etc., in effect returning to a linear scale because most people don't understand what a normalized 5.25 is.
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@realtonysm1th It not about “perception”. I’m sure lots of people in red states would love to move to LA or something, just too expensive
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It’s less about the electoral implications of all this (IMO that stuff is unpredictable in as little as a 10 year time horizon) but rather what it might show about Americans perception of them more generally. There’s a lot of noise in the discourse about the problems with the democrats, but it’s all pretty motivated IMO, and I’m not sure we actually have a serious answer yet.
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I say this not from a place of concern trolling as I really have no dog in this fight electorally, but democrats need to actually engage seriously with why red states are so attractive to move to while blue states stagnate or lose ground and adjust
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Fox News: Democrats could lose up to 14 net Electoral College seats after the 2030 Census as population shifts favor red states. Projected gains: FL +2, TX +3, ID +1, UT +1 Projected losses: CA -3, NY -1, IL -2, RI -1
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@wickedandproud @HannahWardEdu @Empty_America 3 years early is pretty crazy. I started college at 17 and it was completely fine, but there was a 15 year old on my floor and his situation was for sure different. I think we should take skipping more than one grade with extreme skepticism
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@HannahWardEdu @Empty_America My friend's first roommate started college at 15 and she definitely said she regretted it, especially as it went into junior/senior year because 21 year olds don't really want to hang out with 17 year olds.
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There is no really good answer to kids who work above grade level.
Almost everyone who skips a grade regrets it as an adult, and if anything going to college early is even worse.
I guess staying in grade, but graduating HS a year early, gap year, then college at 18 is best?
Marsha McLuhan@MCLuhan17
Going to college 2 years early was even worse. Being under 18 made dating awkward at a time when many were pairing up ("is it even legal") and when everyone turned 21 I was excluded from many social events at bars. Even years later I feel sad about missing a "normal experience"
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@yoobinray At my big tech company nobody is writing code by hand either. Reading code by hand is still alive and well though
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Every not mid startup is operating this way already
Ppl claiming to write code by hand now are either in big tech or grieving a lost art
Guri Singh@heygurisingh
Holy shit. Anthropic engineers don't write code anymore. A new hire just leaked what's actually happening inside the company shipping harder than anyone in 2026: Nobody on his team has hand-written code in months. They run multiple agents in parallel and act like managers, not engineers. His exact words: "if you're just watching an agent code, you're already behind. that idle time should be spent spinning up another agent and directing it somewhere else." The mental model isn't "use AI to code faster." It's "you are the PM, the agents are your engineers, and your job is to keep all of them unblocked." He called it being "fully AI aligned" as a team and said it changes what's even possible to build. The productivity gap between people who think this way and people who don't is already enormous. And the proof is simple: Anthropic has shipped harder than any company in 2026. If you're still hand-writing code, you're not behind on tools. You're behind on the job itself.
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@StatisticUrban Some context must be missing here. Like this neighborhood is in some way special. You can find this same price and sq ft in outer Seattle suburbs, and there’s no way the Des Moines housing market is up there with Seattle
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Thought to myself "I wonder what housing in Des Moines, Iowa is like" and went on Zillow and got one shot.
I get that these are not the median, and are large houses in a good area, but they are significantly less than what I though $900k would get you in f*cking Iowa
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Absolute nonsense. There were marketing/recruiting videos for tech companies. Google led the way 20+ years ago, and Facebook and a whole generation of other tech companies followed suit hyping up what a dream their campuses were. Changes were about capital markets, not TikTok.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
These videos were the single most expensive flex in labor history. Tech workers had the best negotiating position of any white-collar workforce in 50 years. Remote work, $250K+ comp, four-day work weeks, unlimited PTO. The only thing keeping that deal alive was ambiguity. Nobody outside tech knew exactly what the day looked like. Then thousands of people filmed it and posted it to the one platform where non-tech people actually hang out. Every "day in my life as a Google PM" video that showed two hours of real work became ammunition for every CFO building a layoff deck. Every CEO trying to justify RTO got a free highlight reel. Every recruiter benchmarking comp against "market rate" suddenly had video evidence that the market was overpaying. The negotiating leverage depended on information asymmetry. The TikToks destroyed it voluntarily. For free. For likes.
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