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@jorge_coronaa @nomadgeist @angeldevenganza The rise of VIP and bottle service is probably connected with declining attendance in the digital age, the clubs need to make up the revenue somehow… I know, let’s make it a luxury experience. A lot of industries are going this route

@nomadgeist @angeldevenganza Today must people are glued to their phone. Also many night clubs are dead, cost of living and salaries from 2005 cannot buy you 2 clubs, 2 bars, food and taxis per night.

The whole hardcoreness of the dating community has been kind of killed off. I once hung out with this little clique of PUA enthusiasts in Australia, and this was their standard routine for a night out: 7pm: Meetup at an isolated park on outskirts of the city to do bioenergetic exercises which included jumping up an down, stomping (grounding), stretches, screaming to open throat etc 7:45pm: Motivational pep talk by one of the more experienced guys 8:30pm: walk to club, warm up sets on the street with passing groups of girls 9:00pm: Hit club queue, hit on girls in the line to try and connect with them later in the bar 9:30pm: Enter bar, nonstop sets, try to create a little hub/large group somewhere in the club 11:30pm: If not going great move to club 2, hit on girls on street + the line of club 2 2:30am: If no pull, spill out onto the street, hit on girls outside bar or smoking area 3am: These guys would then literally work the cab rank, try to invite themselves into cabs with groups of girls leaving until 4am for "afterparty" (the more skilled guys would very often pull this off, and end up in a cab heading to some chicks house or the pad of one of the guys who had good logistics) If that didn't succeed, guys would head to a 24hour pancake joint in the city at 5am for a chat and debrief on what went wrong etc. This is the kind of hardcore extreme energy that a lot guys getting into the game now can't conceive of

@nomadgeist @angeldevenganza Meh, not a big loss. It’s like how Netflix killed Blockbuster. Dating apps are a better mousetrap, I can “game” a dozen women while shitting on the toilet. Still exciting to get a “manual” lay once in a while but easy to see why the PUA subculture died off

@MikeK14147650 @shifpapi Idk who the hell Noah Kahan is, never even heard of him. I went to Tall Ship for the first time last summer and I thought it was fantastic

@valuechad @shifpapi Huh? This meme could not be less applicable here. What is supposed to be the coolest thing ever? The bars? Noah Kahan?

I like to call this type of person a “Noah Kahan American”. They make up about 80% of the city of Boston and have made an otherwise cool city a cultural hellhole

@MikeK14147650 @shifpapi Go back to Reddit

@shifpapi That’s such a misread. Cisco/Tall Ship fans are mostly former Greek life members, mid 20s finance bros, and normies from the suburbs who come in for the day. Kahan fans are a completely separate phenotype

@KenPwersFan @DrewVento My theory is that the dopamine hit from getting angry at politics has replaced a lot of the old sports rivalries. I remember when I was growing up around Boston Red Sox fans rioting and frothing at the mouth over the Yankees, that all seems so quaint now

@DrewVento I deeply regret the years of energy I spent on this shit. I wouldn't characterize it as overly though. More akin to being a sports fan.

Being overly political is a sign of mental illness and an unstable life. You are emotionally invested into things you have practically 0 impact on, which constantly impacts your mood. I couldn’t imagine following this stuff daily, subjecting myself to whatever nonsense the current thing is. If you have responsibilities and things to do in your social life, there’s no reason you should be religiously following every little thing which happens, you simply don’t have time, and would not want to subject yourself to unneeded negativity energy.

@swarley75042565 You people live in bizarro world, I had 40 lays under my belt before I left roommates at 29, even brought chicks to my moms house. Stop sitting on your lard ass “thinking about culture” as your bio says and into the weight room. Signed a 33 yr old fart

another aspect old farts don’t acknowledge is that to get a date you’ve got to have a nice apartment, drive a nice car, be well traveled, dress well, have opinions on expensive restaurants, go to cocktail bars, etc. no one is dating a loser saving 80% of his take home

@thechosenberg He does have a point, there’s an institutional imperative now to ensure that we never again experience a prolonged bear market, paper wealth is driving consumption at the margin and is the only thing preventing more Mamdani types from gaining ground across the country

This is my quant

@irbezek My feeling is that Amodei, Musk etc don’t actually believe that narrative but they need to keep it going long enough to raise more $ and the stock to retail….we’re about to get Rosie the robot and if you miss the train you’re getting left behind…btw I need another $30 billion

AI is a useful tool that will boost productivity for many particular uses and applications. It's not going to lead to AGI anytime soon, and that's quite alright. There is massive overinvestment in AI now which will lead to hundreds of billions of writedowns. But this happens with most new technologies. The people uniformly opposing all AI development will look foolish in 10-20 years. But all-in AI proponents presenting it as "we will eliminate average peoples' jobs in order to raise profit margins for the billionaire class" literally couldn't have come up with a worse sales pitch.

@ColonizerBird @Achilleudes You have it all wrong. Stop trying to be cute and clever on the apps, and instead segue the convo toward meeting within 5-10 messages. Talking is the female frame, the more you talk the more you shoot yourself in the foot. Be a man of action

@valuechad @Achilleudes You can’t even get to the date part. It just consists of making a fool of yourself to stand out from the dozens of people in her DMs, and keep her dopamine fried brain attentive long enough to get that far

„Dating“ ist auch ein Demütigungsritual für junge Männer. Es gibt wenig zu gewinnen und viel zu verlieren.

@BVitterbe88816 @Achilleudes Well in that case I guess I do get an opinion, I am in my 30s, before my current gf I was mostly dating Gen Z girls. But keep thinking you know everything. Some people are so far behind in a race they actually believe they’re leading!

@valuechad @Achilleudes If you are under 40 you don't get an opinion man. I'm sorry but the internet has changed social customs so much that you simply have no wisdom or advice to offer. Women simply do not behave the way they did in ye olden days when you were young.

@zn5719888520537 @Achilleudes The sex is assumed, I call it dating because I’m a classy guy

@valuechad @Achilleudes Oh it's fun. Sex that is. 'Dating"?' not required for that.

@GeorgeMayer What do the 70,000 people who work at $meta do all day? By all accounts most are just getting in the way. Seems to me that zuck is reasserting control of a headcount that grew 7x in the final years of Sandbergs reign

I think part of the theory was that it would be a win/win, a test of mettle. But it’s been like this for so many years that’s it’s shedding top folks too and many of the remaining aren’t trying to do their best work, they’re trying to keep their jobs.

@LionBlogosphere No it’s because they spent years of planning, the 250th is mostly looking like a few half assed events slapped together at the last minute

Back in 1976, people celebrated the Bicentennial because they loved America, even though inflation was sky-high and the President (Ford) was some guy that nobody had voted for. A celebration like this won't happen this year. Nobody loves America anymore.

@DrInsensitive …and then you woke up

That's a pretty good way to snag a wealthy husband. If I were a hot girl looking for a rich husband, I'd apply for nanny jobs. Then in the interviews, I would focus on the wife, and choose the one who's the biggest bitch. Then I move in, care for the kids, act sweet and submissive, and let nature take its course.

@BeardSports @Mephitus_Skunk In my single days I found dating to be incredibly stimulating both physically and emotionally, nothing beats the rush of going out to meet a hot chick that you may or may not get to bang later

@Mephitus_Skunk ROI? Jesus Christ. Y'all are clowns. Just enjoy getting to know someone.

Hot take: No, this is in fact not thrilling. It's a pain in the ass and a humiliation ritual for most guys. And every year women make the prospect more and more risky while lowering the ROI for even trying.

@NoelWieder Cmon man if you’re gonna lift Alice Schroeders words verbatim at least give her credit

If you ever feel like no one believes in you, think of Walter Schloss for a moment. He started working for Graham in 1946. Years before Buffett. He worked there for almost a decade. And yet it was the 14-years-younger Warren Buffett whom Graham saw as his protégé. Who, together with his wife, got regularly invited to dinners with Graham and Newman. Schloss was never invited to events like this. He had been written off as a journeyman employee who would never rise to be a partner. But instead of letting that discourage him, Schloss started his own partnership in 1955. He ran it on simple Graham principles, and beat the S&P by 6% a year. For 47 years. A $1,000 investment made with Schloss in 1955 would be worth over $1 million in 2002. After fees. So regardless of how he was seen, Schloss's results spoke for themselves. The same goes for your returns. They don't depend on the recognition of others. They depend on the work you put in every day.

@Blind__Luck You’re like the teacher that we ribbed for hating fun in first grade…we would literally scream the word FUUUNNN whenever she walked into the room. Dating should be FUN ..for Christs sake it’s not an interview for a “partner” like she’s joining your law firm

Too many people on dating apps want to be enertained Instead of finding a partner to build a life with

@Waterhort @shagbark_hick I booked accomodations in DC for July 4 but I’m likely going to cancel, and this is a major reason why. The bipartisan commission tasked with overseeing the 250th has by all accounts devolved into a clusterfuck of fighting with Trump, the programming looks pretty weak so far

@shagbark_hick It is odd, esp. considering Trump and MAGA types seemingly making a big deal earlier of how great it was going to be. Beginning to think it'll be as cheap and poorly thought through as many of Trump's branding efforts

Something tells me we're not going to have this kind of energy for America's 250th. You'd think by now I'd be seeing "250" everywhere but I honestly do not see it anywhere. I mean this is a quarter-millennium here. You'd think we'd be exceedingly hyped already?

@WestsideLAGuy Trades for thee but not for me. Looking forward to paying $200,000 a year for my future kid

Elite colleges will INCREASE in prestige as AI commoditizes technical knowledge. Along with looks, pedigree cannot be replicated by AI. Rich people telling people to not go to college is a strategy to diminish competition for their kids.