phlegmy

Well yeah, if you turn down a woman, she's going to tell her friends about it.
And those friends probably won't be interested in starting a relationship with you any time soon.

Those secret whisper campaigns sound straight out of a teenage movie, and not at all how mature people behave. I'd say you dodged a bullet in that case.

Your anecdotal experience is not representative of everyone else's though, and neither is mine.

I don't appreciate you resorting to personal attacks to convey your beliefs, so this will be my last reply.

Men reject women all the time, with no societal repercussions.

You have the right to not give someone a second chance, nobody is taking that away from you. I'm just saying the world isn't always as shallow as your comments portray it to be.

Rejecting someone doesn't mean you have decided you can do better, or that you aren't attracted to them. It means at that exact moment in time you weren't prepared to enter that relationship.

If you get mocked for rejecting a woman, you're either still in school, or need to get some better friends. Because no sane, rational people would ever think less of you for who you do/don't date.

It's understandable why you would feel that way.

People change all the time though.
Perhaps after some of those relationships, they found personality/stability to be more important than looks.

Or maybe they've spent years regretting the decision, and the short relationships along the way failed because nobody could compare to you.

Or maybe they genuinely are as shallow as you think, and you're the last resort in the dating pool.

You can never really know for sure.

No no no, you have it all wrong. Microsoft said it wasn't their fault!
Please ignore the fact that you can fix the issue by rolling back the windows update that causes it.

Oh no, not "the" government of "the" nation

Are those cold/frozen fries?

Nah, I still enjoy the content, and it wouldn't make a grain of difference as far as global wasted energy goes.

If you really are concerned about wasted energy though, you shouldn't be on your computer/phone browsing lemmy.

Or if you use adblock and stream at 4k, google will lose money when you watch videos. Free content while fucking google over is a win win in my book.

I doubt many people outside the US have any clue about whether the US justice system needs to be restructured, so there goes ~95% of the global population.

Excluding people from discussions because they don't agree with 'one' point is setting yourself up for failure.
You aren't winning anyone over with an all-or-nothing attitude, you're cutting off many potential allies.

Same. And when I think back about an old book I read, I remember the visuals rather than the words.
I couldn't tell you the names of all the characters in a book I read 10 years ago, but I can describe the 'scenes'. All the places they went to, things they saw, and the things I saw them do.

Not enough AI. Gotta use the webcam+AI to set the timezone to one that's most frequently used by people of whatever ethnicity it thinks you are.

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