If someone has major defects that they didn't include in their profile, they are not going to tell you about it in an online message either. Do you really think you are going to learn about her raspy cough and bad breath by exchanging messages? A F2F meeting is a far quicker way to narrow the candidate pool. A quick meet-up for a $5 cup of joe is not a big commitment.
It is not just a sign that women are pickier, but also that THEY CAN'T DO MATH. They were not asked to judge if the men were "unattractive" in an absolute sense, but whether they were below the median. The men did it correctly, putting 50% above the cutoff and 50% below.
I think we need a new form of turing test to determine if we're talking to the same person online.
We already have that: A face-to-face meeting.
You already read each others profiles and exchanged messages. An extended back-and-forth conversation is not going to give you much more info. Just ask for a simple meet-up at Starbucks or Jamba Juice. If the answer is "no", then move on to the next prospect in the queue.
Hard to imagine the level of laziness required to hire someone to get you dates.
RTFA. They don't get you a date. They get you a phone number. After that, you are on your own.
As I recall back in the day, the run up to dating a woman was fun.
This isn't "back in the day". With on-line dating, a man is lucky to get a 5-10% response rate to initial inquiries. If your time has value, paying someone else to make the inquiry and filter the results totally makes sense. Hand crafting inquiries, when you know that 95% of them are going to be ignored, is not "fun". It is a tedious chore. It is only fun once you are talking to a real person, and that still happens.
It is still a clumsy phrase, combining the passive voice, an irregular inactive verb, and a noun. Sex should be something you did, not something you "had".
English needs a simple transitive verb for this. Of course we have "fuck" but that can't be used in polite company, and is often perceived as derogatory. "I fucked your sister last night" sounds offensive even when said by her husband.
This is indeed news to me and something that should be clamped down on hard.
Why should it be clamped? Who is going to do the clamping? The site? How can they know if it is happening or not? The government? You have got to be kidding?
but wasting time on people that are outsourcing the work
The are not "wasting time". The people hiring impersonators (2/3 men and 1/3 women according to TFA) are seriously looking for a match. They just don't have time to send 200 inquiries to get 20 responses, and then engage those 20 responses in some chit-chat to get 10 phone numbers that lead to 5 dates, one of which is "the one". That is an extremely time consuming process, especially if each inquiry is customized to the target's profile.
it's how low the quality is for women and how ridiculous their requirements are.
I see. So you are perfect, but all the women are just not good enough for you, and that's their fault. Maybe you should join an Incel support group.
Yes it is. This is totally different from what you describe. Both of your examples are of the site using fake profiles, which is well known (although I never heard of them hiring people to go on actual dates, and I am skeptical whether that really happened).
TFA is describing members hiring people to impersonate them. So they are actually looking for a match, but are paying someone else to go through the tedium of sending introductory inquiries, and the back-and-forth chit-chat before exchanging contact info.
Is the study qualitative or quantitative. Is it double blind?
This was a retrospective study, based on surveys and questionnaires. So, no, there was no control group, and it was not double blind. This "study" doesn't even establish correlation, much less causation.
1. Lithium is not a "rare earth". 2. Lithium is not a conflict mineral. 3. Lithium is extracted from salt flats or brine. Neither process uses either children or slaves.
No there aren't. There are far more people that want to adopt than there are children available, and most prospective parents don't qualify.
My wife and I tried to adopt, and were told right at the beginning that it was a waste of time. We had two disqualifications, either of which was sufficient: 1. We already had our own kids. 2. One of us (me) was over 50.
I like dark hair and dark eyes. The darker, the better:D
So do plenty of other people. Statistics from on-line dating sites show that Asian women get the most responses. Some gentlemen prefer blondes, but many do not.
Defective people are not "encouraged" to breed, they are just not prohibited from doing so. The reason is that governments powerful and coercive enough to impose reproductive mandates tend to do plenty of other nasty things. It isn't worth it. Freedom doesn't lead to perfection, but it is better than the alternatives.
Anyway, now that we can edit-out the defects (and soon edit-in some upgrades), it doesn't matter as much who breeds.
We would NEVER have had, for one random example, lasers, if there had been a profit requirement
Lasers were developed at Bell Labs and Hughes Research Lab, which were both operated by for-profit companies. They funded research labs in the expectation that the R&D would be profitable.
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
The DNA test matched the database on the subset, which identified a suspect. They then did a more exhaustive DNA comparison with the criminal evidence, and came up with an exact match. There is plenty of non-DNA evidence as well. They already suspected the perp was a cop (not sure why they suspected that, maybe something he said or did to one of the victims that survived). He was also in many of the locations on the dates that the crimes occurred.
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
Don't be so sure. Kim is not China's lackey. He had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, gruesomely executed. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within Kim's government, and the execution was perceived as a message to China that he was not going to be a pushover.
His father and grandfather also occasionally purged their governments of people considered too "pro-China" (and too pro-Russia).
Stick it on a cargo ship and detonate it in a busy port before Customs even checks it.
What possible reason would NK have to do that? How would they benefit?
And don't bring up the nonsense about Kim being "irrational" and "unstable". That is just propaganda unsupported by any evidence. Kim has been extremely rational at keeping his dynasty in power, as were his father and grandfather.
At least "real" currency sort of has some government backing to it.
That is a bug, not a feature. Most of these governments are highly indebted and have a vested interest in using inflation to monetize that debt.
No government backs gold. Over the last century, the US dollar has lost 98% of its value against gold. Most other "government backed" currencies have done even worse.
Is a hen house more secure when there is a fox to guard it?
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If someone has major defects that they didn't include in their profile, they are not going to tell you about it in an online message either. Do you really think you are going to learn about her raspy cough and bad breath by exchanging messages? A F2F meeting is a far quicker way to narrow the candidate pool. A quick meet-up for a $5 cup of joe is not a big commitment.
Those numbers only apply to tinder-style speed dating though.
Actually, the 80-20 numbers come from OkCupid.
It is not just a sign that women are pickier, but also that THEY CAN'T DO MATH. They were not asked to judge if the men were "unattractive" in an absolute sense, but whether they were below the median. The men did it correctly, putting 50% above the cutoff and 50% below.
I think we need a new form of turing test to determine if we're talking to the same person online.
We already have that: A face-to-face meeting.
You already read each others profiles and exchanged messages. An extended back-and-forth conversation is not going to give you much more info. Just ask for a simple meet-up at Starbucks or Jamba Juice. If the answer is "no", then move on to the next prospect in the queue.
Hard to imagine the level of laziness required to hire someone to get you dates.
RTFA. They don't get you a date. They get you a phone number. After that, you are on your own.
As I recall back in the day, the run up to dating a woman was fun.
This isn't "back in the day". With on-line dating, a man is lucky to get a 5-10% response rate to initial inquiries. If your time has value, paying someone else to make the inquiry and filter the results totally makes sense. Hand crafting inquiries, when you know that 95% of them are going to be ignored, is not "fun". It is a tedious chore. It is only fun once you are talking to a real person, and that still happens.
"Had sex" is even fewer letters.
It is still a clumsy phrase, combining the passive voice, an irregular inactive verb, and a noun. Sex should be something you did, not something you "had".
English needs a simple transitive verb for this. Of course we have "fuck" but that can't be used in polite company, and is often perceived as derogatory. "I fucked your sister last night" sounds offensive even when said by her husband.
This is indeed news to me and something that should be clamped down on hard.
Why should it be clamped? Who is going to do the clamping? The site? How can they know if it is happening or not? The government? You have got to be kidding?
but wasting time on people that are outsourcing the work
The are not "wasting time". The people hiring impersonators (2/3 men and 1/3 women according to TFA) are seriously looking for a match. They just don't have time to send 200 inquiries to get 20 responses, and then engage those 20 responses in some chit-chat to get 10 phone numbers that lead to 5 dates, one of which is "the one". That is an extremely time consuming process, especially if each inquiry is customized to the target's profile.
it's how low the quality is for women and how ridiculous their requirements are.
I see. So you are perfect, but all the women are just not good enough for you, and that's their fault. Maybe you should join an Incel support group.
This isn't really news though.
Yes it is. This is totally different from what you describe. Both of your examples are of the site using fake profiles, which is well known (although I never heard of them hiring people to go on actual dates, and I am skeptical whether that really happened).
TFA is describing members hiring people to impersonate them. So they are actually looking for a match, but are paying someone else to go through the tedium of sending introductory inquiries, and the back-and-forth chit-chat before exchanging contact info.
Because without bees, you won't have any to eat.
Plenty of crops, including rice, wheat, maize (corn), do not need insects to pollinate.
But hey, at least you don't have roaches!
The ban is on outdoor use (agriculture, garden, landscaping). You can still spay roaches in your house.
The notion of giving a US President a Peace Prize is pretty much insane.
Al Gore got his as a consolation prize for not being president.
Is the study qualitative or quantitative. Is it double blind?
This was a retrospective study, based on surveys and questionnaires. So, no, there was no control group, and it was not double blind. This "study" doesn't even establish correlation, much less causation.
1. Lithium is not a "rare earth".
2. Lithium is not a conflict mineral.
3. Lithium is extracted from salt flats or brine. Neither process uses either children or slaves.
This is NOT about preventing people from watching the same movie twice. It is to discourange multiple people from sharing the same movie pass.
There are orphans that need adopting
No there aren't. There are far more people that want to adopt than there are children available, and most prospective parents don't qualify.
My wife and I tried to adopt, and were told right at the beginning that it was a waste of time. We had two disqualifications, either of which was sufficient:
1. We already had our own kids.
2. One of us (me) was over 50.
So we got a dog instead.
How do we fix it?
Here is how we fix it: CRISPR/Cas9
Any problem cause by technology can be fixed with MORE TECHNOLOGY.
I like dark hair and dark eyes. :D
The darker, the better
So do plenty of other people. Statistics from on-line dating sites show that Asian women get the most responses. Some gentlemen prefer blondes, but many do not.
the mother has the condition, we didn't hear about the father
It is a recessive trait. You only get the disease if both parents carry the gene.
On-line dating sites should have checkboxes for these recessive genes, so people don't inadvertently pair up.
Defective people are not "encouraged" to breed, they are just not prohibited from doing so. The reason is that governments powerful and coercive enough to impose reproductive mandates tend to do plenty of other nasty things. It isn't worth it. Freedom doesn't lead to perfection, but it is better than the alternatives.
Anyway, now that we can edit-out the defects (and soon edit-in some upgrades), it doesn't matter as much who breeds.
China is one of the leading investors in Hollywood films. It's why garbage like The Transformers movies keep getting made.
The lack of dialog makes them easier to internationalize.
We would NEVER have had, for one random example, lasers, if there had been a profit requirement
Lasers were developed at Bell Labs and Hughes Research Lab, which were both operated by for-profit companies. They funded research labs in the expectation that the R&D would be profitable.
A drop of water 0.015mm across contains about 100 trillion molecules.
DNA tests often only test a small subset of information which means that false positives are possible
The DNA test matched the database on the subset, which identified a suspect. They then did a more exhaustive DNA comparison with the criminal evidence, and came up with an exact match. There is plenty of non-DNA evidence as well. They already suspected the perp was a cop (not sure why they suspected that, maybe something he said or did to one of the victims that survived). He was also in many of the locations on the dates that the crimes occurred.
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark, and guess one of the 17 countries whose infrastructure North Korea is accused of trying to hack is NOT China.
Don't be so sure. Kim is not China's lackey. He had his uncle, Jang Song-thaek, gruesomely executed. Jang was widely seen as "China's guy" within Kim's government, and the execution was perceived as a message to China that he was not going to be a pushover.
His father and grandfather also occasionally purged their governments of people considered too "pro-China" (and too pro-Russia).
created a volcano that may spew radiation to nearby countries.
At that latitude, the prevailing winds are westerly, so the spewing radiation is Japan's problem, not China's.
Stick it on a cargo ship and detonate it in a busy port before Customs even checks it.
What possible reason would NK have to do that? How would they benefit?
And don't bring up the nonsense about Kim being "irrational" and "unstable". That is just propaganda unsupported by any evidence. Kim has been extremely rational at keeping his dynasty in power, as were his father and grandfather.
At least "real" currency sort of has some government backing to it.
That is a bug, not a feature. Most of these governments are highly indebted and have a vested interest in using inflation to monetize that debt.
No government backs gold. Over the last century, the US dollar has lost 98% of its value against gold. Most other "government backed" currencies have done even worse.
Is a hen house more secure when there is a fox to guard it?