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  • Perhaps it’s time to find better hobbies? It’s a chore and difficult because you don’t know what you like/don’t like before you try it for some time.

    Independent of finding girls it’s also good for your own psyche to get away from the screen. And if it has to be gaming perhaps you can find people who are into board games?






  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow useless are dating apps?
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    1 day ago

    It depends. For years I had either no or bad matches at home, always the same people showing up there, etc…

    But then one day while on a business trip abroad I installed a new app, payed the fee (for some reason, normally I never did) and matched with the most amazing person who made me move half way across the globe for her and now almost four years later we still live together, have a 1.5 years old son and plan finally to marry (there were some practical problems we had to fix first).

    For me it worked out, but that’s survival bias I guess.










  • The thing is that compared to other historical people we kid of have similar evidence. Like we have records of Socrates existing and we have records of some Joshua existing.

    The difference is that nobody claims that Socrates was a fantastical god being who defied death, which is a extraordinary claim, we just say he was a very smart guy, we se very smart guys on a daily basis, nothing special with that so we can just believe it and even if we are wrong it has no real life implications.

    For the Joshua guy, that’s quite a different story. The claims about him are extraordinary and need extraordinary evidence. But we only have normal evidence. If the claims about him were true it would contradict almost everything we think we know about the universe, how it behaves, etc.

    So again, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.