The article is about building network and community by accepting inconvenience.

What will happen is you will meet people, like them, then learn you are absolutely incidental to them, just entertainment.

That’s pretty defeatist.

I particularly agree with the points made here:

For one thing, talking with strangers brings a lot of benefits. Research has found that it’s mood boosting, and often more informative than people expect. One study, called “Mistakenly Seeking Solitude,” found that people regularly and incorrectly assume that being alone will make them feel better than interacting with another person.

Avoiding these kinds of interactions is a detriment not only to yourself but also to the society you’re part of. It is often the so-called weak ties in someone’s network—the neighbor down the block you know only casually, the barista you order a latte from once a week—who are the most important in creating a rich sense of community. Because your networks overlap only a little, your weak ties can be a bridge to new connections, or they may know about job openings and social events that you and your close ties wouldn’t have come across on your own. Without weak ties, we wouldn’t have communities, just insular cliques.

Overall, the researchers predict about 451,000 heat-related deaths during the entire El Niño event. That means hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk over the next several months.

I can see why they want to make the report public before a lengthy peer review.

Imagine if you weren’t a loser misogynist. You didn’t ask any questions, just refused to justify anything you said.

Do you think anyone is watching a comment thread this long? Do you think anyone cares? The mod is clearly long gone. I’m only still here for the trainwreck replies whenever you try to make a point.

A one man play of macbeth done with balloons.

You spout so much manosphere shit you don’t even form coherent sentences, it’s just one conspiracy into the next.

Weird that you think I’m american.

If sharing information wasn’t a threat all the major social media companies wouldn’t be trying to censor the internet.

How you can stay this ignorant for this long. You should read up before spouting more bullshit.

The manophere: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-tools-for-thriving/202609/the-manosphere-beyond-the-moral-panic

The decline in fecundity: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028225019958

What is feminism: https://bellhooksbooks.com/feminism/bell-hooks-feminist-theory/

You could have not talked about it.

What, lol?

I believe that’s the subtext here.

That everything you said is bullshit because you can’t back it up. Are you honestly that dense?

This is the wildest, longest deflection I’ve ever seen from someone asked to prove something. You can just say you don’t have a reason behind anything you believe, it just makes you feel validated.

What an incredible person. I’m a long time fan of NPR and Books we Love. She’ll be missed.

It starts with trying to make them more unhappy in the first place. A regular man who thinks it’s impossible to find a date might just be having the average experience, but the manosphere concocts a problem where there is none. It might suggest he isn’t attractive, that only the top 10% of men actually attract women, and he’s hopeless — before offering a paid pick up artist class as a solution.

Yeah, it’s essentially the right wing influenced playbook. Alex Jones is a good example, minus the B.

Learning that all the subtle ways sexism impacted my life growing up, and I just thought there was something specifically wrong with me.

Oh no, did I annoy you by making the same point I’ve been making this whole time?

I don’t need to prove shit, I didn’t make any claims and you can’t prove a negative. That’s another thing that comes up on IQ tests.

What if she owns the penis museum?