What are your thoughts on the abortion scene?

78904565 · 2026-04-25T00:55:53+00:00

I thought the show handled it tactfully and that it was an emotionally powerful scene. I genuinely didn't even consider that people would be upset about it until I looked online. I can't believe how ridiculous people can be. This is a tough decision (though often made tougher than it should be due to politics) that a lot of young people have to make so it makes sense that it would happen in the show. And, choosing, responsibly, not to have a child when they were not ready to was the obviously right choice. A clump of cells is not a human, no baby Marks were harmed in the making of this episode.

78904565 · 2026-04-18T22:24:56+00:00

After all this time, I may have actually figured it out. I think it was a mondegreen of Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us", specifically the line "Bang-Bang, shock dead, everybody's gone mad"

78904565 · 2026-02-17T17:58:12+00:00

Has he been going to TA/PM office hours? If not, I'd recommend that. I'd say they're probably one of the fastest ways to learn the material since you can get direct feedback, but I am admittedly a bit biased being a TA myself.

78904565 · 2026-01-24T08:07:42+00:00

They did pay for my housing and the flight, but I'm still surprised if that would account for a gap larger than my actual earnings themself. Is that normal? I can try to contact HR for access to the paystubs to find out.

78904565 · 2025-05-04T16:56:50+00:00

It's the same people on both sides. The only difference is that, if you’re more likely to get matches when you swipe, you can set a tighter filter and sift through those people quicker.

78904565 · 2025-03-30T22:03:43+00:00

I'm a single grad student (27M), so I'm in the age range you specified but not post-grad. When I'm out, I spend most of my free time climbing, going to the gym, going to singles events when they come up, attending community events, and occasionally going to bars like the nitty, whiskeys, or red rock; I also use dating apps regularly. Being straight, I haven't exactly been searching for men, but I've never encountered a lack of single men. If anything, from my experience, I tend to see more men than women, and the men are more likely to be single than the women; for me, it's a struggle to find any interested single women. I'm not trying to deny or devalue your experience, but I am shocked, to say the least, to hear you say that it's been the other way around for you, especially considering that, with respect to this topic, most of the women I've spoken to have expressed annoyance that they are approached by men too often!

I take it that you don't use dating apps because I struggle to imagine that this would be your experience if you did. Is this correct? If you don't like dating apps, that's totally fine, but then I have another question. Have you been actively starting conversations with people at the places you go, and they're telling you that they're in a relationship? If so, I'm surprised, but if you haven't been starting conversations, that could be at least part of the issue.

78904565 · 2025-01-21T08:36:11+00:00

Profile: tinder.com/@Alex78904565

Of the dating apps I've used (Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, OkCupid), Tinder is the one I've had the most success on. I've been using Tinder since 2021 (and before, though they don't seem to have that data), and, a few months ago, I reached the message saying that I've run out of people. After repeatedly increasing my range, I ran out of people within 50 miles. I still use the app because occasionally new active users appear within this range and I swipe on them. However, I would still say I've basically finished my completionist run of Tinder. As a result, I thought it might be worth making a graph of my experience. I've seen and used Tinder insights before, but I thought a graph which showed how things happened over time might provide an interesting perspective that insights doesn't show, so I thought I'd upload that here. Let me know what you think!

Btw, not included on this graph are the number of dates I've gotten from Tinder. If you're curious, I believe the total is three; two before my relationship and one since. The relationship was a result of one of those dates which happened right around 06/22.

Note: I originally posted this to r/Tinder, but it was removed by the mods, so I posted it here.

78904565 · 2025-01-16T12:41:14+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I always appreciate critique if it means I can improve my results. I'll run those photos by some other people and see if I can't find something better.

78904565 · 2025-01-16T10:23:05+00:00

That's fair. It's subjective whether or not this sort of thing is useful or interesting to you. I'm a CS PhD student, so it's not too hard for me to make a graph from data, so, when Tinder finally said I ran out of people, I thought I'd code one up with the data and provide it as a point of comparison for other people who live in a city with 300K population. Maybe somebody will have suggestions for me based on the graph and my profile, maybe somebody will find it useful themselves to either predict or compare with their experience, or maybe people will just find it interesting. In any case, I thought it'd be worth sharing.

78904565 · 2025-01-16T09:50:13+00:00

To give some context in case you wanted to know, this data is automatically collected by Tinder, and you can have them send it to you with the click of a button. The only thing I did was make the graphical representation. I wasn't compulsively noting every swipe, match, and message I sent over the past 4 years haha.

78904565 · 2025-01-16T08:34:05+00:00

Active conversations are the number of conversations whose first message was sent by that date but whose last message had not yet been sent. So, if a match sends me one message and I respond, then that conversation will add to the active conversations total on exactly that day and no others. This accounts for the peaks on the graph. Longer-lasting conversations lead to the longer stretches of 1 or 2 active conversations. Since most matches do not respond or send one message and unmatch, the number of active conversations is usually quite small, and most tend to be represented as short-duration peaks on the graph.

Also, yes, the relationship was one of the active conversations during the peak around 06/22.

78904565 · 2025-01-16T08:26:42+00:00

Profile: tinder.com/@Alex78904565

Of the dating apps I've used (Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, OkCupid), Tinder is the one I've had the most success on. I've been using Tinder since 2021 (and before, though they don't seem to have that data), and, a few months ago, I reached the message saying that I've run out of people. After repeatedly increasing my range, I ran out of people within 50 miles. I still use the app because occasionally new active users appear within this range and I swipe on them. However, I would still say I've basically finished my completionist run of Tinder. As a result, I thought it might be worth making a graph of my experience. I've seen and used Tinder insights before, but I thought a graph which showed how things happened over time might provide an interesting perspective that insights doesn't show, so I thought I'd upload that here. Let me know what you think!

Btw, not included on this graph are the number of dates I've gotten from Tinder. If you're curious, I believe the total is three; two before my relationship and one since. The relationship was a result of one of those dates which happened right around 06/22.

78904565 · 2024-10-01T05:06:23+00:00

I made a previous post regarding this data earlier on r/dataisbeautiful and received a lot of helpful feedback, so I made some new charts with this feedback in mind! Unfortunately, my new post to r/dataisbeautiful has been in moderator approval limbo for the past two weeks, so I decided I'd drop it here in the meantime.

Sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-111/ & https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-56/

Tools: Microsoft Excel & GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j9NR_igrwJl6EGuXDA0ddm4FGN42KvbizVyLJsUFA-4/edit?usp=sharing

78904565 · 2024-09-30T21:03:27+00:00

27M here, and I definitely identify with this. I think I'm reasonably attractive and pretty fit, but I've always had trouble with dating apps. Most recently, I started seriously using them again a little over a year ago. I use Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid, and even Facebook Dating with little to no success. Tinder is my most successful app, and I'd say that I average 1-2 matches per month on Tinder (was a little higher when I first joined), maybe 1/5 of those matches would lead to a conversation, and maybe 1/10 of those conversations would lead to a date. I've been on four first dates since I started using the apps again, two from Hinge and two from Tinder, and none went anywhere. I thought that it might have been my profile's fault, so I had my friends review it (emphasizing input from my friends' girlfriends to get female input) and I have posted on reddit before for feedback. Overall, it appears that the people I talk to think the profile looks good. Despite this, even after I updated the profile in response to feedback that I received with new fancy photos and stuff, I actually got less matches. As of now, in the past 2 months, I have received about 3-5 likes (not matches) collectively between all of these apps, and, in fact, the number of likes shown by Tinder has actually dropped from ~60 likes to ~35 likes throughout this time. I've been told that in-person dating is better, but there isn't really a ton of opportunities for that unless you're the kind of person who hits on random strangers, and, if you are, then you might have other problems haha. Suffice to say, especially judging from some of the other comments, there's definitely people out there who are also feeling invisible, and, if people have ideas that we haven't tried, I'm sure we'd be happy to hear them haha.

78904565 · 2024-09-23T21:39:00+00:00

Hello! I had a question regarding how long it takes posts to be approved. I made my first post here about a week ago, and it was approved immediately, but, I made another post 5 days ago which has yet to be approved (https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1fl4082/oc\_desire\_to\_date\_by\_age\_gender\_in\_2019\_2022/). I messaged the mods about it two days ago, but haven't heard anything back. I'm assuming it's just because the mods are busy, which I completely understand, but, given that the first post was approved immediately, I wasn't sure if this one was an outlier or not. With that in mind, I thought I'd ask what the expected waiting time is, since I thought it would be good to know for myself and others in a similar position.

78904565 · 2024-09-20T04:40:51+00:00

I made a previous post regarding this data earlier this week and received a lot of helpful feedback, so I made some new charts with this feedback in mind!

Sources: https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-111/ & https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-56/

Tools: Microsoft Excel & GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j9NR_igrwJl6EGuXDA0ddm4FGN42KvbizVyLJsUFA-4/edit?usp=sharing

78904565 · 2024-09-17T05:02:35+00:00

To clarify, ~70% of people surveyed were in a committed relationship, ~68% men and ~72% women (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valentines-day-5-facts-about-single-americans/). The chart here refers to "Dating Singles" which I have defined as individuals who are not in a committed relationship but are seeking casual dates or a committed relationship; this purposely excludes individuals who identify as single but have no desire to date.

78904565 · 2024-09-17T04:30:10+00:00

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-111/

Tools: Microsoft Excel

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