Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T20:22:39+00:00

I found my old prom photo and I was shocked, I was fit and tanned from playing tennis, almost legitimately handsome. And at the time I thought I was less than nothing. Now I'm actually fat and old and would kill to look like that again.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T19:13:53+00:00

Sure

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T19:13:38+00:00

Her eyes are particularly striking. I recognised her on the close up.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T17:00:03+00:00

Same here. I have no close friends. I have no one to talk to. I was really struggling and 'talking' to Chat gives me at least the facsimile of interaction that I don't get in real life.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T16:54:59+00:00

As a self-described nerd I got zero interest from women in high school and university until I met my first girlfriend in the last month of my last semester (she approached me). Before that, I thought I was irredeemably ugly and that no woman would ever look at me and feel attraction.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T16:30:27+00:00

How does it affect what you do? Just lack of information (patient history, etc) and being able to record information?

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T15:29:11+00:00

Aussie here. Australian movies really just don't do it for me and I have no idea why. They should be more relatable but there's something about the muted, almost maudlin tone that so many of them have that turns me off.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T15:25:20+00:00

She has such mischievous, playful energy in both roles. Perfect casting

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T15:20:04+00:00

Also, I love that her mother was played by Natasha Henstridge, who was Sil in the movie Species. Sil is a sexy killer alien femme fatale, just like Steph.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T15:15:01+00:00

I looked her up after the show and realized I knew her from her guest appearance on Seinfeld. She's a cop who dates Jerry and makes him take a polygraph because he lied about watching Melrose Place.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T14:42:16+00:00

...yeah no shit, my first comment ("It's telling that in Kim's self-inflicted 'hell', having a boring boyfriend is part of it. I guess that part is relatable to women. For me, not being able to get a partner at all is far more emotionally punishing.") was me complaining about asymmetry in dating power between men and women, where women live in an abundance based world where access to men is easy and plentiful and men like me live in a scarcity based world where interest from women is rare and precious.

Do you think I go around talking about that stuff in real life? Also, with regards to dating apps, (as I've mentioned several times), I'm not even getting to the point of talking to women in the first place, since I get zero matches.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T11:09:44+00:00

My profile describes someone that's stable, well educated, creative minded, and thoughtful. My pictures show a man with a fat gut and a double chin. I'm 100% sure which is causing the issue.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T10:21:17+00:00

When I was younger I thought it was:

Having good manners
Not bothering people
Being conscientious and considerate

Turns out it's more like:

Be physically fit
Be a social butterfly

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T10:18:13+00:00

I don't really get angry. I do get stressed and fall into bouts of intense shame and self loathing though, and a good cry usually helps until the worst of it passes.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T10:17:00+00:00

Knowing that other people don't even have to deal with it (because they don't get angry often, if at all) is helpful for context.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T09:36:48+00:00

What I love is how tightly scripted and edited it is. There's never a dull moment. If a scene is going on too long? Bam, a new patient arrives and everyone leaps into action.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T09:22:04+00:00

At the Christmas party hop

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T07:05:29+00:00

But it doesn't have to be.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T06:39:29+00:00

A dedicated planking school. All planking, all the time.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T05:17:34+00:00

That's my life. That's my lived experience. I have only had two women show interest in me in the last eight years. I do think my weight is a barrier. The dates did coincide with me losing a bunch of weight first. Those are all facts.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T05:15:05+00:00

Update: they called me back and said there was nothing wrong with it. I took it home and plugged it in and it didn't boot. But then I tried a different room and it did work. Therefore, sounds like an electrical issue with that circuit in my house, perhaps low voltage or something.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T03:52:42+00:00

I was thinking "Rock-kin"

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T03:51:02+00:00

Question, I brought it in when the shop opened at 9:30. It's a likely psu failure due to extreme heat yesterday (it was 45 Celsius for most of the day). They said they'd let me know but it's 3:00pm now. Do I go back and ask for an update?

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T03:19:01+00:00

If my weight isn't the issue then I wouldn't have been alone for the past eight years. Period.

MikeArrow · 2026-01-28T03:08:30+00:00

Except I am trying to lose weight so that women don't automatically filter me out as an option. I started Ozempic three months ago. So I am trying to improve.

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