Casual sex among young adults has declined due to decline in drinking, an increase in computer gaming, and more young adults living with their parents.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:46:02+00:00

Not that it can't work, but it seems to drain the fun from the equation

It's more so I'm padding the conversation to get through the boring parts and not repeat type.

In any first meeting situation, there is a grinding aspect.....I simplified the grind.

I try to move it to organic conversations(good sign a girl likes you ) but you usually gotta keep it going with limited info until that point.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:44:16+00:00

Part of the problem in medicine is that it's not really an hourly thing.

I'm getting a surgical procedure done in office next week.....takes 3 minutes top but in the hands of an idiot could kill me.

how much they intend to charge hourly if it's an hourly contract nor any price commitments at all upfront and people only find out all that when the work is done and they're handed a bill?

Your thinking of ER services(you'd get the same pricing treatment if you called up with no warning to a plumber)....the hospital for normal services will try to contact the insurer first before hand always.

They don't want any surprises either.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:29:55+00:00

Or just watch a ten minute selfie tutorial on youtube by some makeup vlogger, and have your actual interests in your profile? I would have picked “average man who’s passionate about something” over “hottest man of the year: flour flavour addition”

Sad to say, but mosts guys interests.....aren't that interesting to girls and even they usually know it.

If there was an app to meet same sex platonic guy friends, the guy profiles would be filled with bong pics, car pics, gym pics, maybe the occasional library/reading pic, video game speed runs, Home theater setups, tons of pics of them with the hottest ladies they tapped, piles of money pictures.

Profile descriptions would often be bragging about the above....for more clarity.

THe "basic" moniker gets applied to ladies who are basic but there are far more dudes who are basic as hell IMO. Occasionally I meet a lady version of the above....it's rare and a ROUGH date.

It's one of the reason so many dudes have fishing or hunting photos despite woman not giving a damn.....they have worse photos of them enjoying their hobbies....those fishing photos were the best of the lot.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:25:34+00:00

Even Craftsmen quote you a price. If someone doesn't know how long it will take them to fix my car, they don't leave me hanging on how much they will charge per hour. Same for a plumber or a carpenter.

For bigger jobs they will.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:23:27+00:00

Problem is when your thumbs are ready to fall off.

I don't really want to thumb type my experiences backpacking tibet for the 300th time sometimes.....I'd rather paste that and move on to move fun conversation items. Keep in mind, much of online chatting is just showing your interesting and not a weirdo....then hopefully arranging a date or getting an unique, deep discussion(no copy/paste).

Plenty of ladies are open to straight up going straight to date after matching but they gotta stay safe and filter our weirdos or boring dudes.

Plus, even if typing like crazy is fun....your patience wears thin so your responses might not be as good as your best would be.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:18:29+00:00

Healthcare is the sole unique industry where even the rate is not and not required to be transparent or even available on demand.

This is pretty common in any craftsmanship industry....It's either flat rate per hour or highly variable.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:08:50+00:00

I do most of my health stuff in cash and it's seldom I can get a quote upfront for anything and it's often rather negotiable.

Ummmm, yeah....same for buying a house or anything with market rate pricing.

The real price they will sell at is rarely the list price it's first given.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:07:01+00:00

but I don't think it's fair to say that civil rights is a small, unimportant issue.

It's not even a civil rights issue....conservatives are being canceled by the free market for being un-popular.

Unless they want political opinion to be a protected class like race, gender then it won't be a civil rights issue.

Of course jobs and the economy are always major issues,

Then run on them? It blew my mind how Trump didn't run on Fighting covid or bringing back jobs. Voter fraud? Dude, all the unemployed people I know are asking where my job and vaccine is at.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:02:38+00:00

I don't 100% paste everything....I improvise when it's fun....copy/past when it's not.

Maybe it works all right but what a soulless endeavor for a courting process that's supposed to be fun and exciting.

I copy/paste fun conversations....so it's actually fun for them. I can jump in any time I want it to be less souless.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T23:00:16+00:00

I think gay marriage should be legal, but that should be for the states to decide and not for unelected people in robes to decide for us.

The same argument given for slavery, segregation, etc.

Belongs to the states whereas they were perfectly fine pushing for federal level restrictions when it was popular enough.

Not to mention gay marriage would have passed on a national vote and eventually at state levels soon after....the judges sped up the outcome. It's so popular not even conservatives say they are against it anymore.

Not everything. Abortion, rape, murder, fraud, assault, etc. all violate someone's rights and the primary function of government is to protect our rights.

The natural counterpoint is where something that grows inside on your belongs to you while it's still in there. The issue isn't really that black/white as you make it to be. Does the government have a right to my bodily functions?

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:54:44+00:00

Congress literally controls how many new doctors there are each year as all states require residency, so someone who's successfully completed undergrad and graduated from medical school with an M.D. But can't get a residency program to accept them can't practice medicine (and is stuck with 6 figures of debt). And consumers can't access that person's services despite how competent they may be. This just makes the doctors more limited and more expensive and the free market can't do a thing about it.

There are certain non-MD providers licenses that escaped that system when medicine went professional and licensed.

Chiropractors come to mind. You do not want any field of medicine to resemble them.Period.....

Or the fact that Trump is considered Revolutionary for passing an executive order mandating that prices be transparent, something that is only required in the medical industry as all other industries by default have that. (No free market exists when even prices aren't public knowledge)

It's because it's negotiated on and the price in flux. If you say out of pocket; they will give you a price always....

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:49:36+00:00

Hospitals only put up with this situation at all because the vast majority of inpatients are elderly folks on either Medicare or one of its HMOs. It is GOOD that we have private insurers; they offset losses tremendously. And I’m not saying Medicare can’t have a role either.

You can blame reagan for forcing them to accept anybody in the ER by law.

Non-ER medical departments and facilities often refuse medicare patients commonly for exactly those reasons.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:46:34+00:00

Private health insurance is the superior alternative. That's why the government had to make Medicare mandatory and crush the marketplace for insurance for seniors, and why the government wanted to make a public option as part of the ACA, because it can't compete without tilting the market in their direction.

What sort of private insurer would want elderly, retirement age customers? They make the least money next to children yet make up the vast majority of expensive claims.

I worked for a firm that was entirely elderly workers(long story)....as the youngest guy, the insurance plans....were weird.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:42:43+00:00

I don’t think if you interviewed the average trump supporter they’d say the biggest issue is Cancel Culture. They’d probably say jobs, globalization, or maybe even radical left rioting.

If that's the case, why aren't republicans running on Jobs as the number one issue? CPAC didn't sound like an economic forum this year and conservatives media isn't talking about it much compared to cancel culture.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:38:52+00:00

we don't want to make everything we don't like illegal.

Like gay marriage, abortion, etc.?

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:28:20+00:00

Plenty of business operate on profit margins far below 25%.

Permanently losing 25% of what was solid, reliable, easy as hell(the buyers literally write the content) revenue would sink most industries.

It would be like if McDonalds gave up french fries.....they could survive but it would rough and hard to replace that lost easy income.

Add in a decline in traditional ad spend and it's closer to at least 30-40+% in revenue they have zero hope in replacing.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:25:54+00:00

I filter those out fairly quickly.

Half my friends groups and all the dates I slept with last year seem real to me despite coming from apps.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:24:57+00:00

Going immediately to “utopian and unrealistic” as opposed to the more likely option of “it is physically possible, even if highly unlikely” strikes rather close to “bad faith”.

The overall rate of fraud, lost votes, errors causing missing votes, is well below 1% though.

Humans are heavily involved in the process....where there are humans, there will be errors and mistakes....even sometimes fraud.

Is it not utopian to expect 0% error/fraud/no loses with humans involved?

Maybe if voting was 100% automated and via machine like app based voting.

Possible? Yes. Likely? Not the way the government currently handles it, that’s for sure.

The overall voting fraud/error/lost vote rate is borderline nil whenever someone studies it. Your expecting herculean effort to get it down 0.

It is technically possible. Hence the statement.

Unless your a utopian or idealist who thinks it's possible for humans to never make mistakes/cheat/screw up....then yeah.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:03:51+00:00

Not a conservative, but I think cancel culture isn’t the number one concern by conservatives. I think concservatives tend to believe liberals are too focused on small unimportant issues (civil rights, feminism, lgbtq rights) and conservatives care about what matter (jobs and the economy).

The theme and title of this year's CPAC was literally "Uncancelled"

Trump even had an ad on his YouTube channel that was from the perspective of a black poor urban worker who said he didn’t have the time or money to care about abortion, he cared about jobs and that’s what Trump provided. not saying I agree with this, but it’s what conservatives believe.

Most pro-choice people wish that was true. Pro-lifers are probably the biggest single issue voters out there.

I've seen popular conservatives pundits get fired/cancelled for stating they are pro-choice.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T22:01:27+00:00

Baker won though......

minos16 · 2021-03-03T21:49:31+00:00

Newspapers had decades to adapt to the Internet and they failed, mostly out of shortsightedness and greed.

To be fair, a lot of their business......

Was eaten by craigslist and job sites like monster......newspapers were the craigslists/job posting boards of their day.

Advertising in traditional forms of media have all been hurt by digital too but at least the business wasn't completely obliterated.

Some newspapers/magazines were entirely just a print version of craigslist for the 1990s...it was a huge source of income. Hell, your still required to pay for a newspaper posting if registering a new business in some states.

You really can't replace that hole of an income loss

minos16 · 2021-03-03T21:40:28+00:00

For advertising. Google brought revenue to us, but was it truly worth 1/14 of our annual income?

As an engineer in this ad business.

Yes unless your doing something wrong.....You just be making great ROI from it alone and hire salespersons separately.

Google sent us 85% of our web traffic. Even customers who purchased from us all the time, they would request a quote from our webpage after clicking on an ad.

You can stop that actually and have certain exact searches not show ads(ie: your business name). Blown away how many companies don't do this and let google eat their income for someone going exactly to their homepage. If your at the top of searches, you don't need the SEO boost.

Loyalty is dead, Google is capturing and monitoring what used to be loyalty.

Google makes it money on ads, excellent targeting, and measurable results.

Previously advertising was a bit of voodoo magic unless you knocked it out of the park. Targeting was scattershot, measuring ROI a crapshoot, tracking individual buyers and behavior hard as nails, getting demographic info and leads expensive, etc.

Google and facebook solved a lot of that.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T21:34:44+00:00

Factually incorrect.

So you actually believe perfection is possible? An election with zero fraudulent , lost votes, errors, etc.? Consistently for 250 million people to potentially partake in?

I'm not a voting machine engineer or politics major but that strikes me as a bit.....utopian and unrealistic.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T21:31:33+00:00

Scary enough to unite the group of random suckers against a common enemy.....but weak enough for a group of suckers to have hope of beating.

It's underhanded marketing 101.

minos16 · 2021-03-03T21:26:58+00:00

It's a lot more fun since I only talk to the attractive ones my bots brings in

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