The White House Is Partnering With Dating Apps To Get Horny People Vaccinated (buzzfeednews.com) 107
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed News: In a national effort to get through to horny but vaccine-hesitant Americans, the White House announced Friday that it is joining forces with dating apps to encourage people to get their COVID-19 vaccines so that they can go forth and fuck freely this summer. Vaccinated users on Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, and Badoo will have access to some premium features for free. OkCupid, Chispa, BLK, and Match are giving out a free "Boost" to those who've been vaccinated so that their profiles are more likely to be seen first. Plenty of Fish is also offering free credits to vaccinated members for its livestreaming feature.
The dating apps will add badges or stickers that users can include on their profile to indicate that they've been vaccinated, as well as filters so that you only swipe on fellow vaccinated people. There will also be in-app links to find your closest vaccination site. "People who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match," White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said at a press conference, citing research from OkCupid. "We have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive." The new features are expected to launch on the apps in the next few weeks.
The dating apps will add badges or stickers that users can include on their profile to indicate that they've been vaccinated, as well as filters so that you only swipe on fellow vaccinated people. There will also be in-app links to find your closest vaccination site. "People who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match," White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said at a press conference, citing research from OkCupid. "We have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive." The new features are expected to launch on the apps in the next few weeks.
TMI (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't really need to know that.
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The first rule of Horny App is you don't talk about Horny App.
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The first rule of Horny App is you don't talk about Horny App.
The first rule of Covid-19 vaccination via horny app is: Mix a broad spectrum of STD vaccines into the Covid-19 jab.
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ROFL !! :) :)
Exactly the thought that popped into my mind
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There are so many better ways they could have worded the headline. Recently /. headlines have been really bad. It's like they're doing a bad job of emulating click bait headlines.
Trade one disease for another (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, get vaccinated so you can get laid so you can get STDs. Brilliant.
"Hey, baby, wanna go look at houses in neighborhoods with good schools?"
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We are currently seeing a significant decline in population growth rates in America, as well as a decline in marriage rates, and this seems to be following the same pattern as has been seen in other post-industrial countries, especially Japan.
This alarms people. Prompts reactions. Not all of them are entirely clear-headed, but they tend to be oriented in a common direction. "Breed!"
Maybe unwanted pregnancy will be hard on young people. Maybe it will force them to struggle and sacrifice, and they won't l
We can at least make parenting less risky (Score:3)
One thing we *could* do - if we like to help parenting - is guaranteed and generous parental leave for all parents, and stricter penalties for firing people getting children. As well as affordable daycare. And perhaps even some single payer health insurance, so that you don't risk financial ruin if your child has diabetes or similar.
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That's right. I am willing to forgo my raise and my promotion so fuckbunny over there can have more baybees. They can even raise my taxes. I love screaming kids in the park and at resturants.
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Except this generation didn't necessarily have it as good as previous generations. Buying property is harder than ever. IMO property prices are high because space is limited in popular living places, where the best work is and governments will do anything to keep the population growing even if that means not really doing anything much about immigration. In the last 20 years UK and US have had low birth rates and high population growth.
Population will not stop growing so long as population growth and economi
Re: Trade one disease for another (Score:3)
If you could fix one or two of those...like say some of that student loan forgiveness that Biden just reneged on that would at least be a start.
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Cable TV
Internet
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Bloated, inefficient public schools
Welfare.
Re: Trade one disease for another (Score:3)
We have become so self centered, individualistic and with unending material desires that there's just no way to reverse this "devolution" (for lack of a better word)
Only the immigrant masses, dumb enough (in our opinion) to have been living under violent religious tyrannies (mainly islam but few more) without protesting*, are breeding like rabbits will keep replacing all civilized population everywhere in thr world.
Which essentially means Asimov was right at least in thinking that higher & higher intel
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Hate to break it to everyone... But people aren't having protected sex on dating sites. I remember the old days where we would always use a condom and get tested for STDs before having a new partner. But today on dating sites? I've actually had women get mad at me for saying that I wanted to use a condom, or that "guys don't like condoms so they're ok without one".
The covid vaccination badge isn't going to change a thing. Dating sites were already pushing sex in the wrong direction.
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Dating sites were already pushing sex in the wrong direction.
Push it in the other direction. Like Scared Straight [wikipedia.org] except with photos of the results of unprotected sex. The other would be condoms or birth control pills infused with a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Re:Let me count the ways.... (Score:5, Insightful)
if I understand it correctly, being fully vaccinated gives about 95% immunity, which means you are still at 5% risk of contracting COVID-19.
Unfortunately, you haven't understood it correctly or more likely you've just been misinformed by lazy journalists. Vaccines don't stop you from catching the virus, they just beef up your immune system in advance to help you fight it off. So, you're just as likely as an unvaccinated person to catch COVID-19 but 95% less likely to get seriously ill or die from it, i.e. be hospitalised with pneumonia & then have a 33-ish% chance of developing long-COVID with persistent symptoms & possibly death. Then there's a long list of persistent symptoms from multiple organ damage & brain damage. Oh, and the CDC recently added erectile dysfunction to the list. COVID-19 isn't like the flu. It's a really nasty disease even if you don't get seriously ill from it.
Blocking antibodies (Score:5, Informative)
if I understand it correctly, being fully vaccinated gives about 95% immunity, which means you are still at 5% risk of contracting COVID-19.
Above post is roughly correct, actually.
(With the exact percentage varying depending on the vaccine. mRNA vaccines tend to be above 90% and at the other end of the spectrum SinoPharm being close to 50%.)
(and also this data point only concerning COVID-19 as litteraly said in that sentence - i.e.: being sick with the actual disease - not also taking into acount carriers of assymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection - because last year when the first publications and reports were out that was the only available information up to that point in time)
Unfortunately, you haven't understood it correctly or more likely you've just been misinformed by lazy journalists.
Don't agree with you. The above poster's statement isn't fundamentally wrong.
Vaccines don't stop you from catching the virus,
Incorrect/Imprecise.
The target used by the current crop of available vaccine (both mRNA and viral vector based) is the Spike protein, the one used by the virus to enter the cell.
Some of the antibodies targetting the spike have a blocking effect:
If the virus enters your body the antibodies present will stick on its spikes and reduce its chance of successfully binding to an ACE2 receptor and entering a cell.
Of course, in biology and medecin there are no 0% nor 100%.
So it's not a perfect guarantee that the virus will never be able to infect you, but having anti-S antibodies dramatically decrease the probability of catching the virus, to the point that this effect can be measured at the scale of vaccinated population.
Contrast this with the antibodies produced after an infection: Some antibodies will target instead other proteins (such as the much more abundant Nucleocapside) but such anti-N antibodies don't have a blocking effect against the virus at all.
Basically with an infection you "waste resource" mounting a response that will not be as good as preventing future infections (though it will help fighting it off).
they just beef up your immune system in advance to help you fight it off.
Incomplete. Depending on their target some antibodies (e.g.: the anti -S) litteraly prevent and block the entry of viruses.
But yes, in addtition to that, most imune response will also help fight of the virus faster and better in case it still manages to infect.
So, you're just as likely as an unvaccinated person to catch COVID-19
That's not what the numbers observed in vaccinated population tell.
You're less likely to catch it in addition of being less likely to have a worse form if you catch it.
but 95% less likely to get seriously ill or die from it,
Slightly incorrect. The 95% figure in last years studies include *all* symptomatic infections.
You're *also* 95% less likely to have a mild form. You're 95% less likely to have *any* form of the COVID-19 disease.
Regarding the serious and deadly form: they are much rarer in the vaccinated population.
i.e.: out of the 5% that still develop a symptomatic disease, a much larger fraction of those *have only a mild form*, than what would be expected in unvaccinated people.
(as an exemple: in most regions where a significative part of the population got vaccinated, the rate of death and hospitalisation has dropped even lower than the drop of overall cases).
In some regions, there have been *absolutely 0 deaths* of COVID-19 in the vaccinated people(+).
In the Seychelles, despite using not so efficient SinoPharm vaccine (50% efficiency only) with some AstraZeneca in the mix (lower efficiency than the mRNA available else), not only is the ration of vaccinated vs un vaccinated 1:3 vs 2:3 (twice as much unvaccinated sick - exactly as the 50% efficiency reported
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I feel inclined to reject your pedantry and substitute my own.
You said that when the virus enters the body, your immune system can attack the spike protein and block it from entering the cells. In that case, you have not "caught" the virus.
I think it is reasonable to say that you have "caught" the virus as soon as it enters the body. Your immune system blocking it from entering your cells is just part of how it fights the virus off, once it's there.
If the vaccine made the virus bounce off your nose hairs
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If the virus enters the body but is neutralised before it can enter a cell to replicate, then there is no infection.
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Says who? Here is what Mirriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com] says infect means:
Nothing in this definition requires that the virus must make it all the way to the inside of an individual cell.
But I want to be clear: I am being pedantic, just for kicks. I am not trying to argue about medically-precise definitio
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Since when a language dictionary is an authority on medical matters? Especially if that is a dictionary of a non-standardised language lacking a central authority in the first place.
Bouncing off (Score:2)
If the vaccine made the virus bounce off your nose hairs
That's what the skin is for! (Litterally. As in physical barrier against any external aggressions including pathogens).
so it never enters your body,
Jokes about bouncing off asaide, some immunoglobuline (such as IgM) tends to be brought to mucosale surfaces.
So - although that's not exactly what you mean - having a anti-spike vaccine can, under some circumstance, mean that the virus is going to get busted before it manages to litterally enter the body (if it is caugh by an antibody that is present on the mucosa surface).
(This of course r
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I can already see the commercials (Score:4, Funny)
A shot for a shot!
Who wanna get pricked?
Don't worry it won't hurt!
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"Hey nurse, I've got a thermometer that'll make you bed-ridden for a week!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Death is forever. (Score:5, Insightful)
"People who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match," White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt said at a press conference, citing research from OkCupid. "We have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive."
Well naturally. Evolution says people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul.
Re:Death is forever. (Score:4, Insightful)
Well naturally. Evolution says people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul.
Judging by the partner choices I have seen some of my friends and co-workers make over the years I'm pretty sure there's quite a number of people who didn't get that memo from mother nature. There is and always will be that ~25% of humans, male and female, who, when confronted with a hundred potential partners will home in on the only totally self absorbed, cheating, sociopathic asshole in the room like a Sidewinder missile.
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Well naturally. Evolution says people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul.
Judging by the partner choices I have seen some of my friends and co-workers make over the years I'm pretty sure there's quite a number of people who didn't get that memo from mother nature. There is and always will be that ~25% of humans, male and female, who, when confronted with a hundred potential partners will home in on the only totally self absorbed, cheating, sociopathic asshole in the room like a Sidewinder missile.
You know human nature all too well.
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And why not? There's no such thing as a sexually monogamous species on Earth. Even classic examples of monogamy like wolves and swans that pair-bond for life, only do about half their mating with their pair-bonded partner (as judged by DNA analysis of offspring).
"Cheating " is a valuable evolutionary trait that reduces the substantial genetic risks associated with saddling all your children with the same genetic weaknesses of one partner. It's especially valuable when the inclination is inherited by male
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"Cheating " is a valuable evolutionary trait that reduces the substantial genetic risks associated with saddling all your children with the same genetic weaknesses of one partner. It's especially valuable when the inclination is inherited by male offspring, where it can greatly increase your genetic fan-out. At a wild guess, I'd expect those individuals most strongly attracted to "cheaters" to tend to themselves be extremely "loyal" - with their instincts drawing them towards partners whose genetics will compensate for their own weakness in that regard.
Now go tell this to your wife/husband whichever the case may be and brace yourself for WW3.
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Evolution cares not one whit for the opinions of humans or the religious institutions that have brainwashed us into attempting to behave in deeply unnatural ways.
Nothing is gained by pretending otherwise.
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>Evolution says people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul.
What makes you think that? Look around the animal kingdom, how many animals do you see that forge long-term pair-bonds with their breeding partners? Not many. Even those which form lifelong pair-bonds typically only do about half their mating with their bonded partner (as judged by DNA analysis of offspring).
The *only* thing evolution cares about is how many grand-babies you produce (as a reasonable approximation of long-
Re: Death is forever. (Score:1)
Simply put there are two mechanisms at play. The female (woman) wants offspring from the strongest male (man).
But because we need a long time to raise our offspring before being able to let them âroam freeâ(TM) (in comparison to other animals) it is also important that we are able to bond for a long time and take care of offspring together.
So the theory is that this is why Homo Sapiens is more monogamous than our ape brothers. In this setup males are chosen by females based on a mix of strength an
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Except for one small detail - humans are herd (troop) animals. Females of all other great ape species get support from their family, their troop, and any males seeking their favor. They don't need a dedicated provider. What makes you think wild humans were any different?
If you know of any evidence suggesting that pair-bonded humans practiced monogamy before the matriarchy was overthrown and we started developing large civilizations that required that all males had a decent chance of getting laid regular
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My comment was about the fact that 'people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul'. That is indeed the case, in my opinion.
I am not sure what the overthrow of matriarchy has to do with that. Maybe you can explain yourself further. And not all males have a decent chance of getting laid regularly in our society. I am curious to know what you base that on.
And AFAIK your first comment is incorrect. Gibbons are mostly monogamous, they live in pairs not in troops. Adult orang-utans are mostly
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The original comment in this thread was
> Evolution says people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul.
And that's the context I'm discussing.
Humans are a bit more complicated in our social behaviors than most animals, but only a bit. Our behavior can be predicted far more accurately by assuming we're dumb animals than rational actors, though adding a splash of rationality certainly improves the predictions.
There are certainly solitary ape species - but look around, we're not one of th
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Just thinking about
> 'people are looking for a mate that'll be around for the long haul'
And you may be correct (mostly, especially after a certain level of maturity is reached) - but that's something the rational part of our mind is seeking. Raw attraction is almost entirely "irrational", and presumably guided far more strongly by instinct. (Which has its own ruthless rationality, just not one that cares nothing at all about social constructs or beliefs)
I suspect that's the reason there's so much truth
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I think we're not really disagreeing ;) AFAIC our approach to sex, bonding and working in groups are complementary things that are geared to making us successful in nature. It actually seems to work pretty well...
I do not think there is a lot of rationality going on in the human brain at all. Primal instinct in women is probably more geared towards getting the 'strongest' male (like you state), but the bonding part isn't rational either. Contrary to other 'female apes' women do not show (or know) exactly w
Re:They keep pushing this matter too hard (Score:4, Insightful)
If you have to give away concert tickets, push on dating websites, push for vaccine passports, and other such things, maybe the low vaccine rate are the people saying, "Absolutely not." ESPECIALLY, when traditionally it's been easier to get people to do other vaccines for the flu, MMR, and the like.
The people aren't buying it.
I was skeptical of COVID in at least March 2020 (not 2021), if not sooner. When the CDC said mortality rates were 0.26-0.40% in May 2020, I knew I really didn't care about this thing. Also, gotta love the endless "think of the children" mantras when the CDC says the mortality rate is 2-3 kids per 100k kids infected (not total kids, just those infected). YES, those lives matter, but not enough to torture kids with masks & draconian measures in schools.
Just awaiting the day all the facts come out, Fauci is arrested, and we can begin to heal from this nightmare (not the virus itself, the lockdown measures, vaxx, etc).
I'm finding it harder & harder to tell satire from sincere opinion these days. Please tell me this is facetious?
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As has been pointed out to you repeatedly, death is not the only consequence of covid. Your willful ignorance of this fact is obvious trolling. Go away, troll.
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You're right that COVID19 does not pose a huge risk of killing a person, but it does pose a huge risk of causing massive damage to societies and a substantial risk of maiming a person. This wasn't about keeping COVID19 from killing random individuals (who collectively have an average chance of having what could be called a comorbidity), it was about preventing healthcare systems from becoming overwhelmed like what's happening in India and preventing too many people from acquiring long-term health problems t
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A 95% (or so) effective rate with a vaccine is still lower than the 99.7% effective rate of the human immune system.
Genius smartey man who didn't fall for Big Science's global hoax believes in the Highlander theory of probabilities - THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE! And apparently the lowest probability wins? This is like saying that bear spray scares off only 95% of bears, but 99.7% of hikers don't die in bear attacks, therefore it makes no sense to carry bear spray when hiking. But it's even dumber than that because being vaccinated is even easier and cheaper and more beneficial for others around you than carrying bear spray on
Re: They keep pushing this matter too hard (Score:2)
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...but it turns out the problem now is the 1/3 of the population willing to get a shot if it's literally in front of them but not go out of their way for it.
Does this signify that America has reached its ultimate goal of complete individualism & complete lack of awareness of society & their interdependence on each other, i.e. "I don't give a f*#k about my family, grandparents, neighbors or anyone else. Let 'em die."
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No. I'd say about 33% of people signed up as soon as they were able (normal), 33% refuse to get the shot (not selfish, because the shot is free and everyone should protect themselves), and 33% just won't go out of their way (just lazy). The remaining 1% is the complete individualistic - they're the people who lied to get the shots early.
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Other vaccines are broadly accepted because there is generational history backing up the vaccines, along with (in many/most cases) a requirement to get vaccinated to attend public schools. By generational history I mean not only a child's parents had the vaccine, but the infant's grand parents likely had the vaccine. The current COVID-19 vaccines are brand-new, and while generally accepted as safe, we don't have the comfort of knowing that previous generations got the vaccine.
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You forgot about the 5G microchips, George Soros, Communists, and freezepeach. My God, man, focus on the issues!
Honest disclaimer (Score:4, Funny)
People who display their vaccination status are 14% more likely to get a match
The rest of you will have to stick with the trusty ol' dick pix which continue to be unreliable in guaranteeing results to this day
One good tip for picking up squidly dates (Score:1)
For the TLDR; crowd: Before you pick up a beached squid, check that it’s dead [susanscott.net]
even as single and lonely as i am (Score:3)
Tinder got me laid, but I had to put in the work. (Score:3, Interesting)
It took me more than a few minutes meet someone worthwhile on a dating app.
I even had to take a step back and work on myself when I realized in my sleepy suburb (unlike Manhattan where I first used Tinder) lonely men outnumber lonely women, so I had to up my game. By which I mean I had to work out, lose some weight, improve my pictures.. and most importantly..
I had to keep trying. Not for a few days, or a week, or a month, but for years. Sometimes I'd get into a relationship for a few months, then take a br
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see if there is a pool of fake profiles
Yeah [onsizzle.com].
LOL! Best slashdot title in a long time. (Score:2)
EOM
An expert speaks about how to tackle covid (Score:2)
Dr. Rick Bright has decades of experience in virology and immunology. He's worked under four different administrations during his time at the CDC. This lengthy article [marketwatch.com] outlines what he believes is the best way to ensure covid does not become endemic. In short, vaccinate people.
MarketWatch: Would we need a vaccine that’s 100% efficacious then?
Bright: It would not need to be 100% effective. I’ve seen results or reports around 70% to 90% effective. [Editor’s note: The vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc. PFE, -0.42%, Moderna Inc. MRNA, -2.72%, and Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.06% that are currently authorized in the U.S. were all at least 70% efficacious in the clinical trials conducted here.] But the trick is that you have to vaccinate everyone. You have to also vaccinate 70% of the population with a 70%- to 90%-effective vaccine to blanket the world.
There will always be people who won’t get vaccinated for whatever reason. There are a few people who can’t get vaccinated for whatever reason because of their underlying health. And there will always be people that the vaccines just don’t work in. There’s space in nature for those pockets. But then you have to make sure you have an effective vaccine that is forward-leaning, can block the virus, and then you blanket the rest of the world. You can stop something like this and push it back to the Batcave or jungle or wherever it came from.
Horny people (Score:2)
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You know what? You're trying to be funny, aren't you? If I hadn't commented already I'd mod you '+1 Funny' for that.
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"Horny people", really? For millions of people it's not about sex, it's about bond.
When I read the word "bond", it reminds me of every headline I read about two celebrities reported to be "dating" each other.
I just replace it with the word "fucking" and BOOM! Instant accuracy.
(Yeah, the cats out of the bag...humans in relationships, often fornicate. News at 11.)
If you're using 'dating apps'.. (Score:2)
Whatev. If it'll convince desperate incels to get the shots if they think it'll get them laid, then that's all to the public good, but of course saying 'hey baby I'm vaccinated, let's do it!' isn't going to increase your chances appreciably if they were zero to begin with.
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Some of the "dating apps" of the past few years are more accurately and explicitly sex apps. 15 or even 10 years ago the internet still hosted a halfway nerdy clientele, now everyone and their mom and their slutty selfie-snapping sister is plugged in. Guess which apps they gravitate towards?
Speaking to my own sex life, before 2015 it consisted entirely of people I met in traditional ways: at school, through IRL friends, etc. Since then it's consisted entirely of people I met on Telegram or IRC. Never tried
Conservative Dating Sites: Get What Badges? (Score:2)
What badges and icons do the conservative dating sites get?
Will having a badge in an icon for vaccination be a detriment to your match percentage on those conservative websites?
I've only heard from friends about websites like Christians only, J-date, Farmers only, etc.
The people that frequent those types of websites are usually quite conservative and out here a lot of the conservatives are basically refusing to get vaccinated because of all the misinformation that is being fed to them on a daily basis by th
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Remember when conservatives used to try to both-sides the issue of widespread mainstreamed conspiracy theorizing on the right by pointing out that more anti-vaxxers were on the left? Good times. Then Donald Trump came along.
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In the case of Jewish reluctance to get vaccinated, it's more accurate to refer to those refusing as Orthodox or even Hyper-Orthodox and I'm guessing that much of that is coming from a lack of any definitive rabbinical ruling either that the vaccine can be considered kosher or that it's acceptable for an observant Jew to receive it anyway. I'm reasonably s
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Oh yes now I remember and I actually looked it up that it was a measles outbreak back in 2018 in the ultra Orthodox Jewish schools in New York City that I was flying through. This prompted me to check my own vaccination status and I found out that during my transition from my home country to here while I was younger I just happened to jump over the age difference in one of the vaccines and never received it since back then they were given individually and not as a single shot of MMR.
So as an adult I went th
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Future historians please note. (Score:2)