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Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
My point stands. Someone who is not on steroids and is closer in looks to Sam Sulek than Kipchoge will have more success. There’s enough studies out there on this that I shouldn’t have to even be saying this. Most women like strong looking men and not flyweights.
do you think that run clubs are full of flyweights or Olympic distance runners? you'd have a point if half these run clubs weren't full of weightlifters trying to get women by talking to them on a 2-miler
If your goal is to improve your looks and be attractive to women - it's about weightlifting. I know a ton of runners who also lift weights.
The point is that you need to be lifting weights if you're a man and wanting to attract most women.
It's not rocket science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWC8_vp-bWI
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#243I wish there were more offerings for socialising around hobbies. Strava looks great for some sport activities, but I’d like to meet other nerds into 80s computing, hobby electronics, comics, sci-fi, home automation, kayaking, city exploration, etc You invariably end up with lical Facebook groups, which are just a flow of posts, and require a FB account, or some non local reddit group, or small scale website you have…
> Something is missing.
It sounds to me like what is missing is community.
Around here, if you go outside you're soon going to learn who the like-minded nerds are. Even if you don't chance-encounter them directly, the people you do encounter are apt to know them and let you know about them. From there, you can reach out. Connection made.
In fact, I was just having a conversation with an old friend who recently moved to my area and he noted how everyone is out there talking to each other and finding out about each other, which felt foreign to him. He says where he moved from he was effectively anonymous. I suspect your living arrangement is more like his previously was.
Perhaps the solution isn't tech-based, but simply for us to be more neighbourly the old fashioned way?
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
especially good when that common activity isn't: we're both drinking at this bar
Easiest way to meet someone is for them to be a friend of a friend. I rarely date someone outside my extended circle even if I was trying to. We inevitably happen to know someone in common. That said, bars are a great way to expand that circle. Dating is just one aspect of socializing. People who go to bars specifically just to "pick up" are creepy.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
That might have been cited as the reason, but I think we all know the real reason is that France is fighting against Russian troops in their former African colonies, and Russian troops mainly use Telegram for their communications.
> France is fighting against Russian troops in their former African colonies France and Russia are at war now? Wagner mercenaries moved into Mali after French troops withdrew from it. That's hardly the same thing as French soldiers 'fighting' Russian soldiers.
There have been some skirmishes, but mainly it’s a Cold War for influence. France got kicked out and replaced by Wagner for example.
France actually does take their control over their former colonies rather seriously.
Perhaps my previous statement was a bit too bold. Let’s just say I would be very surprised if this wasn’t a factor in their decision to now prosecute the owner of Telegram.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I find interesting is that it seems like the vast majority of hobbies are male dominated, maybe this is not true and a bias of my world view. All sports are male dominated to the point where female only activities are sanctioned, anything around collecting, games (board games and video games), cars/motorsports, woodworking, metalworking. The only hobbies I know of that are female dominated is Yoga and crafts. Al…
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> I went to ChatGPT and I have no clue what it's sources are. In fact, some of these seem wrong to me but I asked it to output it into CSV format.
And yet... you went on a whole analysis about it.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could that be a good filter-function? “How gracefully does this person handle our skill difference” seems like a nice thing to know about somebody.
Not really, it's like playing Counter Strike with your friend, but you're a total noob and they're world champion. You try your best and yet, for you to have any semblance of fun, the other person had to play only with a knife, one hand behind their back and picking their nose with the other. It's just never gonna be as fun as if everybody is trying their best and are all on the same playing field.
Yes but climbing isn't inherently competitive. Counterstrike you can't win without someone losing. Climbing, everyone can win.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more interested to know how this secret bunch of people links all that to arrest of Telegram's CEO (who is a French citizen) in France. Sounds like a regular conspiracy theory and claims like "we all know..." just give more of the same conspiracy vibe.
Yeah, I highly doubt Russian soldiers/mercenaries using Telegram is the main reason France went after Durov, but the conflicts and influence wars between Russia and colonialist powers in Africa is well-known and has been happening for a while.
The conflicts and influence wars between Russia and colonialist powers in Africa is well-known and has been happening for a while.
That the conflicts are well-known and have been happening for a while is quite true of course.
But this bizarre framing of these conflicts as "between Russia and colonialist powers" (as if Russia was not also a colonial power, or its influence games in Africa were any different from those of the Western powers) is just propaganda, and rather trite propaganda at that.
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
> France is fighting against Russian troops in their former African colonies France and Russia are at war now? Wagner mercenaries moved into Mali after French troops withdrew from it. That's hardly the same thing as French soldiers 'fighting' Russian soldiers.
There have been some skirmishes, but mainly it’s a Cold War for influence. France got kicked out and replaced by Wagner for example. France actually does take their control over their former colonies rather seriously. Perhaps my previous statement was a bit too bold. Let’s just say I would be very surprised if this wasn’t a factor in their decision to now prosecute the owner of Telegram.
>There have been some skirmishes,
Source for this? Skirmishes between French soldiers and Wagner mercenaries?
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#250Notably absent hobby in the article is music. I'm currently working on a website that will function as a "hobby app" for digital music/album collection. https://discollect.app my public profile: https://discollect.app/profile/clo0oz2hw0005fv02qbxn866c
Oh! This is a cool service! Love onboarding experience
Thanks! Got the motivation to finish up the onboarding after seeing this article. Still adding features all the time so let me know if you have any ideas!