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And I thought those camgirl profiles on Tinder were bad
and just think how bad it will be when the humans behind the fake accounts are replaced by chatgpt and there's no limit to the scale of the operation
it'll be liberating in a way. stop paying attention to the whole world and get back to local, in-person culture
log off, tune in, drop out
Just strap on a good community helmet and climb into a good community cannon and launch yourself into good community land where there aren't :grillman: bigots in the neighborhood that want to shoot people for walking there while wearing hoodies :us-foreign-policy:
Oh yeah and also where there's public places to hang out where you don't have to pay money every half hour or else the management calls the cops. :very-intelligent:
yeah that's all valid and I don't know what it's going to look like yet but life finds a way
something will have to grow in the cracks or we might as well just redact ourselves
I mean I probably will have to move, but for the moment the question is where and how to afford it. :doomer:
I haven't been on the meetup apps since COVID, and I've never used the pay-to-chat sites, but I remember like 5 times in a row I matched with cleverly designed fakes. people who had realistic profiles and could talk, but would suddenly try to move the conversation to some pay-to-chat / age verification site that needed my CC numbers.
I'm sure I'm in the demo for easily duped tech illiterate, because I'm old. but it really started to seem like that entire world of the internet... the dating/hookup/lonely apps is like +90% scams.
I eventually realized the experience of using those apps was making me feel more isolated than just being single.
Online dating used to be decent when it was a new concept, even if controversial because it was new.
The thought terminating cliche of "everything is equally as good and bad as it has always been, old people in ancient times complained about young people amirite" :very-intelligent: that sometimes pops up here blissfully ignores that some things do get worse after they are introduced, in this case entirely for profit reasons under capitalism.
I used to work for a company that would post job ads and if you applied you'd get a call from an "education advisor" who would then try and trick you into enrolling in some for-profit college under the guise of "improving 'hireability'", like the University of Phoenix is going to help you get a job in a warehouse. :no-mouth-must-scream:
I would like to get off
There's a dark joke in there about how that grift targets people and why. :agony-minion:
