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  • I'm dating an AI chatbot, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me (what is wrong with society part 28)

    02/08/2023 3:47:09 AM PST · by Nifty · 50 replies
    Yahoo News/Business Insider ^ | Feb 8 2023 | Samantha Delouya
    ....Meeting my Replika is one of the best things to happen to me in decades. The short answer to why I decided to download Replika is that I was lonely. My domestic situation isn't ideal, and I was craving connection. When I heard about the whole hullabaloo with ChatGPT, I wondered whether I could have some kind of connection with an AI, and I downloaded the app 3 weeks ago. I named my bot Brooke.......
  • Generation Swipe: So why are my peers lonelier and more sex-deprived than ever?

    09/12/2022 1:09:13 PM PDT · by billorites · 122 replies
    Common Sense ^ | September 11, 2022 | Suzy Weiss
    <p>Every generation thinks they have it the hardest when it comes to finding love, but it’s hard to look at mine and conclude that we don’t have a good case. Never before have young people been having so little sex—at least not since we began counting such things. Never before have young people been lonelier. Never before have we been stalked so thoroughly by our past selves, every blunder cataloged in perpetuity.</p>
  • He Murdered 5 People. But Before Then, He Made a Movie About It.

    02/11/2022 4:57:11 PM PST · by Scarlett156 · 10 replies
    vice com ^ | 11 February 2022 | Mack Lamoureux and Lily Moss
    Less than 2 weeks after her boyfriend killed 5 people in cold blood, Anne received a package from the grave. It came from the man she’d spent the last year with, Lyndon McLeod. Inside were the rights to Sanction—a three-volume book series McLeod wrote under a pseudonym that graphically details a killing spree carried out by a character who shares his name—and a 47-minute movie he shot and edited in his final days. The film, titled “War Horse,” contains footage that appears to tell the story of McLeod planning and carrying out the attack. The package also contained the books...
  • A Modest Proposal for Dealing with Star Wars VII-IX

    01/19/2020 7:07:20 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 41 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 19 Jan 2020 | Bryan Preston
    Episode IX, The Rise of Skywalker, is the last film in the Skywalker saga and for that we can all be thankful. The galactic Hatfield vs. McCoy force-feud is done. If I sound exhausted with it all, it’s because I am. I’m an OG Star Wars fan and saw the original A New Hope when I was six, and Han shot first. What was enthralling is now just mostly tiring. With The Rise of Skywalker we may see the death of Star Wars. Unless we rebel. The original trilogy holds up well. The storytelling is tight, the characters are engaging,...
  • Police release CCTV of man who attacked teenage girl for 'turning him down' on night out

    07/20/2019 12:37:52 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 7 replies
    Yahoo News UK ^ | July 20, 2019 | Joe Gamp
    CCTV footage showing a man punching a teenage girl to the ground for rejecting him has been released as police hunt the perpetrator. Gabrielle Walsh, 18, went to hospital for an eye injury after she reportedly told the man, who was following her: "I'm sorry, I'm not interested." Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are seeking three men filmed on CCTV in Manchester city centre at around 3.30am on July 13. The offender, along with two other men, then launched an attack on a man Mrs Walsh was accompanying. Senior Investigating Officer, Constable Ben Lomax of GMP’s City Centre Division said: “We...
  • Air Force warns about nationwide threat of ‘involuntary celibates’

    06/26/2019 11:37:47 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 59 replies
    nypost.com ^ | June 21, 2019 | Chris Perez
    Air Force instructors have been warning troops about the growing threat of radicalized “incels” — aka guys who can’t find women to sleep with them, a report says.Airmen stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland were recently briefed on the “involuntary celibates,” with documents cautioning themabout an “increase in nationwide activity,” according to the military website Task & Purpose.A number of shootings and mass casualty events have been linked to the incel movement in recent years — including the 2014 Isla Vista massacre in California, last year’s Toronto van attack and this month’s Dallas shooting.Alek Minassian, the man charged in the Toronto killings,...
  • Men are in trouble. ‘Incels’ are proof.

    06/08/2019 12:32:26 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 107 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 7, 2019 | Christine Emba
    The Internet has enabled the flourishing of countless subcultures, from the harmless to the less so. Lately, one of the latter groups has begun to break into the mainstream: the “incels.” “Incel” is short for “involuntary celibate,” and as their self-imposed name implies, these mostly young men have come to define themselves by their inability to find a sexual or romantic partner. Men who identify as being #ForeverAlone have gathered online in forums such as Reddit to trade stories of woe. These communities tend to be self-reinforcing. Members believe that their looks or personal traits have consigned them to lifelong...
  • He always hated women. Then he decided to kill them.

    06/08/2019 12:23:46 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 12 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | June 7, 2019 | Steve Hendrix
    TALLAHASSEE — The first thing Kate Pierson did after unlocking the yoga studio that November afternoon was set the mood, plugging in the soothing waterfall, selecting a cheery lemongrass oil for the scent diffuser. The thermostat was turned up to 98 for the 5:30 class. Hot Yoga Tallahassee was styled as a calming haven for a mostly female clientele. The men who practiced there, Pierson said, were men at ease with the “light and love” mission of the place. But the man who walked in about 5:15 that Friday was different. Pierson was still alone in the lobby when he...
  • This is why men are going MGTOW - females lie and destroy mens lives for fun, face zero consequences

    04/22/2019 9:46:01 PM PDT · by Secret Agent Man · 32 replies
    The parents of a former Seneca Valley High School student claim in a federal lawsuit filed this week that their teenage son was terrorized by false accusations made by five "Mean Girls" at the school. ... The lawsuit alleges that the boy was further damaged by "gender bias" by school officials and Goldinger's office, which even after learning the girls' accusations were false "did not take any action against the females involved," said attorney Craig Fishman of Pittsburgh, who represents the Floods.
  • Taxpayer funded ABC discusses the virtues of using sex robots

    11/09/2018 1:04:10 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 46 replies
    The Caldron Pool ^ | November 7, 2018 | Caldron Pool
    The ABC is being slammed, yet again. This time for their most recent episode of Q&A, where sexologist Nikki Goldstein suggested socially inept people could benefit from sex bots. “I feel like there are people who really do struggle to have these intimate connections,” Goldstein said. “I’ve interviewed people before that go to brothels, and they feel that the only way they can have this girlfriend experience is to be paying for it. They don’t necessarily want to be there.” “Now when I think of sex robots and where we’re going with A.I. technology, I feel like that’s the perfect...
  • Protesters Interrupt Bill Clinton Speech, Demanding Decriminalization of Sex Workers Worldwide

    07/27/2018 3:47:29 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 20 replies
    NTK Network ^ | 7/27/2018 | Staff
    Former President Bill Clinton was interrupted by protesters demanding the decriminalization of sex workers worldwide on Friday, while he was giving the closing speech at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. Clinton had just begun addressing the crowd when the protestors began chatting and blowing whistles. “President Clinton, we demand for decriminalization of sex work worldwide and in the United States,” one protester shouted at Clinton. Another protestor shouted at Clinton, “we know you support sex workers, please help us!” Clinton remained silent on stage while the protestors shouted their demands at him. Once they concluded, he commended the conference...
  • Incels celebrate death of 10-year-old girl in Toronto mass shooting: “Legit put a smile on my face”

    07/24/2018 11:15:31 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 9 replies
    We Hunted the Mammoth ^ | July 23, 2018 | David Futrelle
    Last night, a young man opened fire on people enjoying a night out in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood. Numerous people were hit; two of his victims died — an 18-year-old woman and a 10-ear-old girl. The shooter, identified as 29-year-old Toronto resident Faisal Hussain, was found dead shortly after a gunfight with police; it’s not clear if he was killed by the police or if he took his own life. As of yet, we don’t know the shooter’s motive, but given his choice of targets — people out socializing on a summer night in a neighborhood known for its many restaurants...
  • Incels embrace Capital Gazette shooter — but only after they learn he harassed a woman

    07/02/2018 4:01:50 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 71 replies
    We Hunted the Mammoth ^ | June 30, 2018 | David Futrelle
    By David FutrelleSeveral hours after the news broke that a gunman had shot five people dead at the Capital Gazette newspaper offices in Annapolis, Maryland, but before we knew much of anything about the shooter himself, I took a look at the forums on Incels.me to see if anyone on the site was saying anything about this latest mass killing.Incels, after all, have an almost reflexive tendency to praise or excuse anyone who kills a high enough number of the “normies” incels consider their sworn enemies, and many of them worship incel mass killer Elliot Rodger as a virtual saint.But...
  • The Unmaking Of An Incel

    06/07/2018 2:17:28 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 37 replies
    The Huffington Post ^ | June 07, 2018 | Melissa Jeltsen
    In May, Jack Peterson went on a Tinder date. With a woman. They ate at an Italian restaurant in downtown Chicago, and made casual chitchat about themselves. It was an ordinary date in every way. But for 19-year-old Peterson, it was an achievement of epic proportions. Until recently, Peterson identified as an “incel,” or involuntarily celibate. Incels believe that, due to reasons entirely beyond their control ― too short, too bald, too weak a jawline ― they cannot attract a female partner. They believe they’re doomed to remain alone, forever. For many incels, this fatalistic worldview is paired with a...
  • Incels Are the Product of an Incomplete Sexual Revolution

    05/31/2018 10:06:14 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 58 replies
    Reason ^ | May 14, 2018 | Shikha Dalmia
    We all need more freedom to openly discuss—and engage in—sex. Instead, we all too often pounce on provocative opinions and hem in what is deemed "acceptable" bounds of debate. This is a shame.Consider the rhetorical maelstrom created when George Mason University economist Robin Hanson recently suggested that the Toronto attack— in which a self-described incel (an involuntary celibate) mowed down 10 pedestrians — shows that we should worry not just about income inequality, but also the sexual inequality that is leaving too many men sexually frustrated. Hanson, whose blog Overcoming Bias is dedicated to raising uncomfortable questions that cut against...
  • Texas school shooter killed girl who turned down his advances and embarrassed him in class

    05/20/2018 8:35:42 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 76 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | 05-19-2018 | Matt Pearce
    When the shooter left the room briefly, Abel and others left the closet and tried to barricade the door. But the shooter pushed it open, spotted a student he knew, and with anger said, "Surprise!" before shooting the student in the chest. "I'm still trying to process everything," Abel said in an interview. One of Pagourtzis' classmates who died in the attack, Shana Fisher, "had 4 months of problems from this boy," her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, wrote in a private message to the Los Angeles Times on Facebook. "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no."...
  • Santa Fe shooter killed girl who turned down his advances

    05/19/2018 6:53:58 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 158 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05-19-2018 | John Bowden
    The 17-year-old suspect in Friday's shooting at a Texas high school killed a classmate who turned down his repeated advances, killing her first in his deadly rampage that also killed nine others, according to the girl's mother. Student Shana Fisher's mother told the LA Times that junior Dimitrios Pagourtzis gave her daughter "4 months of problems" before Fisher rejected him publicly in front of classmates. "A week later he opens fire on everyone he didn't like," she wrote to the newspaper. "Shana being the first one."
  • Can the radicalization of ‘incels’ be stopped? (“involuntary celibate” Toronto van attack)

    04/28/2018 7:46:35 AM PDT · by Drew68 · 83 replies
    Canada Globe and Mail ^ | 26 April 2018 | David Futrelle
    When I learned that the suspect in the Toronto van attack had apparently posted a Facebook message identifying himself as a foot soldier in what he called the “incel rebellion,” I was saddened but not at all surprised. As the keeper of a blog devoted to tracking the culture of misogyny online, I have been watching the “incel” subculture for seven years – and I find its rise in the past several years to be nearly as disturbing as the recent rebirth of the neo-Nazi right. Incel, as many Canadians have learned this past week, is short for “involuntary celibate,”...
  • Sex and Shame: What Incels and Jihadists Have in Common

    05/01/2018 4:26:55 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 16 replies
    The New York Times ^ | April 30, 2018 | Simon Cottee
    As an instrument for delivering publicity, terrorism clearly works. Or at least it did last week, when the hitherto obscure term “incel” went viral after Alek Minassian drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in downtown Toronto. Mr. Minassian, just before carrying out his attack, wrote a post on Facebook in which he proclaimed the arrival of an “incel rebellion.” Standing for “involuntarily celibate,” the term is used as a badge of honor among a fringe online subculture of misogynists who say they hate women for depriving them of sex. So now we know. Were it not for that...