i spend about $50 on each of my newphews, give or take.

i don’t have any memes on my phone. never have, never will.

because i can.

just like i cam make commentary about Jeep products even though I will never buy one.

how many straight women do you know that are FOSS?

even among men, how many care about FOSS? like .1%?

I know what Foss is, but I don’t care about it. but i do find it amusing the how superiority complex FOSS people have and how they fail to realize how the average windows/mac users is just going to find that weird and offputting, as they do most foss software.

the tinder system doesnt’ show you how 99.9% of women are rejecting you. just like the lottery, the point is the delusion that you might ‘win’ even though statistically, you won’t ever.

if the average user saw that reality, they’d give up. they would not try to improve.

apps can’t fix biological imperatives. all they do is magnify them. i’m a guy who gets matches on apps regularly… most women interpret my profile as the complete opposite of what it says. it’s hilarious. but that’s because people see what they want to see, they don’t see what you literally tell them.

old school okcupid was from 2004, before video on the internet meant a 320x240 quicktime clip that was 2 minutes long.

nobody in 2026 is ever going to use the internet like we did in 2004. they don’t have the patience or the attention span. it also would be a phone app, not a website. nobody uses websites anymore

House MD

it would work if it was a gay/furry specific app.

95% of your male users would have zero swipes on the app, and then stop using it

and most of the women will swipe on 5% of the men, and also leave because those 5% of men will only respond to like 5% of the swipes they get, so 95% of them get shafted.

and this is why dating apps don’t work. people don’t use them logically or reasonably. dating is all about chasing hot people who won’t give you the time of day and ignoring people who would actually date you because they are not as attractive as the people who ignore you.

my ex loved that show. i thought it was funny but meh.

turns out she had major lying/alcohol/money issues. go figure. and i was too stupid to realize it until we were about to move in together. her love of the show was her love of her fucked up treatment of me.

a lot of people are just idiots who don’t understand that money in has to be less than money out.

i’m not on their team. like I’m sorry you chose to be a bicycle mechanic because you think it’s ‘cool’ and you only make 30K a year, but if you choose to spend 20% of your yearly wage on traveling each year… and whine about how poor you are, you’re just an asshole. nobody is forcing you to spend 6000 traveling, you choose to do that and you choose to keep yourself poor by not saving and investing in yourself and/or seeking a career that offers better wages. even more so when you shit on other people who have better jobs than you for being ‘rich boring losers’. i won’t even go on about the ‘artist’ crowd I’m all too familiar with.

a lot of idiots love to be miserable and glorify their self-imposed poverty. no matter their income level. i’ve dated doctors who made 500K a year who did nothing but complain about how poor they were.

it’s relative to where you live and your lifestyle expectations.

where i live people make 300K a year and feel impoverished. if you go three hours away, making 30K a year is a good salary.

I make 150K a year, so to 25 year olds working for 15/hr i’m rich. but to many of my peers i’m living in poverty because I don’t have ten million in the bank.

there are some objective measure, for sure, but people’s lifestyles are radically different. the MIT cost of living calculator for my city is like 80K, but most everyone who lives here would consider that a poverty level wage.

no.

plenty of people rent their entire lives are fine. and plenty of people own homes get them foreclosed because they can’t afford the payments, or buy too much house.

owning a home isn’t really a huge economic benefit or security, unless your house massively goes up in value. a house is also a huge liability if it has problems. home owning nearly bankrupted my family at one point because of the crazy expensive repairs.

because middle class is good and noble.

being poor or wealthy means you’re an asshole and is considered shameful.

hence everyone is desperate to claim they are not rich and desperately afraid of being seen as poor by people richer than themselves.

most doctors come from wealthy families. and if you are anything above a PCP, you’re making like 300K+ a year, you’re not labor class. you’re part of the 1%. yeah being a resident and an intern sucks balls, but you’re taking a short term low age for a long term massive payoff.

80% of med students come from families making over 200K a year. that’s a hard fact.

most of us who grew up in middle/lower class families never even dreamed of being a doctor because we knew it was basically impossible for us without rich parents to help pay the bills for med school.

apparently you’re not in poverty if you donate plasma? that’s a new talking point.

pretty sure tons of people in poverty aren’t donating plasma and plenty of people who aren’t in poverty are doing it.

plenty of manual laborers make bank dude. a lot of office workers barely make a living wage.

it’s more about your wealth, education, and lifestyle, not your the type of work you do.

pretty much. this entire thread is just folks arguing over the meanings of middle class, and most of them denying it exists as if that is going to create class solidarity. it won’t. majority of posters probably are middle class folks who would never in a million years associate with truly working class people. esp because the working class is typically conservative and doesn’t have liberal/progressive values, at least in the USA.

yep. most of my co workers are like this. and socializing with them is miserable because they just complain how broke they are… and yet they are spend $1000s per month on stupid shit. and if you try to tell them life isn’t so hard… if they werent’ so stupid… they tell you your some rich asshole.

i have a home gym. it costs me 0 dollars per month after buying some basic equipment that cost me like $500. most gyms in my area want $200 sign up fees and monthly fees between 60-200 a month. it’s insane.

themselves.

there is no billionaire conspiracy dude. the average person is stupid and regularly does stupid shit that defaults their long term interests for perceived short term gains. it’s human nature. most people impulse spend on shit they don’t need or really want, but their monkey brain wants it because other monkey has it.

the few people who can value their long term gains at the expense of the short term tend to be those that are upwardly mobile economically.