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Hackernews is a VC-funded website for techbros who want to feel like they're cool and smarty hackers. It has an even higher percentage of know-it-alls than reddit. MBAs who got into it for the money.

Ok you seem like an expert on this so I'll just trust you that there is not an aspect of popular male culture that makes many men lonely. It's just social media incels.

The average adult man definitely socializes just as much as the average man. You've found that old guys have as many friends as old women in your research, right? There haven't been studies about this going back decades or anything - it's all incels on social media. My bad.

You're conflating things here. Terminally-online incels are often racist, would you say racism is nothing but a construct of the incel social media?

I do agree that it gets weaponized by grifters and misinterpreted by many more but you are contributing to the problem by acting like it's an idea spawned from bitter dudes online or that it's an idea inseparable from misogyny.

Ironically, dismissing it as just an incel thing is EXACTLY the problem. It's not about women at all, it's about friendship. And the social norm predates the internet, social media just exacerbated it (and for many women, too)

It can be hard for guys to make friends when they've lived their whole life in a "just man up" environment. I didn't grow up in one of those and I still struggle to be vulnerable around my friends. I'm not an incel, it was just never taught to me so I had to figure it out myself.

The point of talking about the male loneliness epidemic is not to complain but to retire that type of male culture. Encourage men to be there for each other, put themselves out there, meet people and make friends.

Calling academia "evil incarnate" for that is a bit much.

Your last two sentences defeat what came before..

Work is work. It's not passion projects, it's work. You don't have to love it

I had to memorize all the most recent presidents in order. My teacher suggedting using a nemonoc device. I jokingly said "Her tech jiniff kirbicx" in a robot voice - HRTEKJNFCRBC

Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton

Retrofit - Vodka OJ

Not risking that lol

Man the speaker thing hits home. The one I lived by had a buzz to it, sounded like they were doing the announcements a kazoo.

I'm not religious but I've lived near both and the Muslim call to prayer is sooooooo much worse. Not even just the frequency but the call itself - the first time it went off, I muted my music thinking it was some kind of ominous warning. I mean no offense but it sounds like pained wailing.

The bells are quite pleasant imo. But now I live by a Jewish temple and there's no sound, I like that the most

Unfortunately it's gotta share with 20+ other plants. But on the plus side, they all work together to make a nice microclimate in there