Modern_Monkey

MTGO Player. Mostly focused in #MtgPauper, but lately I've been branching in other formats too. Played in #KHMChamps.

[@amuse @amuse]

GENOCIDE? Algorithmically-curated dating apps have engineered a generational mismatch in romantic expectations that mirrors the worst dynamics of winner-take-all markets and positional goods inflation. Traditional courtship was bounded by geography, social circles, and time, forcing realistic self-assessment and holistic evaluation of partners across sustained interaction. Swipe-based platforms obliterated those constraints, collapsing all of human mate selection into a single ranked marketplace where hypergamy, the female preference for partners of equal or higher status, now operates without friction or limit. The data is not subtle: the top 20% of men on these platforms receive roughly 80% of female attention, a Gini-coefficient-level concentration of desire that has no precedent in the history of human courtship. Those men rationally respond to sudden abundance by abandoning commitment entirely, because the incentive to settle has been structurally demolished. At the same time, women who periodically access that top tier, regardless of how briefly or on what terms, permanently recalibrate their expectations upward, pricing themselves out of the realistic market of men who would have made them genuinely happy. Neither group is acting irrationally given the incentives presented to them, which is precisely what makes this so damaging: the apps have not corrupted individual character so much as they have poisoned the entire coordination mechanism through which generations of ordinary people found lasting partnership. The consequence is not a dating culture that is merely unsatisfying. It is one that is structurally incapable of producing the outcomes most of its participants actually want.

h/t @Degen_Poster

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Back to the #MTGPauper Challenge after a long hiatus, back to top8 with my take on UB Terror featuring AK!

Thanks @golden_pigs1 and especially @cicciogire1 for the brainstorming!

U Terror - W
Mono Red - L
Mono Red - W
White Weenie - W
Gardens - W
UB Fae - W

Top 8 Pestilence L

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@ChartingBit Che poi basterebbe anche solo prendere una weekly EMA/MA, fare pac quando il prezzo è sopra, vendere quando e' sotto

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@paolo_donfra Ban Paolo @pauperformatpanel

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@MagicOnline The new Quick Play button is so bad 🤣 I wonder who will use it!

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@MacnBTC It's called downtrend

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@muoversiatorino @GTT_Torino Ma il senso di chiudere Via Cigna in contemporanea con i lavori in piazza Baldissera? La città è tagliata in due e impercorribile.

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@Chart_Mate In realtà se consideri la svalutazione del dollaro... Non siamo in ATH 🙂

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@ZioFrancone @golden_pigs1 Love you zio ma 2 mappe checcazzo

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@putipo @seieventisei Fai il bagnino?

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@putipo @seieventisei Lavoro anche io in smart, nel senso che sono in P Iva. Ma mai mi sognerei di lavorare da bordo piscina, per lavorare efficacemente ho bisogno della mia postazione e di almeno due monitor. Chi lavora a bordo piscina, per me, cazzeggia.

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@putipo @seieventisei Quindi non lavori in queste occasioni

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@ecobaronen Super easy Forth! You already have a good fetch for it, Push is replaceable. No doubts

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@kajakallas That's horrible, the death of EU values. I'm ashamed.

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@Moana_Ponzi Love this

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@We_Are_YouChain Qual è la ratio dietro alle Small cap europee? Grazie se vorrai approfondire

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Democrats got Taylor Swift but we have Joe Biden.

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@lastknight @Run_Man_ Contestabile questa affermazione.

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@balajis I've criticized Telegram before for not being serious with encryption.

But (given the info available so far: the charge seems to be just being "unmoderated" and not giving up people's data), this looks very bad and worrying for the future of software and comms freedom in Europe.

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@GavinVerhey There is SO MUCH text on cards nowadays :(