@JackNapierNot I know a guy who secured these kinds of "dates" frequently via dating apps. He appreciated the straightforward, transactional nature of them and that they enabled him to date women he regarded as out of his league. They always seemed a little too close to prostitution to me.
@Bible__Sword@SmartScience I know there are at least a few labs / providers set up to test for it using fluorescence microscopy. If you're in the U.S., Jordan Vaughn's group out of Birmingham, AL does it.
@m0ndayne@signulll We built a machine that encourages and rewards dark triad traits and we spend an ever-increasing amount of time on it. The machine also collects and continually feeds to us non-representative depictions of reality that our brain assumes are representative.
@Kulambq Reminds me of Kundera on the subject:
"Don't you like music? Franz asked.
No, said Sabina, and then added, though in a different era... She was thinking of the days of Johann Sebastian Bach, when music was like a rose blooming on a boundless snow-covered plain of silence."
@thepiclord@MiriVinni 🎶You can meet her in the café, yes you can / You can meet her in Peru or in Japan / You can meet her at your art class, cooking too / You can meet her on the train or at the zoo / Women coming out the woodwork in this land / Several billion you can choose from ain't it grand? 🎶
@vexedbutunvaxed@carloseats You're misinformed. I never was vaccinated and I've had Long COVID for over 4.5 years. Even doctors who are very anti-mRNA COVID vaccines like Dr. Peter McCullough recognize Long COVID.