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Big Yud gives some dating advice (twitter.com)
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[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Quoted for posterity/convenience:

in a world of greater legibility, romantic partners would have the conversation about "I'd trade up if I found somebody 10%/25%/125% better than you" in advance, and make sure they have common knowledge of the numbers

(Marriage makes sense as a promise not to do that period; but if so, you want to make sure that both partners are on the same page about that. Not everyone assumes that marriage means that.)

Her: I am never, ever letting you go unless I find someone 75% better. Me: Works for me.

oh hello there Performative Allistic Twitter

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago

Oh look, a clarification:

It didn't even occur to me that anyone would read the tweet as being about "25% more general market value" rather than "25% more value to me personally". Who thinks like that??!?

Yud is just a uwu neuro-atypical smol bean who is ignorant of generations of cultural context about people rating each other and cannot be blamed for people reading his words in the wrong way instead of the correct, equally repellent way.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago

Ohh, I thought he meant one thing but actually he meant the same thing I thought he did and not the even worse thing I expected he might actually think instead.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

I think in this case, market value might have actually been better, in that at least it's an objective value of something specific instead of reducing your whole relationship with another human being to a fucking variable.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 10 months ago

"Honest, babe, I'd only dump you for a ten-out-of-ten smokeshow as evaluated on my personal scale!"

[-] zbyte64@social.rootaccess.org 6 points 10 months ago

@blakestacey can't wait to hear his take on issuing derivatives for the dating market ๐Ÿ™„

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