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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Vampire@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I posted this post apparently nine days ago and the way my mind works is it brews ideas below the surface and then they pop up fully formed.

Countries need families. Countries need stable family units. Countries need babies. People aren't doing this enough because whippersnappers on their iBooks etc. The problem is real.

What if the state has a registry of single people, and invites about 100 of them – matched for age and other basic compatibility factors – to the same event on one night. They do speed-dating, get through 50 people in a night, 2-3 minutes per person. Then they give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to each person.

At the end of the night, people will have an average of at least a few (maybe 2-3, pessimistically) potential matches. But do it every Saturday of the summer, and you have 40+

And then they follow up with a long-form date. Not sure if that's also state-run, I'll need to check the budget.

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[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Gonna be real with you Mr. Abe - state-run speed dating is not going to fix your birth rates.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

These all totally just sound like crypto state mandated gf posts tbh

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

pretty much

[-] regul@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Said it last time. Will say it this time. People are dating plenty. They're just not having kids because it's too expensive. If the state wants people to have kids then government-run speed dating is not going to do it.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

People are dating plenty.

They're not.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Maybe they're just not dating you.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago
[-] blight@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

you think you can fix general alienation with state run speed dating? one of the problems in neoliberalism is that you only have free time to spend with at best one person, meaning that relationship becomes overburdened. people need friends first and foremost

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

one of the problems in neoliberalism is that you only have free time to spend with at best one person

You would have time for more people if each relationship lasted 2 minutes.

[-] PapaEmeritusIII@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Countries need families. Countries need stable family units. Countries need babies.

fry

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Countries need families. Countries need stable family units. Countries need babies. People aren't doing this enough because whippersnappers on their iBooks etc. The problem is real.

What if the state has a registry of single people, and invites about 100 of them – matched for age and other basic compatibility factors – to the same event on one night. They do speed-dating, get through 50 people in a night, 2-3 minutes per person. Then they give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to each person.

At the end of the night, people will have an average of at least a few (maybe 2-3, pessimistically) potential matches. But do it every Saturday of the summer, and you have 40+

And then they follow up with a long-form date. Not sure if that's also state-run, I'll need to check the budget.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Virgil Texas in 2030?

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

It's all fun and games until you wake up to find yourself being spooned by a Stalin cosplayer stalin-comical-spoon

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago
[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

I can't tell if this is a bit

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago
[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

i can think of few things more soul-crushingly depressing

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago
[-] Othello@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if you get out enough single people in a room together they will begin to have sex. just got to have free fun things for people to and public transport for them to get to it. have singles events too. speed dating is stressful.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

just got to have free fun things for people to and public transport for them to get to it. have singles events too. speed dating is stressful.

I think this is the way. People will work things out if they find each other attractive. The problem is that there's nothing to do and nowhere to go. Skip the dating event and just create some kind of gigantic fun event and invite shit ton of single people to it instead of doing the "feel like you're being interviewed at gunpoint" thing.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

State Run Speedrunning.

Countries need video games to be over with fast. Countries need stable gaming rigs. Countries need speedrunners. People aren't doing this enough because whippersnappers on their iBooks etc. The problem is real.

What if the state has a registry of single people, and invites about 100 of them – matched for age and other basic compatibility factors – to the same event on one night. They do speed-running, get through 50 gamws in a night, 2-3 minutes per video game. Then they give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to each person.

At the end of the night, people will have an average of at least a few (maybe 2-3, pessimistically) personal bests. But do it every Saturday of the summer, and you have 40+

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Sure, why not. I'm so lonely I want to die so I'll try anything

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

millions like you

[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Can this be hosted in a purpose-built facility shaped liked Stalin's spoon, and the event opening speech be something equating people to corn or wheat or rice and make it that all of us are mixed in the spoon and hail to the power of planned agriculture and whatnot?

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

At the end of the night, people will have an average of at least a few (maybe 2-3, pessimistically) potential matches. But do it every Saturday of the summer, and you have 40+

what will actually happen: the most attractive participants have nearly everyone's interest, some percentage of the participants never get any matches at all, and it's sorta ok-ish for the people in the middle.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Few things in life are egalitarian

[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Incel vibes quality men yada yada

[-] Cherufe@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Im in. When can we do it?

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