When more of my friends lived a walkable distance from me it was more the pub round the corner a few times a week. Now people have dispersed a bit, things need to be a bit more scheduled and so we’re less likely to fall into a default place

Coffee shops sadly don’t tend to be open late so they’re not really gonna work as the default place to casually meet mates for anyone in a 9-5 job IMO.

Hopefully I can illuminate

Team sport fandom traditionally trends with locality. You grow up with going to the local football stadium on the weekend as one of the options for how you spend your time. Your mates have the same choices, so even if you never pick it, you’re gonna hear about it at the very least

If you spend your time with a team, you get to know the players (which is kinda parasocial in most instances, ngl) and in many cases watch them grow over the years into incredible athletes.

Naturally, people end up proud of the people they support, doing well. It’s part of the human condition

IIRC most of the world relies on ground fault protection to protect against failure which is why we use ground pins, in Japan they detect short circuits which is roughly equivalent in safety.

I’m not sure why or how, but I remember from when I looked it up when I was out there last year that was the explanation I found

Edit: I’d love to be corrected by whoever downvoted

G, you have to try really quite hard to electrocute yourself

I love how light is last on the list

Absolutely no idea what the current set is called, I’m afraid. I’ve been in my current relationship for over a decade

One of my mates was telling me the other week he is getting a lot of luck with one where you match and then immediately set up an IRL date without directly talking. I don’t remember the name though, sorry

Well if we’re going to unnecessarily inconvenience a group of people, I think a national 5mph limit would have a better effect

Someone drunk enough to tell a truth that they wouldn’t otherwise have done so, is probably going to have a hard time tracing back down any train of thought more than a couple of hops in my experience.

And that’s if you can convince them to do that at all.

If you’re looking to verify something you think you already know, maybe slightly better chances

Of course, YMMV and it’s worth saying you really shouldn’t try to manufacture this scenario with the purpose of finding something out, that’s probably a line crossed for most people

Habits are hard to break.

I’m predominantly here because my habit was tied to a 3rd party app that stopped working with the API changes.

I’m still here because it’s good, but it was the habit being broken that pushed me here in the first place.

It can be, but the problem with getting a truth from someone drunk, is that a drunk person is also an unreliable narrator.

Hard to tell when you’re actually hearing a truth or just alcohol induced nonsense

Been in a relationship for quite a while so this is 2nd hand knowledge, but you wanna avoid any app that’s been around for more than 2-3 years.

At the beginning the apps need to get a reputation for successfully hooking people up and they’re usually not urgently searching for money thanks to venture capitalism. After that point though they need to grow and profit.

You know what’s bad for user growth in a dating app? Successfully matching people into a long term relationship; those users may never return.

The end result is what I hear tinder is these days: a siphon into the bank accounts of single people that will do everything it can to avoid making them not single.

Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.

There’s loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.

I sometimes watch sports I’ve barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.

Anyone else randomly think of Joe Cartoon for the first time in a very long time?

Virus looking for a new host.

This is legitimately it. The same reason corporations often pay for Linux (e.g. RHEL)—the people in charge want to be able to pick up a phone and harass someone until they fix their problem. They simply can’t fathom any alternative approach to managing dependencies.