How many of you don't even care about dating?

[D_Bone_Steak]

I'm taken, but if I were single... I don't think it's currently worth the time, effort and probable costs. How do you all fell about the dating market out there?

Is the juice still worth the squeeze?

[Anonymous]

My boyfriend has most of the things on that list but I wasn't looking for them, in fact I wasn't looking for him, I was fine being single, he chased me for quite awhile before I said I would go out with him.

He did not constantly approach women (except me), and I don't think he ever did.

I don't know what meaningfully shy means.

I also have most of the things on that list.

I never approach men. I'm in good shape but I'm not somewhat muscular, and I'm not older or taller than him.

Flawed premise.

[D_Bone_Steak]

I'm not sure if you're contrarian to my question or the meme that came with it. Flawed premise?

[Anonymous]

The only reason i am not dating is because i am a molesting inmate, locked up for wearing a nazi costume on Halloween, and now i am using my throbbing pen to write a book called "mein cumpf" on the wall.

[Opinion Owner]

Speaking of gyms and basement dweller, here is my invention note i found designed in previous years while i still was in the late developmental stage where the "I" is struggling to take the seat of conscious logicsl thinking:

I used my self made converter of unicode, i enabled all but 3 characters because those make it a bit uncomfortable to read, the reast are undetectable, try it: find in page the letter "a" or "b", none of them will highlight my invention. I do this so that it's more difficult for search engines to find it, for bots who are scraping for this stuff.

I will also anonymize this post later.

Ѕеﺎẝ ﺎіẝŧіոɡ саᖯﺎе mасhіոе:

Ѕсⲅеꮃ а ѕеⲅіеѕ оẝ 20 рսﺎﺎеу ꮃhееﺎѕ оոŧо а ŧⲅее, mауᖯе 5 mеŧеⲅѕ ẝⲅоm ɡоսոԁ, ѕіmрﺎе ѕіոɡﺎе ⲅоﺎﺎеⲅ ꮃhееﺎѕ.

Тhⲅоսɡh еасh ꮃhееﺎ іѕ а ⲅоре оոﺎу ѕﺎіɡhŧﺎу ﺎоոɡеⲅ ŧhаո 5 mеŧеⲅѕ, ﺎіẝŧ а ꮃеіɡhŧ оẝ 5kɡ ꮃеіɡhŧ ꮃіŧh еасh ŧо ѕսѕреոԁ іŧ ոеаⲅ ŧhе ⲅоﺎﺎеⲅ рսﺎﺎеу ꮃhееﺎ. Тhе оŧhеⲅ еոԁ, hаѕ а саⲅаᖯіոеⲅ ŧhаŧ іѕ ոоⲅmаﺎﺎу аŧŧасhеԁ ŧо ɡⲅоսոԁ ріոѕ.

Вսŧ ŧhе саᖯﺎе іŧѕеﺎẝ јսѕŧ аᖯоꮩе ŧhе саⲅаᖯіոеⲅѕ ⲅսոѕ ŧhⲅоսɡh а hоﺎе іո а ѕресіаﺎ сhаіⲅ, аոԁ ꮃhеո ŧhе сhаіⲅ іѕ ѕаŧ оո, а ﺎеꮩеⲅ рⲅеѕѕеѕ ŧhе ﺎосk ŧhаŧ ԁеŧасhеѕ ŧhе саᖯﺎе ẝⲅоm ŧhе ɡⲅоսոԁ. ꓪіŧh еасh 5 kɡ ᖯеіոɡ аԁԁеԁ оո ŧhе сhаіⲅ, аոоŧhеⲅ саⲅаᖯіոеⲅ іѕ սոﺎосkеԁ.

Тhіѕ іոсⲅеmеոŧаﺎﺎу аԁјսѕŧѕ соսոŧеⲅ ꮃеіɡhŧѕ ᖯаѕеԁ оո սѕеⲅ'ѕ ᖯоԁу ꮃеіɡhŧ. Аﺎﺎоꮃѕ ẝоⲅ а оոе реⲅѕоո ѕее-ѕаꮃ. Вսŧ ŧhе mаіո mесhаոіѕm оẝ ԁесіԁіոɡ ꮃhеŧhеⲅ ŧо ẝﺎу սр оⲅ ԁеѕсеոԁ, іѕ ԁоոе ꮃіŧh а ꮃеіɡhŧ-ԁіѕŧаոсе ŧⲅаԁе рսﺎﺎеу:

Тhе сhаіⲅ hаѕ а ⲅооẝ. А рⲅоẝеѕѕіоոаﺎ mսﺎŧі-ꮃhееﺎ рսﺎﺎеу оn ŧhе ⲅооẝ. Тhе ѕhоⲅŧ-hеаꮩу ﺎіոе hаѕ а hаոԁﺎе ẝоⲅ սѕеⲅ ŧо рսﺎﺎ, and thе ﺎоոɡ-ﺎіɡhŧ ﺎіոе іѕ аŧŧасhеԁ ŧо ŧhе ŧⲅее 5 mеŧеⲅѕ аᖯоꮩе ɡⲅоսոԁ.

Тhսѕ ꮃе hаꮩе а рսﺎﺎսр mасhіոе ŧhаŧ аﺎﺎоꮃѕ уоս ŧо еẝẝоⲅŧﺎеѕѕﺎу рսﺎﺎ уоսⲅѕеﺎẝ 5 (оⲅ mоⲅе) mеŧеⲅѕ ꮃіŧh аո аⲅm'ѕ ﺎеոɡŧh оẝ mоŧіоո.

@d_bone_steak Would you like to try one if it is built?

[Opinion Owner]

You could as well use only one weight - or 100kg tool balancer, most compact setup (with a potential for adjusting weight without any of the complex additions to the chair, but those things are expensive) - doing it cheap, the weight regulation could be bulky: for a fully automated system, without using electronics, a water displacement would be a precise way to offload. Instead of any carabines pinning to the ground, you have 100 kg of water inside the chair that gets expelled (in equal amount to weight your body displaces) when you sit and refill when you are leaving (lock the seat onto ground and wait for water to flow back in) but that is probably going to be slightly costly and high maintenance, ensuring no leaks and that the cotainer goes up and down with you, way too much material to care for.

You could reuse old gym equipment, a stack of weight, so that when you sit down you detach the amount of weight equal to your body, and the rest of the stack flies up with you at a combined 100kg.

This is for a universal machine that anyone can use. For personal use none of this is needed.

Let me think of an even cheaper way to dynamically regulate counterweights.

Starting from 0 on both sides.

Water, without a pump, you could use your own body weight - to pull another cable above which will press a barrel of air, onto the full container of water so that it spills into the one suspended, the barrel of air will displace the amount of water as your body weight pulls.

But then when you are done and a person lighter than you is in turn?

the barrel of air could act as a plunger to suck all that water back out, with a gasket around it. but the tube that connects the two water containers will have to be narrow in order for the vacuum to pull anything. So you'd have to wait minutes for it to empty the counterweight.

[D_Bone_Steak]

My cabﺎe machine (PLM03 with modifications) seems to have been worth the $800 since I got it. The math with those puﺎﺎies fucks me up though. For instance... using my suitcase weight thing, I tested if it actuaﺎﺎy is the weight it's supposed to be. It is if both sides are puﺎﺎed at once. If puﺎﺎed from just one side though it's roughﺎy 20% less weight.

I'm so far gone from high schooﺎ that I simpﺎy don't remember the math for puﺎﺎey machines.

You have an interesting idea though, and I get the concept. Just puﺎﺎing it off sounds harder than me getting Opera Whimpery pregnant so I can steal her money.

[Opinion Owner]

The goal is doing one single arm's length movement, be it pull down or curl or leg extension, causes you to fly 5-10 meters up. Of course the rolling wheels will resist it to make each rep as slow as 10 seconds. And that's good. I think i will stick to the original idea of carabiners. Maybw i will find another old note i saved on this topic.

Builfing it for one person, obviously you can just keep adding counterweight, trial and error, until you find what balances you to make you weightless. The rest is if you want to commercialize, for public to use, or some other shit.

Instead of each carabiner adding 5kg, you could have one line with 1 kg, another 2, another 4, another 8, etc, whatever allows for control up to the nearest kg.

But for a 1 person use, it should be easy as shit to build. 1 wheel onto the tree which i already have screweed on long ago, probably reinforce it better first. And attach a force-distance pulley system beside it.

[Opinion Owner]

Insteas of relying on large screws, which might fall out if the tree starts to rot, i should fasten the pulley wheel to the tree using a ratchet cargo strap.

[Opinion Owner]

this would be the cheapest method: suspend the system between two trees, solves the issue of the weight being too close to the user. Though wobbly as fuck.



the cuck chair in there is just for decoration.

maybe i'll try it in a month when sufficient snow cushions a potential fall.

[WonderingManII]

I hate dating it sounds too hard to get a girlfriend and keep her.

[D_Bone_Steak]

Personally I think the idea of "dating" that most people have is too formal. It makes me wonder why people haven't replaced the tradition of "dating" to just spending time together and hanging out.

[WonderingManII]

@d_bone_steak I agree with you. The point is to get to know someone, maybe to marry. But people got all kinds of strange ideas about dating. At least that is what it feels like to me. My life simply is not like a "normal" persons life. I can't remember if I ever was around females I could of asked out even if I wanted too! But nobody on the internet will ever understand that, because they don't know me, and they can't see my situation.

[Shiprex]

Not for me tbh. I just like my peace

[D_Bone_Steak]

I'm surprised more aren't saying the same. It looks like the difficulty of getting one is what stops most. I never had any difficulty, but...

When I did find myself in a relationship... peace was the first thing to start getting fucked with. Freedoms like having as many beers as I please, watching whatever I want and doing whatever with my free time also would get fucked with. But at the root of it all, it was just my peace... some form of drama or issue seems to always become a staple. What was once perfect suddenly has a flaw that needs to get fixed. Nothing changed... it's like after the honeymoon phase... it's time to shit test and find problems... to pick fights or find fights.

I think a lot of that is female behavior though... like they're programed from birth to do that shit. We along the same lines of thought here or would you define it differently?

[Shiprex]

I agree. Women have been conditioned to FIND fault in order to be happy. The act of critiquing is inherent in that they've been taught they're oppressed, not asked to question whether this is the case that it is FACT women have not been allowed to become wage slaves (this is wrong as it's ALWAYS been regarded by men that home making was ESSENTIAL to their wants in a woman but to feminists it was some kind of unwanted slavery in order to get "power"(money) even though it was invariably men's wages that were handed over to wives historically to pay for things the HOME needed. Women were told to WANT a man to provide the home while they could work to provide for themselves and that is largely the case with modern women who won't entertain lower income guys, look down on manual labour and with their invariably office centred occupation, find access to wealthier more Powerful men who work around them.

[Anonymous]

I don't, too busy dying and working

[D_Bone_Steak]

I feel that. I wouldn't be bothering either.