Kagi looks like it’s part of the problem. It exactly looks like that 2000s meme that showed a dystopian future where Comcast sells websites like cable channels.

https://kagi.com/pricing

I wish there was a search engine that only searched text based websites or at least sites that don’t have ads. 90s internet was amazing. Tons of websites ran by average people passionate about their interests, giving oral histories about things. Our computers were screaming, trying to tell us not to lose sight of what it was meant for.

Normal people never avoided tech. TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Nintendos, Atari 2600s, Colecovisions, Selectavisions, DirectTV, WebTV, Tivo, Cell phones, beepers, the list goes on and on. If you’re using a smartphone to read this, you’re using a glorified Blackberry. This stuff was what Dr. Stephen Falken from War Games and the real life people the character was based on were fleeing to the woods from in the 20th Century.

If you call websites “apps” and download them from a store, you’re not using tech. I don’t view my Smartphone as “tech” anymore than a VCR was “tech”. Smartphones are just a crappier version of landlines and computers. They try to be both and they’re not good at either.

everyone except me is hiding the truth about what they really feel, but I know the truth!

This is a strawman.

in the face of everyone correcting you

The Fediverse isn’t everyone. Everyone on the Internet is not even remotely normal and the Fediverse is pure distilled weird from the weirdest people on Earth. Yeah, I’m sticking to my guns.

You think you’ve found a gotcha, but you’re still just outing yourself.

You’re the one going for the gotchas and the dunks. I’m just defending myself. You know I don’t need therapy. You’re just insulting me.

If I believed you capable of long term romantic relationships, I’d pity your spouse.

I pity the hetero cis male who truly believes that his wife always loved him for his intelligence when she dumps him because his doctor can’t prescribe him Viagra and Cialis. Nobody’s hiding shit. We all know the truth. There’s a good reason why these meds are important and covered by insurance. Impotence destroys relationships and whole families.

Man, this thread perfectly illustrates why women despise “intelligence”. You try to tell an intelligent cis hetero man it’s 10pm and he tells you you’re a fucking moron who needs therapy because ackchyually it’s 10am in Banda Aceh and 6pm in London and 2100 hours in Milan. Nobody wants to be around that much less have it jizz in them.

What about blind people?

If you’re a cis hetero male looking for a cis hetero woman like the person in the OP meme, and you’re looking to attract blind demisexuals, then you’re not going to be asking why women aren’t attracted to intelligence in the first place.

I’m being pragmatic and you’re all throwing spherical cows at me.

No, they will.

No they won’t.

You unilaterally claimed that nobody is attracted to intelligence, that everyone is just pretending and they’re really only attracted to physical appearance. Even as hyperbole, that is a wildly unhealthy thing to believe, and you absolutely called yourself out.

What’s wildly unhealthy is loving the person you’re fucking in the same way you love your mother and sister and grandma. I’m not the one calling myself out.

You’re not even trying to understand why everyone disagrees with you.

That’s fine. They’re not even trying to understand what I was saying.

In fact, you’re refusing to even acknowledge that you could be mistaken in your premise that people aren’t attracted to intelligence, and instead lash out. That is why you need therapy.

Are you being serious? Or just attacking me like the other person? Because I’m pretty sure if I go to a therapist and I show them these exchanges, they’re not going to say that I’m the one who needs therapy.

Oh man, I am so sorry I told everyone here that they’re physically attractive. Okay. You win. I’m insane. You’re right. You’re all ugly monsters who will never find love.

Nobody is attracted to intelligence. Don’t say you are because you aren’t. You’re attracted to the body. And whoever you’re with is attracted to your body. That’s romantic love. If you’re upset that people don’t love you for your brain, you suffer from body dysmorphia.

It’s just a jovial jab at us Internet people in general. I’m big myself. Also, it’s meant to remind people of the weight we all carry around on our spines. People kind of lose their minds and get all moral about boobs. 16 pounds of muscle or man fat on top of a spine is perfectly cromulent but 16 pounds of boob, real or fake, is evil and will destroy it.

I made the breast forms because I’m a crossdresser.

The average dude on the Fediverse probably carries around twice as much weight in moobs.

Seriously though, I’ve made myself 4000cc breast forms and they weigh about 8 pounds each. Carrying them around is like carrying a weighted vest.

Okay. What the fuck is up with all these corn posts?