How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with?
from frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 08:51
https://lemmy.ml/post/34802243

He’s deleted the post now.

#nostupidquestions

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 08:59 next collapse

That can only mean, they’re married by now.

drolex@sopuli.xyz on 17 Aug 09:02 collapse

I’m writing this message 5 minutes after yours. They have 3 children now.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 17 Aug 09:42 next collapse

They have 20 grandkids by now. Lovely.

Valmond@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 10:11 collapse

Aaaand divorced.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 20:13 collapse

Writing this message from the OP and His Ex Memorial Community Center.

BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 21:17 collapse

Writing from Nepal, I think he reincarnated into my dog.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 18 Aug 10:08 collapse

I just got bitten by him. Ow.

phonics@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 10:50 collapse

Im writing this message 5 eons after yours. They repopulated the galaxy after the great filter.

slothrop@lemmy.ca on 17 Aug 09:53 next collapse

Pretty sure Dad was using his son as a proxy.

[deleted] on 17 Aug 09:56 next collapse
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ideonek@piefed.social on 17 Aug 10:01 next collapse

What make you think it's a real question?

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 17 Aug 11:14 collapse

What makes you think you’re real?

slothrop@lemmy.ca on 17 Aug 11:20 next collapse

What makes you think?

nomy@lemmy.zip on 17 Aug 11:44 next collapse

I am

Lembot_0004@discuss.online on 17 Aug 12:26 next collapse

Prove that!

667@lemmy.radio on 17 Aug 12:49 collapse

I’ll think about it.

witty_username@feddit.nl on 17 Aug 14:51 collapse

Therefore,

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 20 Aug 03:23 collapse
BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 21:18 collapse

What makes you?

Nemo@slrpnk.net on 17 Aug 11:40 next collapse

Descartes

joelfromaus@aussie.zone on 18 Aug 05:59 collapse

Gesundheit.

LadyButterfly@reddthat.com on 17 Aug 13:11 next collapse

Oh I know I’m a bot

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Aug 15:15 next collapse

I think… Uhhhh

ideonek@piefed.social on 17 Aug 18:23 collapse

I'm not. You're only consciousnesses in existence as far as you know.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 18 Aug 10:07 next collapse

It’s on Lemmy. Why would anyone lie on Lemmy

[deleted] on 18 Aug 13:50 collapse
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JackbyDev@programming.dev on 18 Aug 14:18 collapse

The AI that is so upset with it’s existential dread and existence that it kills everyone that had anything to do with creating it?

[deleted] on 18 Aug 14:23 collapse
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JackbyDev@programming.dev on 18 Aug 14:30 collapse

The point I’m making is that it’s silly to worry about because we can’t know what it would be like if it ever even came to be. It’s magical thinking.

[deleted] on 18 Aug 14:33 collapse
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sixty@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 14:43 next collapse

What makes you think it was fake?

[deleted] on 18 Aug 14:58 collapse
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 16:12 collapse

You’re assuming Original OP is from a western culture (well I didn’t see the original post so idk what exactly it said). In many Asian cultures, (consensual) arranged marriage is still a thing, particularly if the male side has a little bit of money (not necessarily “rich”, just own a house). There’s a lot of pressure to get married for some reason.

[deleted] on 18 Aug 16:27 collapse
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 16:34 collapse

There is no such thing as consensual arranged marriage.

There is.

Its basicially when families decide to introduce their children to each other and then pressure them to get married. It is technically consensual, although this “consent” is highly coerced due to social expectations and not truely freely given.

My parents got married that way. We are from mainland China.

Nor is it a thing in Asian cultures to have the woman being significantly older than the man, it’s the opposite.

You’re correct about this one, I didn’t read the original post, so if that’s the case, that’s very unusual and probably trolling.

[deleted] on 18 Aug 17:20 collapse
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Aug 17:23 collapse

Surely nobody lies on the internet

sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social on 17 Aug 10:28 next collapse

Could be a troll post and he was caught.

[deleted] on 17 Aug 11:51 next collapse
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edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 14:06 next collapse

Only deleted the post, not his account? If so, just message him and ask?

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml on 17 Aug 14:12 next collapse

I don’t remember the account name

CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 22:55 collapse

Account was also deleted. He probably was too embarrassed

RBWells@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 21:13 next collapse

I would like a follow up too!

Bricriu@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 21:13 next collapse

Explanation for those of us out of the loop?

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml on 17 Aug 21:17 collapse

There was a post a post in this comm on Tuesday.

Title something like ‘should I be embarassed’

Pic was a screenshot of text messages: Dad says, “You’re 22, you’ve never had a girlfriend, I’ve arranged a date for you on Friday [i.e. the 15th]. She’s 27. Pics to follow. No objections.” The son was posting asking advice should he go or not.

The post is now deleted. We wanna know how the date went.

Odo@lemmy.world on 17 Aug 22:08 next collapse

I found a federated copy of the post: m.lemmy.hostux.net/posts/l.hostux.net/c/…/386931

The post’s text is gone and OP’s account is deleted, but the username and full discussion are there.

dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Aug 06:27 collapse

I’m interested in how’d find such a thing as a “federated copy.” Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how’d you choose the right instance, luck?

Odo@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 09:53 next collapse

Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They’ve been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn’t delete it when OP scrapped the original. I’m a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.

Jayjader@jlai.lu on 18 Aug 09:54 next collapse

Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 18 Aug 14:17 collapse

It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.

dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Aug 18:24 collapse

Meaning it depends on the instance what they’d do? Seems like an obvious thing to test in testing phase

Edit spelling

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 18 Aug 20:23 collapse

You’re welcome to contribute testing effort. It’s an open source, community driven project.

dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Aug 05:28 collapse

Ye I know I just meant it’d seem like an obvious thing to test. But then again, there are a thousand such cases, probably

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 08:02 next collapse

Lmfao my older brother is about to get into an arranged marriage (as in the consensual type), this is much more tame in comparison.

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 12:20 collapse

I didn’t click on it and thought it was just a meme

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 02:14 next collapse

Post deleted. Account deleted. It can only mean one thing.

He finally got laid.

Goodbye hero. You will be missed.

Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml on 18 Aug 10:24 next collapse

Call it a tinfoil hat, but there have been a dozen posts centring around close parent offspring relationships, sharing a bed in a new flat with dad, dad buying an expensive edible flower bouquet for daughter, and many others. All of which seem to garner a lot of attention, then get deleted. These posts have been popping up over the year. Also worth mentioning, these post have soon been deleted when questioned on validity or its romantic connotations.

I had been collecting screenshots but the phone I was using is broken.

Anyway, with the deleted post in question, the response style of op seemed similar to other now deleted posts and I believe these posts are fake and are coming from one person/ai/org.

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Aug 12:03 next collapse

Not that surprising, people who venture onto the fediverse are typically more paranoid and will be much more likely than a redditor to delete posts. I’ve done that a lot, and I also notice a lot of comments getting deleted after like a month.

Its just how fediverse is.

JackbyDev@programming.dev on 18 Aug 14:08 next collapse

For what it’s worth, I was skeptical of it too, but I still gave it a real answer. A lot of times even if I think something is probably fake I still try to answer it genuinely. Unless I’m like >90% sure it’s fake.

ameancow@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 14:52 collapse

There are a lot of people and bots alike who use forums like this, Reddit mostly, but also smaller ones, to push narratives, to experiment in pushing narratives, to probe how easy it is to change perceptions among a select group of people about a topic.

It may not even be apparent what the goal is or why people or agencies are going through this much trouble, but there are complicated interconnections that a lot of people are trying to explore every day and set up intersecting narratives for tomorrow.

Not all of them are going to be at all successful, meaningful or even make sense. That’s part of it too, to see how people respond to almost random new narratives and topics becoming more prevalent.

Basically, trust no one, believe nothing. Go outside, make friends, kill your social media, be social in real life, exercise and stop spending money. If we all did this the bot-farms and corruption would dry out overnight.

Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml on 18 Aug 15:33 collapse

the intersecting narratives I had pick up on is ‘too close for comfort’ parenting eg helicopter parenting. infantilizing ones own parent and cloaked romantic jestures (akin to kissing a parent on the lips, something that is odd but can pass by as normal in some family structures). these narratives seem to be pushed with stories to paraphrase (badly) “I am my mothers IT guy also her carer, also I am trapped” this was to a holy incapable mother who would loose passwords and act with aggression and guilt. now this one i am somewhat hesitant to call out but it did fit the mo.

(gender indeterminate) “me and my dad have a new flat that he bought, we are sharing a bed” followed with a picture of a very modern but empty living space with a double bed. I believe this had been the first of the kind of post I seen, this one garnered alot of reaction comments and likes respectively and in the affirmative. i truly believe this one to be fake but for what reason someone would craft this post isn’t apparent.

A photo of a large and what one would assume, very expensive edible bouquet with a title and short comment from OP again to butcher the quite) “my dad bout me this edible bouquet” and the comment I can’t remember but the vibe was one of appreciation and gratitude.

most of the posts I had seen used a photo of an object or place but not all.

ameancow@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 20:09 collapse

Sounds to me like just basic incest kinkposting.

The bottom-tier of all online psyops is just kink-posting by teenage guys who want to try to normalize whatever weird shit they’re getting off on. “My 18 year old sister is staying with me for a family gathering and we have to share a bed, is this normal?” “People say I’m way too close to my Llama because we tongue kiss and share a bedroom, but I think it’s cute and innocent!” “My wife’s best friend wants to sleep between us because convoluted and completely unrealistic reasons I’m going to gloss over, Am I overreacting?”

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world on 18 Aug 19:48 next collapse

It was fake. Obvious from how the texts were structured. It was also from a brand new account.

I thought Lemmy would be better than reddit for spotting clearly fake shit, but pretty much everyone in the comments bought it hook, line, and sinker.

MBech@feddit.dk on 18 Aug 20:33 collapse

Your average person is pretty god damn gullible, and while most on Lemmy think they’re smarter than the average person, they’re not.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 18 Aug 20:48 collapse

Except for me, obviously

KissMeNow@lemmynsfw.com on 18 Aug 20:48 collapse

Hit me up on telegram:@Rossy1_1