Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/20/dating-site-okcupid-lets-you-f.html
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Please indicate your match preferences:
Republican
Human
Accepts scientific consensus on climate change
Denies scientific consensus on climate change
Ketchup on hot dogs
No ketchup on hot dogs
One space after period
Two spaces after period
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Where’s the filter for those of us who are already married, and/or don’t use OKCupid? Like, I need this filtering preference for daily life in general.
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We’re made for each other! But one more question: Is a hot dog a sandwich?
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I defer to the ruling of Judge John Hodgman on the issue:
Hot dogs didn’t come through the Earl of Sandwich. It’s a piece of street food: It did not begin as a sandwich, it was a sausage. It was added on a bun later, because before, people would eat hot dogs with their white gloves at the St. Louis World’s Fair, which is gross.
I would also add that there is an entire franchise called “Hot Dog on a Stick” which doesn’t even offer buns as an option, so the idea of a “hot dog” exists wholly independently of “things consumed between two slices of bread.”
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Is there a box to tick to filter out anti-vaxxers?
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And, once we settle that question; is chili a soup?
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What about chemtrails, lizard people, and the moon landing?
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you believe in the moon? the moon is just a figment of our collective imaginations!
/s
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That‘s what I‘m saying! are you single?
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This is sort of redundant. I already assume that people who self-identify as conservative are very likely Trumpist climate change deniers - at least in the US.I filtered them out during my time on OKCupid and other such sites.
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Sheesh. Yes, I recognize that in actuality Republicans are indeed human beings.
Horrible, horrible human beings.
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Back in the day when I checked out OKCupid, the easy filters were any mentions of God/church/prayer, photos with/of pickup truck or gun, selfies from recliners, creepy half-dressed bathroom mirror shots, and lack of humor in Q&A section (or inability to discern really stupid questions in Q&A section). Unfortunately in my area that left about .05% potential, and 75% of those had long since abandoned their profile.
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Well that’s something I guess. But I can’t help but wonder whether letting me rule out people who think interracial marriage is wrong or that women should be obligated to shave their legs might be equally or more important to me.
OkCupid changed their algorithm many years ago because it wanted you to feel like you had more matches. They devalued “mandatory” in the algorithm so there’s no longer any way to make something a dealbreaker question.
Basically, if something is owned by Match.com I won’t touch it. OkCupid was a great site back in the 2000s. Between the proliferation of smartphones and the changes that were made to the site, it just became another useless cesspit of dashed hopes.
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Pretty much the same people…
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Vegan
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