I also had one of the worst dates in my life last month.

She was a lawyer working for big pharma. I jokingly said she couldn't wait to jump at the chance defending the Sackler family. She actually DID defend the Sackler family! Saying that we owe capitalism for all medical advances. "There has to be profit! Because then there wouldn't be any cures! Undercutting that profit just undercuts medicine!"

("oooooh shit")
-internal thoughts

"You mean like Jonas Salk?"

She recognized the name, but didn't know about turning down monetary gain for the vaccine. "But there HAD to be profit though. Why else would you conduct R&D?"

"...to cure Polio?"
(blank stare)
"...save millions of children's lives?"
(blank stare)
"Bring an endless to massive amounts of human suffering?"

It was like watching someone's brain lock up.

I should have spotted the earlier warning sign when she complained about Hinge displaying political affiliation. "I feel like so many people are quick to judge you for your political beliefs!"

3rd red flag: complaining about Jimmy Kimmel "getting political"

It was only the 2nd date in my life I got up and left early.

"You're leaving? What, are you THAT big a Jimmy Kimmel fan?"

Comrade Nominal taking one for the team. Bless, you brother.

Marx before ho's

That dirty capitalist just wanted a Hot Karl

I once went onba date with a lawyer. She was just boring. No spark

I used to have a strict no lawyers policy. They are indeed boring and can ultimately only connect with other lawyers.

Should have remembered that before I went on that date.

and in other dating news, a sort of ex I hadn't talked to in years started drunk texting me again. An unprompted story of how she briefly went into sex work during COVID, and one of her paying customers was Ken Cheseboro. He told her that she should marry her abusive controlling ex because "no one would want her anyway once she hits the wall in a few years".

I suspect this Ken fellow might not be a good person!

The right has such a hate boner for Jimmy Kimmel. They call him a hypocrite because he doesn't do comedy like he did on The Man Show. They can't fathom that a man might change over two decades. They'll call him racist for the blackface, yet they enjoyed those skits and wished he still did comedy like that.