What the fuck is happening

There is a shortage of straight men in New York. Due to a shortage of male attendees, some dating events in NYC charged women $100 and men $0, yet attendance still ran 3:1.

The dating market is brutal. Elizabeth Bruch, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan analysed data from online dating. Here are some things she discovered… -Men’s desirability peaks at ages 40-50. But women’s desirability starts highest at age 18 and falls throughout their lifespan. -Both men and women pursue partners who are on average about 25% more desirable than themselves. -Women’s prospects dim as they achieve the highest level of education. -Almost no one messages users less desirable than they are. Everyone’s understanding of their place in the hierarchy is very accurate. -Men experience lower reply rates when they write more positively worded messages.

Smart guys finish last. “Adolescents with an IQ of 130 were 3-5 times less likely to have had intercourse than those with average IQ. Boys with an IQ that would qualify for intellectual disability (60) were still more likely to have had sex than those with a very high IQ (130)” — Ideas Sleep Furiously/Halpern et al., 2000.

Who are Uber drivers always on the phone to

You don’t perform on 6 hours sleep. One of the most important sleep studies ever ran a brutally simple test. People slept 4h, 6h, or 8h per night for 14 days. No all-nighters. Just “normal” short sleep. Cognitive performance was tested every two hours. By day 14: 6 hours = same impairment as being awake for 24 hours. 4 hours = same as 48 hours awake. But here’s the scary part – after day 3–4, people stopped feeling more tired. Reaction times kept slowing, attention lapses kept increasing, working memory kept degrading. But subjective sleepiness flatlined. Your brain keeps getting worse, your ability to notice it breaks. This is why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable – you adapt to feeling tired but you do not adapt to being cognitively impaired. The participants would’ve told you they felt “okay”. Objectively, they were functioning like they’d pulled an all-nighter. If you’re sleeping 6 hours and think you’re fine, you’ve probably lost calibration. Sleep need is biological. Most adults need 7–9 hours. “I only need 6” usually means “I forgot what normal feels like.” Feeling fine is not evidence you’re functioning well. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just impair your brain – it blinds you to the impairment. — h/t @aakashgupta

Men are 4x more likely to be a millionaire than have a 6 pack. % of US men with a visible six-pack: ~2.5% % of US men who are millionaires: ~12%

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Unreal

This is going to create such a shitstorm when it happens

The 15 Most Attractive Hobbies To Women. 1. Reading 2. Foreign Languages 3. Playing Instrument 4. Cooking 5. Woodworking 6. Painting 7. Writing 8. Gardening 9. Swimming 10. Photography 11. Astronomy 12. Hiking 13. Archery 14. Blacksmithing 15. Travelling

Women are winning the job market. “Of the 369,000 jobs the US Labor Dept says were created since last year, nearly all – 348,000 of them – went to women. Only 21,000 went to men. That means 94% of the net employment growth in the US went to women. Ninety four percent!” — @TheTinMenBlog