On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness

Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by robocat on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:27PM (#27043103)

Depression and anxiety usually reduce libido.

Edit: Also an unhappy relationship often can lead to poor sex, depression, and anxiety.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:36PM (#27043203)

Sounds like we need to address depression and anxiety with something other than drugs.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by supernovae on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:22PM (#27043602)

Shorter work weeks, universal healthcare, affordable housing, open borders, freedom to travel, less consumerism, more time for friends/family...

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by robocat on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:04PM (#27043955)

I thought countries that have most of those things seem to have as many problems with depression and anxiety?

And countries without those things perhaps don't?

Which are the correlations that actually matter?

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by supernovae on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:07PM (#27051726)

nah... go look up quality of life ratings and you can see these countries do great.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by tomp on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:11PM (#27044484)

I'm pretty sure that universal healthcare isn't compatible with open borders. Budgets aren't infinite.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by supernovae on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:06PM (#27051700)

Why do people assume open borders means freeloaders vs freedom?

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by tomp on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:45PM (#27053125)

As long as your country is offering something that 90% of Earth’s population lacks (access to high-quality free healthcare which is what people usually mean as “universal”) then, yes, you’re going to attract a lot of freeloaders.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by supernovae on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:51PM (#27068295)

No, no you won't. You will attract people who are committed to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by jquery on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:39PM (#27101360)

I wish I could believe this. Seems more like wishful thinking along the lines of America’s hubris that it could “bring democracy” to the Middle East.

There’s nothing magic about soil. You need to give time for waves of immigrants to integrate, or it leads to backlash and horrible people like Trump getting elected.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by prestigious on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:08PM (#27045747)

Open borders = unaffordable housing, no universal borders, less time for friends and family

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by jquery on Sunday May 09, 2021 @08:40PM (#27101367)

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by lr4444lr on Saturday May 08, 2021 @09:44AM (#27087062)

What does open borders have to do with the other things?

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by proxyon on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:43PM (#27044705)

> open borders

No thanks. Feel free to go conduct extreme social experiments with your own life, not mine.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:33AM (#27047909)

I wouldn’t call it extreme, as it has been done before. In the US, for example, borders were completely open for the first hundred years until anti-Chinese racism led to the passage of the Page Act in 1875.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by krrrh on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:33PM (#27044186)

Or maybe drugs that lead to insight instead of away from it.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by CRConrad on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:08PM (#27052619)

Also, you need to address birth control with something other than drugs.

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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by thrower123 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:06PM (#27045739)

Lack of sex causes depression and anxiety. It's a vicious circle.

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