You mention this as being because of the digital era but what about that is any different than 25 years ago? If you don’t have time to spend a few hours a week pursing a hobby how are you going to have time to be in a relationship? The cost of pursing hobbies is a real concern for lower income people but how has that changed? How were you supposed to date a person if you lived in a social desert with no reliable transportation before?

Maybe I haven’t been clear with what I am saying because you are grossly misunderstanding my point.

I am saying when you have a problem you should try and improve yourself to address the problem vs blame society. For example if you can’t figure out how to program in python: you could read about it, watch educational videos, or take a course. Going onto a message board and complaining that python is impossible and stating we are in a programmer epidemic while not trying to learn it first is bad. We can make the acknowledgement that python can be hard for some people to learn but calling it impossible to learn without having put in the effort is useless

If I remember correctly most of the suggestions to account for that actually has elementary and middle schoolers start before high schoolers since high schoolers are the ones that need the most sleep while also struggling the most to go to sleep early

It is a pointless truism, and it is a numbers game which is why it’s so shocking people don’t see that!

So if one persons spends 1 hour a week with eligible women and the other person spends 10 hours a week with eligible women the second person is statistically much more likely to find a partner.

And if you spend only 1 hour a week with eligible women and instead of increasing that time you just decide to blame society that’s a you problem

There is also a difference between pretending to be interested in something to get laid and trying to find ways to do things you find interesting with other people

I have acknowledged it multiple times

It’s not the first thought, however when a person blames society for all their problems instead of making an effort to improve themselves that screams maga

Plenty of people struggle to date for a variety of reasons but the people out there calling not get laid the “male loneliness epidemic” are generally not the most normal people

Woodworking is a fun thing to do and a great conversation starter but also commonly done at home or at a shared work area that is all male

Rock climbing and plotting the violent takeover of the government has worked well for me however

How do you define “cool hobbies”

It’s not that they can easily find a partner if they meet a few requirements it’s that lacking those requirements makes dating much harder and if you are struggling to get a girlfriend and when trying to think of reasons why it’s been hard and all you think to do is blame society instead of focusing on self improvement that’s a problem

Anecdotal evidence counts for shit but I’ll give it anyway of my friends/coworkers who complain “I can never find a good woman” about 3/4 have no hobbies where they ever interact with women and the last 1/4 fit the “I can’t have a normal conversation with a woman without trying to sleep with her”

Society itself does suck and it has made in person hobbies much less common with the death of the third space, isolating people through technology, and just how much it cost to live but I have never met a person who is even moderately social that has a hobby where they interact with people of the opposite sex, and has platonic female friends that couldn’t get a date in less than a year if they were actively searching.

Introverts need love too but if they look at their list of problems and rank “society hates men” above “I never see women in a social setting” that alone is their biggest problem

The conflation is the problem but in my experience it is more people who are blaming the former when it is clearly the latter

Like if you walk around with a maga hat and tell women your body my choice and also complain you can’t find a nice women to settle down that is a skill issue

The idea that men are struggling to find friends is a real concern that should be addressed, people being unable to find sexual companionship because people of their desired sex don’t want to be around them due to their personal choices is something that can be made fun of.

Many women want a guy who is pro choice, can cook, is able to hold a conversation that’s not about sex, is capable of having platonic female friends, has hobbies, and has decent hygiene.

If that is not something you can attain, that’s fine and there are still women out there for you but that eliminates a large percentage so if you want to be picky on top of that you are going to have a problem

I am a chemical engineer, and they basically don’t want to hire anyone without 2-3 years of post graduate experience and even then the majority of jobs seem to want more than 5 years of post graduate experience. Every year I watch the amount of entry level jobs drop more and more as companies just don’t want to train people anymore

Do you live in Japan? Because your knowledge of this sounds to be like trying to talk to ChatGPT.

https://www.tmt.or.jp/safety/pdf/English.pdf

TS-mark is just one of the types of insurance you can get, you can also get other types of insurances without the inspection. The TS-mark still requires an annual fee to cover the insurance

It’s an annual insurance, it’s ¥2-5000 a year which is around $20.

So first the law isn’t real, I show that the law is real and then the claim is it is unenforced so next when I state that over 60% of residents in prefectures have liability insurance how are you going to move the goal posts next

You mean like how the house and senate are the ones who actually vote on the laws instead of direct democracy?

The concept that only the educated should vote is essentially the entire advantage of living in a republic. If the test was actually fairly made it would be fine, the real problem is it would be used to limit specific demographics from voting while not actually ensuring only the educated can vote

I lived in Japan for a few months

“All Bicycle Riders Must Enroll in Bicycle Liability Insurance in Tokyo (and some other prefectures in Japan)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government requires all bicycle riders (including children) to purchase Bicycle Liability Insurance in Tokyo.”

https://www.japanlivingguide.com/expatinfo/transportation/cycling-rules/

Cyclists also have a lot more rules and are required to have liability insurance in Japan