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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

waiting in your polycule performance review zoom call and a representative from Polycule Relations hops on out of the blue like this layoff-stare and you realize you're getting caught in the polyoffs

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

polycule standup where everyone sits in a circle and has to say who they had their tongue in yesterday and who they’re having their tongue in today

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
we just, um, dumped the 
  person that tops in 
   that way, but now 
you have been promoted! 
    you are now one 
 of my elite switches!

mystery-emote speech-r
bottom-speak mystery-emote you-have-been-promoted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

this sounds way better than actual standups

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

is that Anne Hathaway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

haven't clinched a polyoff berth but am in the running for wild card

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

after a very mid-tier first date, I offered to make afternoon tea and dumplings at mine for a second date. they countered with a meet-the-entire-polycule / panel interview at theirs, complete with an outline of who would be hostile and who I needed to win over.

I withdrew my application, so to speak.

I don't even want to know why people are like this anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The "Job Interview-ification" of dates has really turned me off of dating. At least those sorts of people who show up with a clipboard and checklist are easy enough to spot.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

The "Job Interview-ification" of dates has really turned me off of dating.

doomer I just want someone I can stay late up night with watching silly things and having snacks

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tech bros must be destroyed for society to advance

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

god yes.

how the fuck are the most insufferable people basically driving this "counter-cultural movement" that both is and isn't one

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Less counter culture, so much as anti culture. They’re actively trying to devalue and replace culture (see ai) and replace human interaction and culture forming behaviour at every step with internet services and automated systems. It’s disgusting and alienating and they seem to like it?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

anti-culture.

i like it. i mean i hate it but i like the term it fits well

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

im in my third round of interviews for this polycule with great benefits and flexible hours. and its work from home!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh

Ah

Ugh

Just wanna live in a big house with people ~~I find cool and attractive~~ who'll play an entire Pathfinder adventure path with me

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

this is something i so actively don't want to think about that i'm preferring to experience the pain in the hangnail on my thumb. do you understand how fucked up someone's post has to be to make me prefer to feel acute pain?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

The husband who had to go to therapy and start taking antidepressants to deal with his wife's love life is really not making a good case for polyamory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

agile scrum pol-- please stop. please stop oh my god keep workplace dynamics away from home dynamics

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

S tier title

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

How are these people real?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

B

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We're making acronyms!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

What in the hell am I reading

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

To be fair to the hosts of Multiamory, it was a stupid source of inspiration but they renamed it to RADAR pretty quickly (I forget the acronym lol). A big part of the idea is scheduling regular check-ins with people so that you can discuss anything you need to in a format that's comfortable, instead of "hey, can we talk?" whenever something is wrong, or worse - bottling it up and holding grudges or bringing it out as ammo in an unrelated argument.

Their politics really aren't that bad - generally a vague libby anti-capitalist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Lmao I'm actually certified in scrum. AMA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people are married and have primary partnerships. They’re coming to it from the opening of a monogamous relationship.

Oh boy this won't end well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Rarely ends well unless both people were already interested

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This wasn't as bad as I was expecting. The way some of them have their relationships set up seems decent, but the interviewees are filled with liberal brain worms. In typical NY Times fashion, they don't address the headline of the article and fail to actually do anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think u nuked the link

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

what in the goddamn…

Death, as always, to Amerika. I can think of no other place on earth where this can happen