mrluckysmith

I have had similar experience in my personal life in multiple relationships, including my wife. I've learned to never complain about anything in front of women and just white knuckle whatever difficulties I get at any given moment. This approach helped me secure more respect and better overall response from women. Showing weakness triggers the disgust response that you mentioned. It could be masked under pity, but you lose respect quickly. Working through my issues with male friends is more productive for me.

The only woman who actually cares for me has been my mother.

“The platform” sucks for the following reasons: * cross-platform differences * hard to style and make it seamless with your existing UI * not extendible with custom functionality

Could be a right choice in some cases, but it never was in my personal experience.

Oligarchs can always opt out and they do opt out. It's almost the definition of having power: rules for thee but not for me.

Personal space intrusion doesn't equal monitoring public roads.

I think Flock could be very useful to track actual criminals. However, any queries to the system must require a warrant and publicly available track record.