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Dating is bullshit, online dating is bullshit squared. It's like this game where you have to carefully scrutinize the other person while hiding your own flaws and not letting on that you are carefully scrutinizing them. It's stressful in the way job interviews are stressful.

I only got married because I knew my wife really well -- for decades beforehand -- and so our relationship benefits from a sort of Lindy effect.