Dating Site OkCupid Adds A New Option That Allows Users To Filter Out Climate Change Deniers, Not Everyone Supports It
Dating site OkCupid has just introduced a new feature that’s supposed to let its users form even closer connections. After a 240% increase in environment-related keywords on people’s profiles (like, “global warming,” “Greta Thunberg” and “recycle”), the company introduced filters so everyone can get rid of climate change deniers when browsing potential partners.
According to Gizmodo, an overwhelming majority of OkCupid users really care about the climate. 97% of them believe that climate change is real, and 82% are concerned about it. Also, 90% of OkCupid users said they would correct their actions if they discovered they were harming the environment.
In general, OkCupid’s algorithms try to match people with similar interests and beliefs. So the way a user answers questions about climate change could determine who they match with. Even if they don’t turn on the denier filter.
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“Since your match percentage with someone shows how compatible you two are, if you are a climate change activist and they think climate change is fake news, your match percentage is going to decrease,” Michael Kaye, OKCupid’s Global Communication Manager, told Gizmodo. Since most people on the platform aren’t climate deniers, that means vocally caring about the climate crisis is helping people get laid.
This move reflects a shift in society’s take on the issue that has been happening for quite some time now. The Global Risks Report, published by the World Economic Forum, stated that, for the first time in its 15-year history, the top five risks facing the world are all linked to the climate crisis. These included extreme weather, climate action failure, natural disasters, biodiversity loss, and human-made environmental disasters.
But when it comes to these topics, not everyone sees eye-to-eye.
The announcement immediately ignited heated discussions
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Very good thing this. Also add an 'anti vaxxer' filter and 'votes for giant baby' filter (for our US friends). I would filter on those exactly as I filter on 'non-smoker', 'doesn't want children' and 'knows how a dishwasher works'. I mean, some people filter on HEIGHT for heaven's sake! HEIGHT! As if that is any indication for a good person and/or relationship. Having a fundamental distrust of science is a lot more important to know about than almost everything else people filter on on those apps.
Dating (online and offline) would be so much easier for me if I just knew someone's stance on science, religion, politics, etc. beforehand. I don't want to waste time on the willfully ignorant and right-wing.
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To those saying climate is always changing: yes, that is correct. But we're making it change a lot faster. That's the problem.
They say "climate is always changing" as if it changes by itself for no apparent reason. That's not correct. Climate is always changing because things are happening that cause it to change - precession of the Earth's rotational axis, solar cycles, volcanoes, etc. We can measure those things now. We know that the only thing that's happened in the past few centuries to account for the temperature increase is the CO2 from fossil fuels.
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Can I also get an "anti-vaxxer" & "flat-earther" one too!!! Oh...and I would really love one that filters out guys that answer the question of what do they do with "I'm a rapper"...do that and I'll upgrade to a premium subscription :)
The people saying it is fake are using a magazine cover as their explanation? Or that it's been happening for millions of years as an excuse. Seriously... They don't think it is at all concerning that we are the only species that releases tons of poisonous gasses into the atmosphere or that all coral reefs are dying because of this? This isn't normal. It is caused by humans and our lifestyle.
I don't get it either, how people can believe the Earth's climate just changes by itself for no apparent reason, but burning 20 billion tons of fossil fuel wouldn't have any effect.
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This was just for fun I think so no big deal. Flat earthers would be a fun one too. Or young earth people. Those can tell a lot about someone. How they view those two things can tell you how they view other things. Not saying anything bad either way , I'm just..saying.
There's an interesting youtube video where flat earthers are interviewed with scientists. The flat earthers actually sound like reasonable human beings. It's insane, of course, but interesting.
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In fact, I've just asked all the deniers on this post. I'll let you know if I get a direct answer (i.e. don't wait up).
Load More Replies... Also, to all people saying "whaahaaaah climate change is natural and always happened". Check this: https://xkcd.com/1732/ . Pay attention to the fact that temperature changed FOUR (4) degrees in TWENTYTHOUSAND (20.000) years and now MORE THEN ONE (> 1) degree in TWENTY (20) years. It is not the same as it has always been! Or as the title says: "[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before."
Add a filter for flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and Trump voters as well, and it's win-win for everyone.
Why not add a "I am dumb" slider, so that all climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, conspiracy theorticists, fudamental religions and their like can form their own pool?
Because people act like being stupid is somehow a secret and that the REAL issue is having it pointed out. It's like saying, "Sure the Emperor has no clothes and or tax dollars we're swindled out of him by a two-bit con-artist (TRUMP), but the REAL issue is that you pointed it out."
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If a Couple Disagrees on such a Major Issue then their Dating Life will not be Happy. This Benefits both Deniers and Agreers.
You want to know why climate change deniers are so set in their belief? Because climate change denial is a part of a much larger Conservative narrative - about how left-wing intellectuals are bad people who are trying to control the world by banning fossil fuels, destroying the "traditional" social structure by giving more power to women, promoting deviant sexual behaviour and drug use, killing babies, taking away our guns, and raising taxes and giving out money to buy votes. You can't have a reasonable argument about a belief that is (now) part of their self-identity.
It's because the Bible humpers WANT to ruin the earth because they just KNOW babby jeebus will come back for THEM, AND ONLY THEM! WE'LL SHOW THE LIBS WHEN THEY BURN IN HELL! Just another reason to not breed with, or date them.
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Should you be able to filter? Sure, but it should go both ways so that you are not actively exuding people because you don't agree with them.
It's not a matter of "agreement" though, it's an indication of anti-intellectualism (choosing to ignore established science).
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Someone said the climate is changing but it's not caused by humans. What a moron. Part of it is. A very large part. Do you think the gases your car makes just goes away? Uneducated idiots. And if they were educated and still fail to comprehend, they're plain brainless
It's funny how climate science deniers bring up those magazine covers about the earth cooling down. Because those actually demonstrate how science works. Some people make claims, others make different claims, and rather than just debating, they go off and collect more data. Over time, it becomes more and more clear which side is correct.
That’s nice. You know what I’d like? A matching site that wasn’t a scam on lonely people. I’d be really happy if OKCupid didn’t hide high matches from me. The woman I’m seeing now found me, but I could never see her profile without a direct link to it. We are 99% matches, so why the f**k did OKC never show them to me? That’s not the first time such a thing has happened. How many other high matches were hidden from me??
I noticed that a couple of Tweets that were posted below the article are from a user called "FollowYESHUAnotpoliticians." Of course, this religious zealot doesn't believe we are facing a climate crisis.
I beleve that there are certain people who should not be allowed to breed, such as those who promulgate junk science.
I think the term Global Warming is now redundant. Please use the term Climate Change when respectfully debating the very real issues we are currently facing.
Climate change deniers are the worst. We have one planet. We need to preserve the environment as much as possible. Climate change is the biggest crisis humanity has ever experienced. The generations that look back on us as they are dying are going to hate the big polluters and the climate change deniers that enable them. We all need to do our part. We all need to vote, take action, and hold polluters accountable as much as possible. We are killing off entire species of animals (many before we have even discovered them). That is the saddest fact imaginable. Yet I see so many misinformed people on here not caring. 97% of scientists agree that man-made climate change is happening. That is a huge consensus. If you disagree with that, you are pretty much willfully ignorant. If you can disprove 97% of scientists, go do it and get a Nobel Prize.
I don't see what the problem is as both sides of the issue will benefit from this type of filter.
The problem is that there are an almost unlimited number of things that could be used as a filter in this manner, but the chose a virtue signalling one. It's possible for people to like each other but have differences in opinion. They ONLY did this for the press, I guarantee it. It's the blatant pandering that's insufferable.
Load More Replies... I would never date a Climate Change denier. I am constantly trying to go Greener; reusable straws, efficient car that I'm trying to trade for a full electric, no bio kids... I even became "flexitarian" and stopped buying meat! I LOVE MEAT. If I'm putting in all this effort I don't need some dipshit who thinks:"Yeah but what if it turns out we cleaned up the air and water, stopped dumping garbage in the ocean/other countries and have cheap and renewable energy in a measurably better quality of life and we didn't HAVE to?" People like that are inherently selfish and will only be useful as soylent green. I wouldn't p**s on them if they were on fire
To deny science is to hinder science! It doesn't matter if you believe: 1) Free energy is being suppressed 2) A cure for Cancer is being withheld 3) AIDS (or any other disease) has been manufactured 4) Man never landed on the moon 5) Car companies are sitting on an engine that gets 200 mpg 6) Medical research can be as effective without the use of animals 7) HMO's are killing us 8) Man-made climate change is a myth 9) Vaccines are dangerous 10) Young earth creationism. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!
To disagree with climate change doesn't make me a f*cking moon landing denier nutbag.
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A difference in opinion is when I like R&B and my date likes Metal. Or when I think Tom Ellis is hot and my friend thinks he isn't. Dismissing science is not an opinion, so someone who does that, doesn't have a different opinion, they deny science and should be avoided at all cost.
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But... they don't have to be qualified? They just add an option to filter on it, people who use the app can decide what to do with that.
Load More Replies... Very good thing this. Also add an 'anti vaxxer' filter and 'votes for giant baby' filter (for our US friends). I would filter on those exactly as I filter on 'non-smoker', 'doesn't want children' and 'knows how a dishwasher works'. I mean, some people filter on HEIGHT for heaven's sake! HEIGHT! As if that is any indication for a good person and/or relationship. Having a fundamental distrust of science is a lot more important to know about than almost everything else people filter on on those apps.
Dating (online and offline) would be so much easier for me if I just knew someone's stance on science, religion, politics, etc. beforehand. I don't want to waste time on the willfully ignorant and right-wing.
Load More Replies... To those saying climate is always changing: yes, that is correct. But we're making it change a lot faster. That's the problem.
They say "climate is always changing" as if it changes by itself for no apparent reason. That's not correct. Climate is always changing because things are happening that cause it to change - precession of the Earth's rotational axis, solar cycles, volcanoes, etc. We can measure those things now. We know that the only thing that's happened in the past few centuries to account for the temperature increase is the CO2 from fossil fuels.
Load More Replies... Can I also get an "anti-vaxxer" & "flat-earther" one too!!! Oh...and I would really love one that filters out guys that answer the question of what do they do with "I'm a rapper"...do that and I'll upgrade to a premium subscription :)
The people saying it is fake are using a magazine cover as their explanation? Or that it's been happening for millions of years as an excuse. Seriously... They don't think it is at all concerning that we are the only species that releases tons of poisonous gasses into the atmosphere or that all coral reefs are dying because of this? This isn't normal. It is caused by humans and our lifestyle.
I don't get it either, how people can believe the Earth's climate just changes by itself for no apparent reason, but burning 20 billion tons of fossil fuel wouldn't have any effect.
Load More Replies... This was just for fun I think so no big deal. Flat earthers would be a fun one too. Or young earth people. Those can tell a lot about someone. How they view those two things can tell you how they view other things. Not saying anything bad either way , I'm just..saying.
There's an interesting youtube video where flat earthers are interviewed with scientists. The flat earthers actually sound like reasonable human beings. It's insane, of course, but interesting.
Load More Replies... In fact, I've just asked all the deniers on this post. I'll let you know if I get a direct answer (i.e. don't wait up).
Load More Replies... Also, to all people saying "whaahaaaah climate change is natural and always happened". Check this: https://xkcd.com/1732/ . Pay attention to the fact that temperature changed FOUR (4) degrees in TWENTYTHOUSAND (20.000) years and now MORE THEN ONE (> 1) degree in TWENTY (20) years. It is not the same as it has always been! Or as the title says: "[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car's temperature has changed before."
Add a filter for flat earthers, anti-vaxxers and Trump voters as well, and it's win-win for everyone.
Why not add a "I am dumb" slider, so that all climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, conspiracy theorticists, fudamental religions and their like can form their own pool?
Because people act like being stupid is somehow a secret and that the REAL issue is having it pointed out. It's like saying, "Sure the Emperor has no clothes and or tax dollars we're swindled out of him by a two-bit con-artist (TRUMP), but the REAL issue is that you pointed it out."
Load More Replies... If a Couple Disagrees on such a Major Issue then their Dating Life will not be Happy. This Benefits both Deniers and Agreers.
You want to know why climate change deniers are so set in their belief? Because climate change denial is a part of a much larger Conservative narrative - about how left-wing intellectuals are bad people who are trying to control the world by banning fossil fuels, destroying the "traditional" social structure by giving more power to women, promoting deviant sexual behaviour and drug use, killing babies, taking away our guns, and raising taxes and giving out money to buy votes. You can't have a reasonable argument about a belief that is (now) part of their self-identity.
It's because the Bible humpers WANT to ruin the earth because they just KNOW babby jeebus will come back for THEM, AND ONLY THEM! WE'LL SHOW THE LIBS WHEN THEY BURN IN HELL! Just another reason to not breed with, or date them.
Load More Replies... Should you be able to filter? Sure, but it should go both ways so that you are not actively exuding people because you don't agree with them.
It's not a matter of "agreement" though, it's an indication of anti-intellectualism (choosing to ignore established science).
Load More Replies... Someone said the climate is changing but it's not caused by humans. What a moron. Part of it is. A very large part. Do you think the gases your car makes just goes away? Uneducated idiots. And if they were educated and still fail to comprehend, they're plain brainless
It's funny how climate science deniers bring up those magazine covers about the earth cooling down. Because those actually demonstrate how science works. Some people make claims, others make different claims, and rather than just debating, they go off and collect more data. Over time, it becomes more and more clear which side is correct.
That’s nice. You know what I’d like? A matching site that wasn’t a scam on lonely people. I’d be really happy if OKCupid didn’t hide high matches from me. The woman I’m seeing now found me, but I could never see her profile without a direct link to it. We are 99% matches, so why the f**k did OKC never show them to me? That’s not the first time such a thing has happened. How many other high matches were hidden from me??
I noticed that a couple of Tweets that were posted below the article are from a user called "FollowYESHUAnotpoliticians." Of course, this religious zealot doesn't believe we are facing a climate crisis.
I beleve that there are certain people who should not be allowed to breed, such as those who promulgate junk science.
I think the term Global Warming is now redundant. Please use the term Climate Change when respectfully debating the very real issues we are currently facing.
Climate change deniers are the worst. We have one planet. We need to preserve the environment as much as possible. Climate change is the biggest crisis humanity has ever experienced. The generations that look back on us as they are dying are going to hate the big polluters and the climate change deniers that enable them. We all need to do our part. We all need to vote, take action, and hold polluters accountable as much as possible. We are killing off entire species of animals (many before we have even discovered them). That is the saddest fact imaginable. Yet I see so many misinformed people on here not caring. 97% of scientists agree that man-made climate change is happening. That is a huge consensus. If you disagree with that, you are pretty much willfully ignorant. If you can disprove 97% of scientists, go do it and get a Nobel Prize.
I don't see what the problem is as both sides of the issue will benefit from this type of filter.
The problem is that there are an almost unlimited number of things that could be used as a filter in this manner, but the chose a virtue signalling one. It's possible for people to like each other but have differences in opinion. They ONLY did this for the press, I guarantee it. It's the blatant pandering that's insufferable.
Load More Replies... I would never date a Climate Change denier. I am constantly trying to go Greener; reusable straws, efficient car that I'm trying to trade for a full electric, no bio kids... I even became "flexitarian" and stopped buying meat! I LOVE MEAT. If I'm putting in all this effort I don't need some dipshit who thinks:"Yeah but what if it turns out we cleaned up the air and water, stopped dumping garbage in the ocean/other countries and have cheap and renewable energy in a measurably better quality of life and we didn't HAVE to?" People like that are inherently selfish and will only be useful as soylent green. I wouldn't p**s on them if they were on fire
To deny science is to hinder science! It doesn't matter if you believe: 1) Free energy is being suppressed 2) A cure for Cancer is being withheld 3) AIDS (or any other disease) has been manufactured 4) Man never landed on the moon 5) Car companies are sitting on an engine that gets 200 mpg 6) Medical research can be as effective without the use of animals 7) HMO's are killing us 8) Man-made climate change is a myth 9) Vaccines are dangerous 10) Young earth creationism. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!!!!
To disagree with climate change doesn't make me a f*cking moon landing denier nutbag.
Load More Replies... A difference in opinion is when I like R&B and my date likes Metal. Or when I think Tom Ellis is hot and my friend thinks he isn't. Dismissing science is not an opinion, so someone who does that, doesn't have a different opinion, they deny science and should be avoided at all cost.
Load More Replies... But... they don't have to be qualified? They just add an option to filter on it, people who use the app can decide what to do with that.
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