According to Glamour, a data report rolled out by the Hinge dating application provides evidence that “Men play games, taking 20 percent longer to respond to messages than women.” Researchers with the app say that messages sent within the first 24 hours of a confirmed match are twice as likely to receive a response; however, most people are taking up to 2 ½ days to get the conversation started. And as previously stated, men are the worst offenders… To put an end to the games, Hinge will be introducing a new feature today called timed matches, which gives users 24 hours to start a conversation with their confirmed matches, and 14 days from then to exchange numbers before the match disappears. “We want you to move past the match and meaningfully connect. This feature helps our users quickly figure out which of their matches will turn into something more,” said Hinge CEO Justin McLeod.
New App Will Crowdsource Relationship Advice For You
Luckily for daters who are overthinkers… there’s a new mobile app called Jyst that will pull advice from multiple sources, essentially letting the friends of said daters off the hook. Jyst allows users to share their dating questions and issues anonymously, and members across the globe will be able to offer advice. According to Harper’s Bazaar, Jyst was cofounded by writer Emily Listfield and digital media expert Nadina Guglimetti. Apparently, the women are friends in real life, and they came up with the idea when they realized how frequently they were turning to one another to decipher emails and text messages from the men in their lives. “I was dating a guy who kept sending me the most confusing emails, and I kept sending them to my friend Nadina for advice. Every girl and woman we know was doing the same. Dating, frankly, has never been more confusing,” Listfield recalled.
U.S. Military Spent $43 Million On Taxpayer-Funded Gas Station In Afghanistan
The Department of Defense is under fire this week after a government watchdog group uncovered some “gratuitous” spending habits. Between 2011 and 2014 the Pentagon spent $43 million of taxpayer money to build a compressed natural gas station in Afghanistan, according to a report revealed Monday (Nov. 2). In the report John Spoko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, noted that the gas station started at around $3 million, but ballooned past $40 million in what was described mostly as “overhead” expenses. Spoko says the Pentagon hasn’t been forthcoming with specifics about where the money actually went. The station was built in Sheberghan, Afghanistan, and touted as a project to help lesson the country’s dependence on foreign oil. However, gas stations in neighboring Pakistan cost around $500,000… The Pentagon has not publicly addressed the gas station situation.
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