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> In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies Amus
by BurningFrog 4y ago
> In the past, women have been overlooked, relegated to secretarial roles or, before the SIS era, deployed as “honeytraps” to ensnare or blackmail enemies
Amusing of MI6 to claim they no longer use honeytraps.
- thesuitonym 4y agoThey still are, but they were in the past, too.
- HideousKojima 4y ago"I used to do drugs. I mean, I still do, but I used to, too." -Mitch Hedberg
- gadders 4y agoI bet a bunch are male as well now.
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- Der_Einzige 4y agoOne of the most depressing things in my tech worker life is witnessing how sex starved the average FAANG caliber engineer is. The way that they got info about twitters political bias through project veritas was to... Get a cute looking girl to ask the guy nicely... How many people who are smart and well connected enough to end up being watched by three letter agencies (which is most likely more of HN userbase than they would like to admit) have only experienced relationships, love, or lust that was paid for by some agent in Langley? My guess is that this happens far more than we would care to admit. Heck there are memes about this kind of thing: https://postimg.cc/62TPMBfN https://postimg.cc/62TPMBfN
- chasd00 4y agoHeh if I was ever approached at a bar by a cute girl interested in my work the first thing I would do is call my employer’s “911” number and ask what to do next.