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[–] smontanaro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That's going to put a real crimp in the dating pool...

You are required to have a relationship with a Russian Citizen instead

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 126 points 2 days ago (13 children)

If you're a government worker in a non allied country and an attractive stranger wants to touch your dingle, its a honeypot.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you're saying I need to find a government job in a non allied country

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And hang out in brothels and preferably have an addiction. Either to gambling or sex. Those make the honey pot much easier

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What if they want to touch my honeypot, is that a dingle?

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

When the bear wants your money, like a big pot of honey, that's a-dingle

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which can be turned to your advantage if you're aware of it. "Oh man [insert weird deviant fetish] drives me crazy, sometimes I just start spilling state secrets"

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 2 days ago

Government workers in other countries work there for years. This is bigger than meet-ups.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Same goes for "allied" countries. Since Snowden revealed how the US spied on their "allies" even in the most hideous ways, it should be clear that "allies" dont exist in spycraft.

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

The honeypot probably has access to their Tiktok algorithm and "coincidently" likes all the same things.

[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Find someone who looks at you like the foreign adversary honeypot do

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Found Winnie the Pooh!

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Call me Winnie-the-Pooh!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

As a non government worker who is in a non allied country, I can tell you that lots if people want to touch my dingle. None of them are honeypots because I ain't got nothing for them.

Well, besides a dingle that's statistically much larger than the locals. Many women like that..

No, its not always a honeypot for government workers either.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

'but she said she was taiwanese!'

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Because every citizen knows gov officials

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US government declares Chinese women to be too hot.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

The qipao is definitely in the running for hottest traditional dress.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
[–] Klairabelle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

20 year sexual relationship and the dude never figured the woman she had the affair with was actually a dude. Lmao.

In police custody, Shi explained to doctors how he had hidden his genitals to convince Boursicot that he was a woman. And as the French doctors sent to examine Pei Pu discovered, he could create the appearance of having female genitalia by making his testicles ascend into his body cavity and tucking his penis back.

One hell of a tuck job

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

the masterofroflness video on this was insane to watch lol

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There actually is a legit reason for this. Compromising material on diplomats, soldiers, and their staff are easily acquired this way. For example, creating a secret recording of the the encounter, which then can be used to pressure the target to work for the other side. The Russians love this stuff, I just can't remember the exact word they use for it. Compromat or something like that. Compromising material.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Though ironically, this will make it easier for Chinese to blackmail those who get lonely and have relations anyways, since the relations themselves could be used to threaten jobs, rather than needing some extra step to make it scandalous.

[–] PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kompromat / компромат

and, yes, the Chinese government has used similar methods.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

And the same can be said for all spy agencies.

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 2 days ago

that's just going to make the forbidden hot sexy sex hotter 🫦

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This has got to be for one person in particular. I wonder who they are and what they did for him to think they deserved this?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Chad in Diplomatic HR has been cleaning up.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't get how things like this don't get more attention... This whole thing was insane, but it literally did nothing to his career

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

::Gestures broadly to his entire cohort::

You really expect the party of pro sexual pædophilia and rape to punish someone for something they all do?

[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But playing world of tanks is still ok right?

What's lemmy.ml have to do with this?

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Butt playing is always alright

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Well, yeah… you can’t be an incel if you’re romantically involved with a local soulmate. And you can’t be loyal to these shitheels if you’re not an incel.