go away. you are a weirdo if you are reading this.
what is the point of sitting around feeling bad about problems over which you have no power or control? like, there is nothing you can do to change climate change as an individual. you can vote for green-energy pols, sure, but if they don't win they can't push it, and even if they do win, often they won't/don't push the agenda.
what you can do is contribute to your local community. join a garden, get some green, composts etc. but y'all here don't see to think that's 'doing something'. but i'd rather be outside off my phone contributing to the world than sitting in my bedroom doomscrolling feeling sorry for myself.
feeling sad about things also is not make you a moral or superior person to those who don't do that. that's ultimately a self-defeating weird flex that justifies your inaction and solipsism. because apparently laying in bed feeling feelings is like, so pround and deep and truth... and growing some tomatoes and hanging out with people is so horrible and bad...
almost like you all have psy oped yourselves into depression by deciding doing things is bad and sitting around doing nothing is good.
My girlfriend liked watching me play Dark Souls though. She thought it was funny how angry I got went I lost my souls.
She was really into Dragon Age, because she wanted to make the characters have gay sex.
Different strokes. She was bad at handjobs though.
Get you a girl who appreciates the finely crafted atmo, and not that Cheesecake Factory shit.
dunno where you live but nobody driver cybertrucks is taking loans out on them where I live. They buy them in cash and they are all old dudes or young tech bros. there are two on my block, one guy has paisley flowers all over his.
also three rivian R1s and a couple of Lucid Airs on my block.
yeah it was because I was reading a book about capitalism and not the communist manifesto.
it's not a struggle. it's life.
is traffic a struggle? Is having to diarrhea a struggle? no, it's just shit you have to deal with.
i'm not trying anything. but you sure are ;)
dude, lucky you don't live where i live because... they act like that in person where i live. and yeah nobody punches them. they encourage them for being 'brave'. and if you be like 'yeah maybe it's not that bad' they scream in your face.
where i live there really isn't much of a barrier anymore between keyboard tantrums and real life ones... which is precisely why I don't go out less and less. at least once a week I have to watch someone have a tantrum or be really nasty to someone else and it's almost always the same types of comments and reactions as you see on the internet.
it's incredibly cringe. and nobody pushes back because... other people agree with the shitty awful insane entitled crap people pull.
Like i can't even go read a book in a cafe anymore without some insane weirdo being all offended at me. I used to do it like on an almost daily basis and nobody ever bothered me other than to maybe ask me if i liked the book... now they come up to me unprompted and tell me how what I'm reading is racist/sexist/evil because it's... classic lit from the 19th century and I am 'spreading' evil by reading these book sin public... it's strait up 'evil spirits' medieval type shit, except I'm the witch.
I used to have this... then the woke nutbags came along and decided all that mattered about you was your minor disagreements and you were a demonic evil person. I miss those days.
in real life. but i live in a 'progressive' city full of people who have very reactionary attitudes. 10 years ago nobody cared about these things, and now it's like all they razor focus on and they are super presumptive of.
i literally went out to a place last night i used to hang out at with some friends.... and the stereotypical woke person came up to me and told me I was 'being problematic by taking up the corner' or something, and I was like 'yeah I'm trying to just do my thing here and not bother anyone' and then they proceeded to tell me how i had to move because i was making them uncomfortable by doing my own thing and it bothered them. I rolled my eyes and they went away and I just decided to leave because it's like... I get it you don't want me to be here because I'm don't look like you and it upsets you, even if I am literally just chilling and being nice. but since I take care of myself and am comfortable being quiet and chilling, i'm a 'threat' now.
and way too many of my old friends have become that person... the 'concerned' person who thinks me eating a tuna fish sandwich means I'm now a 'bad person'. It's like, why bother interacting with you at all ever? all they live for is being miserable and whiny and blaming other people for their feelings.
you're not missing much.
whenever i go to a live show these days i'm like one of 5 people over the age of 30, and everyone else looks like a teenager who is still growing.
all national mythology and culture is fictional duders.
people still believe in it though.
ever hear of Horatio Alger?
I will miss Steam gift cards
Dude it's been that way before online existed. Ever seen any Hollywood movie for the past 75 years?
so your female friends only date assholes? isn't that the classic nice guy belief?
I never saw Ricky and Morty until Season 5, so I missed all of that.
so being a dick about mcdonalds and having no friends, is better than having friends and not being a dick about mcdonalds?
and we wonder why gen z is so lonely... maybe because they'd rather be alone with sticks up their ass than remove the stick, eat the mc, and just have fun and make friends with people.
I'm a jerk paying 40% of my income to a mortgage :)
A lot of people buying those houses aren't borrowing the money man. Where I live people buy 3 million dollars for those same boxes and they buy them in cash. So there is no interested or any of that. They only live in them for a few years anyway, before they change jobs or upgrade to something bigger.
yeah, but fedi has lots of baked in issues, especially a virulent userbase that is glad to use bots and other tools to turn fedi not into a liberal space but an illiberal space full of extremist and exclusionary politics. they are bringing over their social media echo chamber stuff and just try to re-create it here rather than on commercial platforms where they were kicked out of or left due to censoring of their extremism.
the issue is a large section of the userbase here isn't like 2000s tech libertarians, that founded most of the internet and the 'net culture we are nostalgic for... a lot of that mentality is essentially extinct or viewed as toxic now. recall that reddit never had a block feature until 2016... 11 years after it started and only when Donald Trump was already in office.
hell most of the devs who are building the fedi are different flavors of political extremists themselves... and there are already many scandals/debates over how many fedi projects have baked in controls or default settings to censor and block things.
more than the internet, the world itself and it's viewpoints are fundamentally different from where they were 20-30 years ago. we had much more of a monoculture and a narrower overton window back then. the type of stuff that goes on cable news programs these days would have been un-airable 20 years ago.
even in using reddit from 2010-2015, there was a massive tonal shift as the site grew, and it became massively more miserable as the politics flooded the site and every other subreddit became people fighting over R vs D.
yeah, but you get socially isolated if you don't consume it.
just like 30 years ago if you turned up your nose at mcdonalds everyone thought you were an asshole, because it was considered great thing and only weirdos would not eat there.
further all of this bleeds over into your real everyday life.