The point is that there are better and more kind ways to get the desired outcome (the end of the topic or conversation) than vocally blaming the boredom that you’re feeling on the other person.

If I’m talking to someone, they interrupt me, tell me I’m boring, and then leave, that kinda feels awful. Yes, I do want the feedback, and someone straight up telling me that is probably better than pretending or looking at their phone, but I’d rather they tease me with a “get to the point”.

I mean, there are absolutely things that you should do just to improve your approachability. Good hygiene, to start.

Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don’t know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.

I’d really love it if, instead of them suffering, we could just get everyone to stop suffering.

We focus way too much on the “people getting what they deserve” aspect of politics and then it consumes our rhetoric to a point where we overcorrect and put more effort towards punishing bad things than building good things.

Sorry, but this sounds exactly like what male privilege is. Assuming that it doesn’t happen near you because you haven’t noticed it.

Ask your female friends what sorts of sexism they genuinely face regularly and I think you’ll learn a lot.

While technically still surgery, this feels more like being awake while someone harvests your organs.

I’m going to use these on Windows, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me!

But for real, these are awesome, thanks!

Isn’t it just so unashamedly insane? Like, they openly admitted to trying to shape the narrative via obvious exaggerations of comfort. How do you get to the point that your morals allow for this sort of unabashed propaganda?

Did you watch it by yourself or in a group?

Bad movies are much better in groups.

Yeah I’m trying to temper my expectations, but given that Taskmaster is my favorite show and Zooks is one of my favorite comedian, I’m pretty hyped. I think he’s a great casting choice and generally always amps up the energy in a really fun way.

It upsets me that my enjoyment of the meme was lessened by the clearly incorrect spelling of li’l. I wish I could just look past it. What’s wrong with me?

I remember naming one of my Oregon Trail characters “God”. The words “God has cholera” still make me laugh, and this just reminded me.

It’s an important distinction that the majority of America does not want this, they’re just paralyzed for various reasons (many of which are self inflicted, but many of which are due to the greed-fueled erosion of our societal connections).

Chess is a war game. Killing and violence in general are devastating. It’d be interesting to compare the brain activity of a murderer with a grandmaster player. I have my suspicions about what we would see.

Eh, still about 50-50 with these people. I’ve sent an email with 4 nicely formatted and numbered questions and had them respond only to question 3. Like… You read some of it, decided to answer one, and then give up with no other acknowledgement? Shit is wild.

I knew that was poison swamp immediately. Cool area though!

It’s honestly so many people! How did admitting you are wrong become so painful for so much of society?

Yeah, it’s almost like the unending cynicsm about how terrible humanity is (that’s relentlessly pushed online) isn’t actually based on reality.

What definition of rage are you working off of? To be honest, it sounds like you’re talking about general anger.

I’d LOVE a resource like that! I’m sure it exists but I never found it, and it is a silly thing to be hung up on but I just didn’t properly understand the folder structure. I’ve still used Linux plenty but I’m dragging my feet on using it as a daily driver, but I’m VERY close to making the jump.