Very very very very wrong

It’s just a centipede. I’m pretty sure those live most places…

You don’t believe in the supernatural but people claiming it exists are not lying? These are contradictory ideas.

Ironically this is the inverse of op’s complaint

Yikes. Gonna hope this is satire. I was just making a joke, sort of, because tiktok is mindless scrolling where you can avoid anything PoLiTiCaL even though you’re literally a Chinese test subject giving data to an authoritarian government

Gonna guess you really like tiktok

Uh what? Never once saw anything like that on reddit

It’s a great web browser and it represents the very concepts of choice and freedom. Chrome isn’t better at all, I really only used it because the extension availability felt higher for a while.

Same! I’m wondering though at this point how much longer? I understand it’s a big job but I’ve gotten really settled in with Connect at this point.

Gods*

Playing the victim is the right wingers favorite pastime. Crying that someone’s right to exist is a burden for you to hear about. Fuck on off back to 4chan or whatever

I am with you on a lot of this, but I will never and I mean ever understand the impulse that so many people have to say that online dating has made life worse. Dating is much better now because of online dating. Instead of constantly needing to be vigilant for an opportunity to find a mate and then pursuing them only to often be shut down or find out about a huge deal breaker on the second date, we can filter out a lot of those cases simply by reading a profile. Yes I’m aware people lie and hide things. But if they’re on a dating site they probably are looking for a relationship of some kind and if they wrote 3 or more sentences you probably can get a feel for what they generally value in life.

I also think it’s quite a stretch to try and say online dating = capitalism because “marketed as products” and “throw people away like trash”. It sounds like you were broken up with by one too many online dates?

Are you somehow intelligent enough to write all of this so thoughtfully, yet somehow unaware that relationships have ALWAYS been highly “transactional”? One of many aspects I could focus on to illustrate this is just the concept of marriage period. In many cultures, since thousands of years ago, you literally paid a family for a bride. It still continues today if I’m not mistaken, you just call it “paying a dowry” instead of buying a wife because it sounds better.

If we are talking about r/datingadvice I think there it’s a legit complaint to say that people seem to be more in the “throw that person away” camp but I don’t think there’s actually a shred of evidence that anything is new about this. We just now have a conduit for public opinions about dating to end up in our faces while we doomscroll.

I also blame capitalism for a lot, but I think it gets tricky to link capitalism to everything bad. I’d say it’s more like all these things are symptoms of a condition and all somewhat related. Greed is what a lot of this is, and yes capitalism is all wrapped up in that but I don’t think if you somehow took it away that every problem goes away.

Kd?

What would you change about it though?

Exactly my experience as well

Nope. The only time I use Reddit is when a search leads me there. I deleted my account and open it in a container tab in Firefox so they can’t track me and I have ublock origin running to block their bullshit ads. I suggest everyone do that. I feel like lately even Google takes me there less often, and when they do, the content is shittier than it used to be.

Fuck reddit. I don’t need it, it’s dead to me.

I feel like I work about 2 hours a day some days. Meetings and slack are distractions as well as ADHD tendencies. There’s so much overhead involved in working for a company that it makes sense. If I just had specs and and interesting problem to solve, I could easily get lost in my work for 8 hours. But that rarely is the case.

The person you responded to doesn’t sound like that and I for sure am not. I would even be okay with higher taxes IF they were actually going to non shitty expenses. I’m simply saying I see their point. It’s very fair to feel like taxes are a ripoff when they don’t go toward good things so often, especially knowing the rich pay incredibly low rates compared to the rest of us

It’s weird to me that people use Spotify for podcasts, a free medium established 10-15 years before Spotify even added them as a feature. Why not just use one of the free podcast apps that actually are mature and also designed for podcasts to begin with?

I agree with you for the most part but it also doesn’t sit right with me that sometimes realtors can make several thousand dollars for practically no work. Or in other cases, you cannot even find one if your property valuebis low. The percentage aspect is detrimental to everyone but the realtor.