yeah but did you use linux when you deleted your cookies?

Or it’s about money.

people like money and they will do whatever it takes to get it. regardless of generation.

and people bitch and whine that they are 5 bucks, not 50 cents.

lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are ‘weak’.

because apparently if we were ‘strong’ we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside… and communicating via smoke signal… lol

Yeah, they tend to be heavy drinkers and can’t socialize without alcohol. They just get drunk at home and doom scroll and group chat now.

Stewart errs on the side of intolerant liberal belief. He seems to things certain things should be banned from existence if he/liberals finds them offensive. He is also palpable ignorant about certain issues and biased toward mainstream definitions of things, than taking a more academic and broad view. He doesn’t really acknowledge the problems or contractions in many liberal beliefs, the way someone like Maher makes a point of doing. He is not a social libertarian, and Cohn was definitely more of one.

I do those things… and social media/phone users tell me I’m an asshole for not being addicted to my phone.

It’s socially isolating for a lot of people if they aren’t doing what everyone else is doing and aren’t following social media trends that most people are freaking out about.

I’ve had to socially isolate myself a lot more the last few years because it’s so intensely pervasive. Like I meet people, they ask me what my social media handle is, and they get ANGRY when I say I don’t use it. And even ANGRIER when they ask me what I spend all my time doing and I say I read paper books, watch films from the library, etc. and they tell me that makes me anti social and a pretentious douchebag.

Driving everywhere and not walking makes you obese.

Using AI and never using your brain makes you stupid.

For people who are used to driving everywhere, and people who use AI all the time, they think walking/thinking is an impossible task that’s only done by superhumans.

I mean, I’m not a teacher, but I’ve seen a massive decline in people’s basic cognitive abilities and social skills the past 5 years in particular. I used to be able to get along and have a conversation with a relative stranger for alike an hour or two. Now they check out after 10 minutes and can’t seem to have a stained conversation about anything without rapidly switching topics, or just flying into an ignorance rage/rant about something they clearly know nothing about. I’ve also seen a massive uptick in straight up hostility toward me for reading paper books and using paper and pen…

the thing that is massively increased is people’s confidence that they are correct no matter what and there isn’t anything they don’t know, and if there is, it’s stupid and not worth learning. I’ve seen this attitude in online spaces and in real life conversations. A massive difference to like 10 years ago when that attitude was far less frequent and people were far more curious and open to new information. I used to volunteer a lot, and I quit because it became so awful to deal with ignorant and aggressive people, whereas previously people were far more amendable and grateful.

I miss people being able to rant about things they did know about and able to acknowledge the limits of their knowledge. AI is basically next gen social media in that all it does is bias-confirm people’s ignorance and tell them what geniuses they are and they get addicted to that cognitive junk food and think good food tastes disgusting.

For me it’s just the character limit.

I like reddit because people could write in paragraphs. Twitter never had any appeal to me because it could never be more than slogan-slinging and when i briefly used it it just seemed utterly stupid to be limited to like 10 words.

he’s a comedian. not a politician.

Depends on the university. Some of them are still like that, some of them are totally ideologically captured such that they have encoded being anti-free speech into their conduct codes, and/or they simple would not want to deal with the fallout of bad actors would/could do to their servers.

A lot of university’s slide towards authoritarian centralizing of power post COVID along with internalizing their student bodies. Sadly. They themselves aren’t the bastions of freedom and truth they once were, because those things don’t make the bottom line go up. Many also closed off spaces and programs that were previous open to the public to further isolate themselves from the rest of the world. MIT had libraries and other facilities anyone could use, and now they shut them all off from public access post COVID.

People aren’t basically anything.

Their behavior is mostly governed by circumstance, and nor do people agree on what good or honest is.

I’ve been told I’m the most kind wonderful person ever, and then also I’m an absolute sociopathic cruel abuser. The determination is mostly whether the person felt I was giving them what they wanted from me. When they give them what you want, they tend to think well of you, and when you don’t give them what they want, they think poorly of you. Sometimes, these contrasting words came from the same person…

That tracks. You pissed off someone who had a connection with a mod and/or admin. Been there!

I got banned once for dunking on IG travel trends and the mod involved was dumb enough to PM me threatening me.

It’s just pathetic how emotional and over reactive people saying crap on the internet they don’t like. I don’t agree with a lot of stuff but I see no reason to censor people for enjoying musicals or whatever else I hate.

doesn’t matter where you live, the people living in hell will force it down your throat because they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.

yeah but more pictures of cats and dogs.

You have to also factor in that culturally, America hates smart people. A politician who is knowledgeable about those things would be less likely to get votes, a lot of them are smart people who play dumb because they know dumb wins votes. A lot of politicians were viewed negatively and their opponents attacked them for being informed and knowledgeable people, and it worked very well. John Kerry is an excellent example of a politician who is incredibly smart and capable, but got politically destroyed for it.

Even Trump is way smarter in person by most accounts. But his public person is dumb as rocks because that’s what voters love, because our voters HATE anyone who seems smarter than them. It makes them feel condescended to.

Personally, I deal with the same thing. Say stupid dumb shit, and people like you. Say something smart and informed, they tend to dislike you. And I have known a lot of smart people who refuse to show their intelligence in most social settings because they know people won’t like them if they do.

There are very few environments where being intelligent and informed is generally rewarded. Usually only in the context of school and work, and often in higher-income/education communities, which are far and few.

Next they will start jailing women for not having kids. Nice.

Though I suppose the proper incentive would be to tax people with less than two kids.

Even in the USA tax breaks for having kids are pathetic. The tax child credit barely covers one month of daycare. It’s $2200, per year. lol Pumping it up to something like 6K would be a decent start to making children more affordable.

Totally. But that’s not often how people see things when they are emotionally charged or the relationship was fraught from the start. And a lot of people engage in self-fulling prophecies or self-destructive behaviors. Many people only pursue relationships they know are going to fail, for example.

You also can try to break up with someone and have them physically attack you and stalk you for weeks later and they don’t back off until you threaten them with legal/police action. You never know how people are going to react.

Yes, and it’s how you get gaslit. Because everyone else thinks they are so wonderful, so if you think there is an issue, it must be you that is problematic one…

people focus way way too much on superficial bullshit. I had a few friends who fell into that trap and had super abusive partners, and I myself fell into it, thankfully not as badly though. And the abusers frame the entire think as your fault. If only you’d listen to them and make them happy, then they wouldn’t’ have to hit you…

right, because usernames reveal deep insights into people, and aren’t just random bullshit they make up.