TubularTittyFrog
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 6 hours ago:
haha, it gets worse. you can have a partner who was wonderful and morphs into an abusive horrible person over time, because they are unhappy with their life and you become their punching bag.
- Comment on Anon has a hobby 10 hours ago:
no hobby, only booby.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 12 hours ago:
The point is to regulate and control your feelings.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 12 hours ago:
No, it’s not. Happiness is the action of self regulation. Happiness is choosing broccoli over a cookie because you know it is better for you.
Someone tied up to a machine being dosed by chemicals to ‘feel happy’ would not be happy. Just like drug addicts, and other addicts, who are constantly chasing highs, are not happy people. They are fucking miserable, forever chasing and defining their entire life by those dopamine hits.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 12 hours ago:
Agreed. To me, the root the issue with American politics, is that everyone wants free lunch. Everyone wants the benefits, but doesn’t want to pay the costs that come with those benefits.
Like with housing. People think it’s too expensive, but nobody wants their own houses value to go down. And if you point that out those are mutually exclusive, they tell you you’re an asshole. They start spouting off insane nonsense about how it must be possible, but someone ‘evil’ is preventing it.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 12 hours ago:
You’d also be ‘happy’ if you did cocaine for those six months. You are confusing getting high from dopamine hits with happiness.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 12 hours ago:
A partner can also the source of your misery and separating yourself from them can finally allow you to respect yourself.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
The melting pot is no longer fashionable idea. You’re a racist if you suggest immigrants should assimilate by today’s standards.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.
I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 250K at the age of 30.
From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Bingo. People here tend to be very extreme in their beliefs and they vastly over generalized their niche interests.
The vast majority of people out there don’t know what Linux is nor will they be ‘liberated’ by it.
But making small talk can also backfire. The idea that you will just chat people up and all will be well with the world is naive. A lot of people only find community and belonging through creation oppositional identity (us vs them).
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
And sometimes it’s the same person. That’s what people really fail to get. Everyone is capable of good and evil, often at the same time.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
5.3 billion in small arms says to civilians.
The small arms market in the USA is so large it would be the 155th largest GDP if it was country.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
By what metric? It’s far better trained and equipped than most any other military, especially elite units.
Unless you’re talking about how the Finnish army whooped us in some exercises, on their home turf in winter, at which their entire nation is super-specialized in? I’m sure if you stuck the Finnish army in Florida for an exercise they’d be the ones whooped.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 1 day ago:
Nothing gets better until you make it better.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
No they aren’t. They are being eroded in red states, blue starts are expanding them.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Americans are radically different depending on what region, and social class, of American you are interacting with.
But that’s true of any country. Every country hates and is embarassed by the poor uneducated douchebags, and loves their elite well-off cultured population.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 day ago:
Uh, we have the best military, the best medicine, the best universities, broadest cultural reach… etc.
It’s just that you aren’t getting access to any of it unless you’re part of our social elite. If you’re in the bottom 90% of the economic status, you are only ever going to get access to the middling/average stuff.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 1 day ago:
Santos was expelled in '23 and another person in '02. It gets used, but the vast majority of the time the person who would get expelled retires before they can be.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 days ago:
you don’t have to. buy what you want, play what you want. you can even buy used machines.
- Comment on Anon owns nothing and is unhappy 2 days ago:
a ps5 is like $500. That’s not expensive compared to a gaming PC. I just helped my newphew build a low-end gaming PC and it was $1500. the GPU was $400 alone.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
there are still some pretty cool posts with interesting comments, a lot more than reddit.
but there as it grows there are more and more stupid people who are just here to be angry and hateful, who think anyone who doesn’t agree with their biased agendas is hateful and angry and who just sling personal attacks at other commenters. because they aren’t interested in the issues at hand or discussion of them, they are just interested in feeling superior to the ‘enemy’. and their post histories are usually quote pointed in regurgitating whatever grievances they have, like thinking everyone who doesn’t agree with them 100% is a Nazi.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
I have been on here 2 years. First 1.5 years it was pretty fun.
Now I barely go by 3 days without someone telling me how shitty and awful I am for having a different opinion than them.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
yep. and if you point out that firefox AI features are entirely optional and you can turn them off… you get told to go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
it feels good
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
didn’t you know that Linux is the Jesus Christ of operating systems?
It will save us from our computing sins and heal the world and bring forth a computing paradise!
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 days ago:
bingo.
already the ‘news’ communities are lemmy are full of shitty articles with misleading headlines and most of the comments never read the article. they are just ragebait being raged at, and when someone calls it out, they often get downvoted heavily by the rage addicts who just want to be angry at editorialized bullshit headlines.
- Comment on We have heard time and time again Hollywood and the Media are liberal assests. I disagree with that statement. But has it always been so called liberal? When did it start? 3 days ago:
Artistic communities always lean left. Hollywood and Media are artistic pursuits.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 3 days ago:
Shitty people feel big by making others feel small.
Lots of people are shitty. Here and on reddit.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 4 days ago:
No, you are misrepresenting what I’m saying to make it look extreme and stupid. It’s called straw-manning.