I’ll upvote, seems genuine and I don’t want to discourage that. I understand it’s difficult to find someone to talk to who wants to hear what you have to say. Even I don’t share things with my friends cuz I feel like I’m “dumping on them”. I saw a therapist twice a month and that was nice, but it was just too expensive to maintain.

Your last sentence is what stood out to me. It’s such a harsh finality but there’s no possible way you could have tried talking to every human to KNOW none of them want to hear you talk. I know it’s extreme. I know it feels true right now. But there is no substitute for genuine human connection. Use the AI, just be careful you don’t become dependent on it. And don’t think it can be a long-term substitute.

That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing. I always found psych experiments super interesting but didn’t think I could make a career out of it.

I’m very interested in what a perception researcher does day to day. But yeah, research showed cigarettes were harmful way before anything was done. Research is showing climate change is real, and recycling isn’t effective, and vaccines are safe. I fear we’re headed to a second dark age.

How about parents just parent their children? I know not everyone can do this but the state should not be thought of as your nanny

I know it’s just a conspiracy, that’s why I take it with a grain of salt. But I could totally see SOMETHING like that existing. But there’s too much data to sort through and that’s why they need AI

You mean like a crazy ai surveillance program? I take it with a grain of salt but I heard ppl say that’s how they caught Luigi. They have some super secret prototype program “eye in the sky” thing and they just said it was a mc d’s worker as cover.

I love music. It makes everything better and you can just put it on in the background. “House/EDM” music is my jam, but I love how many weird niche genres there are. Like Japanese City Pop, and then Future Funk, which is just remixed City Pop lol. Electro Swing is a genre I’ve been getting into lately. I’ll listen to anything but the hardest of dubstep. Twinsick, Gabriel & Dresden, Two Friends, all artists I listen to quite a bit. Although The Drums might be my favorite non-house/edm artist to listen to.

How about you? Are you a lover of music too or were you just curious?

Unless it’s a meme reference (lol same) comments are generally more thought out and well constructed, as you can see from the replies here.

I mean, that kinda sounds like whataboutism. The other person was talking about maga specifically and you said “people from…all walks of life do this”

But I think nuanced conversation is so much work. It takes so much energy and patience and attention and people just don’t have those things anymore.

edit just realized in this micro example that you were trying to speak in broad terms, and they were trying to be specific. So even tho you were trying to talk about the same idea, your scales were different. Now you have to spend time addressing this discrepancy instead of what you actually want to talk about.

The government will bail them out. They want the AI surveillance power but don’t realize how flawed it is. MK Ultra went on for 20 years before they realized they can’t use LSD to mind control people…

Ripley did not fuck around

If you made it clear you do not like new things I don’t know why your spouse thought this would be different. And then on top of it to need to leave the house to cool off (which that itself is fine, but feeling so strongly about it isn’t imo) something feels off.

If I knew my partner didn’t like new stuff, and I got her new stuff anyway, I wouldn’t take it personally and get very upset about it. Did you talk to your spouse about it yet? Clearly there’s a disconnect somewhere but you did nothing wrong by saying you want to return it. Hell, it’s not like you returned it already and used that money to buy something else. Or pretended to like it but return it in secret. You’re being very open and honest and communicative about your feelings which is good.

Idk, feels like a pretty big overreaction on your spouses part that warrants a conversation.

Soo… gold and silver then? No clue how crypto is gonna hold up.

Please tattoo this onto every member of the DNC

Teleportation for sure.

o7 thank you for your service

I do this as well but it’s like a “deepening” of being sad. Like I’m thinking “Fuck it, if I’m gonna feel sad right now then let’s feel fucking sad.” Lol

I feel this way too. And have a similar history of other types of drugs used. Not that I chose to stop doing them tho but really lost access (plug stopped plugging).

My partner is concerned about the smoke in my lungs, which is a fair point. So I do mostly edibles, only weed these days. I still have a couple pre-rolls on hand in case a friend stops over or I don’t wanna wait 2 hours for the gummies to hit.

I can stop long enough to pass a drug test, I have a stable job, I own a house, have a partner of 8 years now (wow) so I wouldn’t consider myself a “failure” or a “junkie” or anything like that.

Being high is just better imo. I feel better, I smile more, I worry less. The only downside is if i go spaceman and my partner wants to have a serious talk she’s just SoL for a few hours but all in all I don’t think I’ll ever stop and tbh I don’t really want to.

Yeah, it’s not “how much you think gold is worth” but more “how much do you think other people think gold is worth”. And unless there’s a world-ending event it’s not a bad place to park some money.

This is all giving very “I’m 40 but I thought I would kill myself by 30” vibes.