Part of it is age. I know everyone has had bullying issues growing. I did but I’m also aware enough to know that I was a bully too at times. Probably not physically but probably intellectually bullying my schoolmates and insulting people. A lot of that is internal insecurity and bullying I faced. A lot of the times we do mean things and don’t know why. If you’ve got kids, you’ve seen this a lot of times. Ignoring all of this and doing what you want is an important part of growing up. I’d like to think that I more often than not was pushing my friends towards their dreams and at times facing reality. However, I know sometimes I’ve definitely teased someone about their dream. I hope that they were strong enough to ignore my stupidity.

Have you thought about having kids?

I’m not the guy replying and I agree with you “to a degree”. Although I got burned out listening to the “other side” for years. I don’t even really listen to “my side” … or at least I don’t think. The right-wing manosphere loves culture wars and complain about people starting culture wars so much to me it’s tiring to listen.

I do admire your ability to go through it. I think I probably would have kept listening if the “other side” wasn’t in charge of so much and reeking havoc.

I remember someone asking about Jon Stewart and The Daily Show during the Bill Clinton administration if he could keep doing his comedy if times were bad. He said something to the affect of, it works better when times are good. Which always struck me as funny because he flourished even moreso afterwards and was then accused on loving the bad times so much because he profits from it by lazy journalists. Anyways, I ramble a lot >_>.

I remember using KDE back in the day and that so many applications started with K that using the start menu to look for my application was jarring.

I have never heard of this. Thank you so much!

It’s not fair!

I agree, this guy was a twat!

I’m j/king. People change all the time, it’s okay to acknowledge that.

I don’t know how often I should change my bed sheets. I do it like once a month or so, but I have friends that do it every week and it made me feel like I’m really gross.

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Look at Mr George Clooney over here

Remember that he’s got the votes though. He’s still got the general election to go through but despite all this hatred … a majority saw through it. Let’s hang onto some hope. The world is so shitty right now.

I’ve always had a “mug me” type of face, I think. Been bullied a lot growing up. Had a good sense of humour about it. My coworker a few weeks ago said, “I don’t know why, it’s easy to make fun of you.”

I get the feeling if Lions are pretty chill. They’d just “know” I’m an easy meal.

The rich will fix it by putting out disinformation campaigns telling you it’s all fake.

There’s one in Cornell around where I live. I “booed” it and my friend hit me. I was like, “they bought that truck to get attention, it just so happens it’s negative”

I think people are our own worse enemies at times. There are some countries that are less individualistic than the ones I’ve lived in, but there’s a “crabs in the bucket” mentality.

I was lectured by a coworker about how the poor have it better than us and how we provide for them but they have it better than us. Note that despite having this knowledge, my coworker still decides to earn a paycheck. People hate it when others get stuff for free. There is definitely a form of entitlement that some people can get. I know people that work in government (Canada) and they say those that get free benefits just act so mean about it and if things go wrong or are delayed.

I mean I’m far away from my college days at this point. However, I’d be using AI like a mofo if I still were.

Mainly because there was so many unclear statements in textbooks (to me) and if I had someone I could ask stupid questions to, I could more easily navigate my university career. I was never really motivated to “cheat” but for someone with huge anxiety, it would have been beneficial to more easily search for my stuff and ask follow up questions. That being said, tech has only gotten better, and I couldn’t find half the stuff I did growing up that’s already on the Internet even without AI.

I’m hoping more students would use it as a learning aid rather than just generating their work for though. There was a lot of people taking shortcuts and “following the rules” feels like an unvalued virtue when I was in Uni.

The thing is that education needs to adapt fast and they’re not typically known for that. Not to mention, most of the teachers I knew would have neither the creativity/skills, nor the ability, nor the authority to change entire lesson plans instantly to deal with the seismic shift we’re dealing with.

Yeah but it’s slowly going off. How much do you want for it?

A lot of these “grifters” or “commentators” and stuff aren’t really there to interpret news and stuff. They’re there to tell certain groups of people what to think.

Like pass talking points to them or assuage their doubts about what’s really happening to them. Accuracy and stuff is an afterthought because they only need to worry about the next news cycle which used to be months but is now days.

An apropos of that. I’m Chinese/Viet half-and-half and was born in the UK. I have friends in the UK that are half-Chinese and half-British (white/caucasian). I had no idea that there were so many “half-Chinese” specific groups online.

Also, I can’t remember but there was some business about having a Chinese dad was better than a Chinese mom (I could have them switched). However, it’s mainly boys/men with this problem and they’re having issues dating or with school and everything and blame it all on their Chinese parent. My friend tries to chime in to talk some sense into them but the self-victimization is really strong and he gets pushed out.

Yeah but imagine if a black woman had done it. We’d need to question her abilities as a black woman and call it woke and stuff. /s