I get what you’re saying but it’s not actually that kind of all or nothing situation. I’ve never met a person that would only do FB or nothing at all. Everyone is browsing FB on their phone anyway so skip the middleman and start a group message thread. Easy solution that takes almost no effort or adjustment. Nothing will ever improve if people like you and I refuse to change our habits even slightly.

Sadly I have to stay on it for friends and music reasons

No you don’t

The first dying light is one of my favorite games of all time. The 2nd was a big let down. I never even finished it.

Not the thin little bitch fibers were talking about for home use anyway. Need some of those thicc subsea fibers for that.

The Middle East, obviously

I wouldn’t necessarily say it fixes problems and if it does it certainly isn’t free of cost in more than one way. I do think it can temporarily lessen some anxieties that one might view as obstacles to happiness because they impede one’s ability to engage in meaningful social interaction. I also think that making friends and finding romantic partners are learned behaviors that you need practice to get good at. If alcohol can help you be social enough to make friends in a new place or find a partner then I can see why someone would say it fixed a problem for them. It’s certainly more expedient and cost effective than therapy to get past your hangups would be.

That said, that sort of “responsible” use of alcohol isn’t without its drawbacks and risks. I don’t know how common it is either. Perhaps that’s just what people who like to drink tell themselves to avoid feeling shame about their behavior.

I also am extremely socially awkward

That’s what the booze is supposed to help with. Whether or not it does is up for debate but it certainly makes you worry less and that’s a huge part of awkwardness.

Next to their degenerate friend holding a crack pipe in the alley behind the library where they read trans propaganda to our kids of course

I have thought about this very topic quite a bit over the years. Maybe I’m more judgemental than you but I don’t think anyone who doesn’t have a few specific handicaps is incapable of developing critical thinking skills. The people who don’t develop them simply don’t want to and that’s something I feel more than justified in blaming them for. That may not be accurate in reality but I don’t know how you could prove which one of our views is more correct.

They can’t do any of this other shit either. That’s not stopping us from doing it

I do wish we could stop confusing tolerance with active support though. I don’t need to be on your team to tolerate you or your lifestyle. In fact, we don’t even need to acknowledge each other’s existence to be tolerant of one another. We just need to let each other exist unimpeded.

Yeah that’s what I meant by “people who use it more probably think it has a better layout”. I’ve tried to use it in the fashion it was designed on a couple of occasions but the version control / repository categorization functions didn’t make sense to me. I assume it would if I did those things more but I also think it’s laid out differently than I would like even for those purposes.

I’m with you on github for sure. I assume people who use it regularly think it has a decent layout but to me it seems so random and disjointed that I can’t imagine how that’s possible.

Who are the good guys? I don’t have any problem identifying the bad guys but the good guys seem pretty hard to locate when it comes to politics.

I’d rather have ads placed in the text in a context that makes sense than the abomination of a system we have now that is both intrusive and irrelevant.

Is there a published date on there somewhere? I didn’t see one but I’m curious. It cites an estimate that total internet throughput is 167 terabits per second but I can’t imagine it’s that low these days.

That’s a decidedly generous interpretation of events

In a similar vein, I once cut off my nose and my eyelids because I knew that my ex wife would get very uncomfortable anytime she looked at my disfigured face. It’s more painful for me than it is her but I’m a petty idiot who doesn’t understand consequences so I still think it was worth it.

I understand your point but guns are a great equalizer for anyone who isn’t a young, strong male. Gun vs gun is more equal than fist vs fist or whatever else would be happening instead.

The comfortable will never rebel. No one is going to give you those things and we can’t build them without dismantling the current system. You’re going to have to get supremely uncomfortable in order to give others the possibility of having those things at some indeterminate time in the future or face a dystopian future so bleak that it will make The Hunger Games seem like a fun vacation. Either way, comfort is rapidly fading from the picture.