I'm not angry that people are richer than me, I'm angry that they're so UNBELIEVABLY MASSIVELY rich that they're basically black holes sucking in more money and leaving others with nothing. I don't want to be rich, I want to know I can still afford food and basic amenities next month and not have to think about whether my shoes can withstand another winter or if I should buy new ones and not to wonder whether that slight pain in my teeth needs to be fixed now or if it's just my imagination and not have to fight my health insurance for non-urgent leg surgery and other treatments that would increase my quality of life by several orders of magnitude (and enable me to work again at least part-time!) instead of treating symptoms. And I'm saying this in a first world developed industrial nation with a comparatively good social security safety net.
Frank Sinatra singing Cruel Angel's Thesis is now part of my playlist, I'm ashamed to say. I didn't dare look further because I am weak. The appeal of the concept is undeniable, the implications are horrifying.
What I meant to say with my original comment was mostly "okay but still maybe don't go there now (and add to the traffic)". It was aimed at people here, not those who are still active over there. I don't know whether reddit will care more about not getting traffic from us or about being shat on. But one of those options also seems healthier so I think that's the one to choose. If you think you need the catharsis of yelling at spez, I wouldn't dream of stopping you.
Sure, that's a valid view, but a healthy divorce also doesn't include yelling obscenities at the other parent in public and raiding the house you both used to live in (not that I object to the language used). It's still minimising contact to what's necessary. And maybe accepting that some kids would like to stay with the other parent and focusing on those kids that want to stay with you.
I do think it would be best for most of us. Not least because it's more important to build our space here on Lemmy than to waste time on a site that we want/expect/hope to fail. The analogy with a nasty breakup isn't too farfetched - try to avoid running into your ex, at least for a while, it can only lead to more pain and won't help you move on. Especially when there's a real possibility that your ex actually benefits financially from the two of you meeting.
I don't expect anything. I don't know how ad execs think and I don't think I want to know. Who the fuck can say if they value traffic or clean language more? What I know is that SEPARATE ENTIRELY, to quote a great thinker of our time, is the best route in terms of personal mental health. Whether reddit fails or continues, I'm doing my best to not give a shit. That includes not interacting with the site, regardless of the reason.
Bad enough that I still find myself with a reddit post being the only place I can find an answer to a problem every once in a while. I don't need to go there voluntarily.
No. We're still trying to find our own identity here which will take some time yet so it's to be expected that many things are done as they were on reddit. But the last thing we need to do now is go out of our way to imitate, as fun as r/place might have been and as edgy as some people may think it would be to spite reddit. We'll find our own things.
They're seeing things in themselves that are different from (what they correctly or mistakenly perceive as) the "norm". Since most NDs have experienced being scolded, ridiculed, shamed, ostracised for being "different", some over and over again, for all their life, they've internalised that the "weird" thing is their fault, that there's something inherently wrong with them. Recontextualising a (new) "weird" thing as a consequence of their neurodivergence makes it not their fault or at least lessens the feeling of "wrong". ... I keep saying "they" as if I don't catch myself doing it.
Oh so it's less "this is how they're trying to win con guests over to their side" and more "we were wondering what they'd be even doing and now we know", yes?
I'm not angry that people are richer than me, I'm angry that they're so UNBELIEVABLY MASSIVELY rich that they're basically black holes sucking in more money and leaving others with nothing. I don't want to be rich, I want to know I can still afford food and basic amenities next month and not have to think about whether my shoes can withstand another winter or if I should buy new ones and not to wonder whether that slight pain in my teeth needs to be fixed now or if it's just my imagination and not have to fight my health insurance for non-urgent leg surgery and other treatments that would increase my quality of life by several orders of magnitude (and enable me to work again at least part-time!) instead of treating symptoms. And I'm saying this in a first world developed industrial nation with a comparatively good social security safety net.