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Surely there exists a middle ground between being devastated by rejection and not registering continuous rejection as, perhaps, a sign that the rejectors have a point.

Emotional resilience is great, but if people keep giving you the same feedback maybe they have a point (and you should try changing, rather than brute forcing your way through social interactions, hoping to get lucky).

I'm not saying that you're denying this, so I am jumping over some discussion, but tbf I think we're both doing it.

That's just the meme lifecycle. You gotta know when to cut the poop and when to flush, and maybe this is one poop that has been cut enough.

Or "quit mincing poop" as my gram used to say whenever I would take too long with something.

Imagine going to someone's house for the first time without bringing your own poop knife. I thought we all learned from that hilarious story that some houses don't even have a poop knife 😆

I always heard the same as you: it can't be AI unless it can change in some way.

Is anyone truly ok with constant rejection?

Perfect gateway for Windows migrants. This and Mint are excellent starter distros.

I mean you don't ever have to switch but many people do, if only to explore their options

I have no idea or interest in finding out, but it isn't zero

I spent part of my childhood growing up in a co-op in city limits. It was so great growing up next to do many families all pitching in on projects and activities together, and summer holidays as a kid were unparalleled

I mean I boycott products if I don't agree where the money is going. Nestle, Amazon, Israel (BDS), etc etc. Everyone who has the capacity should at the very least try to avoid funding people and projects they think are detrimental to life.

Well said, rising slope of solid rectangles

Isn't it really bad for your long-term health to get covid? I haven't got it yet, which at this point feels like going for a high score

What is wife's primary function? What is her mission?

Since I've started cleaning my blades I find I don't have to change them all that often though

On that point, great article by the way! I shared it with my partner and we've been talking about it this morning. She's in comms, so for her social media has had all the joy sucked out of it long ago, and not it's just a tool.

For me the internet was a big part of my socialisation, so I miss the old, more fragmented, internet much more.

StumbleUpon was incredible. I actually engaged with the larger internet, rather than mostly sticking to the kiddy pool of comment sections. It's actually where I met my longtime partner, and now very good friend, so it had "real world" implications for me as well

I love being surprised and love learning new things. The algorithms, AI, and SEO have stripped all of that curiosity and discovery away.

I feel this as well. Everything I see or read now is accompanied by the slight suspicion that I'm reading fake content. Like is this picture or article something that another human put time and effort into, because they were trying to communicate something, or is it just generated based on what will garner eyeballs?

Username checks out.

I'm kidding, it can be good to have friends who aren't the same as you. But seriously that sounds so TIRING. Like omfg just get a job at that point, so you can at least forget about it when you aren't working.

When I came back from winter holidays to my job I didn't remember ANYTHING. It was glorious

Good for you, I'd consider my online "diet" to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones

Just turn it off. If this isn't a business then you don't need it. Free yourself :)

Rofl these are great.

Came here to suggest exactly this. I've been really enjoying it. It's like a priority version of StumbleUpon from back in the day