Burnt ou-!

Oh, that too!

Frankly, in my experience the social media has been unreasonably optimistic

Most of the struggles and worries come from real-life expriences

However there definitively have been times that were better before they got much worse, and I’d argue that today is one of those times

On big difference today has compared to, say, 10 years ago, is that 10 years ago there was much more hope for… well… hope. Today? Well, things are going to get much worse before they get better, if they ever do.

There is nothing that says the future must always get better just because historically it for the most part have. Sometimes the most rational thing to do is to indeed prepare for the possibility that things will get much worse. Otherwise you end up with a situation like how people today wonder why more Jews didn’t move out from pre-war germany

I guess it’s good to hear that things are changing for the better, I emigrated from Poland when I was a child to Norway and my perception of Poland is a far less favourable one lol

Though my entire polish family are also very religious and conservative so

While you’re right, it’s missing the forest for the trees. It’s just quippy way of saying “takes care of one’s hygiene”

But yes, it’s mostly a common myth that you have to shower every day, ideally do what feels right/works for you to have a good hygiene

Yup, checks out lmao (I got CPTSD)

God, it’s so exhausting to constantly be paying attention to the smallest changes in people’s “energy”. It has probably made others annoyed with me more than anything else

This is why skill-based matchmaking is important

More like the original demographic of Facebook, before it went mainstream

Subtle foreshadowing be like:

I think you see the start of a path halfway down the road on both sides

Who said you can’t do it anymore?

I mean, small things like that add up, you want your stack as optimized as possible

A quarter of a second here, another quarter there, and suddenly it might take 2 seconds longer for a connection to form, which matters a ton. A lot of work in the modern web is going into reducing latency

Genuinely would have been so amazing

…and then there’s all the other possibilities too

Well, fair, it’s gonna differ location to location. Though I want to specify that I don’t live in the US, I live in Oslo, Norway

The discords I’m in barely even contains gamers. Most of them are local trans spaces. Would it surprise you if I told you that I barely play video games with the people I’ve met on discord, and mostly spend time with them by meeting up in-person?

Dating apps have shitty incentives because they have a profit motive, and they don’t earn money from you finding people, but from keeping you on the app and maybe even making you desperate. Although hookup apps still work fine I suppose

Then there’s the whole problem of how dating apps work with swiping and superficial judging of people

I love this video so much

For whats it’s worth, I’m also trans, and I don’t use dating apps. Everyone I met that I got involved with sexually or romantically has been either through making friends on discord or meeting friends of friends

Dating apps have a lot of shitty incentives, I won’t go into the details right now, but there’s a lot to dislike about them

There’s other places to meet people than work or clubs

A single AGI could be copied into a million copies near-instantly. That would be significant

There’s probably more smaller ones, and the big ones are concentrated

But I haven’t been in one yet so, I just know that friends tend to travel to get to them. It helps that for most of Europe you can just take a train to get to the other countries

What does this have to do with anything