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It's interesting watching the fate of Andrew Tate. If he did what he's accused of, he deserves it. If he didn't, he's a victim. Either way he's mistaken in one thing: the notion that he's unbreakable. Life is going to teach him otherwise. All of us can break, wise to know this.
Hitler positivity and jew negativity are basically the zoomer version of punk rock. It's rebellion against the taboos of the previous generations. This is normal and to be expected. That it's offensive to the previous generation is precisely the point.
When we deal with people we often expect too much of them, and show limited patience. But when we deal with the disabled we show great patience, because we don't expect more. I actually think we should apply the latter attitude to the former: we are all in some sense limited.
Using twitter starts with boredom or "hey my friends are on here!". But unless you're selling something it ends in frustration. I don't see much redeeming quality to 99% of the discourse here - mine included. I may simply disable it and return in a few years when my game is done.
And I only ever see myself coming on here to kill some down time - and there are better ways of doing that than reading scattered town square gossip.
Add to that, despite following fairly intelligent and interesting people, I can't remember the last time I saw anyone post something that was actually worth reading. It's the exception rather than the norm.
Often online I've argued with, been argued with, or seen others argue, where if the two were in a room and could talk it out, they'd agree on most things and come to an agreeable consensus. I've a friend who points out that text is awful for communication - experience agrees.
Manipulative hustlers often invent manufactured stories about themselves. "One time this hilarious thing happened to me...". It will be clever, witty, and makes them look great. Except it never happened - it's just a way to shape your perception of them.
Turning off notifications for replies and likes on social media (twitter + youtube) has been one of my better recent choices. It's too easy to get bogged down in bickering with people - either their fault or your own - and adds very little value to anyone's life.
Seems there's a whole social media niche of people debating which programming language is the best. What a waste of energy!
The attempt to make life meaningful is the thing that makes it meaningless. The idea that some things are meaningful and others are not is the problem.
AI will reveal something unpleasant to us - that the human race is a bunch of chattering robots. None of our thoughts are original, nor can we even call them our own.
One of the hardest things for a human to do is to surrender his most precious beliefs - the ones that provide him the most comfort. The doubts can pile up to the height of Everest before he'll let go - and sometimes not even then!
Getting older is interesting. If you'd asked me a couple of years ago, I'd have said I wish I could live for 1000 years. But as my life goals approach completion, at most a few years away, I realize that eventually I'll be bored with this life and ready to go back into the dirt!
Whilst 'Landmark' is a self-help scam, they had one routine I liked - language deconstruction. The wife says, 'my husband is like a tornado!', landmark speaker looks it up in the dictionary - 'your husband is a rotating body of air?'. So it is with so much of what we say.
Having a flag or a cause in their name is generally a sign that someone has very few original thoughts of their own. They're slaves to the "in vogue" idea of the day, and probably haven't really analyzed their beliefs or how they reached them. 1/2