Fundertaker

That's because the first phase is about providing value to users and the second is about providing value to shareholders. Unfortunately even an app that once provided great value can become worthless this way but it doesn't mean social media is worthless. Just that a given app no longer has value.

I think social media is great when it shows me things i opted into seeing by liking or following them or by a friend sharing them (bsky) rather than an endless stream of ads and clickbait (Facebook). Social media is great in the "accumulation of users" phase and terrible in the "monetization" phase

We've done a really shit job safeguarding the national institutions that made this a worthwhile place to live that's for sure. Lots of hard work to do to get it back on track.

What I really want is for only people who give a shit whether I live or die to be in control of the healthcare but we are a long way from the national government looking anything like that.

I hate private insurance as a concept but I also hate that putting healthcare exclusively in the hands of the government gives power over every person's healthcare needs and decisions to a potentially hostile national government. Not a lot of good choices. Greed kills us one way or another.

Isn't that like the opposite? Pro landlord is such a moderate take

Those of my followers with impeccable senses of humor will see that what I've done here is that for comedic effect I have pretended my struggle results from the chosen metaphor rather than that the metaphor was chosen to better illustrate my anxieties within the context

I am no longer immensely lonely but now I find myself juggling a lot of plates in pursuit of long term happiness and it's very stressful because I am very clumsy. If only I'd chosen a metaphor more suitable for such an uncoordinated person!

Belonging and community does that.

We have this whole thing about "no cookie for imperfect allies" but the cookie is literally how we recruit, not the bullying and extreme moralization. The moral high ground isn't going to get people to get out and vote when it's rainy and they're sick and strange new worlds is on the telly.

An imperfect ally who votes correctly on 70% of the issues is still a win and all you get from screaming at them about the other 30% is less engagement and participation. Which means fewer opportunities to change their mind, less voting, etc.

It's really frustrating because what happens is you get locked into this place where you can't win. It's impossible to ever have perfect consensus and uniformity. Someone is always going to think one of your stances is evil, and they are going to treat you like that. And it harms participation.

YouTube video by eroosters John Cleese vs Extremism

With the understanding that this guy is controversial these days he was right about this one: both forms of extremism are basically bullies looking for valid targets to pick on as if screaming at someone who disagrees with you only slightly will save the world

That's supposed to be a reveal later on not right out the gate and it screws up the pacing. It was fine it just was only almost halo

I think they screwed up by starting too early, killing off characters before they got to do their big lines, and making the humans the bad guys right out the gate rather than focusing on the covenant and their reckless devotion. Like clearly the humans are doing bad things all along but still

It helps to know what's happening. I'm less anxious knowing why I'm having this weird experience.

I've learned a lot of skills that let me cope with either for a few weeks before everything catches up with me

On the meds it's late nights and hyperfixation. Off the meds it's scatterbrained clumsy behavior, chasing dopamine and struggling to follow through

The problem is I'm juggling now. On or off the meds for too long creates an entirely new set of problems and habits that need to be managed. Ugh it's exhausting

I don't feel this way when I don't take the meds and i know this because i haven't taken them for weeks and I felt pretty fantastic, in terms of coping with isolation. There's a dropoff at night but i just go to sleep, you know?

My ADHD meds are contributing to my loneliness and here's how: even if I take them early in the morning, I end up staying up very late. At this time of night, nobody else is up and when the activity online dies off I start feeling isolated and I have to sit with it for hours instead of sleeping

I'm telling you if i ever find a way to get everything i need from the people around me in my physical community the Internet is never going to see me again, it's such a mess to be online these days

I really need to unplug from social media forever what a train wreck

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Yesterday I identified a prop immediately on sight that was a container for a toy which had been transformed into a biohazard sample container for a larp. I saw it and went that's really cool, I think i know which toy's packaging that is. I was 100% correct. I ... May know too much about this shit.

I am loving that show i didn't know how many ways there were for three people to portray the same guy

Wren was always stressing about the machines being in use when they're clearly abandoned and my job is to just go down there and do what has to be done so that they can stop worrying about being considerate. It's not worth the resentment you build up to be polite.

I had an old laundry bin my spouse wanted me to throw out so I left it in the basement as a "if you don't move your shit it goes in here" bin because the upstairs neighbors are always college kids and they're so consistently inconsiderate.

Every time I get super embarrassed remembering the my own big feelings and how i responded to them I remind myself there was all this other context around it, and it helps me be compassionate towards my younger self. I'm glad it brought back some memories!

I think i wrote a letter to Nintendo power about it. I am deeply, deeply ashamed of the cringe of that decision. Idk what I thought i was accomplishing with that either but we didn't have social media to embarrass ourselves on so I did what I had to do.