Kyrgizion

The amounts of copium in this thread are extinction-level.

Everything you just said is 100% valid and you are simply correct.

The thing is, it's not a measure of a healthy mind to thrive in a profoundly sick society where the worst of the worst have won long ago.

There's this thing called depressive realism which posits that depressed people, by and large, perceive reality much closer to how it really is than neurotypical people.

Essentially, "normal" people have an (innate or learned) positivity bias. Which is usually a good thing. People like us are the outliers.

But positivity bias in a world where it's actually harmful is another thing. The majority of people are walking headlong into their own extinction while going "Ehh, it's not so bad", while we should ALL be positively irate and picketing the homes (not companies) of our owner class 24/7.

But it hasn't happened yet and at this point I don't know how bad things need to get before people realize what's going on.

Touché.

I meant clearly easily attainable by others. If I start comparing myself to them, well, it's like comparing a '97 Pinto vs a 2022 EV.

I will, thanks! No matter how long it takes, I will never give up on him.

Quantum awkwardness. I for one am in a permanent state of possibly awkward.

That's the approach we're trying to take. He has a psych appointment today as well. I only hope he "gets" it before he does something really damaging.

Apart from that I constantly offer to hang out, play games with him or whatnot (he used to love playing Subnautica together) but nothing seems to interest him at all. As someone who also suffered a lot at that age, it pains me so much to seem him go through similar and getting thrown so many helplines and not taking a single one. I would've moved heaven & earth back then for even one of them.

People with depression often fall into this trap. You set a standard you can’t possibly reach and then get upset you aren’t reaching said impossible standard.

Nah, plenty of us set teeny, tiny, attainable goals and then still consistently fail to reach them for decades. It's called being totally inept or an idiot. Unfortunately there's no cure except switft application of lead suppositories.

I'm firmly in your boat, except I was never rich to begin with or had any kind of financial success. My son loathes me because I can't afford the things he wants. As a family we try to focus on things that don't have to cost a lot of money, but it falls on deaf ears for him.

I can only hope it's puberty wreaking havoc, but so far he's making it clear that we've failed him as parents because his material needs aren't met to his standard.

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What's not to like? It's basically how Elon envisions X, an "everything app" that is actually good at nothing specific.

I don't want to live on a planet where these are the kind of people who decide, well, everything.

Doesn't look like I'll have much choice though.

Pretty much for form I suppose, there are other ways to get those drivers.

I've been in a few online games with RU players and it struck me as so weird to be playing a game with someone from a nation we are basically at war with. Major WWI Xmas football vibes.

An advanced finglonger.

Pretty telling when the only way you can get your users to "upgrade" is by stealth. I wonder what the % of involuntarily upgraded win11 users is vs people who knowingly and willingly did so.