OpenStars

The world is fucked up, so it makes sense. Probably you got toxic traits from your caregiver(s), explaining even why as a child you felt that way. Try to enjoy the ride anyway - I mean, what have you got to lose, really? :-P

e.g., learn to forgive, ending with yourself.

At best, mods seem overwhelmed, especially of meme communities, while at worst, they are okay with such rule violations so long as they agree with the particular brand of politics. I had to start blocking some when they advocate extremist views that I don't find fun to constantly read. This was long before the election ramp-up - like "wouldn't it be fun to skin a landlord alive?", "the only good landlord is a dead landlord", etc.

But it worms its way into many other communities too, so finally I blocked all of lemmy.ml. Blocking lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net makes the Fediverse fun to be in, rather than a hellscape of extremist propaganda that constantly makes fun of the USA sponsored genocide, while defending genocide committed by Russia or China. I am okay with content regarding genocide, but I prefer a more... "adult" take on the matter, rather than the juvenile crap I was constantly seeing before those blocks.

They are free to speak however they want - but I am also free to not listen.

The big problem is that the word "loneliness" can mean so many different things. For some people it's touch or attention, for both of which a pet would help. For others it's sex and there masturbation could aid though some religious people think otherwise leading people to avoid it. I mean, feelings of "loneliness" could even be impacted by making healthy food for yourself? Or it might be as simple as going outside more, to recharge vitamins naturally (or at least that being a contributing factor).

So it was worth a shot. Therapy would help disambiguate what's going on. Obviously having a friend could help too, though that is a more long-term thing especially if you suck at irl human interaction - which gaming and talking on Reddit (more so there but not entirely absent here - we can be toxic AF) can work against by reinforcing habits online that will turn people away irl.

Joke answer: this is the Fediverse... we don't!

Real answer: consider a pet, like if you are an indoor person (you said gaming) then perhaps a cat?

The hardest part of all is learning to accept and thereby being able to live with yourself. That will take some therapy - by which I mean effort and time, maybe money if you have it - and is so worth it, bc our parents fucked us up something fierce.

But in the meantime, a pet will love you forever if you treat it right.

Always innovating, never maintaining - what could possibly ever go wrong with that model? 🙄

Better than being the timmy ache victim (who did not survive it:-).

A lot of people still don't know.

Some people don't even know what Reddit is.

Now, Reddit is charging Google for priority access to its posts (article - only Google and Brave will show those results in the near future).

Perhaps Google will start charging money to use it also.

I heard that last year, they beat us by one - we came so close guys! We'll get 'em next time.

Wrt things like this, and climate change, the rise of fascism globally, the outsourcing of jobs, etc., people should be much more afraid than they are currently.

I think people used to be thus during the cold war era, yet WWIII never materialized and people are just burnt out from being told that they need to be afraid all the time - e.g. those school drills where kids knelt down and placed heads behind the backs of their necks, like that would somehow stop an atomic bomb?

Now, "nothing bad can ever happen", even as we see heat spikes of 100 degrees in the Arctic and the 4 globally hottest days ever recorded were all last week, on top of 14 straight months of record-setting temps too. The octogenarian leaders whose fingers can't even type on a mobile phone somehow "lead" our nation even in areas like technology. Note: I am not getting on their case for being chronologically old or even not knowing things (ignorance is easily cured), I am condemning them for choosing to remain in their ignorance (obstinacy), even while retaining their positions of power & authority (corruption) rather than cede to those who actually know stuff.

I have no problems with someone choosing not to learn about difficult matters - e.g. vaccinations - but in that case, don't vote. Your choices to be lazy & willfully uninformed should not dictate mine to remain alive.

Yeah I went off on a tangent here, b/c Altman is simply one more example of all that has come before - e.g. Huffman and Musk did it before him, and Bezos before that, and so on, and it will fucking never end. Protect yourself as best you can... somehow. e.g. coming to the Fediverse (which soon, with Sublinks and Piefed, will offer alternatives beyond just Lemmy) seems a great first step to me:-).

It did not always used to be this way, though it was always headed here.

I... uh, found a way:-D.

Yeesh... I would reconsider working there if possible, but being able to (checks notes) pay rent and afford food and medical care may just make up for it.:-| Hopefully you don't need to surf the web much at work.