Why is bro posting on Lemmy then

Yeah I just can’t stop getting ragebaited by the Electron hate. All Electron haters are free to develop their own efficient, pleasant looking, cross-platform native app instead since it’s so easy

Watch out! The Tankie Terminator is on the scene!

But why do they want to do that, is the question

Fuckin exactly.

“It’s stupid to change it to main, it’s just words”

“Oh, so since it’s just a word change I guess you shouldn’t be bothered by it.”

Angry NPC face

Yes, I always use AI generated images to depict real events that I have proof of. Showing photographic or other forms of proof would make it too undeniable and ruin the fun

This is fucking crazy, way crazier than it’s getting credit for. Very sentient behavior ngl

It is necessary that my normal and natural behavior is recontextualized as a special struggle and adversity, because adversity and being in a minority group is the root of all personal goodness. Therefore neurodivergence is simultaneously something to be proud of but also a great struggle that makes me an extra brave warrior vs inferior normal people who definitely never do any of these things that me and thousands of other people here upvote.

Sarcasm aside, I totally support being accepting and equitable to neurodivergent people and other minority groups. I just think it’s pretty gross and annoying when social media gets all doing shit like “zomggg this misplaced tile on the bathroom floor is triggering my OCD I’m so OCD u guysss”, like no. Everyone is bothered by the misplaced tile. And don’t hit me with “it’s a spectrum”. Yeah, it’s a spectrum, and part of that spectrum is what’s considered neurotypical. There was a point when people finally realized that calling themselves OCD at the drop of a hat was actually sort of disrespectful to actual OCD people, and I wish the internet would come to the same realization about this new trend of calling everything they do neurodivergent. Some people have never hung out with an extremely autistic person and it shows. It’s not some silly quirky shit. It’s definitely not you trying to explain things to people because you believe that will improve things. Just about everyone I know does that, it does not make you especially adverse/good/cool/unique/disadvantaged/whatever other weird accolade you associate with being neurodivergent. In fact the most autistic person I know makes the least attempts to explain anything to anyone.

Finally, cryptic Facebook status posting has come to the Fediverse!

(This message is transmitted with lighthearted and non-hostile intent)

I wonder if this introvert/extrovert dichotomy really exists this much or if it’s just psychological astrology. Personally, I find it completely irrelevant to myself, but maybe that’s just me.

I will be extremely extroverted around people I like and extremely introverted around people I don’t like. I can feel recharged by interactions with people I like and discharged by interactions with people I don’t like. Isn’t that obvious?

With strangers it’s all based on my perception of them, derived from their appearance, their context, and any other clues I have.

In groups it’s based on the composition of the group. The percentage of people I like or dislike, and also the context. When I’m alone, I’m perfectly content alone. I love being alone and I love hanging out with my friends.

To be honest, I suspect my situation is how pretty much everyone is. I feel like my friends who describe themselves as extroverts and my friends who describe themselves as introverts are really just doing the same thing as each other and as me. I suspect that people who are very pronounced one way or the other, are doing so out of a self-fulfilling prophecy effect resulting from having decided at some point in the past to conceive of themselves as introverted or extroverted. The same way an astrology fan may unwittingly begin to behave according to their sign stereotype.

I think how I feel about collecting hobbies depends immensely on what is being collected and how it is used. If someone is collecting old books and actually reading them, then even if they buy $10,000 books, as long as they aren’t trying to show it off on the basis of price - I have zero issue with such a thing.

Like it’s fine if they want to show off that the book is really rare, explain why it’s rare, how hard if was to find, what’s special about it, etc. And then if as a result of that I can infer it must have been expensive, I’m not grossed out. But if they come at from the angle of “this book is 10 grand and that’s why you should be impressed by it and transitively be impressed by me”, that’s nasty and pisses me off.

I don’t think there’s anything intrinsically wrong with collection-based hobbies, although I do think that in general they are not really impressive hobbies and should not be misinterpreted as a skill or something to be “proud of”. But I think this is just a conflation being made because the word “hobby” does too much double duty nowadays. We use it to describe things that are simple, as well as things that are complex; impressive and unimpressive, skilled and unskilled, creative and consumption. “Hobby” usually just means literally anything I regularly do that isn’t required of me. And as a result it carries baggage from it’s various applications in between themselves, like using the same spoon for your curry and your soup and your ice cream.

If we taboo that word, then I think people collecting things is freed from hobby-connotations like:

• “this is something for me to be proud of”
• “this is something that makes me an impressive person”
• “this is something that demonstrates a skill or ability beyond that of the uninitiated”

And we can see collecting for what it is: nothing more than liking a thing, and wanting to have it around to admire/contemplate/use. I think collecting can be a very respectable demonstration of someone understanding what is important to themselves, and in being able to take joy in simple things or the same things over and over. The dark side of collection is obviously hoarding, void-filling, status-signaling, addictive behavior. But the light-side of it is cherishing things that being you joy, putting them somewhere where you regularly appreciate and protect them, sharing that joy with others. It can be very humble, vulnerable, and in fact can be very anti consumerist/hoarding/void-filling/status-signaling.

Like anything, I think it’s all in the way it’s done. But I don’t think you need to be working on something or demonstrating a skill with it, or producing something, in order for the collecting to be respectable.

I mean, I think it’s less about people having interests that I don’t, and more about just the realistic car culture. There are people who are into cars in a cool, healthy way. But in my experience, the majority of them ARE sad, empty people who don’t know who they are, and are trying to buy a personality, who think having money makes them good and that showing their money via their car to others makes others perceive them as good. They are often very childish people trying to impress others and fill some kind of void in themselves that they don’t know how to fill. I say this knowing at least 5 pretty intense “car guys”. It IS very sad to observe, and they don’t even seem to enjoy their “hobby” (which really just consists of inventing new reasons to spend more money) themselves. It’s just a continual race to one-up your friends cars, get more likes on Instagram, or emulate something they saw on YouTube, or reconfigure something, or trade this car for a different car, like a high-rpm hedonic treadmill. Just objectively speaking, these people all seem pretty depressed. Admittedly they have other shared traits that make my sample not rigorous. But even the common social conception of car people seems to agree. A lot of them are obnoxious losers, even their own community has a whole bunch of archetypes that they agree are obnoxious losers.

I think there are many very cool ways to be into cars. It’s just than the majority of people who are actually into cars, are not into them in those cool ways. It’s like how playing a guitar, fundamentally and intrinsically, is a pretty cool interest to have…but if 70% of guitar players you know are lonely shells of people with underdeveloped personalities who only started playing guitar to flex their wealth on others and because they thought it would make girls want to fuck them - you might say “guitarist culture is sad”.

I LOVE THIS IMAGE

It’s so 1999 Dorling Kindersley, found in a library, smells like sweet glossy paper. I love getting immersed in the abstraction of people’s lives and activities, details of the buildings. Like you can really imagine going for a walk around there. I love that it’s bright and happy but not dishonest, either. The entire color palette 👩‍🍳🤌 So many lovely details at just the right zoom to tell what they are while still allowing you to imagine the specifics. This image is making me realize what a great form of abstraction simple distance is

Damn those woke liberal Catholic Archbishops

Real. I can’t stand fake things, especially fake nature. Wood veneers, marble painted plaster laminates, LVT, no no no. I’d sooner have no tree at all.

No, I mean, what good would it do this site, as theoretical data harvesters, if I put in my license plate number abcd123.

“oh, someone has a car with license plate abcd123”

I wasn’t talking about Flock. I was talking about this site as a potential security threat.

Idk how I feel about this, but at the same time I don’t know how bad it really is if they’re being malicious, because I have trouble imagining what harm could be done by knowing nothing more than a license plate number

https://youtu.be/uyztBsVCkg4

I never hear big tent without thinking of this now

This is like a special moveset of self-buffs for a brawny no-magic character in a JRPG

On the reg bro