The other day I had to use a browser without any plugins to go to a site, and it was unrecognizable with all the ads. When I normally visit it's clean and simple. These ads pushed content under the fold. Horrible.
"go home and look at Instagram" is largely a stand-in for "I'm tired and can't muster the energy to do anything that feels more effortful".
In my limited experience, the trick to getting out of the hole is doing the hard thing anyway. That and professional advice and medication as appropriate. You can't to my knowledge willpower your way out of clinical depression. But ultimately if you want out of the hole, you have to climb out, regardless if that means therapy, medication, or being mildly uncomfortable. It's not going to fix itself.
Been living without a car for (oh no I'm old) almost two decades. It's pretty great. NYC is a rare city in the US with good public transit.
I wouldn't willingly move somewhere that needed a car for day to day. I don't care if it's a little cheaper or there's "more space". I like density and walking places.
I'm reminded of two coworkers. One I could just ask to do something and he would do a generally reasonable job of it. The other would make weird choices and introduce problems. Reviewing the latter's work was sometimes worse than just doing it myself from the start.
They vote for their material interests in the same sense that a man walking at night with sunglasses picks the best path. He thinks it's obvious but he really needs to take the sunglasses off and maybe get a flashlight. He's walking a stupid path and will probably fall into a ditch.
Fox News is probably the sunglasses in this metaphor.
My mother told me she took some sort of business class in college as an elective. The professor said something like "there are no ethics in business. There's only the law."
Did a one shot in high school where to cast any spell you had to sing a relevant line from an extant song.
I don't remember everyone's picks, but one player pulled out a pretty enthusiastic Beatles' "got to admit it's getting better, getting better all the time" for a heal.
I feel like a lot of people who bemoan the lack of friends also don't invest in friendship. Don't show up when invited, don't organize anything themselves.
I used to run a book club and a board game club, and it was always kind of a struggle to get people to show up. The pull of "just go home and look at Instagram" is strong, I guess.
Many years ago I had to explain to a coworker how progressive taxation works. He was like "that's a great idea! We should do that! It's stupid that now your pay goes up but you take home less because you get taxed more"
I had to tell him, yes it is a good idea. It's how it works now. You don't get more pay and suddenly your whole income is taxed more.
I did a lot of stupid stuff as a teenager but most of it is forgotten.
Someone tricked me into stealing my unique gloves in diablo2 once. Felt real stupid after but they just blocked me and I never saw them again. (I think it was that if you die when the item was being moved it drops onto the ground, so they told me to swap my gloves in a pvp fight and then killed me)
I had an ex partner get upset because I used a period at the end of an innocuous text. This is among the reasons why they are my least favorite ex. Just a mess of anxiety and arrogance, where they'd worry about bullshit but be completely convinced that they were right and their way of thinking about things was the only sensible way.
Unfortunately they're still distantly connected to the friend group, but luckily I haven't run into them in years.
Social media users on text platforms are probably above average on reading skills. I'm convinced the average person is only semi literate, and there's a shocking amount of people who can barely read at all.
il y a des jeux de societé sur mobile. J'aime "splendor" (ma copine peut le gagner), et "lords of waterdeep". c'est un peu plus difficile, mais je l'aime.
les jeux de société ne sont pas très "whoa" comme les jeu vidéo, mais ils sont bons.
(Désolé, je parle anglais et je veux pratiquer écrire français)
The other day I had to use a browser without any plugins to go to a site, and it was unrecognizable with all the ads. When I normally visit it's clean and simple. These ads pushed content under the fold. Horrible.