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I grew up in Canada.

My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.

I don't remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.

Napster programmers demographic, it seems at times! Lol

That, and the "banned from Reddit" demographic. Two major demographics.

What is grey, then?

You can have social media accounts without explicitly sharing your personal information.

Yes, they can infer a lot of info about you. But you don't need to use those accounts for sharing pictures of yourself, for example.

Not in the US, but my mom works for a really bad union whose greatest accomplishment seems to be giving employees paid 15-minute breaks every 4 hours or so.

The union talks big about protecting employees, but really only protects them the way that an HR department would.

I think almost everyone misunderstood what you were getting at. To be fair, it was pretty confusing.

You're saying "Cyclists are told to be on the road. Cyclists aren't protected as well as drivers are. Why should bikes be on the road if that's the case?"

I thought the rhetoric in the US was that immigrants cross the border on land.

A lot of water levels in Platformers have swimming instead of platforms like the entire rest of the game does

I wasn't alive back then, so I guess you mean

in the me*

I thought it was more about coming back from the war combined with advances in healthcare. The economic aspect makes sense, but families were bigger throughout history even in poorer economic times.

There were plenty of local jobs that paid better than jobs today do (adjusted for CoL) and needed less education etc.

If it were the only option, I'd gladly take it.

I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.

Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.

Definitely needed the /s there. I'm sure you saw the 3 or so other comments who were explaining why Valve are good guys, lol

Our fast food isn't really fast, either. I'm not sure what the appeal is aside from known consistency, I guess.

I meant just making a spreadsheet and doing it manually. But if you have technical skills, you really just need to make a script that sticks data from your bank's CSV files into a spreadsheet.

If it's making you so angry, it might be better to just do it yourself.

It'll also help you spend less because you won't want to log all those little transactions

In Canada, our fast food obsession is making fast food as expensive as sit-down restaurants.

But it's still cheaper because you aren't expected to tip.

But the people at fast food restaurants and at sit-down restaurants are paid the same amount hourly, so it doesn't really make sense. But we tip like Americans because culture and habit are hard to change.

But the fast food payment terminal still "gives you the opportunity" to tip

I'm actually not a man, believe it or not. The other women in my life have taught me to be that way as well.

Damn. I wonder if it's a cultural thing. Sometimes women are told to keep it inside, too. It's never exclusive to one gender.

Later is better than never. So keep looking towards the future.

You might find some helpful resources online in the meanwhile. Mindfulness and, in particular, emotional intelligence might be two key phrases to look into.

First, don't tell me that the answer is just to "not bottle things up", because that's objectively incorrect too. Society doesn't want you to have any negative emotions.

I'm guessing you're a man. Society imposes this upon men in particular.

Tell society to fuck off. Have emotions, experience emotions, and process them like a human being.

Then take it a step further, and learn how to handle them like an emotionally intelligent human being.

I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I'm alone.

This is part of the problem. This is not what you need to know. You need to know how to express negative emotions without losing control of yourself or your reaction to your emotions.

I know it can be done because it is done in many other people on the planet.

People bottling things up and exploding when in a safe space is part of the problem.

I'll echo the idea of anger management, or even therapy in general.

Nobody who is healthy hides away their emotions. You're not alone in feeling the way you do. Society is sending you signals that you need to do something unhealthy, but that won't actually fix the problem.

Why are Valve the good guys?