Expecting positive interactions with other humans, that is your problem right there ha

Everyone romanticizes the “old” Reddit and the old internet quite a bit. There were always trolls, fake accounts, a holes and whiny jerks. The ads, bots, and all the more recent issues just tipped reddit over the edge.

I felt bad leaving a 15 year old account but it wasn’t hard. I hadn’t enjoyed Reddit in a while. I uninstalled the client and installed mlem. It also helped me to temporarily switch browsers so I’m not getting Reddit threads as part of the search results. If I want Reddit in my search results then I will look for that intentionally.

Wow Jim Carrey really looks like shit now

Poison their data? Everyone change their political affiliation to NPA. Then vote however you want.

Sadly I grew up in a similar situation, my father was emotionally abusive to me and the rest of the family joined in with him to keep him from turning on them as well, I think. I was fat, stupid, lazy, untrustworthy liar and a bad person. When I was bullied at school, they told me it was my own fault. I didn’t go on to college because they had me so convinced I was too stupid to understand the classes.

This was many years ago. Basically, I escaped them. I left home as soon as I could, like 17-18 and never went back. It wasn’t easy. There were brief periods where I was homeless. However those times helped show me that they were not only wrong, but that how they treated me was wrong (this was long before the internet existed).

I earned my associates degree in a stem field when I was 48 and have a really good job now that I am proud of. I’ve gotten farther than I ever thought I would. And I can truly say that I did all of it, with zero help from anyone. I sometimes wonder what I could have been if I had a loving, supportive family.

It damaged me emotionally in some ways ngl but overall it taught me the value of persistence and not to give up on myself.

I have gone out of my way to make sure they can’t find me. Someone found me about 10 years ago. To ask me for money.

Grew up in the 80’s and didn’t have cable tv, so I watched a lot of PBS at home after school. I remember being really invested in the Tom Baker and Peter Davison episodes but no one else I knew at school watched any of that stuff. The last story line I remember is Castrovalva. I should probably try to rewatch a few someday

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She’s not wrong

I try to live by this philosophy the best I can. I saw it happen to one of my former coworkers. Found out he had a brain tumor around the time he was planning on retiring and was dead within a few months. I visited with his widow after. He was well liked, did well for himself and had a comfortable life, but didn’t make it to retirement. I’m sure plenty of people had similar stories during Covid. Or traffic accidents, sudden health problems, shootings, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any of us can go at any time no matter how well we’ve planned things out. Do the things while you can and while you are in good enough shape to enjoy them.

They don’t need to.

3 Belief in or acknowledgment of a satan just reinforces and legitimizes christianity.

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