the issue is most people just emotionally react.

there is no processing or reading involved.

Short answer, people are stupid assholes.

Long answer, because nuance is a skill that you have to learn, and we live in a society that doesn’t value it and basically hates it. Nuance has no place in 15 second video clips, that THE dominant form of media consumption for younger people.

The only place I find nuance is in long-form media. But most folks don’t consume it anymore, so it’s not a part of their life anymore. It simple doesn’t exist for them… but what does exist is a media/education environment where everything is a personal grievance and your stupid and wrong and bad if you don’t agree with them.

Like take any nuance on any controversial issue here, and you will get blasted by both sides as being evil, because they both think their side is the only good one. And then they will try to report and get you banned, naturally. Because all nuance must be destroyed.

I dunno, personally I found everything, internet, social media, and real life, to have way more nuance and understanding and positivity, than it does today. But the crazies really took over most media and their voices are far more loud and often push to the extremes as to become hypocritical parodies.

The solution to your problem is to just hire custodial staff to clean up the mess so there are no ants… but that’s too pragmatic a solution for the world in 2026, and the right wingers would tell you that’s horrible because it’s government job stealing their tax money, and the left wingers would tell that the janitor must be a racial and sexual minority or you are perpetuating white patriarchal oppression.

No, I don’t treat it like that and i think people who do are nuts.

I also don’t freak out if there my rooms are aren’t magazine photo perfect.

And people who think that way think I’m a massive horrible asshole.

To me, it’s really about control. people who think/live that way are anxious-controlling personalities and they HATE what they can’t control. I enjoy nature and more natural landscapes and I prefer homes and rooms that look like people actually live in them. I find the ultra-manicured thing really off-putting if not downright creepy sometimes.

because it’s taught.

americans love violence, yes.

the vast majority of americans live in cities dude. only 20% of the population is rural.

switzerland has mandatory military service, a small population, and is higher per capita wealth. their quality of life is among the highest in the world and swiss gun culture is very responsible and chill.

USA is the opposite of most of that.

quitting my volunteer work i was doing for a decade and taking that time and investing it in doing classes and learning stuff. i’m much happier and more engaged.

i was hard because i was very guilty and attached to the volunteer stuff, but it was becoming toxic and it was depressing the fuck out of me and the people involved were becoming assholes to me because i have a penis and therefore I am a bad person. now the volunteer org is having all sorts of issues and I’m glad I’m gone and no longer dealing with assholes and idiots who think everything is a gender war.

yes, OLED and LCD are way different technology. LCD is much older and much cheaper tech.

OLED costs a lot more. a OLED switch 2 would have been 700-800 dollars. The screen in the switch 2 is probably $50 part or less.

I have a switch 2, the LCD is good, it’s just not amazing compared to an OLED, but I don’t play it portable so i don’t really care. I play it on my 60" OLED TV.

They could also have made it with a microLED screen that’s superior to OLED, but it would have cost $1500+

did this come out like two weeks ago?

Cool

doesn’t matter if it’s terrible as long as it makes money

The Hobbit films made 3 billion dollars. General audiences loved that shit.

DC trying to ape the MCU is, and will continue to be, a massive mistake.

whatever you want it to be buddy.

if you want to go back to 1950-1970 bowling alley communities you have to have a lot of social conformity.

disconnected individuals have way more freedom in how they live their lives that those who are bound but the social rules of a community. the stronger/tighter the community, the more strict the rules.

you can’t have it both ways. belonging comes with having to sacrifice your sense of individuality.

Guilt tripping - there’s a lot of peer pressure to show up every week, and social consequences for not doing so

and further there will be other consequences for social non-conformity with say beliefs, activities, etc.

I was a part of a community that seemed really cool for years, but it decided it was going to start imposing these rules on people about how they had to dress/talk/look/think because newer people decided they had a ‘right to feel safe’ and they wanted to ‘circle the wagons’ so to speak, so I left. Because fuck that shit.

community won’t give you these things. there is no necessary connection between hanging out with people on the regular or doing stuff with people and that leading to deeper connections you may be seeking.

if you think you can just kind of force this stuff to happen, you’re going to have a bad time. and frankly I think that’s the biggest issue, is people kinda force it to happen rather than let it happen and get mad.

your deep relationships mostly form from unstructured time together, and spontaneous activity. that’s why a most people’s social life peaks in college, where you have large blocks of unstructured time. Also in spaces like college, the social distinctions you have with others blend away because you’re all operating in a relatively level of equality.

hanging out with people 1-2 hours a week and doing a hobby structured and non-spontaneous and hence mostly leads to shallow relationships based solely around the activity. and there are a lot of underlying social differences that don’t come up in such an activity that once you step outside the bounds of it, become readily apparent.

you don’t really get those in adulthood unless you’re on vacation or unemployed. or you are are regular at a bar every night…

anyway, my rant is basically community and belonging aren’t a ‘problem to solve’, and if you think they are… well you’re not going to have a good time. it’s really whether or you you want to make the choice to give up your individual freedoms for the sake of group social approval.

I dunno man, people I meet in the real world seem to think the world is worse than social media even thinks it is.

by growing your own damn grass

you have self-regulation issues probably. go seek assistance with that. nobody can change you except yourself.

your fault is thinking that changing your external circumstances will make you happy, it won’t.

just but whatever one is most convenient. it really won’t matter unless you are draining the battery more than once a day.

if you aren’t japanese there is no point to getting the JP version.