a fancy monitor that makes like 1/3 of the people who view it throw up.

everyone in the restaurant was thinking about her tits.

each man, woman, and child that dared to gaze upon their glory.

yummy.

you realize you breathe in way more nasty nasty microparticles going outside for like 3 min that you do from your toilet flushing a couple of times a day? lots of fungus, bacteria, viruses, spores, etc.

your immune system exists dude. and it needs light exercise.

the only way aerosolized waste is making you sick is if you like go inside a sewer or waste disposal tank where it’s intensely concentrated, and it’s really the methane that’s doing you in, as the bacteria don’t float.

also your basic breathing through your nose and mouth is shooting out way more nasty shit that actually can infect other people. by paranoid logic we should all be using closed breathing systems at all times.

you just have a shitty job or a shitty manager.

i’ve had many jobs and none of them were like that, outside of a few shitty retail jobs I had.

good companies aren’t like that. they are professional and people leave their personal shit at the door. and anyone who brings their personal shit into the workplace is terminated.

What terrifies me, is yeah i see that in person all the time. Not just on the internet.

It’s revenge, and bitterness. I meet 30 year olds making like 200K a year who are steeped in bitterness they can’t afford a beach front mansion. A large part of it is pure entitlement and arrogance. Many young people think the world just owes them and they know better than everyone else and are completely delusional about how the world works. And often just spout meaningless cliche bullshit they know from social media rather than having any knowledge of history or any perspective with context.

And they encourage it in each other. I’ve seen so many awful groups at bars just dogging each other on the say the most heinous shit and openly declaring how they actively abuse and want to abuse and hurt other people. Then they basically think they are good people because they make posts on social media about how they support Trans people, and that justifies their thirst for blood or something. It’s insane. It’s like a collective psychosis.

And of course the irony is if you confronted them with the same violence that spouts out of their mouths, they will cry foul and play the victim. Because it’s OK for them to want to murder people, but they also see a cafe that doesn’t have oat milk as ‘abusing’ them.

I just want to get away from self-righteous agenda posters. who are so indoctrinated they think everyone else is exactly like them and if they aren’t, they are terrible awful people.

it’s not even a political thing, there are many folks in hobby and other groups that approach life this way, trying to shove their opinions down everyone else’s throats and demonizing them for not agreeing, and/or playing the victim when someone pushes back against their shitty ‘i know better than you’ bullshit.

there are a handful of users who just post shitty low quality rage bait from shitty websites constantly across various communities all day long. many of these users were not on fedi a year ago.

like, websites you have never heard of, that are highly editorialized and frame things as dramatic and hyperbolic as possible.

and these posts dominate many of the news and politics communities, because juicy dopamine headlines mean people upvote.

and the comment sections are dumpster fires of similar minded folks, and anyone who is skeptical/critical gets dog piled and/or the OP comes out swinging calling them a fascist for daring to challenge the ‘trump does thing world is collapsing’ narrative they are all addicted to.

it’s all engagement/rage bait quality stuff. it’s not like, respectable moderate journalism that reports facts, that shit doesn’t get upvotes because the headlines are not juicy enough.

FWIW I have been on fedi for 3 years and this stuff is exploded the past 6-9 months, I used to like the news/politics subs a year ago because they were not dominated by this low quality content and typically had more respectable news-sources. but you can’t compete with low-brow rage bait trolls who are just here to collect as many upvotes and flood the zone with dramatic bullshit to drive engagement, and that’s what these posters are doing. if you confront them they just say you are a bad person who clearly supports Trump etc.

.ml users think they are being welcoming and kind when they harass and insult other users.

or they just want to avoid people like you. because you know, it’s insufferable to be lectured how you such by random strangers who just want to go on about catastrophe when most likely they are living a very cushy life, hence they need to be obsessed with politics in a wholly negative way, because that is the only major drama/tension in their life.

healthy things are boring. healthy food, healthy relationships, etc.

once i had a girlfriend who i told her i was glad we were so healthy and open and i really liked her. She took that and decided it was a massive insult because she wanted us to be ‘crack cocaine’.

And yeah, she broke up with me because I tried to get her to be a functional adult and she basically decided I was a piece of shit for expecting her to eat well, exercise, sleep, and budget.

they dont live rent free in my head, they live rent free in front of my eyes every single day.

and when i try to interact with them them tell me what an asshole i am for not driving an EV or wearing Vineyard Vines or a million other stupid things they use as empty status markers, which they then turn around and articulate as the basis for being a good person. And then when the city tries to make progressive innovation in local politics, they flip out and try to vote it down, and when they lose, they throw their money away at lawyers trying to sue to stop progress, because if they can’t stop it, they can delay it and make it cost a lot more money… because tehy have to ‘protect their investment!’ we can’t allow like, working people w/ incomes less than 250K/yr to live here because that would ‘bring crime and drugs’.

almost as if they are shitty people desperately trying got pretend they are good, but their actions are in opposition to their words.

my favorite is housing. they say ‘housing is a right for everyone’ but the second someone wants to add more housing they are 100% opposed to any and all new construction int heir community, because it’s ‘gentrification’ because everyone come wants to move here after they moved here is terrible and bad, but when they moved here and displaced existing diverse residents, it was ‘improving things’.

but hey, what do i know again, i lived here 20 years and I’m clearly a piece of shit human being or something, because i vote for increased housing and infrastructure expansion and the removal of parking spots in favor of bigger sidewalks and bike lanes… clearly that means I’m anti-trans Trump voting Nazi. At least, that’s how they see it. because if you vote for actually progressive policy, rather than talk about it and vote against it, you’re a bad person.

I said it was not a valid measurement system. It never was a measurement system at all. It’s bullshit on top of bullshit that believe believe in and it becomes a brief collective delusion.

In corpo land it was nothing more than ‘feedback’ questionnaires from which they derived a score used to evaluate managers.

Just like the Atkins diet and every health/food trend. This is the same thing, just in terms of psychology.

And like a lot of things in psych it’s simple a product of how attractive you are and what tones of voice you use, and all that. Legit psych studies show us that people interpret people’s intelligence and empathy based on their physical appearance, more than anything else, which is rooted in cultural expectations and stereotypes.

Nobody is taking EQ/emotional intelligence tests, other than random stupid quizzes on the internet, like MBTI or self-diagnosed authistic/adhd folks. Legit psychologies and therapists are not measuring anyone’s ‘emotional intelligence’ because it’s not a real thing that can be measured.

And no, I have no issue with the original researcher. He was pursuing his own theory and doing legit work, but it was bastardized when it was popularized. Which is pretty much the case of all legit science and research. Most popular interpretations of most scientific theories are vastly oversimplified to the point they are incorrect, because they aren’t about doing science, they are about making a neat little meme that dumb folks can parrot to feel smart. That’s what emotional intelligence is, a meme.

that’s also how really successful human beings work. they bullshit and lie and appear confident, and people believe them and ignore the people who don’t do that, because they don’t appear as confident.

also why people basically fall in love with AI, because it spouts nothing but bullshit at them and they eat it up like candy because being fed back bullshit is a dopamine hit.

interacting with real people doesn’t supply endless dopamine and they might not tell you what you want to hear.

it’s a gloried spell checker, basically.

and yeah, it’s a really good spell checker.

Cool. so how do i magically stop being an asshole, o wise internet stranger?

just what, do what you want me to do? say what you want me to say?

oh no, sorry what I’m supposed to do is tell the 25 year old throwing a tantrum over using Slack how I’m awful and terrible and they are so much smarter and better than me because their daddy bought them a 1.5 million dollar condo and that means they are true working-class proletariat, meanwhile I’m an evil boomer because I paid for mine on my own… and that somehow makes me a white privileged oppressor of themselves… even though they are also white and massively wealthier and more privileged from birth than I ever will be.

but anyway, yeah I’m the asshole. Because I don’t listen to privileged whiny twats with oppression complexes living in a delusional version of reality fueled by their inherited wealth, who fly into a emotional tantrum at the slightest hint of someone saying ‘no’ to them…

yeah, please keep calling me names.

just like the 25 year old who did the same to me when i didn’t want to use slack because everything is about THEIR convenience.

also they think i’m transphobic because I didn’t want to wear trans flags pin everyday i volunteered, because I felt no need to incessantly virtue signal how ‘woke’ I am, especially when 99/100 people involved were cisgendered hetero white people, and the 1 trans person left because they found us so insufferable annoying about them being the token trans person.

because we know, anyone who isn’t 110% in agreement with us, is a BAD TERRIBLE PERSON. if they are like only 90% in agreement with us, they must be punished into agreement. and it’s not that we are an insufferable asshole trying to impose our bullshit needy whiny standards on other folks who don’t need to constantly broadcast how great we are and use the latest greatest app where we can sit there and ‘collab’ about what victims we are and how anyone who thinks or looks different than us is oppressing and persecuting us. even though these imagined oppressors don’t actually ever exist in real life… because we live in a total bubble of rich white liberals who have priced out any diversity from the real community… which makes our virtue signalling all the more important!!! we have to signal harder so that other liberals want to come here and drive prices up further and we call all celebrate the imaginary diversity of our community that we have now ensured is totally heterodox and homogeneous!

sound familiar?

ironically, back before these types of dipshits were the norm, 10+ years ago, the community was actually diverse. weird how that works. we had LGBT folks, non-white folks, old folks, young folks etc. nobody every talked about diversity or communication or any of that shit.

then after 10 years it became college-educated professionals, all white, who were mostly under 30 who spent every meeting lecturing each other about our lack of inclusivity, communication, and community. almost as if… the people who destroyed those things were whining the hardest about we lacked them and how we had to have them… pissing and moaning how they ‘struggle’ while they work in their 150K+ a year tech jobs and go on months long vacations… yeah clearly it’s not them who is the lack of diversity and inclusion they are seeking.

lucky, like 90% of moths I see are the ones that eat my shit and yeah I’m killing those fuckers, and seeing one of them makes me have to like pull out my clothes and check all my stored grains for infestation.

if you are infested it’s a bitch to get rid of them. grain moths are nasty little fuckers.

good luck with that.

yeah, they suck.

they eat my clothes and they eat my grains.

fuck wool moths and grain moths, fuckers.