They’re brainwashed and have twisted views on most things, including what joy feels like.
Some people are sociopaths and genuinely can’t feel joy. Put those people in positions of influence (like we have), and the meaning of joy takes on the twisted meaning ascribed by mob mentality.
That’s what we need to fix. The reason we’ve been successful as a species for hundreds of thousands of years is because we’re a highly cooperative species who takes care of each other. We’re strong together.
Sociopaths being in charge ruins that. They’re less than 5% of the population, by the way. We don’t need to let them do this to us.
Yeah there are limits to this for sure. If the thing you enjoy actively harms people around you then thats a no from me dawg. If you give in to endless consumerism and that excites you, then i will bully you for it.
Yeah, this is a worthless platitude. I wish this stuff wasn't so mindlessly upvoted.
It's important to respect that joy can be derived from different sources, but when a third of America is reveling in the misery of others, there are bigger fish to dry than protecting everyone's feelings equally.
I've just stopped telling my friends anything recently. it's either met with zero response, or a 1 word answer. no point in feeling good about personal things around them when it's just stifled quickly.
Oh dayum, that is really aweful to hear :/
I'm sorry they kind of suck in that area. Do you wanna share something that made you happy that they just didn't get? Because I would love to hear about something that made you happy (even if only something small or simple)
This is a weird coincidence. I just finished watching Lizzie McGuire yesterday and the last episode was precisely about not letting snobs ruin your enjoyment of something. She and her mates went to watch a live recording of a toddler show and got made fun of by Kate.
Yes, I'm a middle aged woman who likes re-watching shows from when I was younger. Anyone doesn't like that, that's a them problem. I could have done with a mate like Gordo as a kid though. He's very A Team friendly.
Dude tell me about it. I had a girl tell me she was exited about the tswift engagement and I just went full asshole mode for some reason and was like "oh you gonna go to their wedding? Big friends with Taylor?" ... Idk why I decided to be a jerk but ... Yeah I still feel low-key guilty about that but she's said/done plenty worse so I probably should let that shit go.
Anyways, yeah I guess I'm saying sometimes I think people may not be totally aware in the moment of their dickishness so learn from me and just STFU if someone is happy for some dumb shit.
Yes, I'm not that big of a dick. My apology led to her sharing some silly shit she's said to her buddies that were akin to my slip up.
It's not like I punched her in the face and spit on her lol, if I had couched it better it would have probably just been funny but I just went hella sarcastic and dick mode.
In context she had said she got really good news then showed me the announcement on her phone so I was like expecting some actually good news for her not some stupid celebrity tabloid shit that's ultimately meaningless.
Idk I know we all need our bread and circuses, I'm wrapped up in plenty of equally inane and pointless crap same as everyone else - sometimes I just am bad at being a human. I'm not very good at socializing in general, it's something I've had to learn and try to study and be good at still - definitely does not come naturally to me. I've gotten pretty good at pretending, I'm a decent "professional people person" when I turn my human mask part of my brain on since reading people is something I've had to focus on because I can't just socialize like a human being normally does.
But yeah that's a very long way of saying, yes I'm not that mean of a guy.
Happened to me way too often as a kid (from other kids, never my family), and I've only just now begun to realize it's why I feel such embarrassment if I ever allow myself to get excited/show excitement. God forbid I ever let myself get animated, I end up laying in bed every night for literal weeks afterwards replaying it through some fucked up filter that just gets worse and worse until I'm convinced I've humiliated myself irrevocably, and I stop interacting with other humans for a long time. The only places I can allow myself to be excited/animated are online and with my family.
Recently went to visit a friend and ended up getting positively hyped while helping one of his friends build a rube goldberg machine. Friend I went to visit ended up having a medical episode, and mentioned in his drugged up state that he was a little jealous of how quickly I and his friend hit it off, and I still haven't recovered. Me and rube goldberg machine guy really clicked, but I haven't been able to bring myself to even text the guy because I can't get past the embarrassment of it. Friend I visited said it was like watching Romeo and Juliet meet.
To live is to cringe. There really is no antidote.
What happened to, um... JoCat? So many people were mad about the girls animation that they bullied him off the internet for a bit, and only after he was gone were they like "I agree with the cartoon, I just don't like people knowing that about me."
If you don't mind me asking, what do you find embarrassing about building a sick-ass fuckin' rube goldberg machine? I really can't imagine somebody doing that without joy.
Building the machine wasn't embarrassing, getting all animated and excited around other humans was embarrassing. I know it isn't. I know that isn't normal. I don't know why I have that reaction later on, other than when I was a kid other kids made fun of me whenever I did. Like, if I ever got excited and hyper or something other kids would laugh and make comments about I was fat and it I moved around I'd jiggle. Shit like that. It made me end up with basically the mindset that I need to be stoic all the fucking time unless I'm very close to someone. The friend I visited has been one of my best for 20 years (online/phone), and his friend and I clicked so fast that my barriers sort of dropped unexpectedly, and I ended up getting really excited and animated. Basically I leave situations like that feeling like I've made a fool of myself. A fat, ugly fool.
Well, I'm sure you know there's no getting out of this prison without banging at the walls, right? :p I only learned to sing by challenging myself to be uncomfortable.
Do you find that it's easier if you talk to people later and they're like "no, I didn't think anything was weird; it was a joy to be around you!" or is it like a "your brain wouldn't believe them anyway" kind of thing?
It's interesting how in Star Trek they had a holodeck full of completely believable visuals, amazing generated sound, "hard light" making believable surfaces, characters who were extremely realistic, etc. But, the only holodeck character to ever be considered possibly sentient was Moriarty, and it required that they ask for a character capable of outwitting Data. Meanwhile, the sentient "computer" in the series was Data, who had a lot of quirky mannerisms that made it obvious he wasn't at all human, despite really wanting to be.
In the real world, Silicon Valley is convinced that because GenAI can make something that can mimic a human they think they're weeks or days away from AGI which will lead immediately to ASI. Meanwhile, nobody in Star Trek thought that holodeck tech was a profitable area of research for true AI. I think I trust the Star Trek writers more than Silicon Valley on this one.
Eh, I wouldn't read too much into that angle. The computer and holodeck were pretty much deus ex machinas for Star Trek, written to do as much or as little as the plot required. They could just handwave the computer creating a super intelligent AI because Data requested it, or say the holodeck is capable of simulating bleeding edge warp core innovation (though the crew still had to tweak parameters and often were able to suceed "live" after failing many times guided by the computer because human intuition trumps all).
Star Trek is more useful for considering philosophical questions than technical ones, even though they did put a lot of effort into making it a hard tech world rather than a soft tech one. But when delving into unknown technology, eventually you need to use some soft tech that just works without any real world explanation. And any AI- or computer-related stuff fell into that "soft tech surrounded by hard tech" category.
Star Trek is more useful for considering philosophical questions than technical ones,
This is basically a philosophical question though. Can you achieve artificial intelligence by imitating it closely enough. GenAI imitates intelligence, and a lot of the Silicon Valley techbros think that it's going to lead to actual intelligence.
The philosophy of Star Trek seems to be no. For them there was a fundamental difference in how an artificial brain would work so that you couldn't get there with just a powerful computer. That's why Data had a "positronic net" and not just a powerful version of the isolinear circuits they had in the normal computers.
If they could deliver on one-hundredth of that, it will be truly amazing.
They can't be generating a straight up video and that would be way too slow.
They said that they're not using pre-built worlds, so they're not pre-generating an entire world that you can run around in, which would still be fucking great.
I wonder if they're dynamically creating procedural world generation. then dynamically creating occasional assets as you demand.
Seems like it would be too slow and power hungry to do it any other way.
At some point we're going to get some crazy amazing games out of this.
Part of growing independence is to develop some internal approval that you will enjoy your life without asking permission of others for you to go be you. You can and will seek out supportive people who will be attracted to your ideas. This is what having a vision is. You see it and that is what is important.
And Lots of other people have their own shit going on. So if they aren’t going out of their way to be cheerleaders: do not take it personally. They might come around later when they see what you got going on. They might not. But hey that’s ok. They are on their own trail. They are allowed this space.
That said if someone is going out of their way to bully you: do not give them permission to make you feel like shit. Their opinion of you is none of your business.
It took me a loooong time to realize what I was doing and to get out of it.
This year I have gone harder than ever into my hobbies, and I have intentionally done every single bit myself without even consulting the people I usually would have had helping in the past.
The "pros" list covers basically everything from the physical outcomes of the project to the positive effects on me throughout.
The only negative is maybe that it's going slower than it would if I had some judgy relatives around, but that's not much of a negative in reality. Hobbies don't need to have deadlines.
And I dare say that the boost in confidence from the process has bled over into other areas of my personal and professional life. And I don't mean in a Linkedin Lunatics kind of way where I've rediscovered my ambition. Lol no, now I have the confidence to pursue the happiness and fulfillment I want to find in life.
Self confidence is a weird thing.
It's one thing to know and believe that you're intelligent and that you've done more research into the subject than the downers around you. But when you have a lifetime of issues dealing with people thanks to undiagnosed ADHD (insert meme "if you get good grades they let you raw dog ADHD your whole life") then impostor syndrome is just your starting point.
But once you do something significant on your own and see the consistently great results, the confidence shifts from being something you believe "on paper" in your mind to being something you feel in your bones and know to be true in a deeper way.
Or at least that's how it worked for me during this specific period of my life. Relationships are a big deal for our psyches so it may turn out that you need to lean into healthy relationships rather than lean out of mildly toxic ones.
that kid that killed animals for fun when I was in high school and he killed a bunch of other students pets and they all got in trouble for beating him up,
coal rollers and close shave swervers in the lunch room at work,
guys bragging about sexual harassment and assault,
Also, sometimes magical thinking can be trouble. Like, someone's excited about how their health issues are going to be cured with the right essential oils. Sometimes you need to burst that bubble so that they will actually get real medical help.
This should be up voted more. These kinds of posts invoke circle jerking. I was struggling to think of examples of weird topics but you gave a more comprehensive list.
I totally understand the desire to cut someone down who's doing something destructive or counter to the norm in an extreme way but equally I don't think it's necessarily constructive. I can disagree with someone and express that without necessarily making them feel dumb.
If they leave me alone about it after I politely express my disinterest I will, if not I'll take it as asking for my full opinion on the subject and that will be brutally honest.
It’s not as dramatic as that. Don’t talk to me about sports, religion, or whatever pop culture you’re into. Enjoy them for yourself by yourself. Online I can choose to engage or not, in public I’m way more limited.
I catch myself doing this sometimes. I don't mean to belittle anyone's excitement — I just tend to default to responding way too analytically/critically. It's a trait of mine that I despise, and I'm trying to be more aware of it so that I can prevent it from happening.
This statement captures a huge part of the shitty, negativity first, punching down, and adversarial nature of the conservative white american culture that I was born into.
It is so incredibly pervasive that I think most don't even realize they're doing it. Even thinking of relatives who I have totally good personal relationships with -- I can hang out with them any time, but I am not going to sit around in the living room with everybody because within minutes it turns into non-stop complaining about entire other person on the planet.
It's almost like that "Darmok" episode of star trek, except on this conservative planet the locals only speak in the form of complaints.
Aye, I think that was one of the hardest things to accept as I moved from kid to teenager to adult. There are going to be people who wouldn't care if you were just elected the king/queen of prom, or accepted to med school at 18, or discovered a new form of life on the moon. Find the ones who enjoy your happiness and be happy for theirs.
First time I bought a new car I was pretty excited. It was nothing special, a Vauxhall Astra. But it was mine, it was brand new, and I worked hard to earn the money to pay for it. I go round to my friends house, all charged up with excitement of new car day. I say "You wanna come out an see it?" and he looks at me like Im an asshole and says "Not really. I've seen a car before.". And he was serious too.
There was a bunch of other shit like this, and to this day he wonders why I stopped being his friend.
Have a friend who would say things like this too. Like if we asked them if they wanted to play cards on vacation, theyd say: Why? It's random outcome so why would you want to play it?
Theyre great at planning and making spreadsheets though. Like you wouldn't believe.
Nope. He was just a dick. He would later go on to brag about how he had two girls coming over later, and that he was going to spike their drinks with E in the hopes of getting a threesome. He also started to become that guy who threatens to beat up anyone and everyone who disagrees with him.
Eh, I feel that card comment. I'm on vacation, I want to do something fun! I just had to deal with a family reunion where they wanted to play mexican train. Like, come on, how the fuck is dominoes fun? Even monopoly has more strategy. Cards, depending on the game, could have a little more depth and skill, like ers, but if you were suggesting war I kinda am with your friend here.
/genuine am i missing something or are a lot of people taking the hyperbole a little too seriously?? like I agree but god forbid someone uses hyperbole??
Welcome to Germany, a country of 80 million worst types of people.
She's right. That said, constructive criticism is very important as well sometimes, and it can be tricky to navigate when to be positively supportive and when to be critically supportive
My parents were very excited about a fresh business opportunity by a certain Nigerian Prince. So I’m a shit person for not letting them enjoy it, sure.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that's great and I'm happy for you.
If you're underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you're sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay... yeah I'm not gonna be happy for you I'm gonna recommend talking to a professional
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
That may be true but it's also important to have self resilience against useless criticism. I mean, it's not your fault your excitement has triggered someone else's defences, causing them to attack you. Best thing to do is walk away and only engage again when you're calm, if you want to still engage with them.
I wanna know how so many people here know so many others in their lives that legitimately get excited about things like racism and shit. That's the surprising thing to me in these comments
Maybe not many but an extended part of my family disowned a daughter because she is "gay". Found that out just last week. So I suspect they get excited about this things just maybe not in the way most people think about getting excited
I do not know, I don't typically associate with that part of my family because of shitty behavior like this. I think she is, she went to college and has a good job, at least that's the last I heard until they stopped talking about her. Now I know why they stopped taking about her
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that's great and I'm happy for you.
If you're underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you're sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay... yeah I'm not gonna be happy for you I'm gonna recommend talking to a professional
As I was scrolling down the comments, all I could see was comments using strawman arguments for why the meme is wrong. Really just pointing out the juxtaposition of reactions to meme. Wasnt saying you were wrong, more just completing the thought... as it were.
What a nice example of problems with typed conversations. I was trying to interpret your post and just failed to, and i guess i could have writte my first comment a bit less open to interpretation.
Hey, man. Im just glad we could resolve the issue with civil conversation. Thats the real win here, imo. Usually theres a misunderstanding, and people just start throwing shit at each other lol. Hope you have a great weekend, bud.
I'll never forget the time I bought a book called Never Eat Alone and my ex ridiculed me for buying it (she's Chinese so the idea of eating alone was ridiculous to her). I ended up just putting the book in my bookcase, to this day I still feel shitty when I look at it.
I would need more specifics. Being excited about some things that are legitimately morally or ethically condemnable and in that case I wont pull punches in calling them stupid for their excitement.
If its just something I am cynical about, I earnestly think is stupid, or something I just don't care about. I'll usually not comment unless prodded or asked. In which case hey you asked for my opinion I'm not going to lie to you.
Beyond inflated key user metrics, our in-game research revealed an X-rated pedophile hellscape, exposing children to grooming, pornography, violent content and extremely abusive speech.
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Numerous criminal indictments from 2019-2024 allege that sexual predators groomed children in-game, ranging from 8-14 years old, then kidnapped, raped or traded sexual content with them.
Following years of scandals, we performed our own checks to see if the platform had cleaned up its act. As a test, we attempted to set up an account under the name ‘Jeffrey Epstein’…only to see the name was taken, along with 900+ variations.
Many were Jeffrey Epstein fan accounts, including “JeffEpsteinSupporter” which had earned multiple badges for spending time in kid’s games. Other Jeff Epstein accounts had the usernames “@igruum_minors” [I groom minors], and “@RavpeTinyK1dsJE” [rape tiny kids].
As a test, we attempted to set up an account under the name ‘Jeffrey Epstein’…only to see the name was taken, along with 900+ variations. Many were Jeffrey Epstein fan accounts, including “JeffEpsteinSupporter” which had earned multiple badges for spending time in kid’s games. Other Jeff Epstein accounts had the usernames “@igruum_minors” [I groom minors], and “@RavpeTinyK1dsJE” [rape tiny kids].
Eh, I'm not chuffed about the names, but I would bet many are ironic and/or kids being dipsticks. This just seems like one of those pearl clutching moments from 'le gasp, horrified adults!' I know I used a lot of terrible names as a preteen. Hell, I even made a name to bait nazi sympathizers in one account (as an adult in a totally different area), just to catalogue their name when they started hitting me up thinking I was one of them.
Part of it is age. I know everyone has had bullying issues growing. I did but I'm also aware enough to know that I was a bully too at times. Probably not physically but probably intellectually bullying my schoolmates and insulting people. A lot of that is internal insecurity and bullying I faced. A lot of the times we do mean things and don't know why. If you've got kids, you've seen this a lot of times. Ignoring all of this and doing what you want is an important part of growing up. I'd like to think that I more often than not was pushing my friends towards their dreams and at times facing reality. However, I know sometimes I've definitely teased someone about their dream. I hope that they were strong enough to ignore my stupidity.
What if they are excited about the dumbest things like labubus? Or AI image generation? It's just not that black and white. Labubus are stupid and you are stupid for liking them.
Obviously if you like labubus all hope is lost for you, and exceptions like these are totally ok. In my headcanon this post refers more to people who’d make fun of you for liking trains or sumin.
i’m glad you’re excited about this screenshot, but there are many worse types of people….
i think the worst types of people are racist genocidal serial killer pedophilic sadists who complain about people not putting their shopping carts back….
I think the worst types of people are pedants who take everything literally, and then for some reason get mad about being told to put their shopping cart back
i’m glad you’re excited about this screenshot, but there are many worse types of people…. i think the worst types of people are racist genocidal serial killer pedophilic sadists who complain about people
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Linktank@lemmy.today · 115 pts · 335d
This is absolutely too general of a blanket statement. Piss all over the joy of fascists, that makes you a good person.
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 37 pts · 335d
I'm not sure fascists feel joy. I think they can only feel anger and hatred. Maybe malicious schadenfreude at best.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 335d
They sure sound giddy when they’re infringing on our rights.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 335d
They’re brainwashed and have twisted views on most things, including what joy feels like.
Some people are sociopaths and genuinely can’t feel joy. Put those people in positions of influence (like we have), and the meaning of joy takes on the twisted meaning ascribed by mob mentality.
That’s what we need to fix. The reason we’ve been successful as a species for hundreds of thousands of years is because we’re a highly cooperative species who takes care of each other. We’re strong together.
Sociopaths being in charge ruins that. They’re less than 5% of the population, by the way. We don’t need to let them do this to us.
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 335d
Wouldn't schadenfreude already be malicious?
angrystego@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 335d
I'm sure deep down you understand the type of situation OP means.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 335d
Yeah there are limits to this for sure. If the thing you enjoy actively harms people around you then thats a no from me dawg. If you give in to endless consumerism and that excites you, then i will bully you for it.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
People feeling joy don't become fascists.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
Yeah, this is a worthless platitude. I wish this stuff wasn't so mindlessly upvoted.
It's important to respect that joy can be derived from different sources, but when a third of America is reveling in the misery of others, there are bigger fish to dry than protecting everyone's feelings equally.
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 335d
Absolutely true! I wish people would just not ruin other people's happiness. It's really not that difficult!
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 335d
I've just stopped telling my friends anything recently. it's either met with zero response, or a 1 word answer. no point in feeling good about personal things around them when it's just stifled quickly.
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 335d
Oh dayum, that is really aweful to hear :/
I'm sorry they kind of suck in that area. Do you wanna share something that made you happy that they just didn't get? Because I would love to hear about something that made you happy (even if only something small or simple)
lena@gregtech.eu · 1 pts · 335d
Awwww, I'm not the original commenter, but that's so sweet of you
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 335d
This is a weird coincidence. I just finished watching Lizzie McGuire yesterday and the last episode was precisely about not letting snobs ruin your enjoyment of something. She and her mates went to watch a live recording of a toddler show and got made fun of by Kate.
Yes, I'm a middle aged woman who likes re-watching shows from when I was younger. Anyone doesn't like that, that's a them problem. I could have done with a mate like Gordo as a kid though. He's very A Team friendly.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 335d
LePoisson@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 335d
Dude tell me about it. I had a girl tell me she was exited about the tswift engagement and I just went full asshole mode for some reason and was like "oh you gonna go to their wedding? Big friends with Taylor?" ... Idk why I decided to be a jerk but ... Yeah I still feel low-key guilty about that but she's said/done plenty worse so I probably should let that shit go.
Anyways, yeah I guess I'm saying sometimes I think people may not be totally aware in the moment of their dickishness so learn from me and just STFU if someone is happy for some dumb shit.
InputZero@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 335d
Did you apologize to her? Sounds like you were taking some of your frustration out on her and that's probably not fair.
LePoisson@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 335d
Yes, I'm not that big of a dick. My apology led to her sharing some silly shit she's said to her buddies that were akin to my slip up.
It's not like I punched her in the face and spit on her lol, if I had couched it better it would have probably just been funny but I just went hella sarcastic and dick mode.
In context she had said she got really good news then showed me the announcement on her phone so I was like expecting some actually good news for her not some stupid celebrity tabloid shit that's ultimately meaningless.
Idk I know we all need our bread and circuses, I'm wrapped up in plenty of equally inane and pointless crap same as everyone else - sometimes I just am bad at being a human. I'm not very good at socializing in general, it's something I've had to learn and try to study and be good at still - definitely does not come naturally to me. I've gotten pretty good at pretending, I'm a decent "professional people person" when I turn my human mask part of my brain on since reading people is something I've had to focus on because I can't just socialize like a human being normally does.
But yeah that's a very long way of saying, yes I'm not that mean of a guy.
DharmaCurious@startrek.website · 42 pts · 335d
Happened to me way too often as a kid (from other kids, never my family), and I've only just now begun to realize it's why I feel such embarrassment if I ever allow myself to get excited/show excitement. God forbid I ever let myself get animated, I end up laying in bed every night for literal weeks afterwards replaying it through some fucked up filter that just gets worse and worse until I'm convinced I've humiliated myself irrevocably, and I stop interacting with other humans for a long time. The only places I can allow myself to be excited/animated are online and with my family.
Recently went to visit a friend and ended up getting positively hyped while helping one of his friends build a rube goldberg machine. Friend I went to visit ended up having a medical episode, and mentioned in his drugged up state that he was a little jealous of how quickly I and his friend hit it off, and I still haven't recovered. Me and rube goldberg machine guy really clicked, but I haven't been able to bring myself to even text the guy because I can't get past the embarrassment of it. Friend I visited said it was like watching Romeo and Juliet meet.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 335d
To live is to cringe. There really is no antidote.
What happened to, um... JoCat? So many people were mad about the girls animation that they bullied him off the internet for a bit, and only after he was gone were they like "I agree with the cartoon, I just don't like people knowing that about me."
If you don't mind me asking, what do you find embarrassing about building a sick-ass fuckin' rube goldberg machine? I really can't imagine somebody doing that without joy.
DharmaCurious@startrek.website · 3 pts · 335d
Building the machine wasn't embarrassing, getting all animated and excited around other humans was embarrassing. I know it isn't. I know that isn't normal. I don't know why I have that reaction later on, other than when I was a kid other kids made fun of me whenever I did. Like, if I ever got excited and hyper or something other kids would laugh and make comments about I was fat and it I moved around I'd jiggle. Shit like that. It made me end up with basically the mindset that I need to be stoic all the fucking time unless I'm very close to someone. The friend I visited has been one of my best for 20 years (online/phone), and his friend and I clicked so fast that my barriers sort of dropped unexpectedly, and I ended up getting really excited and animated. Basically I leave situations like that feeling like I've made a fool of myself. A fat, ugly fool.
Our brains suck sometimes
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 335d
Hm. Yeah, that's a deep well to climb out of.
Well, I'm sure you know there's no getting out of this prison without banging at the walls, right? :p I only learned to sing by challenging myself to be uncomfortable.
Do you find that it's easier if you talk to people later and they're like "no, I didn't think anything was weird; it was a joy to be around you!" or is it like a "your brain wouldn't believe them anyway" kind of thing?
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 335d
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RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 335d
It is pretty impressive. It's one step closer to making something like a holodeck where you can generate a virtual world on demand.
That being said the companies that are pushing it and using it aren't being very ethical about it
merc@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 335d
It's interesting how in Star Trek they had a holodeck full of completely believable visuals, amazing generated sound, "hard light" making believable surfaces, characters who were extremely realistic, etc. But, the only holodeck character to ever be considered possibly sentient was Moriarty, and it required that they ask for a character capable of outwitting Data. Meanwhile, the sentient "computer" in the series was Data, who had a lot of quirky mannerisms that made it obvious he wasn't at all human, despite really wanting to be.
In the real world, Silicon Valley is convinced that because GenAI can make something that can mimic a human they think they're weeks or days away from AGI which will lead immediately to ASI. Meanwhile, nobody in Star Trek thought that holodeck tech was a profitable area of research for true AI. I think I trust the Star Trek writers more than Silicon Valley on this one.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
Eh, I wouldn't read too much into that angle. The computer and holodeck were pretty much deus ex machinas for Star Trek, written to do as much or as little as the plot required. They could just handwave the computer creating a super intelligent AI because Data requested it, or say the holodeck is capable of simulating bleeding edge warp core innovation (though the crew still had to tweak parameters and often were able to suceed "live" after failing many times guided by the computer because human intuition trumps all).
Star Trek is more useful for considering philosophical questions than technical ones, even though they did put a lot of effort into making it a hard tech world rather than a soft tech one. But when delving into unknown technology, eventually you need to use some soft tech that just works without any real world explanation. And any AI- or computer-related stuff fell into that "soft tech surrounded by hard tech" category.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
This is basically a philosophical question though. Can you achieve artificial intelligence by imitating it closely enough. GenAI imitates intelligence, and a lot of the Silicon Valley techbros think that it's going to lead to actual intelligence.
The philosophy of Star Trek seems to be no. For them there was a fundamental difference in how an artificial brain would work so that you couldn't get there with just a powerful computer. That's why Data had a "positronic net" and not just a powerful version of the isolinear circuits they had in the normal computers.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 335d
The LLM, I kinda get, you can almost picture training a word predictor.
Working code with comments is pretty mindblowing even if it's not better than a professional.
But diffusion... that's BLACK MOTHERFUCKING MAGIC.
Here's a picture of me, Here's a picrture of me with a hat. the vector between the two is hat. Now put a hat on that squirrel... works...
Hackworth@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 334d
If they could deliver on one-hundredth of that, it will be truly amazing.
They can't be generating a straight up video and that would be way too slow.
They said that they're not using pre-built worlds, so they're not pre-generating an entire world that you can run around in, which would still be fucking great.
I wonder if they're dynamically creating procedural world generation. then dynamically creating occasional assets as you demand.
Seems like it would be too slow and power hungry to do it any other way.
At some point we're going to get some crazy amazing games out of this.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 335d
OHHH let's get downvoted together!!!!
It's REALLY good at some things, like better than it should be by any stretch of the imagination.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 335d
What if I am excited about making people feel stupid?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 335d
Then I'm excited for you.
TomArrr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
Nice volley 😉
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Damn. Now I feel stupid for being excited about making people feel stupid.
mEEGal@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 335d
Not to cool your jets, but I've met worse types of persons
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 335d
Impossible. The meme has spoken!
zeca@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 335d
Definetely in the top 10 billion worst types of people.
teslasaur@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 335d
Oh man, i'm so excited about punching the next person i see in the face!
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 335d
Fuck yeah. Civil normaltism is as like cancer and slavery combined.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 335d
This is an opportunity. you need to look for official vans in the home depot parking lot.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 334d
I feel like that's the wrong suggestion. If you're going to be dragged off to a black site, maybe make it worth it, ya know?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 334d
Lots of people around me are excited for a racist march organised by flag-shagging, far-right knuckle-dragger Tommy Robinson.
So let's call it a guideline rather than a rule.
camelbeard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
Let's make it "if someone is excited about something that doesn't hurt other people...."
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 334d
How about pro sportball? Those dudes get wrecked, but it's largely considered acceptable to be excited about...
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 335d
Well I was excited about making them feel stupid for liking something and you just make me feel stupid for being excited for something... asshole.
Smoogs@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 335d
Part of growing independence is to develop some internal approval that you will enjoy your life without asking permission of others for you to go be you. You can and will seek out supportive people who will be attracted to your ideas. This is what having a vision is. You see it and that is what is important.
And Lots of other people have their own shit going on. So if they aren’t going out of their way to be cheerleaders: do not take it personally. They might come around later when they see what you got going on. They might not. But hey that’s ok. They are on their own trail. They are allowed this space.
That said if someone is going out of their way to bully you: do not give them permission to make you feel like shit. Their opinion of you is none of your business.
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 335d
Very well put.
It took me a loooong time to realize what I was doing and to get out of it.
This year I have gone harder than ever into my hobbies, and I have intentionally done every single bit myself without even consulting the people I usually would have had helping in the past.
The "pros" list covers basically everything from the physical outcomes of the project to the positive effects on me throughout.
The only negative is maybe that it's going slower than it would if I had some judgy relatives around, but that's not much of a negative in reality. Hobbies don't need to have deadlines.
And I dare say that the boost in confidence from the process has bled over into other areas of my personal and professional life. And I don't mean in a Linkedin Lunatics kind of way where I've rediscovered my ambition. Lol no, now I have the confidence to pursue the happiness and fulfillment I want to find in life.
Self confidence is a weird thing.
It's one thing to know and believe that you're intelligent and that you've done more research into the subject than the downers around you. But when you have a lifetime of issues dealing with people thanks to undiagnosed ADHD (insert meme "if you get good grades they let you raw dog ADHD your whole life") then impostor syndrome is just your starting point.
But once you do something significant on your own and see the consistently great results, the confidence shifts from being something you believe "on paper" in your mind to being something you feel in your bones and know to be true in a deeper way.
Or at least that's how it worked for me during this specific period of my life. Relationships are a big deal for our psyches so it may turn out that you need to lean into healthy relationships rather than lean out of mildly toxic ones.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 335d
that kid that killed animals for fun when I was in high school and he killed a bunch of other students pets and they all got in trouble for beating him up,
coal rollers and close shave swervers in the lunch room at work,
guys bragging about sexual harassment and assault,
maga,
etc..
merc@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 335d
Also, sometimes magical thinking can be trouble. Like, someone's excited about how their health issues are going to be cured with the right essential oils. Sometimes you need to burst that bubble so that they will actually get real medical help.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
Magical thinking is always trouble. At its most benign it still normalizes other, more insidious falsehoods just by accepting things baselessly.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
This should be up voted more. These kinds of posts invoke circle jerking. I was struggling to think of examples of weird topics but you gave a more comprehensive list.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 335d
I totally understand the desire to cut someone down who's doing something destructive or counter to the norm in an extreme way but equally I don't think it's necessarily constructive. I can disagree with someone and express that without necessarily making them feel dumb.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 335d
If you are excited about hyperconsumerist slop, I will shame you
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 334d
What if you're excited about military adventurism or the latest pogrom of an ethnic or religious minority?
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 334d
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 334d
What if you make an appointment at the dentist and don't show up?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 334d
"Teeth were a problem, I ignored them, it went away"
~Asmongold
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 334d
Believe it or not, absolutely nothing!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 334d
Oh boy! I can't wait to see more billionaires persecuted!
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 335d
So true. Being judgemental is stupid and old fashioned in the worst way. If it’s not hurting people, why judge it? Let people live, ffs.
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 335d
If they leave me alone about it after I politely express my disinterest I will, if not I'll take it as asking for my full opinion on the subject and that will be brutally honest.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 335d
You need to learn about autism and also children
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 335d
Knowing I have no patience with them I avoid children as much as possible and enteract with them even less.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 335d
Surely making assumptions builds solid relationships.
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 334d
Like making the assumption that I to talk about whatever it is they’re prattling on about.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 334d
Is someone shoving beliefs at you? Which beliefs and where? That might be very rude, depending on the context.
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 334d
It’s not as dramatic as that. Don’t talk to me about sports, religion, or whatever pop culture you’re into. Enjoy them for yourself by yourself. Online I can choose to engage or not, in public I’m way more limited.
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 335d
I catch myself doing this sometimes. I don't mean to belittle anyone's excitement — I just tend to default to responding way too analytically/critically. It's a trait of mine that I despise, and I'm trying to be more aware of it so that I can prevent it from happening.
Zink@programming.dev · 14 pts · 335d
This statement captures a huge part of the shitty, negativity first, punching down, and adversarial nature of the conservative white american culture that I was born into.
It is so incredibly pervasive that I think most don't even realize they're doing it. Even thinking of relatives who I have totally good personal relationships with -- I can hang out with them any time, but I am not going to sit around in the living room with everybody because within minutes it turns into non-stop complaining about entire other person on the planet.
It's almost like that "Darmok" episode of star trek, except on this conservative planet the locals only speak in the form of complaints.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 334d
Karen and Darmok ask to see the manager in your house
Zink@programming.dev · 1 pts · 334d
Glancing at your user name and starting to read ICE made me think "Miguel, his papers not perfect"
It's the sad version of your joke though. :(
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 335d
Can someone send this to my parents and everyone I've ever dated?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
if you find someone who is excited to send that up your partners and exes, DO NOT MAKE THEM FEEL BAD FOR IT!!!
Geodad@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 334d
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
I think the post is more along the lines of people who like MCU releases and pumpkin spice lattes.
Geodad@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 334d
If I'm excited about something, I am very selective of who I share my excitement with. The comments here verifies that choice.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 334d
Aye, I think that was one of the hardest things to accept as I moved from kid to teenager to adult. There are going to be people who wouldn't care if you were just elected the king/queen of prom, or accepted to med school at 18, or discovered a new form of life on the moon. Find the ones who enjoy your happiness and be happy for theirs.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 335d
First time I bought a new car I was pretty excited. It was nothing special, a Vauxhall Astra. But it was mine, it was brand new, and I worked hard to earn the money to pay for it. I go round to my friends house, all charged up with excitement of new car day. I say "You wanna come out an see it?" and he looks at me like Im an asshole and says "Not really. I've seen a car before.". And he was serious too.
There was a bunch of other shit like this, and to this day he wonders why I stopped being his friend.
teslasaur@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
Asperger alert if i ever heard it.
Have a friend who would say things like this too. Like if we asked them if they wanted to play cards on vacation, theyd say: Why? It's random outcome so why would you want to play it?
Theyre great at planning and making spreadsheets though. Like you wouldn't believe.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d
Nope. He was just a dick. He would later go on to brag about how he had two girls coming over later, and that he was going to spike their drinks with E in the hopes of getting a threesome. He also started to become that guy who threatens to beat up anyone and everyone who disagrees with him.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 334d
Eh, I feel that card comment. I'm on vacation, I want to do something fun! I just had to deal with a family reunion where they wanted to play mexican train. Like, come on, how the fuck is dominoes fun? Even monopoly has more strategy. Cards, depending on the game, could have a little more depth and skill, like ers, but if you were suggesting war I kinda am with your friend here.
whysteria@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 335d
/genuine am i missing something or are a lot of people taking the hyperbole a little too seriously?? like I agree but god forbid someone uses hyperbole??
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Lemmy users famously have an inability to comprehend figures of speech
bawdy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 335d
Don't be too harsh, for many of them English is a second language and idioms are weird
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d
Fair point
Jack@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 334d
People are free to use hyperbole. Other people are free to be "the worst type of person" for criticizing narcissistic levels of exaggerated lies.
udon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d
Welcome to Germany, a country of 80 million worst types of people.
She's right. That said, constructive criticism is very important as well sometimes, and it can be tricky to navigate when to be positively supportive and when to be critically supportive
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 334d
You want Ice? In your water? Just leave it outside Idiot
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 334d
Compared my buddies collection of Funko vinyl POP figures to Beanie Babies...crap of self realization.
Ugurcan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 335d
My parents were very excited about a fresh business opportunity by a certain Nigerian Prince. So I’m a shit person for not letting them enjoy it, sure.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 335d
Your loss, sat in my new palace because he came to me when you refused to help him.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 7 pts · 335d
No, no. This is one where offense can easily be intended.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 334d
I mean, I dunno if I'd support someone being like "Yay, meth!"
cheloxin@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 334d
But have you tried meth?
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
A valid question, for I have not.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 334d
It's also mean if you add up some measure of everyone's excitement and divide it by the number of people
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 334d
That's average
phx@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 334d
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that's great and I'm happy for you.
If you're underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you're sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay... yeah I'm not gonna be happy for you I'm gonna recommend talking to a professional
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 333d
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 333d
LaBuenie Buaby
redwattlebird@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 335d
That may be true but it's also important to have self resilience against useless criticism. I mean, it's not your fault your excitement has triggered someone else's defences, causing them to attack you. Best thing to do is walk away and only engage again when you're calm, if you want to still engage with them.
cheloxin@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 334d
I wanna know how so many people here know so many others in their lives that legitimately get excited about things like racism and shit. That's the surprising thing to me in these comments
derry@midwest.social · 2 pts · 334d
Maybe not many but an extended part of my family disowned a daughter because she is "gay". Found that out just last week. So I suspect they get excited about this things just maybe not in the way most people think about getting excited
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 334d
Is she OK? Capable of self-sufficiency and in a good place mentally?
derry@midwest.social · 2 pts · 334d
I do not know, I don't typically associate with that part of my family because of shitty behavior like this. I think she is, she went to college and has a good job, at least that's the last I heard until they stopped talking about her. Now I know why they stopped taking about her
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
phx@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 334d
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that's great and I'm happy for you.
If you're underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you're sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay... yeah I'm not gonna be happy for you I'm gonna recommend talking to a professional
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 335d
Autistics everywhere furiously clicking the upvote button.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
The worst people in the world furiously drawing strawmen...
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 335d
I'm curious to understand this comment, if you would sacrifice some time to explain what you mean?
Or even more interesting would be to know what you think I meant with my comment.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
As I was scrolling down the comments, all I could see was comments using strawman arguments for why the meme is wrong. Really just pointing out the juxtaposition of reactions to meme. Wasnt saying you were wrong, more just completing the thought... as it were.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 333d
What a nice example of problems with typed conversations. I was trying to interpret your post and just failed to, and i guess i could have writte my first comment a bit less open to interpretation.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
Hey, man. Im just glad we could resolve the issue with civil conversation. Thats the real win here, imo. Usually theres a misunderstanding, and people just start throwing shit at each other lol. Hope you have a great weekend, bud.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 332d
same :)
stinky@redlemmy.com · 4 pts · 335d
what if they're excited about hurting people
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 335d
What about Zionists? Or people cheering at Trump for sinking a boat in Venezuela?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 335d
I don't think thats what this post is about
selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 335d
Of course it's not, they are still the worst.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 335d
What about fucking sharks?
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 335d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 335d
If you're excited for Republican leadership: How could I possibly make you feel stupid? You're too stupid to know!
wavebeam@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
Kaerkob@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 334d
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 334d
I'll never forget the time I bought a book called Never Eat Alone and my ex ridiculed me for buying it (she's Chinese so the idea of eating alone was ridiculous to her). I ended up just putting the book in my bookcase, to this day I still feel shitty when I look at it.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 334d
Fuck her. Read that thing.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 335d
What if they’re excited for a trump third term?
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 8 pts · 335d
Don't make them feel stupid for being excited. Help them understand why it's a very bad idea.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 335d
Nah I’m done trying that to be perfectly honest.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 335d
Fair.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 335d
A blunt instrument is a good way to help them understand
noxypaws@pawb.social · 3 pts · 333d
I shame people when they mention asking an LLM about anything. Does that count?
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
I think there are certain things that we, as a society, can agree are worthy of feeling shame.
Racism is probably number one.
But asking LLMs for any kind of advice or using them as search engines should be pretty high on that list.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 333d
Good question let me ask chatgpt for a sec-
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 334d
Call me the worst type of person.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 334d
Dreamstealers
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d
I would need more specifics. Being excited about some things that are legitimately morally or ethically condemnable and in that case I wont pull punches in calling them stupid for their excitement.
If its just something I am cynical about, I earnestly think is stupid, or something I just don't care about. I'll usually not comment unless prodded or asked. In which case hey you asked for my opinion I'm not going to lie to you.
TopsickPilgrim@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 333d
You can like nu-trek all you want, but if my critique of it makes you feel dumb that's not my fault.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 334d
I shame anyone over 14 that still plays roblox. Younger than that, I try to nudge them into better games
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
Please stop nudging pre-teens, they can't consent
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 334d
That's one more reason you don't want them on Roblox.
...
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 334d
Eh, I'm not chuffed about the names, but I would bet many are ironic and/or kids being dipsticks. This just seems like one of those pearl clutching moments from 'le gasp, horrified adults!' I know I used a lot of terrible names as a preteen. Hell, I even made a name to bait nazi sympathizers in one account (as an adult in a totally different area), just to catalogue their name when they started hitting me up thinking I was one of them.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
I have yet to meet the first person that doesn't shoot me down when i share something i'm excited about.
Probably just that: "Dutch directness" i keep hearing about, which seems like an excuse for being an asshole in real life scenario's.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 335d
Part of it is age. I know everyone has had bullying issues growing. I did but I'm also aware enough to know that I was a bully too at times. Probably not physically but probably intellectually bullying my schoolmates and insulting people. A lot of that is internal insecurity and bullying I faced. A lot of the times we do mean things and don't know why. If you've got kids, you've seen this a lot of times. Ignoring all of this and doing what you want is an important part of growing up. I'd like to think that I more often than not was pushing my friends towards their dreams and at times facing reality. However, I know sometimes I've definitely teased someone about their dream. I hope that they were strong enough to ignore my stupidity.
upsidedown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
Yeah Jeffrey go on buy that island and chase your dreams uwu
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · -1 pts · 335d
What if they are excited about the dumbest things like labubus? Or AI image generation? It's just not that black and white. Labubus are stupid and you are stupid for liking them.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 335d
Nah, it's still mean
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · -4 pts · 335d
Obviously if you like labubus all hope is lost for you, and exceptions like these are totally ok. In my headcanon this post refers more to people who’d make fun of you for liking trains or sumin.
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 335d
i’m glad you’re excited about this screenshot, but there are many worse types of people….
i think the worst types of people are racist genocidal serial killer pedophilic sadists who complain about people not putting their shopping carts back….
Grerkol@leminal.space · 7 pts · 335d
I think the worst types of people are pedants who take everything literally, and then for some reason get mad about being told to put their shopping cart back
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 335d
do tell...
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 335d
silasmariner@programming.dev · 1 pts · 335d
Straight back atchya
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 335d
silasmariner@programming.dev · 1 pts · 335d
I'm not, I meant that the comment you'd replied to when I myself replied was, itself, a joke. It's jokes all the way down. No need to fret.
Zink@programming.dev · 2 pts · 335d
Yeah, yeah, yeah!?
Oooooh, not today, Satan.
confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 335d
I imagine the woman in the profile picture posted this shortly after introducing her new 50 year old boyfriend to her parents.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 334d
Now I think there's no problem in making you feel stupid for a dumbass comment, even if you were excited about it
confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
Huh? I think you replied in the wrong thread.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 334d
relevant username
confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 333d
What can I say. Your attempts at communication are too advanced for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯