They aren’t talking about empathy, this is something else. It’s about the guilt of feeling happiness in a world that seems like it’s going in the wrong direction.

That guilt is understandable, but when it becomes so pervasive that you feel the need to express that guilt on every single expression of joy, that seems unhealthy for society, and it makes people much less likely to join a movement.

This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.

If the server owner gives the bot access to those permissions and the users have activity sharing enabled, yep.

That means that we should be able to get about 50% of them.

For real. My parents were EXTACTIC when I got into DDR. They were happy to pay for the pads. Making exercise fun is the only way I’ve been able to regularly do it.

It sounds like you have a drastically different experience with exercise than others, to the point that you might want to talk to someone about it? Very few people get as mentally stressed when exercising as you seem to be describing.

Best bad movie of all time. It’s one of a few that are consistently entertaining and never boring. I show it to people at least once a year.

I realized that I was accidentally voting on posts while scrolling in Jerboa.

This is very much just plain mental illness, but if you want to use it to justify being annoyed at all Americans in general, more power to you I guess.

The number of people I talk to who mindlessly regurgitate the “fact” that “most people are terrible” seems to be going up. Most people don’t act like they think that’s true, but once you really internalize that kind of misanthropy, assuming every interaction will be negative is how you go through the world.

Your assumptions about the world greatly impact how you interact with it, and when you stop looking for anything good, you’ll only see good things when they’re shoved in your face. It’s easy to justify your general malaise because you tell yourself everyone is like that.

Trans Wizard Harriet Porber by Chuck Tingle unironically slaps.

Push back when you see it. Remind them that we have a chance to reset, and they don’t have to act the same way here that they did on reddit.

Hello fellow Longmonster! Nextlight is life!

Turns out you can click the link and find out! It links to a very short Bluesky post! Try it out! Lemmy has more than just headlines!

For real. It’s so frustrating how someone will just text “let’s hang out” or “let’s play games tonight” and it’s always me who has to go the extra step of “OK sure how about 7?”

Obviously the team that won had better people who were praying even harder.

I mean, there are absolutely things that you should do just to improve your approachability. Good hygiene, to start.

Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don’t know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.

Sorry, but this sounds exactly like what male privilege is. Assuming that it doesn’t happen near you because you haven’t noticed it.

Ask your female friends what sorts of sexism they genuinely face regularly and I think you’ll learn a lot.

In a weird way, having emotionally available and supportive parents is absolutely a privilege. People are able to develop empathy in spite of bad parents, and good parenting isn’t a guarantee to a good person, but parenting is a major factor for life success. I wish it weren’t, and I hope we can build a society that could guarantee every child full opportunities.