My week just started cause I work Mon-Fri and I’m super nervous for tomorrow cause I have a project I have to do with someone I am not use to working with.

I’m gonna go get an edible after work though and hopefully I run into my crush.

I feel like its usually accompanied by things like “this person did a deep dive on this subject, you should watch this!”

Like… I can spend 6 hours doing a deep dive myself?

Yes! Why is it like this? I hate when people tell me to watch some video essay on a disorder - like why the fuck am I listening to some random person on youtube with no credibility??

I’ve been using Lemmy.today and have yet to experience a downtime issue.

I just grew as a person I guess. I’m not the same person I was 10 years ago and I’m sure I’ll be different in the next 10 years if I’m still around.

I also cut a lot of people out of my life and cut a lot of certain interactions out of my life. Like for example, I got of 4chan in 2020. I use to be a troll - the kind of person OPs post is complaining about - and now I’m very against it. I always prefer to be honest online instead of just saying whatever to get a response.

I try to have more good faith discussions now instead of antagonizing people.

But I said I sounded like you 10 years ago cause I remember hanging out with people in person, at their houses and at parties and on the streets… I felt like an observer. It felt like I knew a lot about other people cause I was always listening in.

What changed is that I stopped listening in on those people. Went out of my way to go meet other people instead. Now I’m not seeing those patterns I use to see among the previous groups I hung out in.

I have some faith in humanity but only because I sit around theorizing how to make things better. It’s just a theory though. So I know its possible but to make it happen, would take the kind of work and time I don’t have and I have no reach.

Right? Every now and then I find someone who remembers but most people don’t remember the forums. I was super active on the forums there back in the day.

Why are we so shitty to each other indeed.

For whatever reason, people like to be better than others. It’s something I’ve never understood and I always try my best to be humble because of it and don’t really get off on being competitive like a lot of people do.

You sound like me 10 years ago.

damn do you remember Albino Black Sheep?

Those forums are how I eventually ended up on 4chan back in the day.

It’s already quite easy to forget we are interacting with other humans when we are behind screens and keyboards

I honestly hate that people do this. Maybe its because I work online in customer service and I chat with people online so I always know that I’m talking to a real person - but even before I worked online, I always assumed I was talking to a real person on the other end.

It’s wild to me that people become so incredibly inconsiderate that they don’t even think they’re talking to a human and instead interpret it as “oh I’m just arguing an idea” yeah, you’re arguing an idea with a HUMAN.

Sometimes I catch people doing that because they’ll respond to me like I’m someone else and I have to be like, hey no, I’m not that person, I’m my own person and you are in fact talking to me now. A person who will react to things being said. Cause you know, human.

I started using 4chan around 2007/2008. It was always like that. It was the place to be if you were a toxic edgelord - a space to openly be a nazi and racist and homophobic.

I remember threads on /b/ back then too where people were looking for a new Hitler.

And they always had that shitty mentality. Be as contrarian as you can and as long as you can antagonize people into reacting, then you got one over on someone.

I haven’t been on there since 2020 but I watched it get worse and worse over the years as it spread into the mainstream with things like Gamergate and the fappening. I even tried to tell people but they would just laugh it off cause “4chan”

Big agree. I hate that I have to block news communities to get them out of my feed. I never subscribed to them.

This hasn’t worked for me.

why didn’t he want to sell it?

You can click on the “Show context” button to see who I responded to in order to gauge the proper context of ethical landlord in this case.

There’s no set 8-5 M-F schedule like there is when working in an office.

that’s why I mentioned the weird schedule they always have. My current one has some shit like Saturday 1 pm to 4 pm and then they don’t reopen until Tuesday at noon then are closed again on Wednesday. Like what the fuck.

I never see my landlord doing shit like that. Just show people to new apartments usually.

I work from home and look outside. I see people move in and move out all the time. I rarely see the guy in charge doing anything other than handing over some keys.

Nice! Sounds like I’m gonna get me an enameled one.

I guess they’d just be homeless without landlords

See. This is why I don’t like landlords.

It’s either I’m stuck with some transactional fake as fuck relationship or I’m homeless.

yeah I’ve had some pretty nightmare landlords that I knew personally or even lived with in some instances.

my cat and I started as roommates but now I’m pretty sure he’s my boyfriend.