loved this short story highly recommend giving it a look. fox 8 by george saunders
https://altman103fall201...

if I'm ever living alone or something I'll have to turn into the type of person that hosts a dinner or small gathering or something every week as insurance against Rotting

need to do something creative today

someone left a comment on a video confused about how stat stages in pokemons works, and their profile pic/name/grammar made them seem like a kid, so subconsciously I ended up typing out an explanation with pretty simple language that made sure not to describe the math in a confusing way. then I clicked the profile and it said created 19 years ago lmao

how are you supposed to get to know someone without being in a discord server with them where you can passively learn about one another through incidental side conversation, you're telling me I have to not only talk one and one but also initiate conversations on purpose?? this is bullshit!!

Homeless -> Unhoused is a perfect example of pointless linguistic treadmilling because Homeless is already as neutral of a term as you could ask for. No historical baggage, no dispute about what it refers to, the word is literally just home -less, without a home. Any stigma associated with it is just stigma already associated with homelessness the concept

short form video: I think people are overestimating the harm of "slop" and underestimating the harm of being magnetically glued to your device in a mental trance for 3 hours a day

I used to think I wasn't at all an anxious or neurotic person, which feels insane when it's so obvious to me now that anxiety about being perceived inadequately (whether by me or others) is my main social inhibition. I remember associating anxiety with my mom worrying about me staying out too late, or with other people stressing out over clothes and romance

So many people out there making themselves unhappy by fixating on everything about the world that makes them angry, how much is falling into that trap or not a matter of strategy vs personality

I like the bruhbruh in the channel name