AskewLord

i am not depressed or anxious.

I still don’t like talking to people, because they are boring and really selfish. I like talking to people who aren’t selfish and rude, who are doing interesting things, but those people are very rare. maybe 1/10 people I meet is worth my time, and maybe 1/50 actually is enjoyable and fun to be around such that I enjoy their company. I actively date, and socialize several times a month.

the more i socially isolate, the better my mental health and mood generally are. I absolutely loved the pandemic those were 2 of the best years of my life. I haven’t hung out or met anyone new in two weeks now and I am in a way better mood than I was around the holidays when I had to do a bunch of social stuff.

there were some increasingly crazy people on the inside of that group. I didn’t have the energy to fight a battle on multiple fronts. Crazy people have infinite energy.

I decided to shift gears and now I go out into the woods and fix up hiking trails, but even there we come across crazy people who try to place traps to hurt people. We have one parcel of land where someone is cutting trees so that they fall on people hiking. This person has been doing this for years and never been caught, but we have to keep going in and cutting down trees because of this psycho. Thankfully it’s only one person in one place though and the trees and rocks and dirt don’t flip out at you and most people who see us say thank you.

The geeky people who care about tech usually are the assholes and the bullies who are angry the ‘normies’ are using their tech that they made for themselves and that they can’t live in a weird bubble of their misguided and idealistic beliefs.

early reddit was dominated my far right libertarian techies who think free speech should be absolute and taxation was theft. It was also incredibly misogynistic and racist and dominated by 20/30 something white brogrammers making lots of rape jokes.

Sort of like how fediverse is now, except it’s far left techies who think rent is theft and who become hostile and ballistic towards anyone who doesn’t share in the ‘purity’ of their beliefs and think anyone who isn’t part of their queer utopia vision deserves to be subjected to violence until they agree with them.

what data is that? the data that shows human civilization has grown and expanded almost non-stop for the past 10,000 years? despite all the setbacks it has had?

Movie should be about a young idealist communist/anarchist who spend their days fantasizing about killing the wealthy and talking non stop about evil they are. Then this rich evil guy meets them one day and makes them an offer: if you hang out with me for 1 year I will let you murder me and you will get all my money and power, but you have to hang out with me for that 1 year and learn everything about my life and go to all my parties and meet all my friends. Then after 1 year the young idealist slowly learns and grows and starts loving the rich person who has given them so much and taught them so much. They can’t do it! But the rich person dies anyway (they had cancer), and the young anarchist now gets their money, their multiple homes, and all their power and influence. And they decide they can do so much better if they don’t give it up, if they don’t start the revolution today, if they temporarily use these things to do good! They will finally be able to start the revolution and liberate the proletariat and usher in the utopia promised by their ideals.

And as they do this they start hurting people. They steal from others, first other rich people. Then they start feeling entitled to other people’s things and their bodies. They host parties for other young anarchists, but they need people to provide the food, the music, and hire sex workers. And they are going to pay all these people very generously and give away their houses to these people and such, but it all goes so well, but the people who they hired aren’t good anarchists/communists, they are clearly only in it for the money and are all greedy capitalists, some of them even own their homes! They really don’t deserve their generosity, so they stiff and underpay the people they hired. But they also decide they should do it again, and again, and again, and just a bit longer they will hold onto all this money and power, it can’t hurt right? The revolution will be tomorrow!

And fast forward 30 years and they never gave it up. They now have more money, more power, because what they had wasn’t yet enough to start the revolution they still deeply believed in. They still keep hosting parties, boosting up communist/anarchist celebrities and influencers, and keep broadcasting their beliefs. But they get a diagnosis of cancer, time is running out. They have 6 months to live. There isn’t time to start the revolution now! They have yet to compete the work… they need more time! so they go and find a young poor struggling idealists like themselves, and they know this person will never listen to them unless they offer to kill themselves and give all their power and money away to the killer, so that they can start the revolution…

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you can also lecture people on the internet how superior you are for doing so and how inferior they are for not upvoting your content.

I don’t. I’m not egotistical enough to think the world will collapse or that if it did I’d have any ability to survive it.

If there is a mass die off then I’m dying too.

i think some instances do, some don’t.

but some content is not porn, but very much like porn, like a lot of the furry meme stuff

for sure. i ran a community space for 8 years, and i had to quit because it became a bit of a political football and was attracting really unhinged people, both advocating for, and against us. i really could not tolerate it after about a year of that nonsense and it turned what was a fun positive place into a miserable one.

the most insane people were the one who had really no genuine interest in what we were doing, but just wanted to use as ‘proof’ of whatever weird conspiracy nonsense they believed. we were simultaneously ‘corrupting the children’, despite the fact no children were involve, BUT also we were ‘not doing our duty by not helping the children’ because we were an 18+ space. It was horrible. a lot of identity politics idiots got involved and accuses of being white supremacists, and then we were accused of pushing the queer bipoc agenda. one week we had this crazy young black woman harass us and then a week later it was some old white boomer lady…

we were just a makerspace/toolshare…

You do use it. You just don’t think it’s the equivalent of Jesus Christ of operating systems that will absolve you of the ‘sin’ of using non-FOSS software.

the vast majority of Linux use is on server or server-adjacent things and unless you’re running a home server, there really isn’t a practical benefit to for home use.

the same way you counterfeit anything. you make a fake shitty version of it and pass it off as the real thing and people buy it and you make a lot of money.

I use Linux and if anyone tries to talk to me about it I find a way to leave.

I also poop and I have no interest in talking to other people about their poops.

anyone who works in local politics who has any sanity doesn’t last very long. i have worked on it in the past a few times, and after about a year or three you just give up. my sister has been mayor of her village of 1000 people, and basically can’t wait for her term to end because the most vocal people are the ones who are the nastiest and stupidest.

when a smart person has a complaint she can reason with them and tell the limits of what she can do and they generally accept this. stupid people however, get hostile and will threaten legal action and often so so far as to waste their own tax money they are paying, on the town lawyer having to file to dimiss frivolous lawsuits. people also lose their shit over what goes on on public property and their neighbors property over which they have no legal rights. she’s even had people who had their own trees fall on their own houses after a bad storm and try to sue the village over it for not ‘identifying dangerous trees in the city’. and then when she has the town remove dangerous trees on town property that are a liability, those very same idiots, come out and PROTEST that the town is removing trees and destroying the environment. you cannot reason with these people at all all you can do is politely nod as they ramble to them and ignore them.

it’s INSANE. Just go to any local town or city meeting/hearing. at least 30% of the time involved will be complete idiotic weirdos going up to am microphone and yelling about microchips in the water, when the topic of bumping up the budget of the roads dept to fill some extra potholes. or there will be a discussion of re-doing a local park and someone will go up screaming about how making the park nicer for children will make them weak Satan worshipers because they grew up without any parks and they are good Christian.

No. Thank god.

People are awful enough about politics and their hobbies. When you add sex to the mix they get even more insane and nasty.

I was a part of some dating subreddits years ago and they was so much crazy drama and mods were would trade sexual favors for subreddit influence. There was also a lot of doxxing and other crazy stuff.

nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.

personally i know furries and I don’t really care, but I’m a weirdo. Yet I still don’t really want weird furry shit that I don’t care about constantly showing up in my feed.

Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html

round and round we go. i feel the same way. tired of weirdos with superiority complexes who feel it’s appropriate to harass, intimate, and try to silence anyone who is different than them.

I think there are some people here like that, and they are great.

But there are fewer and fewer of them as they get drowned out by the angry miserable people who are only here to harass and grief others who they disagree with. Huge uptick in that type of behavior the past few months, as the politics in the USA has gotten a lot of reddit people banned there and they came here. I have been called more names in the past three months on lemmy that I ever got in the previous 2-3 years I have been using fediverse

i miss kbin.

lemmy.ml is still rife with crazy tankies who go into other instances and harass the crap out of people.