Prehensile_cloaca

Eh, I think my points still stand.

People, in general, don’t seem really inclined to make any kind of lasting, substantive connections and the pandemic just exacerbated the social and economic spiraling that was already extant. It also forced the majority of US Americans to see that there are no safety nets and our leadership (regardless of political flavor) is almost laughably inept/corrupt/blasé; in other words, no one is coming to save us, and that outlook is grim. So the average person, understandably, has some tunnel vision and a kind of deep, subconscious sense that things are going to get worse, regardless of their efforts to the contrary. That’s rocky ground to build any kind of foundation.

Whoa whoa, not everyone at 40 is a washed up wreck. Especially with no kids. Physical maintenance and nutrition has come a long way. We aren’t the 40+ of the 80s and 90s who looked rundown af.

You are absolutely not alone in those experiences. What you’ve described is almost exactly the paradigm of experience since the pandemic- people are just bizarre and unpleasant, even while espousing a desire to make connections. It’s a bit mind boggling, but also very lonely.

It kind of feels like we are STILL isolating, except there are large cohorts of toxic people who aren’t, and so stepping foot outside is inevitably a run-in with some jerk, or jerkette.

This person also has low hopes

You vs the Computer she tells you not to worry about

Then perhaps we should expect changes/shifts in women’s behavior to bridge the gap?

I don’t think that cultural evolution is happening - look at Bumble, which had its premise/differentiation with women making the “first move.” They eventually had to nix the feature, because…women didn’t want to make the first move; they wanted to be pursued. Meanwhile, apps in general are just a minefield of emotional rejection, while Corporate ownership drags men through the muck as long as possible to get those $$$. So most men simply stop using apps and simply wait for some kind of IRL meet-cute. And that sparingly happens in a society that has very, very few places for non-commercial social overlap.

Because we were raised by Boomers, the least empathetic generation in modern history.

The inertia of fucking Boomers is an unwelcome gift that won’t go away for years to come.

Trash social media has connected the worst sort of people and given them a platform to share their toxic traits.

So cruel, but uncreative people now have wider options to be shitty.

“I have low hopes.”

Caves are usually in the mid 50s, Fahrenheit. I wonder if he heats and dehumidifies the batcave, because otherwise those batsuits are gonna get musty.

There’s definitely no beer in the onion department. I checked.

Aside from Elijah Wood, no one gets to pick their parents

“I want to stab that guy, but he’s way over there”

"“Look at me, I’m a grad student. I’m 30 years old and I made $600 last year!”

– Abraham Whistler

“Take the ferry from Helsinki and bring me some long drink.”

Your mom is a problem dog owner. When something inevitably happens, she’ll blame everyone but herself, because she sees the dog as an extension of herself and her “freedom,” instead of being responsible for a living thing, in a society.

Trash human trait.

“I have no talent.” - this person

Maybe that’s what it means to you. I don’t think that’s a generally shared view.

It moreso means “Ok, old, out of touch person who wants to bloviate and/or gaslight me about some minutiae. I hear you, and I reject your input, but because you take any pushback as a threat to your identity, I’m going to be incredibly succinct to avoid further back and forth.”

I would love to have more effective means to threaten inanimate objects.