Do you use a calorie counter? Sounds like you need more calories. When you eat enough calories to build muscle, you get enough protein, at least you have to try really hard not to.

Addicted to what? Watching Grandpa Jimmy rant about mainstream politics using bland, Disney-approved normie opinions? If you’re addicted to that, don’t ever use drugs (especially Tylenol).

Every television ever made in the history of televisions has a great feature that a lot of people haven’t heard about: the off switch. It’s hard to believe, I know, but your television has one! If you don’t like what’s on there, just slam that off button. You can also change the channel! It’s amazing!!!

But we live in a society.

Even if you disable seeing it, Google still uses your search query as AI training and processes your results that way. If you don’t want to use AI you need to stop using Google, and all Google services.

That “who, me?” shit is just cowardice. I haven’t presented any arguments because you haven’t expressed anything to argue against. You posted a dogwhistle and got called out. Go find your tribe.

No, you’re here to spread hate.

Go look up the definition for dogwhistle. That word you used is a dogwhistle indicative of an extreme religious right wing ideology. That’s why you won’t explain it - you can’t. You don’t know why you’re afraid, you just are. That’s indoctrination. Everyone here understands what you mean, you’re just terrified of explaining it.

Don’t dance around it like a coward. Say what you mean. I’m an adult, you’re an adult. You came here to express yourself, don’t get shy now.

What is transgenderism? I googled it and the top result for that word is a link to a religious website.

Isn’t that Pokimane? She’s ranked in League. Cute women can do great things. If you sexualize it maybe you’re a creep. Go watch her play.

If that’s your OC then you didn’t ask for help, you blasted off about politics. You didn’t say “I” even once.

Who told you there was anything at all you could do in your life that there wouldn’t be something better than you at? Why do you let that stop you from doing anything?

A lot of people are downvoting this because a 19 year old is an adult who can make their own choices and you are insinuating that there’s something so objectively wrong with dating an older person that it should be illegal.

So I went back to seeing myself as unimportant

If that’s how you see yourself, imagine what people think when they don’t even know you and meet you for the first time. Focus on what you have to offer other people, not what other people have that you want.

I thought you you were bragging and I came to congratulate you, dogg 😭

Now I’m sorry that happened and I hope things turn around quick for your family.

Focus on what you have to offer other people, not what other people have that you want.

It works on 4chan which has much higher traffic.

That’s still disordered and just encourages people to bump their own threads.

Not if posting in your own thread doesn’t bump it.

I think really most folks don’t realize how easy it is to design a platform that provokes real discussions and engages users but nobody would go there. Casual users are coming here for enjoyment, not engagement, and they don’t want to see anything that rubs them the wrong way. And we aren’t even talking about algorithmically driven feeds which learn from your behavior and give you content that you’re most likely to interact with, like Facebook, which can actually be dangerous.

These are just my observations. I was here before the internet talking on BBSs. I don’t know why all these people are here, to be honest. When I started out it was just nerds talking to each other. I wonder if people would participate in a discussion board that held all posts and responses for 24 hours before making them public to give people time to reflect on what they just said.

We don’t see each other as people anymore. This is complicated by advanced AI enabled LLMs driven by commercial and political interests, so you don’t even know at this point whether you’re talking to an actual person. But this is what we have now so this is what I use. Listservs were the first great platform I remember enjoying, and I wouldn’t mind going back to that. Usenet was also good.

I just think the days of the average person being able to go on the internet and just say whatever they want, relatively anonymously and with no real oversight and no consequences or accountability for what happens afterwards are coming to an end. At that point hopefully we’ll see less inflammatory politics and engagement bait as more and more people move on, and go back to whatever they were doing before they started doing this, maybe watching cable TV or going to sporting events.