Personally I feel like it’s less about exposure to extreme gore and porn and stuff like that. It’s more about the constant barrage of awful shit happening all over the world. Some stupid thing some politician said, police brutality, an asshole on a plane, etc. Our brains just weren’t designed to handle so much stimulus overload. I’m not a psychologist or whatever but that’s my opinion.

I just told the truth. Personal time off, health and wellness, weight loss, surfing, travel, and yes vibing doing nothing.

It went over well. Most interviewers were more interested in that than my professional experience. Most people can’t do that and want to know what it’s like.

For my part, I don’t want to work for/with people who look down on that sort of thing.

Warning: my resume is extremely strong so I have a lot of leverage. YMMV

I said I miss learning through osmosis, when you hear colleagues talking about something you may have heard of or read about but never seen in real life. So you get hands on practical real life experience on new concepts - or vice versa, teach someone else something new. You know, a healthy exchange of knowledge and ideas to help each other learn and grow. Fuck me, right?

This guy posted a 3000 word rant about how much he hates me, and he’s going to need weeks to prepare for that mentally and make sure he’s got the right outfit on and knows what kind of soda to offer me. Like dude wtf…

I truly enjoy a good debate “in good faith” where both parties lay out their positions and defend themselves and challenge my views. There’s very little of that here. Just pure unbridled rage and astonishing ignorance.

Some of the people here are downright scary in how toxic and antisocial they are. I just got called a social vampire in another thread for having the audacity to say I personally want to return to office because I miss learning from colleagues, which just doesn’t really happen when everyone is wfh. I’m pretty introverted myself but holy shit, the vitriol was intense. Unbelievable.

Don’t worry, lemmy definitely beats Reddit in the socially maladjusted toxic asshole department.

I remember my friends and myself looking up “things to do instead of drugs” on some anti drug website once back in high school. Pretty much all of the suggestions had to do with playing in snow. We lived in the tropics with zero snow. So we bought an eight ball and went skiing instead.

Oh shit i didn’t realize he played out, how was it?

I blame facebook and reddit. Wal Marts of the internet, destroyed all the unique small communities that used to thrive.

I’m feeling a bit gassy today, now I know why thanks

I’d like to do my part and report there are a ton of assholes on lemmy. It’s REALLY bad here and I’ve been around a while.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

Notice how they’re experts on everything in general too, not just their specific computer niche? Particularly governance, finance, tax, fucking crypto and how it’ll change all of the above, etc. Easily the most insufferable demographic as you say.

Remember when r/AMA used to be about things like researchers in fields you aren’t familiar with talking about things you haven’t heard of before but found interesting. Or someone who had just accomplished something interesting. Then at some point it just turned into a PR mouthpiece for actors and celebs promoting their new whatever.

I used to be on a bunch of forums and communities for niche interests. Then reddit and facebook et al destroyed them, like the wal marts of the internet destroying local communities. I was genuinely friends with many online strangers, like real actual bona fide friends, and suddenly our local digital hangouts were destroyed. End of an era. I’d love for those to pop up again but I wouldn’t know where to begin finding them now.

It “drives engagement.” The old marketing trope that sex sells has given way to rage sells. Piss people off, get them involved in a pointless internet debate, push that dopamine button in your brain because you’re right and that asshole is wrong and this is why, and boom, another social media addict. Oh hey what’s this, a funny meme? Sure I’ll click that and maybe reply in that thread too…

It’s super effective.

Yeah it’s the exact same shit on Lemmy, only the difference is that reddit is mostly self aware, and Lemmy goes around jerking off while huffing its own farts like its so much better than Reddit. It’s really weird.

So out of context and irrelevant to the discussion at hand, got it.

That isn’t clear at all because it seems like all the vitriol in this thread is about the very concept of owning real property and renting it to someone who wants to rent. This thread is not at all about landlords not fulfilling their contractual obligations. All I’m seeing here is “fuck landlords and big bad mean rich people” and it’s really childish and immature. Nobody has suggested a viable alternative yet to that, including you.

Genuinely can’t believe you people that does hatred make you so dumb

All I see in this thread is vitriol towards real estate rental from people who don’t have a strong understanding of finance and economics. The dumb hatred you speak of is going the other direction.

Misplaced vitriol. What if you don’t want to own? I don’t. I don’t wanna deal with any of that shit like broken ac, leaky roof, mowing the lawn etc. How do I rent if nobody can or will rent to me?

Rent and prices are directly correlated to the same things. Local economy, future outlook, interest rates, the usual stuff.

If you’re pissed off about housing costs that’s another story. If you’re pissed off because a landlord didn’t fix your ac or hot water then that’s another story too. But you just sound like an uneducated crazy person when you go around ranting like a lunatic about rent extraction.