People will often say that they need a job. I don’t think that most repeat that because they instantly understand their mistake.

Going to assume that there was no “versaTop” in the equation.

There are friends and friends of convenience. Real friends stay by your side. The others show their colors eventually. I’m sorry for you but you’ll find real friends going forward.

For C are the belongings in a cave or hut or just left outside in the rain?

I have a lot of books, clothes and things to cook with so that would be nice.

That was definitely only a boomer and older gen X thing.

I think you answered a question I had: whether QLED or OLED came out first. I presume it’s in that order based on the issue you mention.

This was a great comment! Where does QLED fit into all of this?

I noticed this first with AITA when it became clear that the mods were manipulating the sub for their own purposes. They would let obvious fiction in and ban people for calling it out. They also very selectively enforced standards and would only go after very specific comment types while ignoring very obvious abuse. Then I started seeing this behavior happen in pretty much all of the ask or story subs. Now you see it on Tik Tok and YouTube shorts–bots reading all these fictional posts into video shorts. It’s bizarre.

My Reddit account is probably 17 now. I haven’t logged in for ages, so I’m unsure. In any case, early Reddit prior to the DIGG debacle was pretty much like here. I think that the angry/edgy types had been on DIGG the whole time. It was when they went over to Reddi that it started to become meaner. Then wen subs cam out, it very quickly turned into what we know today.

During the whole API issue, I got a permanent ban from one of my favorite subs over a random and unimportant comment that included a stream of insults from the mod. It was completely unwarranted and pretty obviously was reactionary behavior by someone projecting their bad mood against the world. I sort of looked at my hands and wondered why I would ever want to spend more time on that toxic cesspool. I immediately stopped using the service entirely and moved fulltime over to Lemmy (had an account already, but I was only dabbling prior). I do miss some aspects of Reddit, but that Reddit started its painful death somewhere around Lockdown.

I don’t really see a problem with casual dating. She’s not committing to these people or lying about being committed. Alternatively, polyamory is a thing and many people live happily and fulfilled in that. None of these things are, in and of themselves, really problematic.

I think you had a baby.

People tend to be more educated and more empathetic. Violent crime is significantly down to the lowest levels ever, especially compared to the 70s.

What sucks is that some people are becoming irrelevant: old age, certain political beliefs, certain religious beliefs, etc. They are burning down the house on the way out. Also the house of cards that is the economy that was always going to collapse one day is now collapsing.

Socially we’re better off. Economically we’re worse off. I suspect that we go back to a mainly urban and more sustainable form of living like prior to the baby boom.

It’s more reported. The numbers are surely smaller than before due to deterrent effects from more people being caught.