This rash? Biden. Stubbed toe? Biden. Sense of loneliness and desperate need for a tribe? Let’s group together and hate on Biden

I do, the one positive about commuting is that I can listen to books. It’s the physical act of reading now that’s destroyed for me. I love books, being in bookstores, but sitting down to read feels like wasted time. On the commute it’s hard for me to read and be in a moving vehicle, so audiobooks are great

Wow am I on facebook?

I lost my love of reading thanks to idiotic school mandates. I read so many books in jr high, in high school we had a homeroom at the end of the day that you weren’t allowed to do homework in, we were literally forced to read for 30 minutes. School admins thought this would ignite love for reading, instead it killed all of my joy for it. Nothing like sitting next to a sunny window thinking about how in just 23 more minutes you can go outside when you’re being forced to read right there.

Then detention too, if you got detention you weren’t allowed to do homework - because reasons I suppose. (Doing poorly in school? Getting detention? Well good luck, you can’t do homework here sucker!) So of course, more forced reading time. How did no one think that we would associate reading == punishment?

So now I find it incredibly difficult to read, and I hate it. All I think about is all of the other things I could be doing.

Work retail and you’ll see how little people read. There can be a sign in giant huge letters when walking in the door saying “Sale things aisle 7” and they’ll stop en employee right by the sign and ask where the sales things are

For their protection of course!

Got it, so alcohol and hard drugs are different and we shouldn’t directly compare them like that

So hiding it and not telling kids about it is a solution, which makes them curious, and then go eat overboard. Which is what I did.

What is much better is what Europeans do, where they have a much healthier view of alcohol, grow up around it, know what it is and does, and don’t have nearly the unhealthy binging Americans do. On top of that they also aren’t having an opioid crisis.

Hiding it from kids obviously will prevent them from ever using it or being curious!

God forbid we have open and honest conversations with kids so they learn how to use things responsibly.

You should join us on Owncast! Host yourself twitch! We’re starting to get some people over there, or you could stream to both and tell your people about your free adfree stream. Different possibilities!

It’s a banana, what could it cost? $10?

It’s amazing how many people are raging about the rules of a couple communities about no politics when I can count dozens of active communities who are political based.

Everything’s over. I’m mentally drained. I just want to zone out and look at memes.

“I saved 10 cents in gas at the pump though”

Are you talking about here? Or Reddit? I’ve definitely noticed some downvote trolling has been picking up here.

We should come up with a detox program

I think both can be true tbh. I welcome everyone from reddit and encourage us to grow. I also will say leave toxicity at the door, or sub to other instances/communities that enjoy it.

BAAAAAM

One of the few actual good usages of ChatGPT

How about calling them “Phone Trappers”?

It sounds like something Jerry would say: “You know these people, the Phone Trappers. They ask you what you’re doing, and the second you say you’re free—bam!—they trap you into a call. It’s a trap! They lure you in with a text, then they pounce with the phone.”

All the more reason to not take it too seriously

It’s a meme.