I used an app called Plus 500 to buy $100 test amount of stocks. The stock market value went down by 1 cent and they took my money and sold my stocks for me automatically. Fuckin crooks, I’m pretty sure stock trading isn’t meant to work like that lol. Never again

Honestly the best example I can think of is to secretly record a conversation between you and someone else, and listen to it later. Voice is good, video is better. You’ll notice all kinds of things you don’t in the moment. Tone, timing, stutters, body language, etc. Then really meditate on who you are and how you want to present to others.

Remember that you can’t always change everything… Sometimes you have to accept certain aspects of yourself and work with what you can actually change. Personally I never tried to change anything like that, I’d rather just be authentic, but understand what that actually means and that not everybody will like me.

Something interesting and anecdotal. We get a lot of Indian immigrants in my area, and they’re primarily vegetarian. But as soon as they move here, they become anaemic, because the lentils etc grown in our soil doesn’t have enough nutrients for survival. They have to start taking supplements. I’m not sure why that is, but it makes me wonder if people would be more willing to be vegetarian here if it was actually viable nutritionally.

I noticed a bunch of my comments staying at 1 view forever because some keyword tripped an A.I. to shadow ban it indefinitely… I was so mad

I feel called out lol

I got banned for accidentally using “far right extremist terminology” lol. I’m still not entirely sure what I did wrong

I’m a recent refugee and it just continued to get worse and worse. This week I was just like fuck it, I’m done. I looked up “Reddit alternative” and StumbledUpon the fediverse. Loving it so far. Actually communicating with real humans is something I didn’t realise I missed so much.

Back in my era

Automations haiku’d

Bots corrected links

And we liked it (most didn’t)

You are right that in modern society it’s much harder to make and maintain friends. Really you have to think of it in terms of “closeness” or intimacy. Have you talked about only good things with these people? Or have you opened up about maybe some deeper or darker topics? Have you been to each other’s house? Have you helped each other do something important and difficult? Being a friend is almost like an imposition. You need to be able to rely on and support each other.

Same here… I already have a “steam machine”. I have a gaming PC connected to my TV via sunshine/moonlight (previously steam link). Heck you could even go HDMI cable, but I wanted to keep my PC in my office so I can use it as a work computer as well. If I didn’t build my own gaming PC a few years ago I’d strongly consider it, though.

It sounds like maybe just letting them know how important they are to you is a good first step.

Yeah the whole thing feels a bit… Messy? Like it feels like when you get the tail end CC of a 40+ reply email chain at work and you need to figure out what’s going on. In many ways it feels like email to me, actually. The text based stuff anyway. Searching is God awful, there’s like 100–1000 messages per day you cannot possibly keep up with… But people are using it as a replacement for their entire community, which is just bad. I had to submit a bug report on a game’s Discord once, it was even worse than doing the same through Twitter.

I like the voice chat functionality though. Wish that screen sharing / streaming worked on Linux.