Talcosis

I prefer using the beat of Queen’s Another One Bites the Dust

Yeah, they’re the heart version of “have you tried turning it off and back on again?”

The Master and Margarita

Probably won’t get as much out of it as someone who lived in the Soviet union, but it’s an interesting dissection of the absurdity of authority.

No, there was. And there is. That’s the worst part.

We produce more food than we need. We produce more goods than we need. Starvation and poverty are both choices made by those in power to ensure their own power.

Sometimes. Especially if you run into tankies.

Does stock market count?

I guess there is a gender aspect as well. One of my dude friends casually mentioned they were poly when talking about relationships. Nothing out of the ordinary, really. Just “oh, cool”.

This girl I knew who I was a bit on the fence about invited me on a date and showed up with two other guys. I don’t have a problem with one night stands, but I have literally no interest in sharing. Then she got real mad when I didn’t try to hook up with her then and there. I didn’t even realize it was a poly thing until later that night, I thought she intended a platonic hang and I was the crazy one that thought it was a date.

Yup.

And then in my experience, I go. “Oh. Dang”

Depends on who you piss off

Scams work for a reason. More often than not, it’s a right place right time thing. I consider myself a pretty smart guy too, but I remember a few years back I gave my ssn to someone running the “you’re about to be arrested” scam. Realized it before I gave them money, and ssns are all leaked by now already (freeze your credit)…but that was a bit of a wakeup call (heh).

I was tired after a long day, I was annoyed, and I’d had a few beers at that point. I was in a susceptible mindset when the phone rang. It happens. Scams are designed to short circuit your thinking, and with some scams being “smart” makes you more susceptible. It’s a question of experience.

I know that 23 yr old cosplay models that love videogames and want me to rate their new bikini for some design aren’t adding me on discord…but if it was my first day on discord, I might think that’s normal.

Edit: actually I think this might be the approach you should take–make it very clear that you don’t think any less of him, because this happens to everyone. Falling for a scam doesn’t make you dumb, it’s a learning experience. Many people that fall for scams keep giving up cash because they feel stupid and ashamed, don’t make him feel stupid and ashamed.

But this particular method might get him to realize “she” wouldn’t spend a dime on him, and that might raise some doubts…

I mean, that was implied. CoughEpsteincough

Oh no no no, when I said killing minorities I meant more along the lines of white guys blowing away anyone that ain’t white through a locked door in self defense.

This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I’d refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.

It would be nice if self defense often meant an abused person ending their abuser, but what it usually looks like is shooting minorities.

I feel like a billionaire pedophile can afford to buy a fall guy to take the death penalty for them.

The problem with “self-defense” is that it is often a “pre-emptive self-defense”, which is indistinguishable from aggression. Especially when it becomes a question of personal self defense using lethal weapons.

I have unironically tried that. They looked at me like I was in fact crazy once I clarified that I did not wish to enroll a child in their arts and crafts thing.

I’ll be honest I don’t know how much the advice will work.

The advice is simple: do social stuff, be social, and you’ll end up in a social group.

That being said, the advice is (a) mind-numbingly “have you tried putting one foot in front of the other foot” for someone that knows how to make friends, and (b) the advice is damn near useless/impossible for someone that doesn’t know how to make friends.

Personally, I’m in group B. I don’t know how to find clubs where people do stuff. I don’t know how to find a place to volunteer.

I got ‘soft banned’.

I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don’t use reddit.