Rayquetzalcoatl

Oh duh, of course it is! I didn’t even notice 😂

Wait, hang on, is the expression not “stepped foot?” What am I missing?

I would suggest breathing and taking time to respond if you need to respond at all. I’d also, genuinely (and I’m not trying to say anything about you here) try to check in with your internal monologue.

If you want to effectively resolve conflicts, you have to make people feel like you’re listening to them even if you disagree, and even if you think they’re inane or annoying or stupid. In my experience, to make people feel like you’re hearing what they’re saying and not just being dismissive (being dismissive absolutely will antagonise people), I have to make an effort to try to empathise, try to understand where they’re coming from, and try to be charitable.

To me, just picking up on terms in your post like “Karen”, and “snippy”, it feels like you’re dismissing this person - which I totally get. You’re not going to resolve conflicts that way, if you’re trying to resolve this particular conflict. It’s not possible to resolve every conflict, and some people simply will not engage with your attempts to work things out and will shout you down and try to trample you, but if you want a resolution you have to be willing to try.

Aside from that, yeah, walking away from your colleague I can see them feeling a bit abandoned by that. It’s not weird to just stand there quietly in support - in fact, some people may even feel threatened if you try to interject as it’ll then be two against one, and that might escalate things.

Anyway, good that you’re asking, and good luck! Remember, you’re allowed to take time to respond. It’s better for you to breathe and calm yourself if you feel nervous during conflict, rather than leaping to reply and listening to any kind of nervous, defensive reaction. Take time, slow down, and breathe. It’s normal to feel nervous and uncomfortable and upset when facing conflict. ✌️

I would argue that most web traffic is bots. Scrapers are everywhere, all the time, constantly. The uptick of LLM search tools is bringing ever more of them online, too.

Whether that kind of web traffic has an account on Reddit, probably not. But Reddit bots surely could upvote/downvote/report to influence things rather than just posting?

Why would it be safe to assume non-content posting users would not be bots?

I walk a lot. Even in that much lower speed, much lower stakes situation, I can tell you that eating/drinking is generally completely fine but give somebody a phone and they turn into a blind moron with no concept of other people. Even I’m guilty of it, if I’m trying to skip ads on a podcast or something and I absent-mindedly look down at my phone without getting out of the way and stopping first, by the time I look up I’ll have travelled much further than I thought and have been surprised by people popping out of alleyways or crossing roads etc who are now in front of me.

The number of times I’ve seen people physically walk into lampposts, other people, or just slowly sway side to side on the pavement, taking the whole thing up, while they dick around on their phones… People get out of elevators or up stairs and immediately stop and pull out their phones, blocking the exit for everyone else.

You can’t use a phone and do anything else at the same time unfortunately.

Honestly, I think you are being hyperbolic. If it was a pattern, maybe, but even then…

Sorry just to clarify: by “it” here I meant this post - not partner shaming in general, which covers a broad range of behaviours

“abusive” jesus christ 😂

Who cares? This did not “break the internet”. This is a fully USA squabble, and even then I genuinely don’t think most Americans care. This article is just an advertisement for Cracker Barrel.

Is it ragebaiting if you just call somebody “unathletic”? Or is that just insulting somebody? 😂

Suffering isn’t good. The growth that can be achieved through suffering can be good. There is a very big difference. Suffering doesn’t guarantee growth. Experience gained through suffering might not always be good (we may become jaded or cynical, or worn down).

Putting that aside for now, hurting others is bad. Inflicting suffering on others is not good, and doing so to try and force “personal growth” in a direction you desire is absolutely not good. That’s strange, cruel, controlling behaviour. That’s sort of like playing god.

When people say that suffering builds character, or reference bible passages like Romans 5:3 (And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;) (apologies, I don’t know similar teachings from other faiths although I’m sure most faiths have a similar concept to this somewhere in them), they are typically talking about a sort of impersonal “suffering”. The death of a parent, sickness, poverty, that kind of thing – and crucially this idea is often separated from “blame” and is instead a sort of “faceless” suffering. It could be set up like this so that people can focus inwards or on something spiritually, rather than getting stuck in a cycle of blame or revenge, but other times the suffering in question is literally blameless, such as a parent dying of old age.

Either way, the key part in your question is that experiencing suffering is an unfortunate but inevitable rite of passage, and hopefully a person will learn and grow as a result, but that intentionally causing suffering is a choice to hurt another human and is bad. It’s sort of two separate things, really.

I’m aware that I answered a slightly different question, but I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you say suffering is good because it “gives life meaning”?

Haha, I’m not sure “we were going to lie to our customers anyway 🤷‍♂️” is the best pitch for the pros of AI

I don’t think they were calling you “prejudiced” as it were, they were just outlining that judging whether something counts as a “real” hobby or just succumbing to boredom is flavoured a bit by our own views and opinions :)

I don’t think OP is talking about mainstream music. I think OP is talking about mainstream music streaming services (i.e. Spotify)

Surviving the predator? You mean being part of a minecraft youtuber’s discord before your 18th birthday?

More wheels is more faster, just like legs. That’s why horses are faster than people. This Huffman guy might be onto something

Multiple motorcycles? What’s he gonna do, ride them all at once?

Oh I see! Lol

What do you mean?

Yeah noncery is afoot, Triagonal is acting like a creepy crawly cradle-robber