This is why people like this are told to go outside or touch grass.
Frankly all of 4chan should.
But then our supply chain of clinically insane greentexts would fail.
I heard a story about a whole world that was perfect because they locked a kid up in a room and threw all the bad stuff in there with the kid. The poor kid suffered all of the world's miseries so that others could enjoy life. That kid's name? 4chan.
4chan is 99% deplorable garbage. I won't even go into /b/. Helllll no. But oddly enough, some of the internet's best memes come out of there.
Through this sieve would come the ascended madmen. Those who escaped the cave and rejected the reality without, retreating to their chamber of hate and stagnation. The truly unhinged. No more naive, parroted bastardizations of the Socratic method. Only irreparables.
This select choir of lunatics voluntarily ablating their sanity will be decadence enough, I think
most of them were social outcasts long before 4chan. That's actually how they got there in the first place.
Everyone will be having pleasant conversations outside, but these guys won't.
Imagine being so obsessed by black dick as 4Chan.
interact with people
Instructions unclear, helicoptered my dick around but there appeared to be no ceiling fan.
And now the park security is approaching with tasers. I guess playgrounds aren't considered America!
Anon learns that outdoors is fake and gay.
Wtf is a Gonial Angle or a Canthal tilt?
Gonial angle is this:
Canthal tilt is that:
As I was googling I've seen articles mentioning some angles statistically more attractive than others, that's predictable, but then incels take it as another reason why they are genetically predisposed to stay virgins and have no power to change that.
As a gigachad I can confirm.
Things people think about when they haven't learned to manage obsessive rumination in their own minds and live every day with a kind of stress or misery that few people who are even slightly healthier can even comprehend.
Who the fuck cares honestly other than shut in weirdo's
Interacting face-to-face with non-degenerates results in normal chat. Whoda thunk?
I think their cope is that "people aren't mentioning that but they think it" etc
The Woke Police (TM) have eyes on every wall.
Lemmy in a nutshell too tbh.
I don't know what boards you're on, but wow. Not the experience I'm having on Lemmy. You might wanna check your subscribes.
go outside
interact with people
nobody is talking about linux
nobody is talking about the bad thing that amazon did today
nobody is talking about self hosting or privacy
everyone just having normal and relatively pleasant conversation and going on with their day
No one is accusing me of raping a cow (I got a milkshake)
No one is blaming me specifically for the state of the environment (I drive a car to get my milkshake)
Funny you say that lol. I study electrical engineering, and my friends from uni ABSOLUTELY talk about linux, self hosting, and privacy. Still looking for someone to fill out the "bad thing that amazon did today" conversation niche.
Are you my ...therapist?
(Read this as in the butterfly meme LOL)
My lemmy experience is not like your lemmy experience.
I like how ambiguously
This place
can either mean "4chan" or "outside."
Fake, we occasionally mention OnlyFans even when outside
No one maybe talking about lookism but they're practicing it.
Between strangers, yes. For social groups, people tend to stop seeing each others looks as they get to know each other. This is where people's advice to work on your personality is necessary. If you're out just expecting random people to approach you because of your looks, you're going to be waiting around for a long time unless you're blessed with the lucky quality of being born gorgeous.
If you go outside more you also notice that there aren't a lot of gorgeous people in the real world. (No, Tinder, clubs and other places where people LARP don't count as the real world.)
Wait, really? Whenever I spend more time at work or at home I tend to forget how many really attractive people are really out there. Whenever I go out after a long period of time I end up being positively surprised. I would also not look at Tinder as an example, but because of the opposite: people on tinder look much uglier than in real life. But then again, usually outside you don't look at people for more than one or two seconds, while on tinder there's loads of photos for you to examine every single flaw
Exactly.
Honestly, if I was dating today, I probably wouldn't select my SO based on looks, because let's face it, we're both getting older and a bit less attractive. But that literally doesn't matter to me and I find them beautiful, because of the life we've spent together. I was initially attracted to them based on looks, but after some weeks, that really didn't matter any more.
Likewise with friends, I probably initially made my friends based on looks, but I honestly don't care what they look like anymore, they're just my friends.
I'm pretty sure political extremism works the same way.
I have friends from high school who fell into the alt-right rabbit hole. They are obsessed with transgenderism. If you believe their depressing timelines, trans people are absolutely everywhere, behaving like total degenerates and grooming kids left and right. They send me an unhealthy amount of videos to prove their claims.
Meanwhile in the real world, I've encountered maybe 5 trans people that I recognized as such, and they were behaving normally, and not one tried to groom my kids! But if I tell them that they dismiss it on account of my woke mind virus / Trump derangement syndrome. They're single, don't have kids, and spend most of their time doomscrolling or watching the French version of Fox News, but they know better than me what's going on in my kids' school...
As time goes on I’ve noticed more and more of it is just projection.
I'm sure you do but you're wrong. Some people are the start of it.
Sure most are just followers sure, and some are monsters.
Terminally online people who want to feel special about knowing something that other people don’t. And they have to tell everyone around them how they are special by sharing their degenerate ideas all the time. Honestly, the incels are less damaging.
Because online, people only talk about those things.
In the real world, they are doing them. And so much more. But usually when you're not looking.
As if anon would call those conversations normal or pleasant.
What, no mention of phrenology? I've lost touch with 4chan, too much grass touching for me.
Dude, there’s a whole TV channel for BBC and people talk about it all the time IRL
BBC One. BBC Two. BBC Three. BBC Four. BBC Five. BBC Six. BBC Seven. BBC Heaven.
Hell yeah I BBsaw one at the sauna the other day
Wait! Step-sister, this is wrong!
what if going outside means walking across a half ass tarmac parking lot and then sitting at a bus stop with homeless people for 30 minutes
Chat up the people at the bus stop. They're probably nice. Next time, bring some warm tea or something too.
Yup. I used to ride the bus to work, and I'd usually chat with whoever was there. Sometimes they appeared homeless, sometimes they had mental disabilities, and sometimes they were just everyday people. I'm quite introverted, but I made the effort and have had some pleasant conversations.
Once I'm on the bus though, all talking stops, because thems the rules.
They're people too, aren't they?
The crack head sleeping at the bus stop is probably more sane than half the commenters on 4chan.
That's true
Sounds like you already made it outside unless the tarmac and the bus stop are in your house
Anybody know the sauce to that gif? It looks nice.
Looks like this one - https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/653233120978478238/
I am totally talking about hypergamy.
My wife talks a lot about BC. They don't necessarily be B but BC is important.
Tbh I discuss ON more than BC. Must be regional
Idk being more social after covid has made me more conservative. A lot of behavior that I assumed was exclusively online turned out to be surprisingly common in real life.
A lot of the sexism parts in particular were jarring. A significant minority of grown ass women basically used #metoo as leverage to behave in a sexist and immature manner. There's also a culture where other women are extremely reluctant to call out that behavior, or else they might be accused of "internalizing their sexism" and not sufficiently supporting women. I dismissed the postings about that as incel-bait during the pandemic, but it turns out it's extremely common.
Found the guy who needs the advice to go outside but refuses to take it
So my post was explicitly about how I dismissed a lot of things I read on the internet as BS until I encountered them in real life. The part about "ethnical non monogamy" was something I didn't truly believe until I saw it more than once, including some explicit details at a 4th of July party provided by a wife with a visibly uncomfortable husband.
What is your definition of "outside"?
What behaviors do you mean and how does that correlate to being conservative?
So the behaviors are the same kind of things that you've seen forever among people who can get away with it. Immaturity, bigotry, cruelty, etc. However I myself am a liberal, and live in a liberal area of the country. A lot of people use liberal rhetoric to behave in an objectively toxic way, often by coding criticism of their actions as conservative or the toxic actions themselves as liberal.
I mentioned sexism from women, so I'll focus on that:
- As I mentioned earlier, a lot of "ethically non monogamous" relationships that are basically a woman gaslighting their partner into letting them cheat on them. This is often talked about as a sort of a sexual identity, with the implication that hating on this is the same as hating on a gay relationship or a woman who chooses to be single.
- As I mentioned earlier, women are highly encouraged to support other women regardless of circumstances. A failure to do so is implied to be sexist.
- In general there is this default assumption that a man is nefarious, usually with some reference to true crime or "the implication". This assumption is not only a massively sexist generalization, but is never logical. If a man is tall and built he gets the benefit of the doubt, despite being objectively more of a threat than a short chubby guy. The first thing I do when I meet a woman I don't know in a social setting is to somehow work in that I have a girlfriend in a way that feels organic, and a good amount of times I can see their body language shift. This is despite the fact that my SO is often not with me, and that there are a million different true crime stories involving a heterosexual couple both being evil. All of this is justified with progressive #metoo rhetoric
- There are a lot of single women I know that are very much architects of their own misery. They have super shallow dating standards, unrealistic expectations, and this mentality that if a man is attractive enough red flags are just misunderstanding. When things inevitably go wrong they make sweeping statements about men. Despite this being more or less nonsense, it's considered sexist to call them out.
- There are multi hundred member Facebook groups of women in every city that gossip about the men they date. This is obviously toxic, but the organizers frame it as a #metoo thing so it's widely considered acceptable.
- Basically everything I mentioned would be considered absolutely unacceptable if genders were reversed, but if you bring this up then you'll get a pseudo academic lecture about historical oppression and the patriarchy that basically boils down to "it's different when I do it".
- This isn't a big deal at all, but it's sort of ridiculous that most women I meet both consider themselves feminist but will get peeved if men don't pay for the date.
Of course, sexism is just one example. I use it because I find this stuff is the most egregious. I also have a lot of frustration about other things, most notably shitty people making a huge deal about how much they love drag queens in what I view as an effort to obfuscate from how shitty and judgmental they are.
My response to all of this has been to become more conservative. Note the delta. I'm not conservative. However I am also in no way shape or form a progressive anymore. I don't think liberals have nearly the moral superiority they think they do when it comes to how you treat people on a day to day basis. I support queer identities, but have become more conservative in my idea of monogamy and commitment. I even briefly considered staying home this election when it looked like the main line of attack democrats were gonna do was just to call republicans weirdos over and over again until November, because I'm personally just done associating myself with middle school mean girl politics.
