Why would anyone want to be reincarnated? The world is descending into fascism and it won't be liveable much longer anyway. When I die it better be fucking permanent.

I didn't mean them specifically. I assume the reason they're not sure is because they've heard people call it a myth before, as have I. And I think it's shitty that people do that.

Why do people think it's an urban legend when women describe how they've been medically and sexually abused? 😐

There are no jobs in my area besides factory work that will pay me as much as Walmart. I doubt I could even make pennies off art, it's all being replaced by AI.

I agree about not having friends anymore. I've always craved human connection but I'm going to get over it.

Disclaimer that I don't believe in ghosts, but in fiction at least, I think the usual implication is that a ghost is someone who hasn't passed on correctly. A few people have brought up unfinished business already, but even in stories that don't bring that up, ghosts are often people who died horribly, prematurely, and/or violently. Sometimes they're explicitly under a curse keeping them from moving on.

Basically, the circumstances of their existence are wrong, and they're stuck due to forces beyond their control. That's kind of the tragedy of being a ghost; they're often a whittled-down, corrupted version of their living self.

A straight guy tried to hit on me in my DMs once and it took forever. He kept saying he had to tell me something and then saying something like "never mind, I'm too shy" or "I changed my mind". I'd seen him at work earlier that day and I told him I was planning on gaming when I got home, so obviously I was AFK, but every time I took a while to reply he'd be like "?" "where did you go?" before I'd remind him that I had other shit to do, which just stretched the conversation out even longer.

I've been told this was a dick move but I rejected him before he even got to the point because I couldn't watch him do this to himself over someone who's only into girls.

Awful. Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the usual shit that comes with working retail during the holidays. I'm never home anymore. I'm always at work. I'm always trying to fill orders with equipment that doesn't work, in back rooms stuffed so full of pallets I can't reach the product I need, with deadlines I can't hit.

After I walked away from my friend group I stayed in touch with my best friend, and things were nice and it was a breath of fresh air at first, but now we fight all the time. He keeps going "I can't keep doing this", but I don't know what he wants me to do. I feel like he engineers these impossible conversations where anything I could possibly say turns out to be wrong. If I point out that he's contradicting himself, he gets upset because I know he has memory issues so I shouldn't expect him to know what he told me last time. But he's still allowed to get mad at me for doing what he asked...

He kept saying things about me that straight up weren't true, not subjective, and didn't acknowledge it when I told him he was wrong. I'm pretty sure I caught him trying to gaslight me right after I thought we made up.

I loathe everyone I know at this point. I know I need to give up on friends, but that just leaves me with my family, a bunch of homophobic leeches. My fucking father asked me for a DNA test on Thanksgiving. He could have asked decades ago, but he only decided now because he's running out of excuses to fight with mom. All anyone ever wants to do is fight and tear other people down.

I need to learn how to stop feeling lonely without turning to other people. All they do is upset me.

Why is everyone acting like the user did something to prompt this response, and then lied to the press about it? Obviously Google didn't create life, but isn't it more likely that LLMs scrape from the internet, which is full of edgy and rude people? Especially since Google has its partnership with Reddit, which is a haven for cynical assholes.

I guess it's because his Discord server was where he leaked them? I feel like someone who doesn't use Discord could read this headline and assume he worked for the company, though.

Honestly it'd be horrifying to wake up in the 90s again with an adult awareness of where the world is heading, and that it was already headed this way because we were knee-deep in capitalism and colonialism.

I liked playing with toys though.

I thought they were just trying to hammer home how wild it was for the file to get that big, since it's just a text file.

I like this so much better than all the bitching about how surreal and unfamiliar gen alpha's shit is.

Something that's really novel when you're a kid is taking a strange premise that seems like a one-off gag and making a whole narrative about it. It's why we had flash cartoons built around the premise of "what if Mario met Sonic using DBZ rules" or why some of us watched hour-long amateur movies about the Nostalgia Critic. I'm not saying those things were good, but it's really subversive when you first encounter it, and it's emotionally satisfying to explore the potential of something you liked instead of letting it be a flash in the pan.

So basically, when the kids try to tell me about the Skibidi Toilet's ability to turn even the bleakest situation around, even though I have no idea what the FUCK they're talking about, I understand why it's so riveting to them.