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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • As the other person said, it really depends on what people mean by “strict”.

    My parents were “strict” in that they enforced a bed time. Now I have better than average sleeping habits. So that worked out.

    But I’ve also read about “strict” parents that, like, take doors off their kids rooms, or read the kids private messages, or other nightmares



  • Is this an age thing? I’m about 40 and I never had instagram, barely used facebook, and didn’t use any others really. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem where someone backed out because I didn’t have instagram. But I also don’t have a big group of casual friends, and maybe that would be harder.

    Discord sucks, but I’ve noticed a lot of social groups use it. A couple meetups I go to all use it for communication. Maybe that’s more bearable than instagram?


  • I get the vague impression that this is meant to subtly influence western society into believing that the masses aren’t truly people

    Tinfoil hat theory would be that the evil leaders of real life (the ceos, the billionaires, etc) are planting the seeds so that if their plans fail and a revolution comes, they won’t be summarily executed







  • Yeah I think that’s one of the things people that don’t always get.

    Like you walk down the street and no one’s going to say hi to you, or engage with you much at all. People think that means we’re unfriendly. No, it’s more that we see ten thousand people every day and there’s no way to engage with all of them. Some of them don’t even have a shared language.

    But if someone needs help? People step up. I saw a lady trip and fall down the stairs at the subway and a whole lot of people fake running over to make sure she was okay. Bike accident? Lots of people that had been in the background suddenly were helping.

    People aren’t perfect. I saw a guy screaming at a woman he was with and no one stepped in, but I like to think there’s a line past which more people would intervene.

    edit: fix autocomplete error