remember when social media was just stupid shit your friends were doing? and there were no influencers?

been on the fediverse a few years, but didn’t really move over until my third reddit ban and how increasingly awful reddit is.

i still miss my ‘controversial’ subreddits i used to be a part of. like bicyclingcirclejerk. i don’t miss the insane people on my city subreddit who had insane political takes and massive victim complexes. but there are plenty of people on lemmy who make posts like that.

at least it wasn’t her cop dad that was home?

Long time ago. Went on this date from a dating website. She seemed cool online. We talked about cooking, hiking, and gaming.

Within minutes of meeting up she got put out a really weird vibe. She tried to change our plans from meeting at a bar for a drink to some expensive dinner place. I said no, lets just get to know each other first. She got angry, but stayed. Kept telling me how weird I was but she thought I was cute anyway. OK. We ended up going to another bar after like 20m, that was basically the same as the one we were in but she thought it was nicer or something. OK.

After sitting down at the second bar, and ordering a drink, she gets serious and stares me in the eye real hard and goes 'What is wrong with you? Why aren’t you in love with me yet? I’m trying so hard and you must be messed up in the head to not be totally in love with me by now. Every guy I meet loves me within minutes of meeting me." I just laughed my ass off at this absurd outburst. She got so angry, like gripped the table and starting ranting on and on about how men suck, how stupid I am, how amazing and hot she is, how pissed off she was because I should be eating out of her hand.

Anyway, I let her rant for awhile, maybe half an hour? She basically started talking to herself and like trying to convince me to bone her, and also going on about how she was some yoga teacher and had mental superpowers or something totally ridiculous. I finished my drink and dropped cash on the table and told her what a wonderful time I had, and I’d never like to see her again. She was completely mind-fucked by that and went totally silent. In her delusion land apparently no guy could ever not want her.

She sent me a bunch of really weird texts later and I ignored them. I’ve never met such a totally delusional weirdo before or since. Ever since that date I refuse to date anyone to references Burning Man as something they like doing.

princess entitlement. she’s mad you didn’t salivate all over her for just existing. probably said you were ‘low effort’ for not taking her to a more expensive place too.

I’ve met people like this. They literally… do nothing. They seem to aspire to be empty inside and outside.

And they think people who have interest/hobbies/friends are ‘weird’.

this feels like she was mad at you for not being able to complain about you ignoring her and watching the game.

you paid attention to her and treated her right and she didn’t like that. I’ve been there before.

you break up with them

yep. accident rates for older drives go way down. and then up again once you are 60+

or they hopped an age bracket. your insurance goes down once you hit 35-40.

You can also just change insurance companies when 2 happens. My rates doubled two years ago, so I switched providers and went back down to the rate I was at previously. Very common.

I get approached by weirdos on the subway/street and I have to shove them off. That happens 1-2 times a year. It never really escalates beyond a ‘get out of my face’ and a push.

A legit fistfight? Not since middle school. Had quite a few when I was 10-13.

Been physically hit or threatened with a weapon? Happened multiple times when I was dating, but I stopped doing that about 5 years ago. Almost always during a breakup or immediately before a breakup. I don’t tolerate violent women in my life. I can’t really tell people this though, because people immediately assume a woman threatening to stab you for breaking up with her means you are the bad guy. Sexism is wild.

don’t forget you vote against every tax increase because fuck 'dem kids. you need to take out a reverse mortgage for your winnebago

what did they say after you said you liked anime?

people’s fears are often irrational and disproportional to actual dangers. people typically are paranoid about things that have very low probabilities of happening, and don’t even think about dangers that are common.

no, the policy nerds just want to to do good work. but good work isn’t politically viable. they also typically aren’t ideological because they are evidence-driven.

the politicians don’t care about it, all they want is soundbytes to ragebait their voters. they want the ‘evidence’ to proof D is good, R is bad. or vice versa.

sounds like you think there is such a thing as a ‘true’ atheist? and you are one and everyone else isn’t?

sounds pretty cultist to me…

sorry, what cult am I?

weird that you know so much about me.

and we divide a lot of youth sports by age categories, and often kids who are more/less developed get bumped into the more appropriate age bracket. it’s bullshit (and dangerous) to have a 12 year old who is 150 lbs and in puberty playing with other 12 year olds who are 100 and pre pubescent.

the quickest way to lose friends and get people to hate you to is to point out people’s actions.

especially when they are complaining about x y or z, and they do x y or z.