Of course they're expensive think of how much labor it takes to put them in the damn shells!
That the only resource a person intrinsically has is time, and that everyone's time is worth the same and invaluable.
The edit: omg thank you for awards/upvotes comments just feel like such a self-congratulatory circlejerk, as if the point of the post was to "win" at reddit by getting the most points. The "meta" around reddit itself became less of a discussion and more a game to play to get the most points.
To be clear, I don't directly hate the "thank you" post edits, I dislike that they're a symptom of the "meta" of reddit becoming less around the links it aggregates and more around itself, maybe?
I remember being introduced to reddit years ago. It was still new and unknown, there was in-jokes and cringey bacon narwhal shit I don't even quite remember. It was fun, it was cringe, it wasn't doomscrolling it was genuine engagement and I really enjoyed it.
Then the longer I spent on it the more hostile it became. Almost every comment thread is full of contrarians looking to argue with you just to get more upvotes and edit: omg thx 4 awards!!11! bullshit, bots "correcting" people's spelling and telling you how many consonants are in reverse alphabetical order in your username omg so cute! it just became regular, boring old social media.
Then the leadership bullshit kept just getting worse and worse and worse, every time you hear anything about what reddit (as a company) does it's just more and more hostile to users. The API/app changes and the way it was handled was the last straw. Users don't hate reddit, reddit hates it's users, the company has shown nothing but contempt for the users and unpaid moderators for years and I'm just sick of it and that long term animosity coupled with the last set of changes? Yeah, fuck reddit.
EGG
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend applies here I think. Kotick sucks and needs to be gone and I'm glad for that but I don't think this solution to that is much better long term for gamers and consumers.
I'm a big fan of the saying that "time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" for that exact reason. If you want to do nothing then do nothing, that's perfectly okay!
What is sad, though, is that I feel like this is saying you get so tired and burnt out from working just to survive that even when you get time off you don't get to enjoy it or do things you want because you're just so burnt out from working.
When I was a kid my mom and I would occasionally take little overnight trips to random towns we'd never been. Just open a map find a place a few hours away and go there and see what's up. Mind you, this is before the days of the internet and GPS, and when I say a kid I'm like 8 or 9 I think?
Anyways mom opens up the map, says this little town right on the coast looks neat let's go there, and off we went. The town was neat! Little sea-side fishing village. I don't remember it super well, but I remember walking on the pier and my mom letting me spend some allowance money on Pogs and a metal slammer. I do remember that slammer, Ricky from Kindergarten, and I FUCKING KNOW YOU TOOK IT.
Anyways we conclude our tour of the pier and start looking for hotels and not a single room is available. There's several hotels in the town, but they're all booked up, turns out the little fishing village is busy like one week a year for some annual get together and this is that week. People were kind, calls were made, and a room was found at a local motel on the edge of town.
The carpet was sticky. The carpet was sticky. The tub was covered in some kind of dirt and/or stain that was gross enough for my mom to tell me to just skip showering. We slept, clothed, on top of the blankets and laid down towels to walk on the floor. My mom says she thinks it was an "hourly" motel, when she thinks back on it.
After that any time we took an "adventure" like that she made sure to find a room when we first go to the place rather than the end of the day lol.
I don't trust those corn field carnival rides either, those things terrify me even more than the submarine, so speak for yourself lol.
Personally, no. Facebook/Meta has instilled absolutely zero goodwill in me as a platform and as a product it brings nothing new to the table to entice me in. Their userbase size is their only potential benefit, and tbh that has never been a draw for myself.
And that's all assuming they actually respected my privacy, which I don't believe for a moment they would ever do.
At one of my previous gigs our boss was big on the "double the devs/half the time" mentality. Our favorite response was 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month
This is purely anecdotal of course, but most of my (male) friends and family members who resist going to therapy aren't really turned off because of access to a specific service tailored for them or not; they're "turned off" from it largely because of the social perception of men going to therapy in general.
What I mean to say is, no, I don't think we need more therapy "tailored" towards men, all (decent) therapists already specifically try to bend their particular therapy-ing style to match their client, regardless of gender. We need to change the perception of what it means to get therapy (at least in my opinion).