That’s kind of what happened to me. Never needed to study in grade school. Had to scramble and learn how to study in college.

Still didn’t register why I had so much trouble focusing or remembering stuff until the last year or so.

As lord Gaben has said, “piracy is a service issue”

I’m not big on horror movies, but I’d legit watch a fury one

Unfortunately, once you get enough money the system is designed to keep you wealthy no matter how much you fuck up.

Like, Trump has had multiple failed companies including casinos thay failed because he had them competeing with each other.

Yet while he’s probably not a billionaire he still has the status of “wealthy” and managed to fail into the most powerful position in government.

Musk had more money, and therefore can fuck up way harder and still be fine. He could burn Twitter to the ground for all the effect it would have on him.

This hurts users actually trying to find help more than it hurts reddit.

You want reddit to die just stop engaging with it. Archiving old info isn’t a profitable platform because new stuff drives engagement.

Being active elsewhere is what will kill reddit.

The girls in the class will figure themselves out eventually

I’ve always lived by lord GabeN’s “piracy is a service issue. You have to offer a better experience than the pirates”

The average person doesn’t understand decentralizing networks.

For me it was that I didn’t have the information I needed to process what I was feeling and deal with what was wrong. I didn’t have the language to even describe that something was wrong.

I know many others in my situation that ended up with worse coping mechanisms in the same circumstance. Heavy drinking and drug use is common in the community.

That said, addictions can be physical. There’s a reason you have to ween people off of certain substances because withdrawal can kill them.

There can be mental addictions, but older generations don’t tend to care unless it’s something they don’t like.

I don’t feel like I was addicted to games growing up, but I know I was using them for escapism. Nobody from the outside would have looked any farther than “you spend X amount a day playing games”, and ignore why I felt the need for it.

Too many self important people act like addiction is a personal failing when it’s usually somone trying to find some relief in a society that has failed them.

As somone who has used video games as escapism there could also be something underlying that nobody is considering.

Who is he gonna sell it to? Nobody would want it thanks to whay he did to it.

I I still use it on desktop since I can still use the old design and I run several layers of adblock.

On mobile I basically never use it now unless a search result forces me to it. Lemmy needs work, but I’ve gotten it to a usable state in mobile.

I really home Baconreader makes a lemmy version because that was the only way I used reddit mobile.

Yep. I’ll up vote news of a hate crime or something, but downvote things that are directly hateful.

Context always matters and a lot of the big sites fail to understand the difference between talking about things like racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia and somone being those things.

I generally don’t downvote unless somone is being bigoted or hateful.

I probably should now. I didn’t need to much for the first couple of years of the pandemic because I basically just stayed home and only put one on when I was going to be around people.

But the issue is I can’t ever seem to get a good seal and between breathing into my eyes and wearing glasses it just becomes way harder to deal with and now I’m vaccinated I don’t feel as much of a thing for it.

I’ll probably wear one more during cold season as I use to get one once or twice every year before the pandemic.

That said, there are still places I will wear it, like the doctor’s office.

I should do this. I don’t have a whole lot, but I might archive some stuff I posted on lemmy somewhere.

This is only because of republican propaganda, which they only did because young people did political coordination on ticktok.

I blocked that community because it was literally flooding my front page

Tell me you’ve never talked to a woman without telling me you’ve never talked to a woman…