Why do people accept those games and manipulation in their relationship? I’ve dealt with some shit in my youth but even in my mid twenties I just decided that’s now how I want my relationships to be. I broke up over a silent treatment once. She was a surprised Pikachu even though I told her if she keeps this up all day til bedtime and refuses to talk it out, I am done.

So after dinner I packed my shit and went to my place.

My current partner and I have agreed to not punish each other with things like silent treatment or love deprevation.

When there is a problem we talk it out. If emotions are getting in the way we try to calm down first with an hour break or so. And we also can disagree and that’s fine. Otherwise we try and find a solution. Together. It’s us versus the issue at hand. Not versus each other. Coming up on 9 years together and still madly in love.

The tuba meme would be appropriate.

You thinking those friends married and with kids are not depressed?

Source: was married with kids and depressed for years.

5? That’s my large Playlist.

To be fair apocalyptic scenarios become more realistic each day. Still wouldn’t want to rely on that thing though.

That’s what I teach my kids. If you apologize and do it again it doesn’t count as an apology. An apology is a promise to do better next time.

That’s great to hear.

In my real life bubble Noone has heard of it.

My corner of the internet is the fediverse mostly as others said.

My real life corner has moved to Bluesky from Twitter which isn’t great but an improvement. I do have to say I prefer the way Bluesky allows you to make feeds and share them over Mastodon discoverability quite a lot.

The move away from meta is slowly starting. Facebook is a thing anymore. But Instagram still has people struggling to move away (as does WhatsApp but signal works similar enough that I get people to slowly move over). It’s not open source but miles better than Zuckerberg.

But Pixelfed just isn’t a thing most people know about it seems. Same with lemmy. So reddit is still used a lot or quit without replacement because everyone hates the app experience around here.

Pixelfed also isn’t my thing but then I never used Instagram or TikTok either.

I just did convince my family and all close friends to move to signal.

Were? I thought they still exist.

Left x long ago. Never joined any of the others.

Well but it’s not going to be another iPhone.

What gets rewarded gets repeated.

Most people find most fields tedious on an expert level.

Used to reading a lot of dry text in detail and retaining the information.

Roll initiative.

Exactly. That means new thoughts and ideas can’t ever come from what is currently called Ai.

I’m just here to say I don’t want to read AI generated texts. Not even when marked as such. I prefer human to human communication. Generation quality isn’t there yet by a long shot.

Yes. Sounds like I can stop trying to understand and save a lot of trouble for myself.

Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.

However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you’d lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.

I’d like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.