Not really.

You have realize COVID basically screwed ps5 for 2-3 years. The system is 5 years old, but effectively was only available since '23.

The problem is therapy isn’t a catch all for all your problems in life.

People have over generalized it. Therapy works best if it’s applied like physical therapy… identify the problem and go through the exercises to deal with the problem…

but that requires a skilled therapist and patient… and often one/both parties are neither of those things. some therapists and clients develop codependency.

ultimately however, the work is done by the person. and a lot of people dont’ want to do the work.

techies worship other techies. It’s a cult of personality.

I’ve never met a techie who didn’t have a weird fetishization thing going on for one or another of the tech oligarchs or their crazy nonsense theories about the world. a lot of them think code sprinting and doing drugs is some form of enlightenment that elevates them above the ‘normies’ who don’t code and do drugs.

I mean a lot of old people are like this. They slowly lose their minds are start believing in all sorts of crazy shit. My grandmother kept telling us how people were plotting to break into her home and steal her precious china. (It was worthless shit).

The issue is that this guy is super rich and people want to listen to his crazy old person nonsense.

the vast majority of people need something to believe in. very few people can live with the detachment of skeptical approaches to life. if they don’t have a god or a religion they will substitute something else for that role. politics or sports are two big ones.

even the tech gods themselves, are mostly driven by egotistical belief sets where they tend to ignore any information that doesn’t cohere and reinforce their beliefs.

having the ability to do so doesn’t necessarily mean they will do so.

There are plenty of terrible therapists, preists, family, and friends out there. Personally I gave up on asking for people for ‘advice’ 20 years ago.

Chat GPT doesn’t judge you like all your friends/family will.

People are desperate something to talk to that doesn’t judge them.

You can turn a lot of this stuff off. Still. Most of the driver assistant stuff is optional still.

In another few years? Probably not. They will probably change insurance policies to hold you liable if you drive without it.

I don’t even get how the fanfiction subreddits are not permabanned due to all the crazy shit that gets written up there.

I’ve gotten IP banned twice. Once for talking about my cat killing rabbits (violence!) and once for talking about racist attacks against my local mayor by right wing nutjobs (supporting racism).

It’s astoundingly stupid. I was never once ever even banned or blocked from a subreddit until like 2022. Then I started repeatedly getting bans from lots of subs for racism, sexism and violence. Mostly for throughful comments that were getting tons of upvotes then I’d get some personal comment from a mod about what a jerk I was and how if I think men/women are the same, and race isn’t a huge pivotal thing, and violence is part of life… well then apparently I’m sexist, racist, and promoting violence. I also pointed out some obvious viral marketing going on in some subs… and banned. I also start getting harassed and targetted and followed by people on the site. It was so weird to have someone show up in other subs to insult/harass me or the constant PMs from weirdos. Never ever got those until like '22 as well.

Reddit was great when it was small. People were reasonable and chill mostly and debate was allowed. I learned so much from so many great communities. Now it’s just a corporate echo chamber that wants a inoffensive as possible Disney like image. It’s run by dingbats with zero ability to make normal judgements and caters to nutbags and bad actors who actively abuse things.

That said IRL things are so getting worse. My entire life I’ve mostly head the same opinions… and now all the sudden I’m ‘evil’ because I don’t agree with exteremist/ignorance-first agendas being pushed so hard.

it’s not any different than eating fast/processed food vs eating healthy.

it warps your expectations

bingo.

it’s like a health supplement company telling you eating healthy is stupid when they have this powder/pill you should take.

tech evangelism is very cultish and one of it’s values is worshipping ‘youth’ and ‘novelty’ to an absurd degree, as if youth is automatically superior to experience and age.

that’s the peter principle.

people only get promoted so far as their inadequacies/incompetence shows. and then their job becomes covering for it.

hence why so many middle managers primary job is managing the appearance of their own competence first and foremost and they lose touch with the actual work being done… which is a key part of how you actually manage it.

you should stop using it and use wikipedia.

being able to pull relevant information out of a larger of it, is a incredibly valuable life skill. you should not be replacing that skill with an AI chatbot

I already have seen a massive decline personally and observationally (watching other people) in conversation skills.

Most people now to talk to each other like they are exchanging internet comments. They don’t ask questions, they don’t really engage… they just exchange declaratory sentences. Heck most of the dates I went on the past few years… zero real conversation and just vague exchanges of opinion and commentary. A couple of them went full on streamer, like just ranting at me and randomly stopping to ask me nonsense questions.

Most of our new employees the past year or two really struggle with any verbal communication and if you approach them physically to converse about something they emailed about they look massively uncomfortable and don’t really know how to think on their feet.

Before the pandemic I used to actually converse with people and learn from them. Now everyone I meet feels like interacting with a highlight reel. What I don’t understand is why people are choosing this and then complaining about it.

they are never happy.

that’s the point of being despotic. everyone is your enemy, always and forever.

the problem with this place is it’s not user-friendly. and the posts/comments are too nerdy/niche for most people. my lemmy frontpage is like 50% linux nonsense. ordinary people dont’ know what linux is.

for me it’s mostly when i get flooded by comments from extremist nutbags. at least on lemmy they arne’t reporting me to get me banned site-wide. they mostly just send me links via messaging to ‘educate’ me. which is annoying but not pathetic.

most of the banning comes from the bigger subs, not the small niche ones.

every time i have been banned it’s from political comments in a larger sub. never a niche one. my last ban was for supporting the mayor in a city subreddit. apparently it’s ‘enabling racism’ to mention the race of your mayor in a positive light.

tons of people in multi-use trails are just completely obvious to everyone trying to pass them. and then of course, when you do pass them, they panic and scream and throw a tantrum about how you almost hit them.