I don’t know if you realize this, but when people say things like “I don’t talk about politics” that’s just a short form of what they really mean, which is often:

I don’t want to talk about politics here.

I don’t want to talk about politics with you.

I don’t want to talk about politics right now.

I don’t want to talk about politics like that.

Surely you have to have seen the changes over the past 10-15 years in online discourse that has resulted in politics invading every available space. It used to be quite easy to avoid political conversations online. And still, a lot of people don’t come online for that and that’s okay.

They aren’t insane. They’re trying to tell you to calm down. Please take a hint and change the topic when someone says something like that.

Did you come here to insult people and be insulted?

Get off here. It’s documented mental illness at this point. I come from the beforetimes. When I was a teenager, a/s/l was redundant because the BBS was a local call, and if you wanted to see what someone looked like they had to own a scanner, which was rare and expensive. It was liberating to be able to talk to people and make friends without the superficiality of irl interactions.

Modern internet is profit-motivated and monetization is driven by engagement. It takes time and effort to curate your experience to squelch what the platform wants to show you, which is content you’re most likely to engage with at the time you’re most likely to engage with it. You’re not talking to your friends anymore. It’s an isolating experience.

The next time you’re talking to someone or replying to a post, looking for your gotcha mic-drop moment, consider why you came here in the first place. Are you here deliberately, or are you just using the internet service that came with your smartphone? Go out into the world instead. Constant rage is unhealthy. Voting, community moderation, logins, persistent identity, and profiles have made the internet experience way more image-obsessed than the irl experience ever was. Your discourse is being streamlined, not encouraged and diversified.

tl;dr: go find your tribe, your real tribe.

What I’m picking on is the idea of going into the international grocery store and buying some random thing. I’ve cooked all over the world with a variety of ingredients, many of the dried, fermented, salted…randomness is fine if you’re cooking for Ted Allen otherwise at least look it up first.

Pizza means pie.

Like surströmming

Maybe you just didn’t understand the answer. It seems pretty clear to me.

AI have no use case.

It sorts data and identifies patterns and trends. You may be referring only to AI enabled LLMs tasked with giving unique and creative output which isn’t going to give you any valuable results.

You want to smash the state with me? Want to be my comrade? First I need you to look around at your own community and say something nice about it and the people who live in it. If you can’t do that, I don’t need you.

shady shops selling tacky trash

You’re referring to your neighbors and community members trying to make a living? It’s not their fault either.

Not the tourists’ fault, and hating on them demonstrates a lack of civic pride and not much else. I welcome tourists who come to my city for its niche history and the historic mall and the foofy shops who wouldn’t be in business without them.

When a dude doesn’t get off easily he must be a degenerate porn addict.

It’S tHe kUnG-fU GrIIIIIP!!!

I’m saying that shooting Kirk had nothing to do with hateful people finding their way to hate propaganda. If their reasons for joining a known hate group are that thin, they would have joined it anyway, or a different one, or started their own.

People who are susceptible to hate propaganda will find their way to it.

Imagine needing to be angry about something in order to be motivated to change it.

Yes this is the internet, a daily reminder that everything could always be taken more literally.

What would be wrong with responding to the substance of the comment as opposed to projecting your feelings on the person who wrote it? Your comment makes no sense.

P. S. I am not telling you to move

If that’s not your point, I can’t figure out what it is.

you don’t know anything better.

See that sounds very much like classism. People live in rural areas for a variety of reasons. Rural living has one set of problems, urban living has a different set. One is not better than the other. If I got you wrong here, I apologize.

Well, keep being anguished and angry then, I guess.