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My pet peeve it "psychologist say".
First of all, no, we don't say any of that. Second, who are these magic ethereal psychologist. Because, unless you quote a peer reviewed paper, your argument is void. And even then you could be, as is often the case, grossly misinterpreting or misrepresenting the field.
Actually theres been a lot of research into why youre wrong, and yes its psychological.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/science-think-right-rcna174691
sorry lemmy but yall do this shit too
These are the keyboard revolutionaries that will take up arms against the regime LMAO 🤣
These people can't even interact with any other without going ballistic and pretend they can run a revolution when they can't even run an errand to the store
Vagueing?
named after Darth Vagueis, presumably
Sounds like a wise guy, i trust him.
Everytime I see videos like that, I have to remember the promise I made to myself not to become like my father.
It gets harder every year.
i find it helps me to view other people explicitly as separate entities with free will.
Makes it harder to do any sort of funny business when you're more aware of their autonomy on a fundamental level.
Sounds like something a figment of the imagination of the only person in the universe would say
I often think of the phrase “we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intent,” usually while driving, and try to just let people live their life and their story.
but I am your father
That's not true! That's impossible!
Engaging in small talk is "nicebombing" and is psychopathic behaviour? Now I have seen everything...
Reminds me of how any guy who develops feelings for a woman, gets rejected and feels upset at being heartbroken is labelled a Nice Guy™, or worse, an incel.
Sometimes I wonder if an external influence of some kind has been messing with the psyche of the modern generations. Maybe decades of austerity, flouride in tap water, social media addiction, microplastics or vape fluids containing far nastier chemicals than nicotine?
feels upset at being heartbroken
Here's where the word "upset" having multiple meanings can be a problem.
If he is upset, as in sad and/or confused, ok, that's a reasonably expected reaction.
If he is upset as in angry about being turned down, then he's being pretty entitled and has criticism coming.
In terms of things having gone too far, it's simple enough. We are connected all the time and we can find al sorts of echo chambers and be in contact with that circle 24/7 using online engagement where we can just turn off/ban anyone that we don't feel like dealing with. This fosters a strange mix of overthinking things, contagious pessimism, and isolationist behavior. People need more balance with more real life interaction.
wtf kinda world do these psychos wanna live in ? only text don't talk. no calls only video conference. no music just music videos or vidvoks(letterkenny ftw) It's about out of hand , git off my lawn!
The text instead of talk is pretty situational from what I see. Young people still will gleeflully hang with open mic on discord with their friends. One on one phone calls are certainly more rare, but I know my kid spends more time talking on discord than I ever spent talking on the phone growing up (sharing the house phone). I don't know if anyone is particularly excited about video conferences, certainly in my adult life video-capable meetings are the order of the day, but the cameras are generally off. It's way more convenient than the meeting calls of old.
From what I've seen while they are playing 'music videos', it's frequently just in the background and they aren't watching it, it's just a convenient way of getting the audio since youtube has it all and is the most convenient interface. There were more radio stations than MTV/VH-1, so it wasn't as convenient to just let MTV/VH1 be your audio back then as it is for youtube to be your music.
Texting vs talking has some situational context. E.g. if you're somewhere public, talking on the phone is often frowned upon, but you may text quietly. In a car it's reversed.
But a lot of us old folks do want people to sit down and shut up. It likely also plays into impressions of foreigners—a lot of immigrants are probably doing something they consider normal by talking on the phone on the bus, while everyone around them thinks they're being incredibly rude.
Calls and meetings can often be an email, too. Better to not disrupt others if you can avoid it.
this just terminally online brain rot
In my experience, yeah tiktok addicts are like this...
...but so are tumblr addicts.
They just have a more esoteric/niche set of triggering conditioms, as well as a more esoteric/niche vocabulary used when emphatically proclaiming something hysterical, and they're also angry that you have 0 clue what 90% of the terms or events or people or characters they're referring to are.
Our species is more alone than we've ever been even though our numbers are greater than they've ever been and our means for reaching each other is nearly limitless.
Because everyone is so, so deeply scared of social rejection, an instinct bred into us through ice ages and apocalypses where we needed each other to survive, that the fear of rejections has become one of our primary social motivators. People now have a choice of trying to find social circles and groups that they can adapt to or compromise with like we've struggled through for thousands of years, or withdraw into spaces that prevent us from ever having to experience even a chance of rejection. Feel awkward when a stranger says hello? You can choose to practice getting better at responding to others, experience failures as well as successes, or you can retreat to a place where "hello" means oppression and you don't ever need to ever risk pain by responding.
This is just a tiny, micro-slice of the issue but EVERYONE does this, and if you think you don't, you are also stuck in the film-strip post-hoc rationalizing your every feeling.
You’re absolutely right about how deeply the fear of rejection is embedded in us—it's instinctual, a relic of survival. But here’s the thing: in our modern world, that same fear doesn’t protect us the way it once did. Instead, it traps us. It makes us bend and shape ourselves to fit into spaces we may not even want to be in, just to avoid discomfort.
The truth is, we all need connection, but the path to genuine connection isn’t through constant adaptation or hiding in safety bubbles—it’s through authenticity. When you stop worrying so much about how others perceive you and start living for yourself, two things happen: you begin to feel freer and more at peace, and your openness creates a magnetism that draws others toward you.
Awkwardness, rejection, and failure? They’re inevitable, but they also don’t define you. Each time you stop rationalizing avoidance and choose to show up as your full self, you break that fear’s hold on you. You discover what really matters: living authentically, for you, not for validation or social survival.
That’s where real strength comes from—not from being universally accepted but from no longer needing to be. And ironically, the less you care about how others perceive you, the more meaningful connections you end up making.
A screenshot of an Instagram reel of a Tumblr post? Okay.
