Yes, this is definitely worse ‘than average’ but have seen this before.

DO NOT TOUCH WITH BARE HANDS, EXTREMELY TOXIC.

This was very common pre 2010s.

Funny how you have a real life scenario compared to a fake one.

• 10-15 min walks. Great time to just get the body moving and get into deep thought or listen to an audiobook

• Having a regular water refill routine

• Weekly/monthly budget/finances review

• All the small annoying non “fun” stuff that every old persons unsolicited advice essentially.

How old are you and where are you from?

Because in the US it has been a ‘fashion statement’ for decades. Maybe even centuries to be honest.

It has gotten LESS popular compared to the 2000s. Haven’t seen one in a while tbh.

Social media was not a mistake, but unregulated social media was.

The whole incentive for businessman to ‘innovate’ in tech is to skirt around the law. We have had laws about theft for centuries, but now since its ‘digital’ theft we have to write new laws for some reason?

Just an example, but social media/tech unregulated is what got us here.

Yeah go ahead, copy and paste exists.

2hr daily meeting.

Fuck man, sorry.

I work from home once a week, and yeah the steam deck is nice in this regards.

btw, did you know that the steam docking station also works on laptops? Found that to be very useful, now I don’t have to unplug and plug in a bunch of hdmi when I need to use the monitor for work/gaming.

Got a favorite app? Been trying to get into crosswords, but I do find them difficult.

Been using sporcle.

Office worker in government. Everyone around me is either an idiot/incompetent or doing all the work. Will get ‘rewarded’ with more work if I start asking for more.

At least you get to go home early if you want. I guarantee that 80% of office workers pretend to work all day because if we don’t then we are given more work/responsibilities without a pay increase, job title, any reward.

A lot of office work is ‘be ready to answer a question at anytime when someone walks up to your cube’. And to be fair, you are probably the only person who can answer that question since most people’s role is niche/specialized.

But honestly, pretty sure office workers/management want people in the office all hours of the days because they hate their home life, and use work as their only socialization.

Physical touch in erogenous zones.

Only had my heart broken once (twice if you count me taking her back after cheating).

Time was the only thing that helped me. And then after a year or two, trying to talk to other girls.

Either way, its rough man. Just know that you are not alone and everybody goes through it.

Online hobby communities. So if your into gaming/modding, join some discords or whatever and then eventually you can translate to irl. Especially if you live near a big city/population.

Also, my wife 5 years ago made about 5 new friends on Bumble with friend feature thing. Still hang out with two of them.

I would not say people are coming more prudish, but rather policies are. Why? I assume because cash is king, and the best way to get cash is in advertising. Advertising has always been prudish since it needs to appeal to the masses.

Policy eventually influences/dictates culture. This is most obvious with the world ‘unalive’.

Another idea, is that we are becoming significantly more moral and have increase civil rights. How does this relate? Well, if you grew up in the 90s or 00s you know that being told you were gay was not a joking matter, but a serious claim that could make you a social pariah. Now calling someone ‘gay’ as an insult is not as socially acceptable, is that because we are more prude or more moral?

I think what a lot of people identify as ‘prude’ culture is just another perspective of an attempt at being more moral and inclusive.

When I was a child, I would lay awake at night, in retrospect it was anxiety and depression due to loneliness (only child, sheltered, private school with less than 10 kids).

What I did, without the knowledge or concept of anxiety and depression, was that I would let me thoughts run and I would use logic and reasoning to get through them.

“What if a kid makes fun of me for this and that?” “I would then do this”, and then I would play out every single possible situation in my head on what the most common, worst, and best outcomes were.

A decade of doing that helped me.

Been using RecipeSage recently, highly recommend.

You don’t have to self host if you want to try it out. You can also just create an account for free on their site with no strings attached.