@p @taylan @SilverDeth real solid advice here
@taylan @p @SilverDeth
> I don't agree that "stop antagonizing idiots; don't you want the idiots to become your friends?!" is any kind of good advice.
that's not what p wrote
> being told their door is always open
that's common courtesy when parting on good terms
> and some coworkers trying to keep up private contact with me, but I tend to politely ghost them or turn down invitations to social events.
people being nice rewarded with ghosting👌
> I could easily make friends if I wanted to, but most people bore or frustrate me for a variety of reasons, so I politely turn away from them.
i think you might mistake acquaintances for friends. from what i know you are about to enter an age where having real friends will become increasingly hard.
> Unintelligent people can't seem to tell that this fedi account is 50% a joke and not what I'm like in earnest...
do you yourself know which half is the serious part? you just wrote a hundred words in reply to me agreeing to what p wrote. was that serious, or shitposting?
> And pee seriously seems to have thought that me lamenting about the stupidity of various online spaces was me complaining about "not having friends" because he has no reading comprehension.
i have no idea what post of yours p references, but i'm pretty sure reading comprehension isn't ps issue. declaring people stupid or insane is a very lazy argument imo.
@taylan @p @SilverDeth you can do things however you like when it comes to personal relations. i just don't think that it's that easy to make friends. i was invited by colleagues as well - it's just what some people do. that doesn't mean they are friends i'd rely on, especially after witnessing close friends going crazy during chinese flu era.
to me, using language like "orbiters" reflects how you seem to view others: not like equals who you might dislike or disagree with but as lowers. you can very well just mute people. i collected quotes in my bio as well but specifically without calling out people. it serves to keep away the collectivists. interestingly most of these quotes are in one sense or another saying i'm cognitively challenged, a classic argument of collectivists for centuries.
the point of free speech IS that you can use these words, because they are just words. I don't use them because I think using this language does change myself more than it changes others. insulting doesn't help me improve myself, neither does it further the goals i deem important.
p has a pretty good post on the FSE blog about free speech.
i haven't read your exchange about passwords. representation doesn't matter, as long as it's a reversible operation it doesn't change the strength of a password.
i think it's a pretty good hobby to hack on things which solve ones problems. annoying people on the net being one problem, a bot that replies them nonsensical stuff with the objective that they leave one alone is a pretty amusing solution.
in the post which i said was good advice, p suggested that arguing with people online might not be the the best way to spend ones limited time alive.
@p @taylan @SilverDeth well, i'm on here as well and not out meeting people :)
i try hard to not do pissing contests. i think in almost half the cases i write a post but delete it. it's just not worth arguing with a certain kind of people and most topics aren't worth it. either someone has the potential to understand freedom as an idea or they don't, and no force in this world can convince them otherwise except they themselves. i took long enough to get it myself, took more than half of my life.
most people just aren't that interesing (to me) but it's on me to change or do something if i want to meet others. can't expect others to do this for me, "be the change you want to see" :)
@bonifartius @p @taylan @SilverDeth Let's just all admit that everyone on the internet is crazy in some way (except me ofc)
@p @taylan @SilverDeth @bonifartius You have inspired me to catch up with someone I used to know before school. Sadly though, I will have to use Facebook Messenger to do it.
I responded to you separately and more earnestly than in my other posts because unlike other people in the thread I have some respect for your opinions based on past interactions.
You're free to believe or disbelieve what I tell you about my own life and IRL relations. It ultimately doesn't matter, but I thought I'd clarify.
I just like to clown on pee and his orbiters because most of them are contemptible and perpetually annoying. Imagine basing your entire identity around the fact that you want to be free to be able to call people "niggerkike faggot." That's what "free speech extremists" are. They give genuine free speech activism a bad name.
And pee in particular is this ultra arrogant insufferable guy who keeps posturing like an internet tough guy, writing huge novels at people trying to clown on them (often being blatantly wrong while doing so, like when he freaked out because I said "no, passwords are text actually, not just bytes") and then trying to "own" them by ... *checks notes* ... spamming incomprehensible DMs at them generated by a literal bot, which just makes him look like he's having a mental breakdown. Talk about lacking hobbies. No matter what I do, I don't drop down to that level. Would rather play video games, or at least write fedi shitposts that are halfway funny.