This is great! Thank you so much for compiling these resources. I’ve bookmarked it for reference. Please don’t delete it!

As a 2FA supporter, I get a bit addled when the time sync isn’t working properly and my discord login won’t accept the code

Yeah, I think that’s fine, but some people get super direct or almost aggressive about it. Asking for more details is fine, but often the OP doesn’t have additional details, and people need to be willing to accept that. For instance, this situation sounds a lot like a general observation and not something that’s unique to one particular set of circumstances. It’s also something I’ve experienced, so I guess for me, I understand what he’s talking about exactly.

Some people also don’t read the other comments in a thread before posting theirs – a lot of people – and then it gets super exhausting as the OP to have to respond to each demand for context individually, when they’ve already responded to someone else. I feel like I still have trauma from the time I made a post on reddit that accidentally depicted someone from Australia instead of the US, and I must have had like 50 comments telling me, even though I’d already responded to the first person who told me by admitting my mistake and apologizing for the mixup.

But I got a bit sidetracked there. What I mean is, something like “Does this happen in any specific place or circumstance?” is reasonable and non-confrontative. Saying, “There must be more to the story that you’re not telling us” is unreasonably rude and aggressive. It’s really unkind to make veiled accusations against someone, unfounded and unprovoked – especially in a community that’s expressly about sharing unpopular opinions! Like, wouldn’t you want more people to share their unpopular opinions? That seems like the whole point!

I’m in an American midwestern small town, and people do the same thing here. The more rural the community, the worse it gets.

I’m not sure people here even realize they’re staring – they’re just not very good at interacting with people who aren’t the few individuals they see every day.

I feel like he made it clear in his post:

there are some adults that will just look and look and look at you when you enter a room

These people are just starting unprovoked. He doesn’t say that everyone does this, everywhere he goes. He says that some adults will stare at you.

And guess what? I’ve totally experienced this. Personally, I think part of it for me is living in a small-ish town, but still, it’s unprovoked behavior.

Even if you’re walking into lectures, it’s still not good form for people to stare, and the farting is something you’ve totally conjured out of thin air. None of these details were in OP’s post. We don’t need more details. When he uses the word “just,” that implies this is simple unprovoked behavior.

The idea that “further context is warranted” is absurd. The OP has already made clear in another comment that there is no further context.

Edit: Okay, I’m exhausted now lol. Good luck out there, OP!

Sorry, there’s not more to the story

Oh boy, this is the other thing people do lately, isn’t it? I’m sorry to get sidetracked, but I think they want so badly for something interesting to happen that they imagine there must be some big reveal or twist behind any story.

You could give certain people a detailed and graphic breakdown of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s murders, and they’d be like, “Well, we haven’t heard the full context. I don’t want to pass judgment.”

For those communities that do already have a stateless, classeless society, you mean? This happens.

The TL:DR is that you function on the agreed-upon principles of horizontality and mutual aid, but I know that doesn’t sound like a satisifying answer, and there are so many ways that might look.

China followed Maoism, which was also an authoritarian state. In such theories, they are “communist” in that they ostensibly seek to progress to a communist society. Tbh I doubt the sincerity of such a pursuit.

There are communities that could be genuinely considered communist in its true form, but people typically don’t cite them as examples of communism working since they’re not nation-states … which is the whole point lol

Maybe in a Marxist-Leninist state, but not in communism defined as a stateless classless society. There is no ruling class in such a society.

Every calzone I’ve ever eaten has had sauce. And I only buy the really high quality authentic ones from Sbarro.

The public libraries where I live are exactly as you described. I’ve never heard the kids from the adult section.

All wines matter!

Knitting is super fun. I used to do it every day until I started my masters. I keep thinking I should restart this hobby. As long as you don’t buy ridiculously premium yarns, it’s super cheap too. I used to find boxes of yarn at yard sales or thrift stores.

Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.

It’s weird for me. I get the cookie bullshit in reader view, but if I refresh it then I see the article. This happens with uBO enabled or disabled, either way.

Mario lacks any tools, huh? Just got to raw dog it.

I used to be part of Amazon’s program where you get free items to review. It’s even worse than people think.

I left negative or neutral reviews that just don’t appear on the listing, or the seller will contact you directly offering you more free things to upgrade your review, or they’ll just relist their crappy broken product and hope the reviewers write positive reviews (a lot of reviewers would just get free stuff and then write something positive without actually testing it).

Amazon reviews are totally unreliable, and even those sites and extensions that try to determine if a product’s reviews are legitimate aren’t very effective.

I just ask people directly to share their experiences now or create a post on Lemmy because it’s so bad.

So those sources say it doesn’t stay on your credit report, but I’m not really concerned about that. My credit score is consistently dogshit, and I’ve given up on it. I don’t really care about my credit score at all.

What I’m concerned about are legal issues, wage garnishment, and other things that would directly affect me and harm me. If I just don’t pay, wouldn’t they seek legal action against me? I’m almost certain they would, and I’m pretty sure that doesn’t change after 7 years.

Edit: I think I misread your comment. I see now that it does say “credit report.” For some reason, I misread that and thought you were saying the debt just disappears. So really, that wouldn’t help me much at all. I still need to be terrified of going to the doctor. One expensive trip could ruin my life.

I wish I would have known this when I thought my life was over after having appendicitis the one year of my life I couldn’t afford insurance. Thanks for letting me know. I’ll keep it in mind.

I’ve got to say there’s no way my debt would ever be less than $1k though. I’m pretty sure my deductible is $5k, but I’ve also given up on the whole credit score thing. I always get emails that it’s dropped or whatever, and I’m just numb to it at this point it’s just background noise

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