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When I find myself getting too optimistic about humanity

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  • D Daniel Pfeffer

    ... I think on the existence and popularity of Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc. :sigh:

    Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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    jmaida
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    you may a point.

    "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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    • H honey the codewitch

      There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

      To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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      Kenneth Haugland
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      If you write your own posts, you are not reading theirs. I suspect that is the problem ;P

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      • H honey the codewitch

        There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

        To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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        You'll probably remember, CP used to have a special forum for that called the soapbox. They had to stop it due to all the negativity :laugh: .

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        • H honey the codewitch

          There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

          To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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          obermd
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          Personally, when this happens to me I turn on the TV news. All optimism is wiped away very quickly.

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          • H honey the codewitch

            There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

            To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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            jochance
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            Huge amounts of things are most easily explained when considering that kids now have platforms where they aren't just shoulder-shrugged on account of having zero life experience. They get taken "seriously" when they really at least should be filtered through that lens. Not dissimilar, Americans (me) also tend to assume Americans on the other end. The huge differences in social norms sometimes leads to head butting by itself.

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            • S Slacker007

              People also behave in a manner on the internet that they would otherwise not behave in person to person - including myself. I think we are all guilty of this type of behavior online, in one way or another, at some time past, present, future.

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              CodeZombie62
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              That has created a whole new problem where the people who behave rudely on the internet have decided they can behave the same way in real life.

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