That may be true but it’s also important to have self resilience against useless criticism. I mean, it’s not your fault your excitement has triggered someone else’s defences, causing them to attack you. Best thing to do is walk away and only engage again when you’re calm, if you want to still engage with them.
I shame people when they mention asking an LLM about anything. Does that count?
Good question let me ask chatgpt for a sec-
I think there are certain things that we, as a society, can agree are worthy of feeling shame.
Racism is probably number one.
But asking LLMs for any kind of advice or using them as search engines should be pretty high on that list.
This statement captures a huge part of the shitty, negativity first, punching down, and adversarial nature of the conservative white american culture that I was born into.
It is so incredibly pervasive that I think most don’t even realize they’re doing it. Even thinking of relatives who I have totally good personal relationships with – I can hang out with them any time, but I am not going to sit around in the living room with everybody because within minutes it turns into non-stop complaining about entire other person on the planet.
It’s almost like that “Darmok” episode of star trek, except on this conservative planet the locals only speak in the form of complaints.
Karen and Darmok ask to see the manager in your house
You can like nu-trek all you want, but if my critique of it makes you feel dumb that’s not my fault.
I would need more specifics. Being excited about some things that are legitimately morally or ethically condemnable and in that case I wont pull punches in calling them stupid for their excitement.
If its just something I am cynical about, I earnestly think is stupid, or something I just don’t care about. I’ll usually not comment unless prodded or asked. In which case hey you asked for my opinion I’m not going to lie to you.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
I wanna know how so many people here know so many others in their lives that legitimately get excited about things like racism and shit. That’s the surprising thing to me in these comments
Maybe not many but an extended part of my family disowned a daughter because she is “gay”. Found that out just last week. So I suspect they get excited about this things just maybe not in the way most people think about getting excited
Is she OK? Capable of self-sufficiency and in a good place mentally?
I do not know, I don’t typically associate with that part of my family because of shitty behavior like this. I think she is, she went to college and has a good job, at least that’s the last I heard until they stopped talking about her. Now I know why they stopped taking about her
I mean, I dunno if I’d support someone being like “Yay, meth!”
But have you tried meth?
A valid question, for I have not.
Not to cool your jets, but I’ve met worse types of persons
Definetely in the top 10 billion worst types of people.
Impossible. The meme has spoken!
So true. Being judgemental is stupid and old fashioned in the worst way. If it’s not hurting people, why judge it? Let people live, ffs.
If they leave me alone about it after I politely express my disinterest I will, if not I’ll take it as asking for my full opinion on the subject and that will be brutally honest.
Surely making assumptions builds solid relationships.
Like making the assumption that I to talk about whatever it is they’re prattling on about.
You need to learn about autism and also children
Knowing I have no patience with them I avoid children as much as possible and enteract with them even less.
Is someone shoving beliefs at you? Which beliefs and where? That might be very rude, depending on the context.
It’s not as dramatic as that. Don’t talk to me about sports, religion, or whatever pop culture you’re into. Enjoy them for yourself by yourself. Online I can choose to engage or not, in public I’m way more limited.
If you’re excited for Republican leadership: How could I possibly make you feel stupid? You’re too stupid to know!
Call me the worst type of person.
What if they are excited about the dumbest things like labubus? Or AI image generation? It’s just not that black and white. Labubus are stupid and you are stupid for liking them.
Obviously if you like labubus all hope is lost for you, and exceptions like these are totally ok. In my headcanon this post refers more to people who’d make fun of you for liking trains or sumin.
Nah, it’s still mean
/genuine am i missing something or are a lot of people taking the hyperbole a little too seriously?? like I agree but god forbid someone uses hyperbole??
Lemmy users famously have an inability to comprehend figures of speech
Don’t be too harsh, for many of them English is a second language and idioms are weird
Fair point
