Idiocracy used to be a dark comedy. Now it's a documentary.

Family can mean a lot of things. Blood doesn't mean anything to me. My family is my friends and my cats, they mean everything to me

My ego was so big when I was younger I thought I could never be fired and the company would suffer if I were to quit. A friend of mine asked me "has a company ever gone out of business because you were gone??" Slapped me back to reality. Thank you Tom 😊

Sometimes people have to hit their rock bottom before they want help. For some, rock bottom becomes a comfort and they never will want to be helped. At that point, just accept that's how they want to live. Nothing much more you can do about it, other than leave.

Good for you. Stay strong

No, but you can log off

Social media is only the enabler to allow people to bring out the worst of themselves and be able to show it shamelessly without consequences. You give too much credit to the vehicle when it's really us who are doing it.

Not true. PEOPLE have destroyed their own mental health by putting more stock in what is said in pretend worlds and shutting the door on the real world.

I gave up all social media 2 years ago. Been the best 2 years since I ever joined FB

But at the bottom of Pandora's box was hope.

The Internet itself is. The best thing that's ever happened. But it's also the worst. If you're housebound like myself, it's Essential for shopping, connections, entertainment, but if you don't go on it, you're even further isolated 😒

Interesting idea, but do you have any evidence that this (the first part) is true? No, I thought not.

Definitely. I wish I could close this lid. I've seen 9 year olds on tiktok, learning all kinds of cuss words and thinking its okay to be rude to everyone around you. For the cuss words I don't really see a problem with it but if you're saying f**k you to everyone for no reason and you're 9 years old? I'm sorry no.

Since the advent social media the way folks feel they need to narrate their everyday absolutely mundane lives is beyond me. Oh great for you that you that you went to target bought shitter paper and hit the Starbucks on the way out. How fulfilling your life must be. Don’t trip over the razors on the way home.

I'm reading this in stead of fixing a drive shaft on a truck. F me.

This should be higher!

100% truth. There was a time where we realized we had to start regulating and restricting industry, because of the damage it was doing to the environment. We are well-past the time we need to start seriously talking about restricting and regulating technology -- even that which already exists and is in-use -- because of the damage it is doing to US.

The last, ephemeral thing out of Pandora's Box was "Hope".

The same had been said about the television before the social media...and about the radio before it...about rock-'n'-roll, too...there are the similar quotes about books way before even radio was a thing. Old geezers will find what to demonize

We are now only one generation away from not being able to survive as a species if all the Tech goes down forever.

The heart has a long memory, and falling in love twice is like trying to rewrite a tale that has already been told.

Moral of the story: don't work hard unless there's something in it for you. And don't expect others to work hard.

Didn't Picard say something along the lines of this? That you can make no mistakes and still lose and that's just life?

They will sooner throw you under the bus and make you wish you were never born before they ever admit to doing you wrong.

Yeah I think this is one of the saddest realizations, that love isn't enough. Really sucks to get there

The people that were supposed to love me the most treated me like s**t. Love isn't always where you'd expect it to be.

It’s like the most dangerous Lifetime show

"I'm paying for this..." Whenever I hear this, I think of manipulation and exploitation. Doesn't matter the context. When people say s**t like that all consideration for the human aspect has gone out the window.

Life is unfair. Good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people.

oh yeah, I let those dreams die a long time ago. If it happens, then cool. but I'm not getting my hopes up. Yay America :)

I am so very sorry and I wish you strength and peace. Doggos are truly the best.

You can do everything right and still end up in the wrong place. It's not your fault all the time.

Yeah, probably. Me worrying about this exact thing is what causes me to stop talking to them in the first place.

Well, you could be born rich, that's something. /sarc, because it's needed these days.

I know this, but it still sucks when it's someone you really wish would be proud of you, such as a parent. But still, in the end it just hurts more to keep trying to get the validation they aren't willing to give.

This f*cking terrifies me. One of my biggest fears in life is people just leaving because they can. And people have done it before. This keeps me up at night and makes me question every relationship. I know it's true but it hurts so much to be abandoned by someone you care about.

This is the hardest lesson to learn...that' it's not your fault.

It's always harsh. I lost being able to do a lot of things from illness. Life can be so cruel 😔

You're not alone.

I am thought of as the "mother of the group", when someone has a problem i want to do everything in my power to save them. But I can't. Because they don't want to be saved, yet i feel responsible. You are your own person with your own emotions, they need to figure it out for themselves.

Right, so where can I get executed?

No, that applies to everybody, not just a third of us.

Very well put, absolutely correct.

Not even in my 20s but I can relate

I demand a restart, so I won't make the same mistakes I did in my 20s

They may love you differently, but that doesn't mean less.

I let my thoughts and schedule push those people away. Luckily I've managed to keep a few alive but a lot have died

The risk, and possible pain is usually worth it. Don't be afraid to love, it leads to a lonely and bitter life.

It was Christmas a few years after my mom died. A friend took me to see "torch song trilogy". There was a scene near the end where the recently widowed mother comforts her newly widowed son. You may appreciate too. ..."Give yourself time, Arnold. It gets better... But, Arnold, it never goes away. You can work longer hours, adopt a son, fight with me, whatever... it'll still be there. But that's all right, it becomes a part of you, like learning to wear a ring or a pair of eyeglasses. You get used to it. And that's good. It's good, because it makes sure you don't forget. You don't want to forget him, do you?”

Right, no one can afford it anymore. Even renting sucks

Losing years to it currently. Things change though, constantly. Hopefully for the better

Yep, no matter how much it hurts me, I'm still a people pleaser in most situations.

I feel you, my friend. 3 years with panic disorder and its buddies (agoraphobia, thalassophobia, claustrophobia etc.). Out of the blue. Literally glues you to your home, and doctors are very happy to get you hooked up from one benzo to the other. Life is a struggle and i am aware that things will never be the same but I am certain I will eventually manage to live a normal-ish life.