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Trust me, the guy on the left has the most important job of all - holding the truck together.

Things are different now because everyone is a content creator now... everyone has something interesting, funny, informative, shitty they just have to share. Social media made sharing those things real easy. So, basically, now, there's an endless supply of stuff you can scroll through. Everyone is online now, that wasn't the case back in the 90s.

Things are what they currently are (easily accessible to everyone, even 90 year old granma that has no understanding of what the internet is, but her only living friend has an account on FB, so she told her to hop on board) bacause of the money insentive. Everything has a price tag nowadays. A perfect example, cryptocurrency. It isn't worth anything, but someone decided to put a price tag on it and now, it's worth a lot. And things can't pan out any differently in a capitalist economic system where everything has to have a price tag. People sometimes think "you know, if we did this or that differently, maybe things wouldn't be so bad". At this moment in time, maybe, but you're just postponing the inevitable. Things will be like this, sooner or later. A global shift in econmic orders has to happen in order for companies to lose insentive in gathering data (they make signups and other things easy so more people will get hooked and be online as long as possible) and just stop developing the platforms... which in turn will drop the user base and eventually, the plaform will die. If you can't sell the gathered data or use it to make money, it's worthless.

Yeah, I know all that, but I've just given up at this point (look my comment above as to why). I'm just too old for this back and forth bullshit till the end of time. And I don't think things are gonna change any time soon. Unless a global catastrophy plages mankind, nothing is gonna change... like an asteroid impact or something like that. People show their greatest virtues and unite only when faced with grave danger... it's just how humans are, they don't do shit about anything unless all of their friends, relatives, family are in immediate danger.

And even if we avoid this grave danger, things will soon get back to same old, same old. A large chunk of humanity (like over 95%) needs to be wiped out in order for people to take things seriously and shift their mindsets in an entirely different direction... and even then, there is no guarantee that that will last.

Yeah, this thing works if everyone around you is not an asshole. It doesn't if everyone is. And even if the copycat or copykitten win in the end, the number of retries is just too tiring, so you just give up and decided to not trust anyone, thus becoming the cheater, same as everyone else.

Well, I would like one more day and a teleport to KitKat in Berlin.

The pope being there was just a coincidence.

It's because people usually search for that... one of the many reasons why I lost hope in the human race... people getting their kinks on other people getting beaten up or killed... I mean, it just goes to show you how worse we are even than animals.

Lol 🤣, this is so every toddler I know 🤣🤣🤣.

And then you give them back the glasses and they go hug and make up with the doggie 🤣🤣🤣.

Jesus, not again 🤦.

The exact reason I decided to install Viber was fast communication with everyone else (everyone uses it around here) and to caiter to the needs of my friends and relatives.

You can't really do anything for them. It's like a drug, if they refuse to admit they're addicts, then there is nothing you can do.

We are all addicted to something, no doubt there, whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, gambling, social networks, doesn't matter. The real test is, what will you do once that thing that you're addicted to suddenly is no more. I have done this test on myself a few times. The first is the hardest. You really have no idea what to do, even though you have like a bunch of things shelved in your head that need to be done, but you just can't stop thiking about the thing that you're deprying yourself of. The second time it's easier, the third, even easier. I'm at a point right now that I know I can quit Lemmy or the net entirely for an unlimited period of time, if I wanted to. It's just training of the mind, nothing more.

I suggest you prepare them mentally for one of the hardest things they'll have to endure (if none of them have ever given up drugs, gambling, alcohol, cigrettes, those addictions are far worse). First leave them without FB for a week or two, let them stress it out. Afterwards, Lemmy will feel like heaven to them, lol 😂. Cuz let's face it, you can't doomscroll here, there still isn't that much content, but you can scroll for about an hour or two, no problem there.

ChatGPT: You're gonna die.

Still, I would consult a physician, since I'm just an AI chat bot.

Misanthropy just realism.

I think this about sums it up... I'm sorry, I really am, I was such an advocate for human kind and had such hope for it, up until about 10 years ago... and then I just gave up... I mean, it can take a long time to fill a cup if you just drip in it, but eventually, it will get full 🤷.