Here’s one article about it.

https://macleans.ca/society/tiny-homes-fredericton/

I don’t remember where I saw this the first time, but it did mention that this had become a thing in a few American cities too (this story was from Fredericton, Canada)

That’s good advice. You’ve got my vote.

Just keep adding master’s degrees until you get an offer, I guess.

No, just sharing stuff that I like.

True - I think it’s a combination of those personality traits, social pressures, and a desire to believe that leads to irrational conspiratorial/superstitious thinking.

Conspiratorial thinking.

Many people are motivated by a need to feel superior to others, have a strong distrust of authority, and/or feel that acceptance of a belief system is a requirement of their internalized group identity.

Still seems to have lots of energy in him too!

Here he is dancing on the red carpet.

That’s a huge parenting win right there.

Wouldn’t want to make a fool of yourself.

Ha, I can definitely see how that could be visual clutter. You should also see it for posts when scrolling through the community.

I help mod a handful of communities, and I suppose it helps sometimes when I’m navigating into random threads from my inbox - just as a reminder.

That shield symbol just means that YOU are a mod in that community and can take mod actions on those comments.

I think it’s all of them, now that you mention it.

Indeed.

Yeah, that AI “shimmer” makes it really obvious, but I have to admit that I’ve been tricked some recently.

I love Bob Ross. The segments where he just pauses the painting show to show you some of his animal friends are among the most wholesome moments on TV.

Yeah, it’s unfortunately good advice. Hearing it from a hiring manager in a “dance my puppet” way makes me want to vomit though.

Is any other app out there able to handle streaming games to your friends as easily as discord?

It seems like we should probably be looking for the next ship to jump to…

BE NOT AFRAID

A lot of young men are lacking role models and community these days.

More kids are growing up without fathers around now (single parenthood is up from 9% in the 1960s to about 25% today).

Most people’s source of community used to be church, but since the advent of the internet, people are rapidly moving away from organized religion. I think this has disproportionately impacted men, who tend to be less social on average.

And I think in general, a lot of young men feel like nobody cares about their personal struggles.

So, even some toxic dude like Andrew Tate can show up and say “Hey, you’re great. Here are the reasons why things are bad for you and what you should do, and here’s a community of like-minded people to interact with.” and these guys are going to dive in head first.