Apparently it’s a feature that can be disabled in settings - I just had it turned off, I guess. Thanks for highlighting it, I would probably never have found out about it otherwise :)

die

Weird, I have no such option. Are you on 2.38.0? I installed through F-droid which currently only has up to 2.37.2, so maybe it’s a new feature - though I don’t see it listed in the change log.

How do you do this? I can’t find it anywhere

If I ever find one of these, I’m gonna nab it and put modern hardware in it. Then I’m using xfce with the Chicago95 theme.

Ahem

One of these things is purpose-built for the deliberate infliction of harm. The other is vastly more popular and merely causes harm through negligence.

Sort of like the American political parties, I guess

You’re right, of course. I spent a long time building into this frame of mind, and it will take a long time to get out. I’m making that effort too, I just wish I could have started sooner.

I didn’t actually mean to start venting in my last comment - what I wanted to get at was that it’s especially critical for this community’s message to reach boys and younger men so that they can begin that process earlier in life, or obviate it altogether. I wanted to describe that feeling of being boxed into a narrow range of socially-acceptable male emotion, in hope that it will resonate with someone and kick-start their desire for emotional growth.

I really appreciate you creating this space. Managing an online community is hard, and success only makes it harder. I wish you the best of luck going forward.

I wonder if raising the licencing age to 25 would reduce the curve or just shift it to the right

I would also assume this, if I hadn’t also repeatedly witnessed the exact behaviour the OP describes. The “instant honk on green” drivers also tend to follow up with whatever reckless maneuver allows them to beat you to the next red light by 1.5 seconds. Inattentiveness and impatience are both dangerous on the road.

It’s objectively worse from a profit standpoint, so I can definitely see them disappearing outside of secondhand sales

I’m in my 40s and it feels impossible at this point. I’m lucky enough to have found a SO that I feel safe to open up with, but I just physically can’t, having spent most of my life packing myself into an emotional bunker. My brain overloads and shuts down, and all I am able to articulate are meaningless cop-outs like “work was stressful” or “I’m just a little tired”. My means of expression are limited to the range between indifference and anger, because the rest of the emotional spectrum was abandoned to atrophy from childhood to young adulthood.

I’m at peace with it. At this point, all I want is to do what I can–however little–to help anyone I can reach avoid the same outcome.

Maybe a step further: dialup-punk?

Is this really a privacy issue? It just looks like plain old harassment to me.

tfw no evil moon milf gf

it to my fucken face

Bold of you to assume I own a house