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.
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
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
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
Autistics everywhere furiously clicking the upvote button.
I shame people when they mention asking an LLM about anything. Does that count?
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.
I think it's okay to be excited about stuff, but when someone is excited about something, am I expected to also be excited about it or else I'm considered a bad person for just being like "oh cool" and then not being any further interested?
I shame anyone over 14 that still plays roblox. Younger than that, I try to nudge them into better games
I imagine the woman in the profile picture posted this shortly after introducing her new 50 year old boyfriend to her parents.
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.
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