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[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

tulpa

Now thats a word i haven't read in a long time

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[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not even noon and I am so done with the internet for the day

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

Well, if I had a taco butt plug, everything else would seem lame by comparison.

[–] Angelusz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Normal people do this in their heads

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (5 children)

For me, writing like this is always read with the AI voice from Satisfactory. And it slowly gets more and more corrupted.

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago (14 children)

I think the decline of organized religion and things like fraternal orders (Elks, Moose, Shriners, etc.) have probably contributed a lot to the loneliness epidemic. There are a lot of other extenuating factors but those two things were once foundational to social circles in the US.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.

Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.

A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys.

But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.

When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this: “You are not enough people!”

I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.

They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.

Wouldn't you have loved to be that baby?”

― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

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[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see we live in the timeline where virginity won

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I've seen people which have a relationship with their Tom Tom Go and even with the car itself

https://www.jalopnik.com/my-strange-addiction-sex-car-guy-back-with-lexus-es330-1850642715/

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So so tired of how utterly fucked things are getting on so many levels at once. More and more I think I really do need to invest in a back 50 acre lot and try the survival route while society just fucks itself into oblivion.

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[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean, ai bad and all but people have been doing this dumb cringe shit since always. Nobody remember the Snape wives

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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