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Cake day: March 12th, 2024

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  • You’ve no obligation to socialize with everyone in real life, why should online be any different?

    If someone is consistently annoying, rude or spouting noxious stuff, you’re perfectly reasonable in blocking them.

    Interaction in written text online is still a fairly unnatural way for humans to communicate. It’s missing the depth that physical and aural clues provide.

    Add to that the evidence that humans can’t really manage more than about 50 relationships makes these global forums too much for a person to really handle.

    Block away. Trim your interactions to a manageable level.










  • It’s okay to hate on a person who is mentally ill when their untreated illness is causing so much harm.

    Antisocial behavior is a symptom of mental illness great and small. Being a dick to someone online is a symptom of mild mental illness and should be treated with some tolerance—the person is likely to get over it. It’s like a coworker coming to work with a mild cold.

    Destroying your perceived enemies financially, pouring your wealth into a global, digital surveillance machine and backing political puppets is a symptom of very severe mental illness that makes that person an existential threat to innocent people. It should not be tolerated. It’s akin to a coworker coming to work with Ebola.

    Mental illness is a broad spectrum. Everyone has it to some degree at some point in their lives. It’s natural for the really dangerous versions to be treated with contempt and sometimes necessary to remove those individuals from society—like when their behavior is obviously hurting other people.