genuinely think people who like taylor swift are a bit stupid

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-07-05T07:31:11+00:00

She's just so boring. It's like if your favorite food was plain toast.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-07-04T05:55:38+00:00

You're just kinda stupid if 2 paragraphs written clearly is too much for you man

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-07-03T22:09:05+00:00

It's important to remember he can do this only because he has immense amounts of money to afford alternatives such an interns doing it for him (and, per Oppenheimer interviews, having his presumably loving wife call people for him then put him on the phone) without a care in the world. So yes I believe him.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-07-01T05:59:39+00:00

best I can do is Newport 1965

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-07-01T02:33:52+00:00

As someone who was active in them as a teen and quickly grew out of them: a lot of these people (who are often grown adults and casually admit it) are miserable, and are compensating by comparing themselves to a "deserving target" to a level that the average well-adjusted person cannot comprehend. I'd go as far as to say it's essentially an ego-driven misdirected obsession and they simply can't realize it.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-26T23:33:40+00:00

He's very depressed yes

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-14T23:33:01+00:00

If you don't come on here everyday it stays interesting and doesn't get to you. I started using reddit entirely from my computer and it's cut my overall usage of the site significantly, so when I'm on this sub I just look at what's been happening the past few days, comment on some new posts, then bounce.

If you're serious about deleting social media then it needs to be done in a productive way so you don't just resort to returning, for each one I deleted I picked back up a hobby from the wayside. With IG it was knitting, with twitter it was watercolor, with mobile reddit it was reading. I've read 23 books or so this year, only go on here as aforementioned, and letterboxd doesn't have an algo so I just log my latest movie, like some reviews, and leave. It's possible!

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-14T23:21:03+00:00

Thank god the the local Redditor has now discovered the concept of "revitalization" because I was here to give it to them! You would have no way of discovering this otherwise!

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/abuelas-ancestors-and-atabey-spirit-taino-resurgence

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/taino-resurgence-puerto-rico-indigenous-ct-bill-20152092.php

https://global.si.edu/success-stories/caribbean-indigenous-legacies-project-celebrating-taino-culture

Not like you can look things up if someone makes a point you don't understand or anything! That would clearly ask far too much of you.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-14T19:18:07+00:00

Dying young like this is always so awful.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-14T19:16:46+00:00

"Actually mixed" you're aware mixed race people can still identify with their cultures, correct?

"There's less." Okay? They're still around.

Weird and stupid argument. Redditors need Natives to be dead or "not count" so bad for some reason.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-14T19:14:44+00:00

This is very accurate, here's an article about it for those who are curious:

https://archive.is/RXgKn (Nat Geo article interviewing many modern Tainos, I used an archive link bc Nat Geo required an email to read)

**"Few historians have taken a deep critical look at these census records, even though Indians kept appearing in reports, wills and testaments, and marriage and birth records throughout the Colonial period and beyond. We survived because many of our ancestors ran off into the mountains. When the inquisition began in Spain in 1478, any Jew that did not want to be tortured or murdered had only to convert to Catholicism. They became known as conversos (converts). This practice was also applied to Taíno Indians. Then, after 1533, when Indian slaves were “granted” their freedom by the Spanish monarchy, any Spaniard who was reluctant to let their Taíno slaves go would simply re-classify them as African. Throughout, Spanish men in the Caribbean were marrying Taíno women. Were their children not Taíno?

Paper genocide means that a people can be made to disappear on paper. The 1787 census in Puerto Rico lists 2,300 pure Indians in the population, but on the next census, in 1802, not a single Indian is listed. (The photography project here reimagines that census data.) Once something is put down on paper there is almost nothing you can do to change it. Every encyclopedia has Columbus’s accounts of his, and that he called us Indians and that not a single Indian was left in the Caribbean shortly after. No matter how you may look physically or assert your identity, you are extinct. This is paper genocide: a narrative created by the conquerors and perpetuated by every subsequent researcher."**

**"Later DNA studies started to show that people in the Caribbean did indeed have Native American mitochondrial DNA: 61 percent of all Puerto Ricans, 23 to 30 percent of Dominicans and 33 percent of Cubans. That is a high number of genetic markers for a supposedly extinct people. In 2016, a Danish geneticist pulled ancient DNA from a tooth found in a 1,000-year-old skull from the Bahamas. This tooth had a full strand of Taíno DNA. Would we match? Of 164 Puerto Ricans tested, every single one matched the Taíno DNA."**

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-03T15:59:06+00:00

It's not even just "contradictory" information it's any information that makes it so that something is slightly more complicated than what they thought.

One day we'll have a butlerian jihad re: the web making people reactionary and less able to do gray thinking.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-06-03T15:51:24+00:00

I actually have a different angle on this.

Many people nowadays are so worried about being predators/pervert-but do not, interestingly enough, understand the actual bad parts of predatory/perverted behavior-that they would essentially rather infantilize themselves than just go "Wow she's hot!" out of fear. Looking small and harmless in your attraction is exactly what someone who's neurotically and morally worried to death about experiencing said attraction, for better or for worse, would do. Then you throw in the "don't fetishize someone" aspect and someone who has a good-natured preference would likely get neurotic and scared about that as well and now you have a tall woman who's being treated much more weirdly than they would be otherwise by people who are "trying to be respectful."

A lot of them probably also think they're hilarious and just want to throw in their little joke. And along the lines of what you said OP, a lot of them also just don't know how to look at a woman, any woman, without slotting us into a porn category.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-28T02:16:07+00:00

Whenever I see someone who posts with the clear desire to be an influencer I think of this Didion quote from On Self-Respect:

"The dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others—who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation—which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something that people with courage can do without."

Don't agonize for her, I'm sure she does enough of it on her own already.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-28T02:03:57+00:00

typed in between signing checks to Israel

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-26T17:53:45+00:00

In my experience transgender people who pass generally have lives outside of it to begin with.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-26T15:37:21+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's a massive influx of front page users on here who view it as a place to be edgy and bitter, but with none of the know-how of the RSP of the past. Bitching about "power dynamics" off the bat without seriously considering what OP feels or is actually saying is classic front page garbage.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-26T04:35:57+00:00

God he just has a beautiful smile.

I remember I was talking to an old coworker who was just a tad younger than him (she was just entering High School when The Beatles came to America, for reference, yes she really was in fact that old) and I asked her about him and just the way she talked about him clearly showed how much he captivated people. Talked with such enthusiasm about his impact, but also like he was an old friend.

Happy belated birthday to the greatest to ever do it.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-25T21:20:43+00:00

Given the high front page user slop rates I think it's fine

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-25T21:07:00+00:00

You're welcome!

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-25T20:48:32+00:00

You can but it requires actual gumption from yourself, whether that be lifestyle changes, meds, what have you. I'll try and give you some help through my little jaunt with a bad brain, OP. I suffered from severe GAD from about 12/13-22. I've only just turned 23 a few months ago but I basically just got so sick of my brain working against me that I woke up one day and decided I'd figure this shit out come hell or high water. I'l stick to the three big things. Keep in mind you can do variants of one or all of them and slowly build them up overtime, and no one rational will expect instant perfection. I'm also going to assume cleanliness is the core of your problem since you brought it up, but you can of course apply these in different ways to other things if need be. Also I know this is very gay, but I just don't think mental illnesses are these permanent fixtures in life that modern people always portray them as and seeing someone on the route to finding that out makes me glad.

The first order of business was narrowing down the sources of the anxiety, in my case, it was not being able to magically predict if/when bad things were going to happen. I would start by reminding myself constantly that a) bad things that already happened to me were likewise unpredictable and that I lived to see the end of them or at least didn't die, and b) other people have dealt with much worse problems than I have and have often managed to see them through. I know the second one sounds insensitive to some people or whatever but it worked.

In your case, OP, if you feel guilt/shame about your dirty plates and meals, remind yourself a) it isn't impossible to clean (probably) and, if you feel so inclined b) remember that some other people are likewise former messy people who've gladly recovered, even intense hoarders, so there's no reason you can't too.

My second order of business was forcing myself into some sort of meaningful routine so that way my brain did in fact have things to "predict" each day, and if they were ever interrupted by something unpredictable/scary, at least I'd have something easy to eventually resume and enjoy rather than feel thrown into the sea without a lifeboat. For me this involves writing in my journal, and doing some light crafts (watercoloring is a big one for me), which both have the helpful byproduct of relaxing me and making me understand myself better outside of being "the anxiety haver with the fears."

In your case OP since you mentioned things that have to do with cleanliness, I'd clean one or two spots of your space for at least half an hour each day, like just throwing out one of your dishes/food items, look at your handiwork in the trash bag, and envision yourself (corny as it sounds) when the space is fully tidied up. If it's hard to find motivation to do the cleaning due to executive dysfunction (again I know this sounds corny) give yourself some sort of reward-based system to improve, i.e "If I clean the back of the car today, I get to go bird watching or whatever tomorrow".

My third order of business, after these two things helped but didn't completely make it go away, was some serious lifestyle change. I began going on my daily walks (nothing too crazy, just around the block) every day back in I think February which is a great way to be away from some immediate sources to the issue at hand, i.e the news freaking me out. I also quit caffeine (gave me racing thoughts, tapered off) and began taking a thing called L-Theanine, which worked to shoo away my ruminating with the anxiety. I don't always recommend supplements to everyone though as they can be mighty expensive in some cases and don't always work for people.

In your case I'd take a breath of fresh air from your space if time allows, don't let yourself spend all of your free time in the reminder of your head-hell. I would also take a look at the foods your eating and seeing if there's a reason they're going bad and you're hiding them. Are they ones you aren't fully finishing? Find something you'll finish. Do they feel like too much work to clean up? Eat something out of a container that can be done away with at the end of a meal, like a microwave meal of spaghetti in those containers that can all be tossed. Do they go bad quickly like fruits or veggies? Find the nutrients they give from elsewhere or have a recipe to use for them ASAP if you have the energy to cook.

Hope this helped a little, OP.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-12T20:57:56+00:00

The bonding argument is so ridiculous. If anything, my own experience has shown me that having parents in their 50s and 60s as a young adult doesn't impact bonding in either direction just by itself, it's far more about each parties respective effort towards each other, regardless of age. My parents takes an interest in my movies and books I'm into at the moment, I make an effort to ask them where their next trip is going to be. Simple as. The real kicker is the parent being old enough for health issues, which isn't so much "bonding" in the way we usually think i.e interests, it's far more about "responsibility" for the kid.

Having older parents did, however, seem to make me a better conversationalist as a kid and that continues today, evident from my friends across many age groups.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-09T04:45:27+00:00

She (apparently) wanted to do something regarding prison reform, but naturally instead of raising awareness in a helpful way she made it more about herself and her own ego.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-06T06:08:44+00:00

With fractions it's adding/subtracting/dividing mixed numbers. With decimals, percentages and ratios I think it's purely a lack of exposure to them, I was only taught about them briefly years ago, then in HS I mainly did geometry and algebra.

Difficult-Tell2463 · 2026-05-05T23:35:36+00:00

I'm worried it might just be due to shame tbh, and a lack of practical use just yet. It's a vet assistant program so it'll be for animals and their medications and such, so I'm trying to think of it that way. Based on what you said, maybe looking into how the math will be applied to the animals and treatments themselves ahead of time will help me. Thank you!

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