I think the “invisible hand of the market” swats more people than it helps.

I’m pretty far left politically and I can think of a number of similarities between the two parties. The dynamics are very much the same in certain cases but the ideology driving it is different.

I’m sure it’s different for everyone but I was beginning to get burned out on social media and would have spent less time on it regardless.

The cordiality of a mob is inversely proportional to its size.

https://www.gmx.com Isn’t bad but I haven’t really used it that much.

I used it up to the early 2000’s and it just seemed to slow down. I recently did a series of synthetic benchmarks on all the browsers and Firefox was the slowest of the batch. It’s still the only browser left not built on chromium I think. Opera GX was the fastest in terms of benchmarking.

I suppose I should have thought it through but I’ve been hearing that cliché said a certain way for over 50 years and it kind of sticks with you.

I’m aware of that but I didn’t want to say “That’s why God invented books” because I’m an atheist

That’s why Gutenberg invented books

Opioids maybe

I don’t think it would serve any purpose

I know people want to be liked but do you really think it bothers me of some 25-year-old kid with a laptop at a Starbucks in Peoria Illinois doesn’t like something I say? Letting people you don’t have face-to-face contact with dictate your mood or your self-image is kind of stupid but I’m in my 60s and probably would not have said that if I was 20.

Probably because they tie it to their own personal self-image or self-worth. Of course, in the grand scheme of things, downvotes are virtual and don’t mean a thing in the real world.