I feel like it's more important to know why these defederations happened than how many there are. Well beehaw just screams their reason with their number but that's a separate thing.

My best friend has an iPhone. I'm a Samsung girl. Any time her phone doesn't let her do something I poke fun at the iPhone, but in reality they are just different versions of the same thing. The only real reason I have to complain is the price tag. I'm not paying double for an item that does the same thing as the cheaper version. That's just stupid financially. It's not a better product because it costs more. I can live without whatever it offers that android doesn't.

This is what happens when you grow up with boomers in your ear, yelling at you to get a job and make a family. They insist that's what life is about. But it's not. Life is about being happy. When it boils down to it, that's all we really want. Even terrible people do what they do because it makes them happy.

I'm only just taking my baby steps out of this mindset. I learned I can do things no one else around me can. Some may not be marketable skills, but that's not always necessary.

I don't work. Thanks to autistic burnout, I'm a shell of my former self. But in that time, I have saved 11 kitten lives and given 3 very short lives happiness they never would have seen otherwise. I've brought kittens from the brink of death by starvation to stocky, healthy kittens who now have loving homes. It takes time and effort to do that. One was so sick from starvation he barely moved, and I got him strong enough to get up and play.

It's not worth any money to have this talent. Not to me anyway. They are all attached to a shelter that makes the money. They make me happy.

It's not about "pacing up" as you say, or making a mark in history. We need those people, but you don't need to be one of them. If everyone made breakthroughs, they wouldn't be as important. The bar would just get set even higher. You make a difference to the people around you. I don't value my life, but I learned to appreciate that other people do value my life, and that's good enough.

It's never a good idea to go near any animal that has just given birth. Since they were vulnerable for a time, they likely kick it up a notch, plus babies to protect. It's even a crapshoot if the bonded person can come close.

No. In God we trust is on all our money for some stupid reason.

Target robot 1X and fire!

Who's robot 1X? Firing!

They know me so well! 😭

My husband wakes up 5 minutes before he has to leave, and if he's going 15 minutes away, that means he GETS UP 20 minutes before he has to be somewhere.

The only exception to that rule is when I need to be somewhere, because he will ask me what time I need to leave, and he will actually get up 30 minutes before that time. Essentially, he only makes sure he's awake enough to drive when I'm in the car. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that because I'm happy he's accommodating my needs, but that also means he values my life more than his, whereas I worry about his safety.

I mostly fit that description. While I understand what you're saying, we all have other interests on top of this. That's what makes it diverse.

Personally, I feel like a more mature audience is needed. I have never liked the feel of places like Facebook, tiktok, etc. Let me have one place where I can pretend the world isn't overrun with stupidity. There is actual conversation on topics to be had, and people aren't jerks to others for no reason.

The fediverse is somewhat complicated to understand. Maybe like usenet or other such places.

Agreed. This is always my immediate response.

It's good to see people are still willing to fight any kind of bs in droves like this. I was worried that would fade when the stress of the pandemic did. But it hasn't. We need people to fight to make the changes happen that we've known needed to happen years ago.

I used to think I wanted to be seen. Now I am and it's uncomfortable. Thanks

Back when I had this issue, it was because I had a stressful job, and all I want to do is go home but you get people on these winding ass country roads who don't know them so they go 20 under!!

Now I just get mad if someone is stupid and almost hits me.

My guess would be that with the huge amount of American males (it is a big country after all) people just assume. And women are known to care about animals more, whether that is true or not.

I've been called a guy before and my name doesn't exactly strike people as male. I am female. I've been on the internet long enough not to care.

I think they (corporations) really don't understand the younger generations at all. The kids (though many are now much older than that) these days will stand up to employers who treat them badly, boycott things that become unfair, and find better ways to do things.

I think I read somewhere that boomers are the only generation that left the world worse than they entered. The fact that people are fighting back against it says a lot. It may not always be effective right now, but the more people brought up in this ridiculousness grow up, the more people will fight back. Unfortunately, what took one generation to destroy will take many to fix. We won't see it in our lifetime. Our grandkids or great grandkids will get that honor. I hope.

I dont understand how people can be like this. But I've also never been an attention seeker. I don't understand how even bad attention is a good thing to these people.

"Good" attention makes me uncomfortable. "Bad" attention makes me cry.

I would say no. Lots of the super smart people become eccentric. I suspect any smarter and they'd just end up flat crazy. Dealing with being the only one in the room who understands what you're saying can be lonely.

I'm working with a group of people, some 10 years younger than me, who don't really understand technology. It feels weird.

Same. Out of all my lost jobs, only two can be proven (by me only of course) to be because of some autistic trait I have.

While I don't value my own life as much as I should, I know I have value to others, and most of that is due to my traits. In fact, I'm starting a job today that wants me specifically because of those traits. I never thought I'd work again.

I have saved dozens of kitten lives, who go on to make their new human's life better.

I used to hate myself. I've learned to embrace the way I am and couldn't imagine being any other way. The people whose lives I have made a positive impact on would agree. I don't have to rule the world, but my household is efficient because of me.

Eugenics isn't the answer. I'd bet if we had the right resources available, none of the people in this thread would say that. Everyone deserves a chance at a good life. Corporate greed is the reason we don't have those resources.

Or you could just become a member of their channel. I look at it this way though. If a youtuber I'm watching has lots of subscribers, one more member in that community probably isn't going to make a difference. If a youtuber I'm watching doesn't have the subscriber numbers they deserve, I will become a member. I always choose the highest tiers for them too. And join their patreon and do the same there. If I do that, I will actually listen/watch on patreon then put both YouTube versions in my watch list for when I need background noise and just upvote both videos.

That way they get all the things I can possibly do for them without giving youtube as much as I give the creators. This is my understanding of how that works though. With premium, if they actually give any of that money to the creators (my heart says no, corporations suck), it would be way less than the channel membership would give them. I don't actually know how much premium costs though.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong. At the moment I don't have very many people on my memberships. And I know most people these days probably can't afford to do that, but even a $1 or $2 membership to one or a couple of them can make a difference to the ones you really support and who probably need it more than they'd get from premium.

It might also be an autism thing. I don't have ADHD and I do this. I have to make my appointments as early as possible or my whole day is gone to freaking out about having to go out, whatever the appointment is about, etc.

That was it. Of course I have viewed my own posts. Geez. Good job, me!