Someone was driving veeeeery carefully on the main road and managed to accumulate quite a parade of vehicles behind him.

I knew there was a secondary road that runs in parallel to the main one, so I took the scenic route and followed it.

Later I joined back the main road and arrived to my destination. I was then observing the cars that used to be far ahead of me. It took them like 2 minutes to pass me.

They will never know how much I humiliated them.

I'm 27 and for almost half of my life I've been living in various big cities. I've been observing a rising level of social anxiety in me and I was attributing it to just simply getting older and less socially active due to decreasing number of regular contacts.

I also had that presumption that everyone has their own active goals and so I would do my best to compress each social interaction as much as humanly possible to avoid taking too much time from that person.

Now I finally returned to village life and the so much slower everyday pace is just getting into my head. You're just rambling around, greeting people passing you by, some will want to interact with you, after some time you initialize the interactions yourself. You're just taking things slow, enjoying being a part of this community.

And it translates to the usual conversations too. I feel like I'm becoming so much more talkative. Smalltalk is no longer a chore, but rather a nice and refreshing activity.

Basically nothing worth noting has changed, just a bit different layout.

These big companies prolly just got nothing to do but they have to give their people some work I guess. This is not something that's happening at normal companies, it's just pointless to burn money changing ordinary aesthetics to a bit different ordinary aesthetics.

And it's not a small change either, the whole app now follows that slightly tweaked design, a lot of time and effort must've been put just to provide something that provides absolutely nothing of value.

Censored the brandname, no exposure for you today.

It hasn't yet crossed my mind that we would soon have to start attaching a hand-drawn signature of ours to each of our email just to prove that we are indeed humans.

Always a step ahead, companies already show that they won't be ever interested in distinguishing real people from robots. After all, both are only just means of generating revenue, no?

My credit card has expired and thus my youtube premium with it.

I received some alerts from YT before it happened and now the subscription has been terminated and the first video I watched without the premium had 3 ads in 5 minutes.

3 ads. In 5 minutes.

I'm disgusted. My hatred towards the greedy corporations has been gradually exceeding the boiling point for the past couple of years and now I experienced how YouTube tries to force it's users to pay the tribute.

I'm using YT a lot so I'd take no issue paying if it just improved the experience, but not if it's the only way to use the "free" app. I'm not gonna get my money extorted by a fucking corporation.

Fuck them, intalling ReVanced now.