A few days ago, JCPROBABLY wrote this post about finding and maintaining friendships as an adult. I found this blog post amazing and very insightful. It also made me think about the status of my own friendships.

The truth is, in the real world (i.e. outside the internet) I don’t have many friends. I work from home, I don’t get out that much, and I’ve always been reticent about actually talking to people. So, I’ve never been great at making friends, even when I was younger and around more people. As I get older, I get even less interested in interacting with new people. Part of that is just general apathy about people and relationships caused by decades of being a loner. Even when I do have to socialize with people for work or whatever, I’m more interested in when I can stop doing that than actually making new connections.

So one of the posts that caught my attention during this Blaugust, was this one by Why I Game. In that post, one line really got to me:

There’s just a craving to be heard. To be read. To be seen.

This really resonates with me. One of the things I said yesterday in my post was that my YouTube channel has slowed when it comes to growth. One thing I didn’t say, but should, was that I have always told myself that I don’t do YouTube for money or views. When you first start out on any social platform, doing it for money or views is dumb, because you’re going to get none of either. And your expectations that you will earn money and that you will get views, will often leave you dissatisfied with what little you do get.

This post is in reply to Forking Mad and their post Dark web sites.

I disagree with many people on many things. I think people who love Windows are a bit disillusioned. I think people who worship at the alter of the GOP or the Democratic party here in the USA are mostly fools. I disagree with people who think broccoli is the best vegetable.

But maybe the most outrageous take ever is that light modes are the best. I get that they have great contrast, but beyond that, they hurt your eyes. That’s not science talking, because there are studies on both sides of that debate (like there is with every debate), but instead it’s pure experience. It’s also my opinion.