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12/12

Wild statement

AI should be a tool to assist, and instead we're complicit with it being used to replace and so many are ACTUALLY OKAY with this.

If that is you lose my contact and connections. Thanks, have the day you deserve.

So yeah, in short, if I see you send me some fucking generative AI slop in any form, I'm cutting you out from there. No questions asked, me asking you kindly not to send me shit like that clearly wasn't enough for you to respect that boundary so instead you get a good'ol "fuck you."

I grew up here. My family has had generations that called this area home, and by the time I get to my parents age it may all actually be gone and replaced with some dystopian wasteland with a goddamn AI center being the only thing left standing for miles around.

Those who are already struggling to get by will be gone in 3-5 years of its completion due to no longer being able to afford the places they were born and grew up in, and the surrounding land will be uninhabitable in 5-10 years from all the pollution it will create.

Some billionaire wants to install a data learning center on land that could go to housing for people who need it which will effectively make the utilities costs of the area skyrocket to unlivable prices because they want middle-class families to compete with corporations.

multiple years in a row right around the latter half of said years is beginning to put me in a spot where that fuse to burn me out is so much shorter.

Sorry for the novel, I even hesitated sharing this cause of the whole "Woe I'm sad pay attention to me cause I'm posting this on Socials!" stigma.

you get what you give from me.

I’ve tried to play nice by it, to say thank you to the slaps in my face every time I so much as dare open my mouth to share my thoughts by others who just—for lack of a better term—fucking suck socially or personality speaking. I think being pushed to my limits

especially when it comes to people just straight up lacking common courtesy or base level respect for others. I’m a “Reciprocal Personality” as I like to call it: The energy I am given is the energy that will be returned, whether you’re some random person on the street or the King of Spain

Or is it just a poor circumstantial issue of mine to have as an inexplicable constant in life. I might never know.

I usually don’t ask for much, but I do know that with how things in life have been progressing I might soon find myself with far less patience and tolerance for these sorts of things

problem growing up).

Most of these things I have grown past, though at times the lingering wounds still show from time to time. All of those except this and I don’t know what it is that causes it to persist. Am I not interesting? Do I care too much? Do I make things sound boring despite the topic?

growing up in a small rural public school being someone who cared more about creatives and art rather than sports, paired with my...unique appearance (being one of only four gingers in my whole school district in the height of the South Park gingers don’t have souls era who also had a severe acne

I suppose it has something to do with my upbringing, the fact that I still have issue with it.

I was almost entirely mute until about six and even then I didn’t really step out of my shell all too much until nearly my teens. I found myself consistently and almost daily bullied in school—

A voice wishing to be heard, but kept in perpetual silence.

dies or switches to another topic out of nowhere mid discussion but only when it comes to my turn to speak.

This is something that has persisted across friend groups both in and out of the fandom, as well as in the workplace and even growing up in my own family.

I’ve always had this issue. It comes in the form of always seeming to be talked over, of having everyone around me only tolerating what words I am speaking but never actually listening or caring about what it is I am saying. I get talked over, interrupted, ignored, or seemingly the conversation