Never been to therapy myself but just saying good luck to you. Curious to see the responses here myself. Been in a seriously depressed state for the past six years, but in the last two months taken huge steps to get out of it.

Still dunno if I’ll give therapy a shot, but there’s been improvement on my own front which ain’t nothin’.

That could be its own interesting question too; I imagine pragmatic case-use will differ with a significant portion of the userbase treating them as likes/dislikes.

Nothing specific but I imagine all the local shops like farmers-markets and thrift stores aren’t terribly reliant on it. (Yet…)

My grandmother would only buy homeless people food if they accepted a bible with it.

You can’t “fix” human behaviour you can only account for it and adjust.

Our attention will always go towards the moment rather than the constant. (Unless that constant is pain.)

Your favourite actor dies? That’s momentous. You’ll never see them in another production. You upvote it.

A doctor says something you’ve heard a hundred times over? You don’t upvote it. You relegate it to the same place the other ninety-nine went to.

In my 20s I had something of the opposite and had a number of women interested in me who were themselves in relationships, while I was not. Enough of a ratio compared to women who were single who were interested in me (which was not a high number) that I started to wonder why.

I’m not particularly outgoing either. Probably just statistics/chance, but I always wondered if there was something to it I was unconsciously contributing to.

The problem is what you’re linking is something you personally disagree with, but that doesn’t mean it’s “bait” in the first place. (I probably should’ve avoided a political example as I think some are getting carried away with that, but it could be anything.)

Different example: I could link something about peanut butter though I hate peanut butter with all my heart and hope it ceases to exist. Yet you’d never call “peanut butter cookies recipe” engagement bait. (Well, probably never…)

The term or phrase has to encompass more than just political sides or something like it. It’s the act of spreading something you personally don’t want to spread. But what you’re helping spread could be benign from most people’s perspectives.

Watch a movie/show you’re very familiar with, the kind of movie you know line for line in some (or many) parts.
Watch it in insert language and you’ll have an exact comparison for those lines already stuck.

The Grand Apparatus from Brandon Sanderson’s “Cosmere” springs to mind.

Light Cosmere spoiler ↓

(Source, The Coppermind)

Good sex can keep a relationship going for longer than it should, but it won’t be indefinite no matter how orgasmic.

Definitely not exact, but sort of a variation. Hoping for something that hits it specific but for all I know there might not be a precise term for it yet. (Besides “outrage porn” but even that doesn’t hit the nail on the head, just a descriptor.)

/agree, probably the closest answer to my mindset so far. (And I do love me some old school forums. RIP Portent and Waryammer.)

Heuse & Anica: Going Insane

Kuoga: Coquette

Rok Nardin: Her Gaze

Sevdaliza: Soul Syncable

There are certainly times I’d rather have 50 comments and 5 upvotes than 50 upvotes and 5 comments.

I think the female versions of my name sound terrible, so, no on that front.

In general not a thought I’ve had aside from that. I’ve always felt comfortable with my gender/sexual orientation.

You’d have to advertise an anti-advertisement campaign. 🥲

But seriously, I think most of this concern would fall under a subsection of a comprehensive Privacy Act.

Depending on how serious you are (but maybe not “police” serious) and also your financial situation, this is the kind of stuff a Private Investigator can do.

Pretty good series, pretty sure the author’s an “acolyte” of Brandon Sanderson, so if anyone reading this likes the Cosmere you might like this series as well.

Been on my “reread” list for a while but the list keeps growing…

This is what I came to say if it wasn’t already.

Replace both leads with a couple that has chemistry but retains that slightly antagonistic spark and it would’ve made a good movie. I don’t even have an alternate casting, just, “not them.”