It’s a [hug] emote.

🫂

There is a singular niche community that I involve myself with where I pop in and make highly desired items to give away for free.

It makes me feel like people care about me for a while. For now, that’s good enough for me.

Money and good health insurance. Seriously, it would help me out so dang much.

I have pretty bad PTSD, which has made it near impossible to make real, human connections. If I could get out of my own head, I feel like my life might be able to improve.

I have a house of my own, though. I feel like having your own space contributes a lot to self-improvement and peace, tbh. I am extremely fortunate.

I hope this fucking clown-house leads to laws being passed protecting workers from this kind of shit in the future.

For real, this deep-fried dumpster fuck needs to leave the planet.

I HATE ads with a passion. Even taught my kid from a very young age to put his hands over his ears, look away, and say “la la la!!” until an ad ends.

Once Vanced shut down, I was devastated. ReVanced really saved my experience, though, and I’m so thankful it exists.

That really did put the nail in the coffin for me.

He lied about that. What else will he lie about? How many other innocent people will he accuse of wrong-doing in the future? He’s obviously shown that he is very openly willing to do so.

No thank you.

That’s fucking ghoulish.

— someone who has to do that shit in order to have a stable life where I don’t want to end it all on a daily basis

If you put people in charge who don’t know / care about particular communities in charge, there could be huge trouble.

You know… like the legal advice subr×ddit being moderated by cops. Which it is.

Nope nope sorry sorry! I just woke up and misread your comment as disagreeing with the sentiment, but I just reread it and realize that you were in agreement. I was just trying to explain my view further.

Sorry!! Lol I’ll try to post less when I’m still tired!!

It’s different with subs focused on addiction & recovery though.

Maybe it’s a very bad idea to targeted knife ads in a suicide watch sub, you know? Susceptible people and all.

I think that’s absolutely how it works (in part). Ads curated toward your demographic! Maybe it’s not inherently purposeful, but it’s harmful, nonetheless.

In a subr×ddit about alcohol recovery? “Our algorithm detected that your post history contains the word “alcohol” or “beer” a lot! We will tailor your ads to cater to your interests for maximum profits!” Boom. There you go.

It takes the human aspect out of the community and drives it to become harmful at worst and soulless at best.

What absolutely sucks about this is that I had carefully curated my subscriptions on RIF in order not to exacerbate my dumb mental health issues.

Hell, I’ve read angry posts about people in recovery from addiction and alcohol saying how they keep seeing ads for beer or gambling and things like that.

It’s horrifying!!

Raised in this kind of environment, I am so happy to see families break away from this kind of generational abuse.

Kids need to be around other people who have different cultures, viewpoints, and experiences in order to become a person with a well-rounded mindset and social skills.

Homeschooling has been a shield for abuse and control for so many years. I believe there are legit reasons for it, but religion uses it it such an awful way.