Closest I get to “admiring” something about sports is with films or documentaries about them. I like knowing the people who do this stuff way more than the actual thing itself (I often tune out when these things get back to the actual sport and tune back in when it gets back to how this is affecting their personal lives).

The thing that really helped me with therapy was actually taking in what my therapist told me and acting on it. The first couple months was spent just getting my insane levels of anxiety under control. Then he started helping me figure out how to deal my social anxiety but by bit by encouraging me to get into volunteer work or seek small group things. I could have just shrugged it all off and not done anything he wanted me to do, but then what was the point of going to therapy and wanting to get better? I’m in a significantly better place now than I was a year ago when I started cause I put in the work and none of it was easy for me. Many times I wanted to give up, stop showing up, and just go back to hiding away from the world, but I actively decided to do what I could to not do that.

I’m ready for all the crap flinging from people who insist everyone must support the corrupt bastards who don’t care about us instead of using violence to get shit done.

I was just gonna bring this up when I saw the post. That community is a lot of fun!

Tbf it was pretty shit in high school also.

Yo it’s the thing from Oppenheimer!!!

I guess it depends with me. There’s things I have a hardline stance against like AI and bigotry and do everything I can to not support either, but I’m also too lazy to do research into if anyone involved is part of that. Like if I know a game or movie was made by a bigot like Rowling or used GenAI then yeah I won’t support it, but there’s often been times I didn’t know till after cause I didn’t care to look more into something.

I didn’t leave Reddit for principles though. I was forced off.

In 2016 I was a nervous wreck working a minimum wage job at a grocery store living with my parents.

In 2026 I’m now a nervous wreck in therapy working a $24/hr job at a slaughterhouse living with my dad (Mom passed away in January).

Spaghetti. Boiling water is the most advanced cooking thing I care to learn.

I went to the local science center for the first time in probably 20 years. Was a lot of fun to see how much has changed and what has stayed the same.

I don’t have the time or energy to go through the lives of every single person involved with a game/show/movie I want to enjoy to see if anyone involved has problematic views. Like I’m going to see Project Hail Mary this weekend. If someone tells me at some point Ryan Gosling said some dumb shit while drunk or the book the film is based on has racist symbolism, I honestly don’t care. I’m watching and judging the film filled with hard work done by tons of different people.

I struggle to strike up a conversation with people I already know