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He's hardly a celebrity but I'd say Van Neistat (Casey's brother)

I was all in when he started his YouTube channel and found him really relatabe and interesting but it took less than half a year and it became painfully obvious that he's only doing it for the money and it shows. That's about the fastest I've gone from discovering a new interesting person to losing my respect for them.

Probably not. Podcasts have had a pretty dramatic impact on my worldview, and I don’t think I would’ve been exposed to many of those ideas otherwise. My political views would likely still be more or less the same, and the same goes for religion - or rather, the lack of it - since it doesn’t play a big role in my culture. But the way I see the world and other people would definitely be different.

No, it's called having preferences. There are certain types of women I wouldn't date either but I'd have no problem being their friend. When it comes wanting a "housewife" it's only a problem if you're imposing that on someone whose not into it. However many are and there's nothing wrong wanting to find one like that.

It’s funny how, back in the day, getting a new phone meant immediately going through all the ringtones to pick the one you liked best. Nowadays, most people - myself included - just leave it on the default. I honestly can’t remember the last time I changed a ringtone or message tone. I might have on my old Nokia N73, but not since. The alarm tone I do change, though - I don’t need to be screamed at first thing in the morning. Just the vibration alone is enough to wake me up.

That said, I’ve actually been considering changing the ringtones for both of my SIM cards. Apparently everyone here has a Samsung, and nobody seems to change their ringtone - so every time I’m at the hardware store and a phone rings, you get like seven builders all pulling out their phones at once. Since I don’t particularly enjoy talking on the phone, every time I hear my ringtone - even if it’s from someone else’s phone - it gives me this little PTSD flash.

It never was. Hallucinations are in no way unique to LLMs.

I hardly ever remember my dreams when I wake up, but the ones I do, for the most part, are quite realistic except for the fact that I'm suddenly in a completely weird place and often with people I don't even hang with.

I believe we technically have a pride month here as well but it's only "celebrated" by rather niche group of people. Mostly it's just a month of trying to make money by selling rainbow colored things.

Most young people probably don't need a wrist strap as their phone is already permanently glued to their hand.

I’m doing quite well in many aspects of my life compared to my peers, but I don’t really feel pride about any of it - I just consider myself lucky. Pride, to me, implies that the luck was somehow of my own making, but since I don’t believe in free will, that’s an incoherent concept for me. I can’t take credit for the kind of person I am.

If I had to mention something, though, I’d probably say I take pride in my work. Given the general quality of craftsmanship, customer service, and pricing in my industry, I’d say I rank fairly high - probably in the top percentages.

I think you might be right that the term incel has gone through some concept creep over time. What I’d call “classical inceldom” definitely had a fatalistic core - people who believed that nothing they did could change their circumstances. In those spaces, self-improvement wasn’t just seen as pointless, it was actively discouraged. There’s a strong crabs-in-a-bucket mentality, where even small expressions of hope - like saying a waitress smiled at you - are treated as betrayal. That kind of remark gets torn down because it suggests there is hope, and hope runs against the entire premise of the community.

So while I don’t necessarily disagree with how you’re framing things, I think it’s important we clarify what version of incel we’re each talking about. Otherwise, it’s easy to talk past one another while thinking we’re arguing about the same thing.

See my reply below.