All ways, exactly.

The users and content on this site are far removed from reality.

Social media

No. I don’t pay for a service that has ads. That’s what I just said. If they add ads, I cancel.

But they haven’t added unskippable unavoidable ads yet.

When/if they do, that’ll tell a story.

I’m not even the least bit surprised.

You forgot to mention you use Arch, btw.

Video games. Streamers, YouTubers, and other ”content creators” have had a massive negative effect on the hobby as a whole.

The bandwagons driven by these people can destroyed games that should have had a mediocre reception, but instead were panned by a couple creators then that criticism was parroted loud and wide. Where a game could have had a nice little niche audience, instead it was shut down a year after launch due to the shitty bandwagons.

These people also drive companies to make horrible balancing and content decisions. Since these people play games as their jobs, and play them daily for 8-10-12+ hours, they have wildly different desires and perspectives on games. These perspectives again get parroted loudly, the game companies hear it, and make changes/decisions based on people that play all day every day. This destroys gaming for not only casual gamers, but all gamers that don’t play one game for 8+ hours a day every day.

I could go on and on, but these trash reality TV stars for nerds have done so much damage to the industry.

Water freezes from the bottom up instead of top down.

Sponsorblock, ublock origin(don’t use chrome), and Unhook are nice browser extensions to help remove much of the bullshit.

Not depressed nor are most people around me.

Sorry. I hope you find someone to talk to or some other way to cope.

Self diagnosed != real

The fact that downvoting is seen as possible misbehavior is enough for me to be extremely against public votes.

It will also strengthen the hive mind, exponentially.

I have good insurance. I pay $20 per paycheck for my wife’s coverage. Our typical visit costs 20-35 depending. Our medications cost 10-20 per 3 month supply.

Most people don’t have insurance this good.

It is #1.

I say this having traveled around the world to experience everything from extreme poverty to extreme wealth.

By most measures, the US is still the best place to live for a vast majority of everyone.

This is the answer.

Don’t buy a phone made by an advertising company if you don’t want everything you use it for to feed ads data.

I wouldn’t.

Don’t burn bridges unnecessarily. You never know when a person involved will be somewhere in your future and leaving a good impression on them may have positive benefits.

YOLOing an exit interview and doing it Half Baked style means everyone’s last impression of you is very negative. And the only benefit you get it a bit of catharsis.

Instead, be polite and positive. Then go to Reddit and unleash hell.

Absolutely you can, but not paying it all off doesn’t negatively affect your score. Also 800+ here.

Perfect example. Thank you!