Asklemmy @lemmy.ml JustAnotherKay @lemmy.world 12h ago

How often do you read your old conversations?

I really enjoy rereading my past conversations, whether it's texts or comments here on Lemmy. I do it pretty much every day, and I just think about the different things that could have been said. I don't obsess over it, I basically treat it like another feed. When I get bored of Home and All, I go through my own profile.

Do you ever reread past conversations here or elsewhere? How often?

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I don't reread conversations for entertainment, but I do find myself going through my comment history on Lemmy for reference. Same with text convos. I'll have a memory of saying something, and look back to sanity check myself.

What was your favourite comment that you made? Is there one that makes you smile?
- What was your favorite comment that you made?
  
  I've always been bad at picking favorites, I'm not sure if that's a normal issue. But for this particular case, I have an extra struggle: option paralysis. I've made 516 comments on this account, how could I choose any one to be my favorite?
  
  Is there one that makes you smile?
  
  Not necessarily this comment in particular, but I've had many conversations lately where I've practiced and tried to influence people towards people-centric language
  
  I had a lot of fun giving this DND dungeon Master advice!
  
  I've always been bed at picking favourites
  
  Fuuuuuuuck.....✊ The struggle is real....
  My wife's tried to spark up the whole "death row final meal" discussion with me a few times. FFS, on the rare occasions I actually get a food craving, I can't even decide what I'm craving!
  
  Option paralysis
  
  This is the theme of my life.
  
  First comment:
  
  Hard agree, I like to reframe stuff like this in the same way the OP picture is. I have a really close friend in the States. He's a GOP backer, his parents were, and their parents ad nauseum. His instinct is to be liberal, not like....L liberal, or D democrat. But he wants better affordable healthcare for everyone, he wants to be able to give a homeless guy he sees on his way to work every day a sandwich but can't for fear of trouble off the cops. He didn't vote, literally wasn't able to afford to leave to vote. Staunch Trump supporter, weirdly considering his obvious socialist/liberal beliefs, until everything started falling apart these last few weeks. Won't admit he was wrong. But we had a long conversation about how he'd side with Canada if it came to an invasion. Every time he comes out with something he was told growing up, hammered into him as truth.... Civil War was about economic differences, stuff like that. I gently disagree, with us that usually takes the form of me cussing him out, and pointing him to innumerable sources that counter, with evidence, what he was taught. He then calls me a dirty so and so, says "well fuck..."
  Been friends 5 years this December coming, maybe with a few more years I'll have him deprogrammed enough to not only participate in his democracy (if there still is one) but to do so in his own best interests.
  
  These people for the most part aren't our enemy by choice. They're the victim of systemic underfunding of education, and the twisting of the historical narrative. This is a generational effort of cultural programming.
  Are some people beyond saving? Maybe. Probably, actually.
  
  But the spectator-sportification of the American political system is at fault.
  
  Second comment:
  
  This is fucking gold. I'm inspired to look back through my comments. A month or so back I had a chat with someone here asking for help fleshing out ideas for Godzilla Through Time creative writing. I think you might jive with that.

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