Was about to answer the billionaires one, realized there are better ways to spend this limited beautiful moment of life than being virtually shouted at.

How about you?

  • @paddirnEnglish
    37•6 days ago

    It happens all the time, but it’s usually because I realize that either:

    • I’m not as invested or informed on the topic as I thought I was and just don’t have anything meaningful to contribute
    • whatever joke I was writing up didn’t sound as funny to me after I actually wrote it out
    • it took too long to write, did some basic research and realized I didn’t know what I was talking about
    • it took too long to write, I got distracted by something, and by the time I got back to it I had stopped caring
    • something happens to the post I was responding to or my connection, page resets/refreshes and I’ve lost whatever the thing was midway through, I’m not typing all that again
    • realize I’m going to say something not very PC and I know the exact responses I’ll get, “Nah, I don’t care enough about this.”
    • @ThugJesus
      12•6 days ago

      That last one I like to call “spotting the hill I don’t wanna die on”

      • @LauchsOP
        7•6 days ago

        Really well put.

        I responded to a “why do Conservatives feel x” sort of of post as I have a few conservative friends and we’d talked about it.

        Ended up in a multi day back and forth where I was accused of being everything from Hitler to sociopathic and had one person follow my comments around for a while afterwards.

        And in the end? I feel no one was informed and none of it had any reward.

    • ALQ
      7•6 days ago

      …are you me?

    • kubica
      3•6 days ago

      As a serial comment deleter in rehabilitation, I try hard to not post things that I feel likely I could end up deleting. That’s why sometimes I don’t click submit.

    • @LauchsOP
      1•6 days ago

      I didn’t know people were allowed to research before commenting! /s

      • @paddirnEnglish
        3•6 days ago

        Yeah, I try to limit it, but occasionally there will be some half-ass historical event or fact that I remember as part of my argument and I’ll go to look it up and realize the actual facts of the matter contradict whatever point I was trying to make. So then I just delete the comment and move on, “Well… I guess I didn’t have anything to say about that after all.”