• SSTF
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    1 year ago

    People bemoan being isolated. I mentioned one of many activities as an example of how to solve being isolated.

    An indoors social space to just exist would be great. Complaining about it on the internet doesn’t solve anybody’s loneliness. We can still do that of course, complaining on the internet is tradition, but we can also posit solutions that actually make people less lonely.

    In my experience, people socialize more quickly with strangers when there is a shared thread in a group, rather than just an open space. Hence suggesting going and doing something rather than just going to a place. Go run, go hike, go play frisbee, find whatever meetup online thing your area has. Some of it is free, some of it you have to put some money into. But life isn’t a choice between barhopping and crippling loneliness.

    • @BURN
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      31 year ago

      The whole problem is that people don’t have the money to engage in spaces that require purchases. That’s the entire reason 3rd spaces have died. When people no longer have any disposable income they can’t go out any longer.

      • Uranium3006
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        11 year ago

        indeed. we need places where it costs $0 to go and socialize or organize small get togethers. anything less that free is going to make it impossible to work

    • @some_guy
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      21 year ago

      You aren’t offering a solution if your solution is the problem. Incredibly condescending point of view you have there.