I think you should just make a habit of talking to people around you. You’re kind of putting human interaction on a pedestal and that’s just going to make you overthink things.

First of all, you need to understand it’s not some pre-planned thing. You should be making a point to go out to do things you like doing - not going out with the explicit agenda of just talking to people. That’s why I think the term “cold approach” is loaded, and full of shit–It inaccurately makes it sound like something negative and unnatural–In actuality you’ve done it many times before without thinking about it.

Seems you’ve gone deep into this analysis, of which none of it is actually relevant though, because you’re not talking about the root cause of your feelings. Which is that you have social anxiety.

Look at it this way, it’s the same as approaching someone in public to make a friend. Obviously, that’s not inappropriate. It’s only inappropriate if you’re treating it differently (which you shouldn’t be).

Yes I’m permanently fingerprint/IP banned as of last year.

I posted anti-Isreal comments on one of the largest default subreddits, which perma banned me. Whenever I browsed through the front page and commented in that subreddit on my other accounts because I forgot I was banned there, all of my accounts were banned for ban evasion. This happened twice and then I was perma-ed.

For context I used and contributed to the site regularly since Digg without much issue or any bans

I just really wish there was more active communities for things I like.

I made the Path of Exile community which is currently empty.

There’s no Burning Man community yet for SOME UNKNOWN REASON

All the EDM communities are dead including the one I made.

Send Help!

Doesn’t work. They shadow ban your new account until they figure out where you are.

It’s an automated system, I doubt anyone actually cares like that.

Which is part of the problem.

Same, but at least you can have an account? I got the perma for the stupidest reason possible and I can’t use the site. Somehow the system always figures out it’s me. I would probably have to get a new computer IP and phone.

For context I have (had) an alt account that was banned from r/news years ago. I read the frontpage exclusively. r/news shows up there a lot. I forgot about this alt account and commented there. Then a few months after that ban I did the same thing.

I am clearly a despicable human being and shouldn’t be allowed to use the only universal forum humans currently have.

So hard for people to understand lol. “But they said they were communists!” “And you believed them?”

Agreed!

Do you ever just pause before in your life and go “shit, maybe I don’t really know jack about this after all”

Now would be a great time to start.

Yeah whatever, everyone collects it now. Since it gets stored by a fascist state either way, who gives a fuck?

Forget Chrome and use Edge. It’s honestly the best chromium browser now.

Looks like overanalysis to me. Not sure the massive metaphor was necessary to attack ‘them centrists’.

That being said - the notion that centrism is a compromise is only something I’ve seen from people who are not partaking in said centrism. Not that I give a shit or anything.

Two badgers in my asshole says leadership is a quality we’ve lost. I just wanted to say two badgers in my asshole and don’t know where I was going with this.

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The funny thing is that I asked this question before, and was also downvoted then too because people think this isn’t something that could ever happen to them and I must be stupid. Trust me folks, give it four more years and a ban or two and you’ll be tearing your hair out just the same and cursing the platform.

I’m taking the other comment about not arguing with stupid people.

Is squirt pee

Just an FYI in case you don’t follow Cloud news but Google has deleted customers accounts on multiple occasions and has been for literal years. This time they just did it to someone large enough to make the news. I work in SRE and no longer recommend GCP to anyone.