Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you kicked the .ml hornet nest, didn’t you?

  here’s some ointment, now take your medicine and join the rest of the lemmies

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  • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hornets? More like gnats or midges. Worst case, they tickle your skin a little or maybe you breath one in and cough it out onto the floor. They certainly do not sting. You can only even see them in the right light.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some people take the validation of others quite seriously. Internet points, for them, are not at all fake - it’s a measure of their worth.

      I’m not a psychiatrist, so I can’t say whether this is healthy, but I’d guess not of it’s causing them angst about something that has no direct effect on the base 3 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

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