Comment on Living a lie
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 days ago
I don’t use a customer service voice, but my ex, holy shit did she have a customer service voice that she did automatically. I hated it. High pitched, overly friendly, clearly lying about who she was.
Drove me nuts. Shed use it for meeting people the first time too, and the longer she used it the friendlier they became, which reinforced it and ugh.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
i will never comprehend how people find it appealing, it just feels like i’m being treated like an unpredictable dog
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Seeing the huge lack of empathy in the world in other avenues, I am starting to suspect they don’t even notice it’s not genuine.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
yeah it’s something that makes me quite worried about my dad, i keep hearing him watch AI slop on tiktok and… it’s so obviously fake, it’s always the exact same dudebro quasi-joe rogan voice with a turbopredictable cadence.
how the fuck am i, a stereotypically autistic person, apparently infinitely better at spotting this shit than he, a quite social person, is? Have they just managed to file away at his sensibilities to this degree over time?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
That was my biggest WTF when I was diagnosed autistic. I always thought one of the main defining features of it was not being able to read people’s expressions and emotions. I am pretty good at that, even without looking in people’s eyes directly.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 days ago
In my ex’s case, she was well aware of it. Apparently she “practiced it” since she was a child because she got sick and tired of being told to “smile” and that no one looked good frowning all the time. Self-proclaimed resting bitch face model too.
While she could take off and on this mask, it was incredibly draining to do it. But she also couldn’t not do it. It was weird.
Unfortunately for her, she also couldn’t comprehend the emotions of other people at all, and failed to grasp why I might be upset that she cheated on me, and why I might be more than happy to cut her off from the financial security that being married to me provided.
andybytes@programming.dev 4 days ago
I think the hierarchy is maintained by levels of suffering. Don’t let them see you sweat. Remember to smile. As long as somebody is suffering underneath your level, and now it might not be hierarchical…but with the whole bottom that we belong to, the herd at the bottom, moving around network of just passing around 20 bucks living off of ancient infrastructure on a burning planet as the psychic vampires suck us dry. As everything, even the nutrition in our food is hollowed out. (I just can’t get no satisfaction. All Work No Play makes a dull, boy.) Where everything is designed to be a drug. Where the machines are designed to destroy themselves. An inverted evolution where the dumbest, most anti-social make their way to the top like the scum on a pond. Everybody is just happy little beast of burden whistling Dixie. It’s a small world after all, and you have to remember, work will set you free. You try to shake them and say, this is like the allegory of the cave, “this is the allegory of the cave” but they don’t like your perception. Even though it’s closer to reality, and then they start to hate you. If you have any little bit of happiness, they want to destroy you for awakening up their minds. The intelligent in the United States pulls the cart of stupidity while the idiot sits on the cart Sipping tea. People here are just in a dream state. I like countries where they’re rude to you at restaurants. Where they say, no, we can’t do that to your food. That’s not how we do it here. You can go elsewhere. The customer was always right, was always a way to beat the working class. Like the bully that gets you to punch your own face. It is just a system of abuse and self-awareness is a double-edged sword.
andybytes@programming.dev 4 days ago
I think the hierarchy is maintained by levels of suffering. Don’t let them see you sweat. Remember to smile. As long as somebody is suffering underneath your level, and now it might not be hierarchical…but with the whole bottom that we belong to, the herd at the bottom, moving around network of just passing around 20 bucks living off of ancient infrastructure on a burning planet as the psychic vampires suck us dry. As everything, even the nutrition in our food is hollowed out. (I just can’t get no satisfaction. All Work No Play makes a dull, boy.) Where everything is designed to be a drug. Where the machines are designed to destroy themselves. An inverted evolution where the dumbest, most anti-social make their way to the top like the scum on a pond. Everybody is just happy little beast of burden whistling Dixie. It’s a small world after all, and you have to remember, work will set you free. You try to shake them and say, this is like the allegory of the cave, “this is the allegory of the cave” but they don’t like your perception. Even though it’s closer to reality, and then they start to hate you. If you have any little bit of happiness, they want to destroy you for awakening up their minds. The intelligent in the United States pulls the cart of stupidity while the idiot sits on the cart Sipping tea. People here are just in a dream state. I like countries where they’re rude to you at restaurants. Where they say, no, we can’t do that to your food. That’s not how we do it here. You can go elsewhere. The customer was always right, was always a way to beat the working class. Like the bully that gets you to punch your own face. It is just a system of abuse and self-awareness is a double-edged sword.