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• jve@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It wouldn’t cost you anything not to bother others,

  Also doesn’t cost anything to bring some joy into people’s lives.

  I’m sure your intentions are good but you will be making a lot of people uncomfortable in your attempt to connect with them.

  I think you dramatically overestimate how many people are made uncomfortable due to your own anxieties about it. I also think you’re missing out on little opportunities for joy in your life.

  I can keep posting links, but it’s pretty clear you’re not reading them.

  There’s better places for that than public transit or a plane.

  There are also plenty of worse ones.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But you won’t know if it will bring them joy or not. But you push ahead, even in situations where people are stuck. It just feels self-serving.

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    • jve@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But you won’t know if it will bring them joy or not.

      That’s true. Hard to predict the future.

      I’d say it’s a lot more likely that joy or anxiety are the outlier cases, and just a kind of indifference is the baseline.

      But you push ahead, even in situations where people are stuck.

      And now we’re back to bad assumptions and straw men.

      Fine fine, one more link.

      psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0037323

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Did you not earlier say how you initiate conversations with people even on planes? It’s a situation where people can’t leave.

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