Your worth as a person isn’t measured by your ability to find a romantic companion

You are simply a person, people of the alternate gender are simply people. There is no magic transition that happens when you find a relationship, people are depressed in and out of love.

My recommendation is to find community, leave the house, look for public events, join board game nights, pick up a hobby like pottery or biking or a specific video game, get really into something and enjoy your platonic time with people who also enjoy that thing.

Platonic relationships have just as much value as romantic relationships.

Not afraid of death, not afraid of being forgotten, not afraid of some spiritual afterlife or lack thereof.

I spent a long time religious with such a heavy focus on what happens after death, being free of that burden makes it possible to live in the only moment we can ever control in all of eternity, now.

Negative

Imo velocity and user experience aren’t mutually exclusive, as a developer I can respond to user requests way faster with web technologies.

As a consumer vscode is a perfect example of why the ecosystem has value, are there other products that fill the same roles? Absolutely, but if you were around for the transition from bloodshed, codeblocks, eclipse and the like to sublime and vscode and other more modern editors you should remember how gamechanging the positive feedback loop of velocity achieved for the dev community in the form of user experience.

Nah electron is an excellent technology, v8 is a remarkable engine. Maybe something like tauri will unseat it eventually but the ability to spin up a new product in relatively short order is good for everyone. Ram and disk usage are higher than they would be with a native app but velocity is unparalleled

I think it may be a mistake to avoid listening to positions other than your own because you internally categorize the sentiment as the enemy.

It’s mildly inflamatory to say that critiques of a system are equivalent to “an infection” and can stifle reasonable discussion