ddr123

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   by ddr123 1y ago

   Cool idea! My hot take is that people can be reminded to reach out to friends, but it's the actual relationship skill-building that is the hurdle. Are you addressing that as well somehow?
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   by ddr123 1y ago

   What would happen if your friend relationships had a lot more similarities to romantic relationships? Scheduled outings, regular discussions about what is pissing you off, regular apologies, mundane/unscheduled time together, discussio
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   by ddr123 1y ago

   Yes. I think what everyone wants to do with all this postulating and explaining is avoid the fact that it is hard and takes time and is awkward and there's no clear metric of success. But still worth it, somehow. Like life.
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   by ddr123 1y ago

   >Do you feel that politically "extreme" movements are a reaction to that and actually mostly about community and community interaction? Yes. Great writing on this from Jonathan Haidt (The Righteous Mind), Robert Putnam (Bowling
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   by ddr123 1y ago

   This sounds the most legit to me out of any comment so far. I think there's a tendency to want to either 1.) innovate our way out of this with a novel solution, or 2.) be really passive like "this happening to me and it's hop