Post by @screwturn@mastodon.social

2026-04-05 20:03 UTC

As an almost 70 year old man, I have some advice for young men. Please boost this if you think it will help 1. Your voice doesn't need to be heard. In fact, realizing that you don’t HAVE to have an opinion on everything and voice opinions or ideas in meetings or social gatherings, is amazingly liberating. You can actually just shut up, and relieve yourself of all that effort and stress. Let Bob utter his embarrassingly dumb idea, let Shirley have a say. You can just let it be for the most part

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 20:13

2. Sissyphus was a stupid allegory. Doing something useless, and especially for which you get no praise, is not as soul destroying as people would have you believe. If you like rolling a rock up a hill and having it roll back down, it's actually huge fucking fun if you just embrace the irony and the fun of rolling a rock, building up a sweat, and then letting that sucker go tumbling down. Corollary: you don't actually need praise. Just enjoy what you do, and try to do it well

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 18:00

@Didthat1957 No

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 17:59

@Didthat1957 I will refer you to point #3 https://mastodon.social/@screwturn/116353955355416295

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 17:58

@Didthat1957 Yeah Bubbaloo, you are the first ever true lone scientist. You will go down in history as a true iconoclast

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@screwturn@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 18:08

@Didthat1957 ... and you are shirt-tail chaser, trying to leverage crumbs from a popular thread by being a twat. Stop being such an insecure whiner, and try to say something useful. Go on, share something that helps people be better

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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-05 21:57

@screwturn@mastodon.social The goal of every internet conversation should be to make sure that the other person has the last word. I don't always manage it, but it's actually much more satisfying when I do.

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