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mobeau69

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5. It's better to be alone than to be with someone and wishing you were alone.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:27 PM

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If you have no or few friends, you are not broken. You are yourself. And that's not a bad thing. [View all] CousinIT 21 hrs ago OP

Thanks MustLoveBeagles 21 hrs ago #1

You're fine, but the videos on that channel are made with AI. See reply 17. highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #19

thanks for this...me in a nutshell N/T dwp6577 21 hrs ago #2

Anymore I tend to like dogs better than a lot of people. groundloop 19 hrs ago #3

I have a little plaque in my house that says: CousinIT 13 hrs ago #16

I always have said I consider 4 leggeds to be much better company than 2-leggeds! slightlv 19 hrs ago #4

It's better to be alone than to be with someone and wishing you were alone. mobeau69 18 hrs ago #5

Isn't that the truth MustLoveBeagles 18 hrs ago #6

Absolutely. n/t CousinIT 16 hrs ago #11

"I used to think the worst thing In life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing In life is ending up sop 1 hr ago #29

I Had 5 Friends As Of July. Then One Died. Another Has .... ColoringFool 18 hrs ago #7

I only have a few friends, but they're good ones. MIButterfly 18 hrs ago #8

I used to be a lot more gregarious BaronChocula 18 hrs ago #9

First, Sing it, Zackzzzz 17 hrs ago #10

No friends, that's me but I'm good with it. 🙂 nt Raine 16 hrs ago #12

I had good friends before COVID. ananda 15 hrs ago #13

glurge WhiskeyGrinder 15 hrs ago #14

The entire channel is apparently AI-generated. See reply 17. highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #18

I'm saying WhiskeyGrinder 12 hrs ago #20

I wasn't sure exactly how to read "glurge" but it could be a drowning-in-AI-slop noise. And YouTube highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #21

Glurge is a pre-AI term for slop. There were plenty of memes in FB's heydey that told people how very special they were WhiskeyGrinder 12 hrs ago #22

Thanks! I hadn't run across that term before. I thought you might have meant a glug-like sound. highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #24

It came up in the 90s to describe those ridiculous forwarded emails about fake uplifting stories and is being used WhiskeyGrinder 1 hr ago #30

I really hadn't seen it used before. But I have minimal contact with Facebook, and I hadn't run across highplainsdem 47 min ago #33

Post.Of.The.Day WarGamer 15 hrs ago #15

The videos on that YouTube channel are made with AI, probably with the script written by AI. NOT highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #17

This video produced by AI or not Mossfern 11 hrs ago #23

It's important that people who are neurodivergent are understood by others, and that they understand highplainsdem 1 hr ago #25

The video, AI generated or not, does not say anything that is not true. CousinIT 1 hr ago #28

It does show a bias against extroverts and people who have a lot of friends, and that's divisive and highplainsdem 1 hr ago #31

So true 😁 my cats are my best friends and I'm happy 😁 TommieMommy 1 hr ago #26

Thank you wendyb-NC 1 hr ago #27

Quality not quantity jfz9580m 54 min ago #32