Anecdotally, the standardization exists. It's called directness. Every woman I've ever dated told me she was interested in dating me. And every woman I thought was interested in me because they were "flirting" with me, wasn't.
Hell, I caught Amazon "human" chat lying that it wasn't AI by using language that restarts the conversation with an AI, so... companies have abandoned ethics on being honest with customers about when it's AI and when it's human.
My biggest gripe these days with going to the movies (before the pandemic, I went multiple times per week) is that it feels like too many people don't seem to appreciate they're not in their living rooms.
Don't you love when some assholes on the Internet rob a family of their grief with dumb fuckin' conspiracy theories? I mean, I know you don't... because you're a fuckin' asshole.
Bluesky must be getting more popular because half the posts I'm seeing are from trolls... most of whom don't think they're trolls, but they're definitely trolls.
A former partner's dog would bite everyone, including my partner. It was so bad they would muzzle him when people came over. My first time meeting the dog, they forgot to muzzle him. He put his head in my lap and they were like OMG DON'T MOVE. He was sweet. I think he just didn't like assholes.
The Threads discussions about Star Wars are way more engaging than the ones on BlueSky. In fact, I barely see anyone discussing anything and I only follow Star Wars people... I think. I don't remember. I don't really use this.
The Last Jedi is easily the best Star Wars film screenplay. The fact an angry portion of the fandom hates it and also claims they just want a good script tells you a lot about their understanding of words like good and script.
Friend of mine called and told me he heard some guy named Pablo Hidalgo was running Lucasfilm. This friend doesn't usually go online to read opinions but he somehow found one of those YouTube channels... you know the ones. He was shocked. "How can people just make stuff up?" Sweet summer child.
Remember, folks, in 2019 people were like, "OMG CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS YEAR TO END BECAUSE IT WAS THE WORST YEAR EVER!"
And then they repeated that for the next 4 cycles of approaching New Year's. Please, end the cycle. Don't put ridiculous pressure on a new year to be better than the previous.
Beta readers told me a conversation in my second novel felt forced because apparently people don't talk like that. I lifted it from a conversation I had on a podcast... almost word for word.
