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I don't care if it's abuse, I want it. I want to retreat from the disgusting world and society around me as much as possible and AI friends would just be another option towards that point.

I'm an introvert and sick of the increasingly closed off world. I come from a place where casual, but ultimately meaningless chats happen all the time and I enjoyed them. They were simple interactions where it didn't really matter if you messed up or not and they took basically no energy. Didn't want to partake? You didn't have to reciprocate.

The society we are building now where everyone retreats into their own world all the time is disturbing. We tell people to "just go meet people" when they're feeling down, yet there is increasingly nowhere to do that!

You're also very judgmental. My family lives far away, thankfully my phone allows me to maintain contact.

The "people" at the top in charge want nothing less than the population to be poor and dependant. There's a reason they've done everything they can to suppress wages and eliminate good jobs.

Despite that here on HN you have people cheering them on, excited for it. Tech is one of the last good paying fields and these people don't realize it's not a matter of changing career, because there won't be anything better to retrain in.

They are cheering on their own doom.

> and I'm also not a slave responding to calls/texts.

You do you, but I enjoy talking with my friends and family and I don't see responding to them as "slavery".

I have a smartwatch and airpods, turning off Bluetooth would cause both not to work.

I'm more surprised that anyone ever turns it off, battery use is negligible compared to the cellular modem as I browse the web/listen to music.

> Stop whining, be happy about what you have.

I'm not whining, but I do think you should try to understand why people end up the way they do because it's almost never as simple as them being a bad person from the get go.

Attitudes like yours aren't helpful and we could make society a far safer place if we could identify problems earlier in people's lives and intervene.

> it is not an excuse.

Things can be a reason without being an excuse.

Sure I'm not in jail and on the surface I have my act together, but my entire life has been fucked up by what are now called "ACEs" and it's a miracle I'm as stable as I am.

I'm not going to let people off the hook, but I am able to sympathize...especially knowing the wrong person or event at the wrong time would have quickly sent me down the same path.

Why not? Stimulants are the best thing known to man. There's a reason people enjoy them so much.

It is without a doubt. It's baffling to me that people smoke when things like snus exist. Far, far safer than smoking, much cleaner, and it doesn't impact those around you.

Nicotine is a great drug that the world largely insists of using an awful delivery method for.

> Wow, that sounds like third-world kind of treatment.

My first thought was that sounded exactly like here in Canada.