because if you're like 25 that's how you live your entire life and you can't accept anyone else could possibly live life another way.

and if you point out that you don't have to live your life that way, you are hateful and ignorant and -ist something or other, e.i. they just call you names.

basically folks have no emotional control and just project their crazy onto the rest of us, rather than... just not being addicted to their phones for everything.

another good example. i will leave my phone at home and go out for hours without it. i have been told by various folks that this is abusive and cruel, or otherwise totally unacceptable and wrong to do, because what if someone (themselves) has to reach me? also that like, not replying to texts/messages in a certain timeframe, is abusive, manipulative, negligent etc.

occasionally i also leave my phone accidental at home and like go to work and don't touch it for 10 hours. weird how the world doesn't implode or end when I do that. i might have a few missed calls or texts.

that's what i did, and that's made me an asshole. i was not participating in the way you are supposed to participate. you know, being paranoid about every little thing.

yeah, please keep calling me names.

just like the 25 year old who did the same to me when i didn't want to use slack because everything is about THEIR convenience.

also they think i'm transphobic because I didn't want to wear trans flags pin everyday i volunteered, because I felt no need to incessantly virtue signal how 'woke' I am, especially when 99/100 people involved were cisgendered hetero white people, and the 1 trans person left because they found us so insufferable annoying about them being the token trans person.

because we know, anyone who isn't 110% in agreement with us, is a BAD TERRIBLE PERSON. if they are like only 90% in agreement with us, they must be punished into agreement. and it's not that we are an insufferable asshole trying to impose our bullshit needy whiny standards on other folks who don't need to constantly broadcast how great we are and use the latest greatest app where we can sit there and 'collab' about what victims we are and how anyone who thinks or looks different than us is oppressing and persecuting us. even though these imagined oppressors don't actually ever exist in real life... because we live in a total bubble of rich white liberals who have priced out any diversity from the real community... which makes our virtue signalling all the more important!!! we have to signal harder so that other liberals want to come here and drive prices up further and we call all celebrate the imaginary diversity of our community that we have now ensured is totally heterodox and homogeneous!

sound familiar?

ironically, back before these types of dipshits were the norm, 10+ years ago, the community was actually diverse. weird how that works. we had LGBT folks, non-white folks, old folks, young folks etc. nobody every talked about diversity or communication or any of that shit.

then after 10 years it became college-educated professionals, all white, who were mostly under 30 who spent every meeting lecturing each other about our lack of inclusivity, communication, and community. almost as if... the people who destroyed those things were whining the hardest about we lacked them and how we had to have them... pissing and moaning how they 'struggle' while they work in their 150K+ a year tech jobs and go on months long vacations... yeah clearly it's not them who is the lack of diversity and inclusion they are seeking.