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Sounds like you need to smoke some grass

It's really picked up steam in the past year

Why does it make you angry?

It's usually loaded with condescension and reduction, a rarely actionable silver bullet that makes no consideration of circumstance.

Sounds like you need to touch grass.

I mean its sometimes a fair complaint, it can be kinda rude, just in this case its useful advice to get out and don't get too extremely online (which is a risk for people my age)

Though I guess getting mad about it might be a valid reason to tell somebody to touch grass

The important consideration is grounding yourself with the people around you.

Find that genuine interest in others' interests.

You see them on the opposite bank and it's a lot easier to build a bridge cooperatively.

Circumstances demand a personal approach, so no one can tell you how to build a bridge, only that you must.

True that. Thank goodness my close friends have discord!