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Comment by coldtea

8 hours ago

What's the qualifier for "so" (in "so emotionally invested")? Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?

Parent is just passionate about the quality, or decline, of the tools he spend a good chunk of money of, and spends hours each day doing professional work with.

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andsoitis  8 hours ago

> Did someone measure it and it's beyond the healthy range?

The person I responded to self-identified as an "Apple fanbitch". Now they categorically say "Screw Apple."

That seems like a pretty emotional attachment swinging from one extreme to another. Attachment will cause you pain.

  • qlte  4 hours ago

    It could also be poking fun at themselves. Being conscious about your own perspective/attachments would be healthier and demonstrate more self-awareness than someone who insists they are a cold, robotic fact processor who can't become emotionally invested in their own preferences.

  • coldtea  7 hours ago

    And "Apple fanbitch" was just a fun way to say they supported Apple and championed their products. Not a way to describe some emotional disregulation.

    And "Screw Apple" sounds like a totally valid consumer sentiment, when the products stop serving you and get more expensive and cocky. Not some blind rage.

  • Razengan  8 hours ago

    Not having any attachment or inability to feel pain ain't good either.

    And it's not a swing: it happens over years. Discontent built up by a thousand small cuts.

    Things failing when you need them the most, so often that it makes you reflexively afraid the next time you think about trying it.