I might not be in this picture, however, way too many times I get something similar where I can actually pinpoint why it reminds me of something seemingly unrelated, and it's like 3-5 conceptual jumps away. It's way too complicated and boring to explain, but it's also awkward if I just say they are related.
For example, someone talking about ice hockey, which reminds me of Robin's character from How I met your mother, or when she made a music clip called 'Let's go to the mall', which reminds me of how sad it is that malls are not (that much of) a thing anymore. Do I explain how I remembered this story of a repurposed mall? Of course not, that would be silly. Do I just say it was an association chain? Nah. Is it awkward? It is.
I've had VERY similar thoughts on the matter in the past few years (compulsory hospitality service, for about ~half a year), and I dig your terms. Please send link to signatures when you start your campaign.
Those kinds of people won't really be any nicer without this training, either. At least we can make them take it for a day. I'm still behind the plan (however, at a lot of places you need more than 1 day of experience to grasp how the whole system works and why some complaints are actually ridiculous).
Selfishness. It's the root cause of many things that plague the world: people putting themselves/their immediate circle before others, lack of empathy, greed, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, racism, fascism, or pricks listening to stuff through their phone's speaker in public.
I think the main cause is the time aspect. Like the lemming above, I'm missing the old Reddit. The bottom half of the picture is the (somewhat) new reddit. But yeah, I'm aware it hasn't changed overnight only 1-2 years ago.
I'm not mentioning the brand, but I've been re-buying the same freshly washed linen spray for the past 2 years, and I would still eat it with a spoon, if I could... even with the poop particles involved.
I'm not trying to get you to keep using it (I should have stopped using it myself, as well), but if you insist using it for another month, you might as well just delete the app right now, and just visit (the owl's website name).com with the uBlock Origin extension.
I've been using it that way from the start, and never installed the app. Zero push notifications, and as opposed to push notifications, you can actually filter your emails if you want to keep certain types of messages for some reason. It's still not the best, but certainly less annoying.
What made me decide to stop (at two years, also ~2 months from now) is the constant, unnecessary inflation of sections to keep you grinding, always moving the goal line. Well, and the obvious AI solutions, clearly meaning they booted a lot of people for cheap labour. And for gutting the discussions. Especially that: I used to learn more from the discussions/comments than the actual sections.
But apart from obsession, there's really no difference between still using it for another X days and quitting right now (says me, wanting to make it a nice and round 730 days). Yes, you might be able to learn a few extra words, and AT BEST one new thing about grammar, but the difference is just negligible, and you might have actually learned more from some other source during those X days, instead - with fewer of the aforementioned annoyances.
Not a single mouse, cursor or command line in sight, but somehow they always type 84 letters per second, and get a flashy UI with animation, 3D models spinning, moving, zooming and morphing, or at the very least windows popping up and doing various stuff.
I might be utterly prude, but the shininess of the exact same clothing has literally zero effect on my hotness meter. I don't even understand why it would.
I might not be in this picture, however, way too many times I get something similar where I can actually pinpoint why it reminds me of something seemingly unrelated, and it's like 3-5 conceptual jumps away. It's way too complicated and boring to explain, but it's also awkward if I just say they are related.
For example, someone talking about ice hockey, which reminds me of Robin's character from How I met your mother, or when she made a music clip called 'Let's go to the mall', which reminds me of how sad it is that malls are not (that much of) a thing anymore. Do I explain how I remembered this story of a repurposed mall? Of course not, that would be silly. Do I just say it was an association chain? Nah. Is it awkward? It is.