No, they're correct. I was downvoted for a reply to a comment further down. I appreciate it. I visit the site mostly for the comments as well.

Some of the things the post mentions are possible to do and good and some are not. There's much to be grateful for yet there are still many problems to solve if we could focus as a society...

seems to be a trivia list of things the author thinks about. not sure why its even listed here.

It's so difficult to explain this to people who have never been burnt out. It adds to the frustration and depression when people see you that way and don't recognize how much you've been grinding in your day job while working on something else or other. It's deeply demoralizing.

And when one gets bunt out on some basic social interaction.... You're completely screwed.

Having a background in C/C++, that was the problem I ran into when I had to learn XSLT at translation company that used it to style documents across multiple formats. The upside of using XML was that you could store semantically rich info into the tags for the translators and designers. The downside, of course, with all the metadata, was that the files could be really large and the XSLT was usually specifically programmed for that particular document and very verbose so the XSLT template might only be used a couple times.

XSLT is really strange in that it's not really what people think it is. It's really a pattern-matching and production rules system right out of the golden age of AI but people think it is just an overcomplicated Jinja2 or handlebars.

Longtime lurker, first time poster. I completely agree with you.

Human beings need additional context when interacting with one another that isn't just some text on a screen. You can't learn everything about a person that way and while you can somewhat connect with them, there's levels there you're missing out on not being face to face.

There's also the matter that some people don't come across well online either, can't get their full personhood through the screen...

I think we all owe each other some grace for our humanity and how we deal with our problems. When we can at least see them even when we don't know how resolve them.