So much this! Like I get why they have them there- teens and preteens often can't imagine post-school life as being anything but boring and they make up so much of the target audience- but for all of us who've left that stage behind it's so much better to focus on what comes next!

morpheus: you can take the red pill or the blue pill. If you take the blue pill--what are you doing? me (both pills in my mouth): QA testing

uwuuu I want to see the cool grass!!! *_*

a blue haired anime character has a cross in his eyes

Alt: anime human with stars in their eyes and sparkles all around because they are VERY excited

Like most people first learn "I'm sorry" to mean "I acknowledge my responsibility in your misfortune and regret my actions" and later learn it also means general condolences and empathy, which is a separate use case. For some people it's no issue but others find the double meaning uncomfortable.

I agree it's helpful to say and that "I'm sorry" does mean the thing I said in certain contexts. And that people can appreciate it as such. Just that it's definitely an expression being expanded based on need and there are folk who struggle with words meaning different things in different contexts.

*or sadly, are real and are being genuine and are just so surrounded by their own versions of events that they're not really grounded in reality anymore? but either way I'm thinking that if I encounter a terrible person on the internet all the time spent educating them is better spent touching grass

spent the past few days with my family who mostly have different political views than me but generally have at least some stuff we agree on and I'm now even more convinced that the internet contrarian people aren't real and are just trolling

I'm sorry what do you mean? was this meant to be a reply to a different skeet?

In case you're still needing help on this, give your dog plenty of water and if they're still struggling hang out with them in the bathroom while running your shower hot so that they can breathe in the steam

But it's not that there was ever any confusion about it being my fault that someone's mistreated at work or struggling with mental illness or having a bunch of little things pile up at once, it's that the grammatical construction of "*I'm* sorry" implies a personal connection that isn't there