If it were purely for utilitarian safety and educational purposes, that would imply a much smaller footprint of their time spent consuming that information than is typical of those that listen/watch to these podcasts and shows.
Most people if they want to stay safe/live-long just need to socialize frequently, eat healthy, get enough sleep, and look both ways when crossing the street/drive safely. Because people don't do those things and they end up dead more often as a result of those things than axe murderers.
Most millennials graduated shortly after the crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
The conversation continuing is fun. If I say something that makes them uncomfortable that tends to end the conversation. Depending on how extreme/strange the belief might even open some hostility.
That said, I agree with your sentiment anyway. Its probably worth the risk just to avoid the more "sad but safe" questions like work, weather, etc.
Yeah, I'm the opposite. The handful of times I've asked when desperate for a conversation, the results were at best mixed for the conversation and most times I feel worse.
If they're 'above' me that just results in me feeling small. If they're below me it makes me feel uncomfortable or even rude, even if it was just a question. The only time it works out is if they're roughly "on par" with me and that's only like a third of the time the case. Not great odds.
Say something shocking, open up about an out-of-left field belief you hold.
I've done that before and even in "oddball" places and its a bit of a dice roll on how positive of an effect it'll have on the conversation. But then I have a lot of... extreme views.
Its a flawed yet broadly applicable conversation starter that is statistically less depressing than talking about the weather (climate change) or politics these days.
There are better options, but its not typically about cynical "How useful are you?" probing unless its like a business coded social event.
On one hand, I get it. I don't really want to talk about work either. But on the other hand I can't entirely blame some people if they work a lot that might be something that's been floating around in their head or they're just curious.
I feel torn. On one hand, whatever floats your boat.
One the other, I think my biggest issue is that this stuff makes people more afraid of their fellow human beings because of incidents that make up like 0.0001% of all deaths.
You're more likely to die early if you are constantly alone/asocial for a number of causes. Worrying about being murdered and chopped up into pieces by some nutcase is an extremely irrational fear to cultivate. And I know that these shows do that: They do it to me every time I watch/listen to one.
This is just someone in the industry trying to buy time and throw gunk in the works of the initiative. Unless they are aggressively retarded they knew this challenge would fail, they just want to buy time.
I'd skip the gardening but the rest would be fine assuming I'm in (a) stable romantic/sexual relationship(s) already in addendum. That isn't to say I don't enjoy socializing intrinsically but yeah TBH looking for some love is basically the main reason I leave the house outside of work. And you can't do that before 9:30pm.
They are bored by the degree they chose themselves. So instead of changing degree plan or learning to enjoy it as a hobby like you would normally do, they just cheat.
I mean, a lot of people go into a degree because of the promise for jobs even if they aren't into it. Especially computer programming.
I was one, I could have tried getting a Software Design degree but everyone and their brother wanted to be a designer and there was like a tenth of the number of jobs available for such a position. So I went for software programming instead. Which turned out to be its own mistake.
Yeah that's fucked. If you are going to let people say "No Christians" or "No Muslims" then "No Zionists" ought to be allowed.