something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder"

I hate it here!

April 08, 2026 - 08:53 UTC

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God forbid we *use* our brains and experience life, that would cut into Silicon Valley profits!
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Even our thoughts need an exit strategy.
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"friction-maxxing" 🫠
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Also the word "maxxing" is urg
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I was already lost at "friction-maxxing".
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My hayfever misted eyes read the fourth one as “seeing friends in prison”
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I don’t think it’s the hay fever it’s the cognitive dissonance. That’s what I read too because obviously that would be something noteworthy
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I think Sam Altman had ChatGPT write this after realizing he was going crazy. Then, of course, he had to have this brain fart published!

Reeks of tech bro madness.
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I despise how maxxing is the current suffix of choice.
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Makes me long for the days that any minor scandal was -gate.
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Far-right freaks have come up with a new word! Let's all use it in a fun way!
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does it replace 'hacks' (as in tips or advice, not crap 'journalists' or the violent verb), which I thoroughly detest, or do we get the diabolical double of haxx-maxxing?
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Uuuugggghhhh
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Cooking food makes life far, far easier. And more fun.

Whole sea bass roasted on a bed of Mediterranean vegetables tonight.
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I would like to think being overweight is due to stress but in actuality I just enjoy food
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I do the Guardian cryptic and general knowledge crosswords - with variable success - every day, and try to watch French midday TV news (Franceinfo TV) online every weekday. Got to exercise those little grey cells to delay ageing.
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I’ll bring my own place setting
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Only in the quote tweet does it say that “cooking food” makes life harder.
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"Let's meet up for some fun guys!"

"Soooo much friction tho"
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Friction-maxing = doing shit 🤷‍♂️
Seeing friends in person is now seen as some kind of hard chore now is it? Look at me with my hard life going down the pub and having fun
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MaXXing.
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Also, if you've got more spare time and mental energy than you know what to do with, that's when you volunteer to help your neighbours. And if your neighbours don't need it, that's when you get together and help people further afield. Because someone needs you to make their life easier and more fun.
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So, let me get this right...

when I host a game night, inviting friends around, cooking a new recipie to match the night's theme, and also probably losing at the games we play I am making life really difficult for myself?

Who ever wrote this is a twat of the flappiest proportions.
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My eyesight is now bad enough that on first look I thought it said 'seeing friends in prison'
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Friction maxxing what the ever loving fuck
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Introverts have joined the conversation
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Looks more like it's just "having new experiences", and (some) friends can introduce you to new conversations or experiences.
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Dunno, have you met my friends
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Can we go back to when we didn’t add ‘maxxing’ to random stuff? 😭
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For most people, not seeing friends in person makes life harder. Ridiculous
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I thought we all agreed that the Washington Post was no longer worth a pitcher of warm spit?
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Ouch! Another case for not just closer economic and political union with Europe but also closer cultural links!
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So "friction-maxxing" is the new word for life?
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I misread "in person", as "in prison" - could make life interesting.
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As someone who doesn't get to hang out with human beings very much (disability makes it mostly impossible) I can confirm that the second most exhausting thing you can do is hang out with a human being.

(The first most exhausting thing is being poor, & dependent on the DWP.)
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I’ve got a 15 year old daughter who constantly wants to help cook. She seems to actually enjoy it. She even does it on her own sometimes, for fun!

I don’t understand the US very much
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My niece is just like that. Also she has friends. Seems happy.
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I wonder if the whole article was driven by that first point. “Wordle isn’t the only daily puzzle, we have loads of them too.”
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Forever mystified by how normalised the internet makes being miserable and antisocial!
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These are tips that used to be given for very old people in care homes to slow down the progress of dementia, it's quite bad if they are now seriously meant as advice to people in the prime of life!
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Hard agree!
What an extraordinary set of things to pick.
Seeing friends in person is much easier than relying on messaging, and who in the world has an easier life if they don't eat?
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wtf is 'friction maxxing' - sounds like a nsfw thread coming up 😂
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That bit of the internet that valorises antisocial behaviour and pretends it's just "introversion" will be along soon, insisting that hanging out is the preserve of bad people.
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Out: Mediterranean lifestyle
In: Friction maxxing
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Didn't realise how on-trend I was.

Although I'm going to have to rinse my mouth after reading "friction maaaaxxxxing".
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cue glaring in french , spanish or italian when others say cooking food and seeing friends is a chore /joke
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Ugh, in a crowded field that’s one of the most depressing “lifestyle” posts I’ve seen this year
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“Make your life harder by actually living in it”
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I'm going to watch All the President's Men and try to remember what the Washington Post used to be.
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“Thinking” and “remembering” also apparently difficult now. 😒
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It’s what AI was made for
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They're making a problem out of nothing. Wait for the book, Youtube channel, online merch stall. It's the 'manifesting' trend under a different name.
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After reading that I feel significantly more friction-maxxed.
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"Hurry up in that bathroom, there's a queue!"

"Muuuum! I'm friction-maxxing!"
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I'm friction-maxxing by
1) putting holly leaves in all my shoes
2) lighting my oven with a brisk rubbing of sticks
3) holding my breath between stops on public transport
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Tbf hanging out with people who think like this is probably pretty hard work
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I read it as "Seeing friends in prison", which sounded a bit more frictional.
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Nah. Easiest way to see friends. Don't have to decide on a place, limited time slot so you don't have to awkwardly say you've "got things to do so should probably get going" etc. all very structured.

This is why I always rat out my friends to the cops
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"Cooking your friends" is only harder if you don't keep them in the oven long enough
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Large stockpot
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Feel like "Not reading the Washington Post" should be first on that list.
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