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Re:The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago by integralid on Saturday August 16, 2025 @09:32AM (#44923254)
I'm thinking how it would work. What should I talk about - programming frameworks and techniques I don't care about anymore? Rock bands I don't listen to? Shared friends I don't know now? Current school/uni things? Magic the gathering cards? Anime? Rock climbing? I don't know about anything I have in common with my old friends. But maybe, just maybe, it we catch up we can talk about kids or best back pain medicine. Or rock climbing, because that's one of the few things I still do.
Re:The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago by stroz on Saturday August 16, 2025 @03:16PM (#44926164)
It's so easy to overthink the content when it's about the contact. What if it's just "saw this and thought of you"? Could be anything. The connection isn't in having the perfect topic, it's in remembering the connection exists.