I'm from America, and I can tell you from experience that a lot of us make no effort to understand anything, at all, ever. We live in perpetual ignorance, and for some reason, refuse to fix it.

This one was somehow even funnier than I thought it'd be

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There's always the Let's Read series on Youtube. It's how I got into it anyway.

If I tried getting into it via the actual thing the endless chatlogue conversations would have shoo'd me away in seconds.

Yeah, truth. This is something I still forget pretty often.

Sometimes you just need to take a second and ask yourself "Do I REALLY want to talk to this person? What will this accomplish?".

That usually kills the urge entirely.