Actually ChatGPT can write an essay that sounds halfway decent on Shakespeare or Sustainability or anything else you like. It makes one think twice about how much ordinary human writing is basically just recycling.
So I didn't mean to suggest that you should just learn tricks to "inspire confidence"; you're taking polite indirection too literally. What I really meant was that your posts sounded awkward and unnatural in so many ways: the people you addressed weren't looking for a MeoPro model; you didn't mention which one you had; "$977.49" is strangely precise as an original cost, and way too much for an 8x42 HD, and surely you didn't really pay that while living on student loans and eating from a food bank? (Even now that seems implausible.) And then there's the repetition by cut and paste, and the odd phrase "due to my poverty", and all this coming out of the blue with no prior sense of who you are. That's why your posts seemed highly suspicious, because of course there are scammers.
Yes I guess that ordinary human writting is kinda like recycling. It can feel that way when I have to cite sources and repeat things other people have said to write about my topics for class, or my thesis. I try to create new meanings and at least I know it's new for me, and I am growing and learning as a person, each time I write something.
Yes I take things literally because I am neurodivergent. I think that the chatbots are based on neurotypical people, and that is not me. Lets see, you brough up a lot of good points. I think I wrote that way because I am new to this forum and I don't know your norms or unspoken rules of behavior. So I just guessed.
I just was looking for anyone looking for anything made by Meopta which I could talk to. Mainly in the realm of 8x42 or 10x42, without paying attention to MeoPro/MeoStar/Optika. I was looking more at the "Meopta 8x42" type of search. I now understand that it was more important for me to specify MeoPro and that I ought to have said 8x42 in my comment because you guys did not know that I was thinking you already knew I was talking about an 8x42 because your MeoStar for sale was one, I think. I also think I was anxious talking to new people so I just copied and pasted without trying too hard to actually talk to anyone, because talking to people can be hard and scary. So I was excited but also scared, and that made me write like that. Then I fixed it.
The price comes from a website where I found a review.
Meopta MeoPro HD 8x42 Binocular. They listed MSRP in 2016 as that price. As for me, yes, I did not pay that amount in 2019 when I bought it using my student loans for my ornithology class. I got it for $450 plus shipping from an online store. I think it was OpticsPlanet. I was just thinking that I ought to put the price it originally cost so that I could make enough money to live on for the next two months when I sold it for whatever it was worth now. I was hoping to live on $250 per month. But I'm now thinking it's not worth as much as I thought.
I read that it sells on Rokslide for $400 used. What does it sell for here?
I am more scared of Rokslide than here because I have more in common with birders than hunters. I usually get shouted at by hunters because I am eating a plant-based diet. In places where I have worked, such as outdoor schools and camps, hunters sometimes are chaperones. When they see me eating plants in the mess hall, they get mad and verbally abuse me. When people shout at me, I have a PTSD reaction that is very uncomfortable.
Maybe I could try to make it last me 1.5 months if it is only worth $400 and maybe by the first week of April, I will have a job, since I have two interviews coming up on Friday. I just keep on getting rejected from jobs and interviews. That's why I have to sell my binoculars to make ends meet. Yes, I said poverty because it's weighing on my mind. I am super stressed about it. Anyway yes I have a problem with coming out of the blue and just saying whatever the first thing that comes to mind without any lead up or introductions because of how I was raised in an abusive home and because I am neurodivergent. So I have not been socialized to interact properly in interactions with people. But with time and therapy, hopefully this is something that I can learn. It does not come naturally to me.
What comes naturally is to take everyone literally and just blurt out something, anything, to try to get a conversation going. So yes. I am not really much like a bot, more like a person who survived trauma and has PTSD. That's one thing that makes me neurodivergent. There are others but I'm working on getting the diagnoses for the others. It costs money I do not have to pay to see if I have autism, for example, and SSDI and Medicaid rejected me twice. So I am supposed to get a lawyer and then wait a year for the lawyer to win me Medicaid and SSDI. If I were to get into a PhD and it was funded, I could then get all the health insurance and stuff I needed. Yay! I'm looking forward to the day I get benefits. This is how we neurodivergents talk, until we get better at socializing. Thanks for giving me tips. I will try to apply them to interacting better here and in other places.