No. Because the people in power use their influence to torture everyone else.

So, you just HAVE to talk?

Do you hate silence?

Asking someone you love "How was your day?" is a meaningful question. Small talk is bullshit time wasting between randos or acquaintances.

how do people who like small talk plan on being in sustained meaningful relationships what are you gonna do "hi honey nice weather we're having huh?"

my plan is to be too busy kissing my partner at all times to say anything

fyi do not talk about whether women have freewill to your conservative husband or it will hurt their feelings and some of their hearts have grown so tiny it might crush their old self in a single blow.

ITT we ask the autistic to self identify

But that would be great! Let's start an awesome exploration of a very existential topic. Certainly better and more interesting that talking about shopping.

My speech is deep. My beard is neck.

after you get through all the asking each other stuff to get to know each other's histories etc phase, it's okay to just not talk all the time

I REFRAIN FROM THE PRACTICE OF UTILIZING MINISCULE SPEECH. EACH AND EVERY INSTANCE OF MY EXPRESSION IS VAST AND VERBOSE AND MAXIMAL.

Honestly yes that's kind of what I do.

Spouse and I ponder the mysteries of life and the universe while we’re cuddling.

I mean You can hate small talk with strangers and co workers but still enjoy small talk with your partner

No. Last I knew, PET (?) scans appear to indicate that decisions are reached by your unconscious mind before they're made by your conscious mind; the implication is that what you believe is you making a choice is actually you rationalizing a choice that's been made through processes that you can't directly see or affect. IF that's correct, then people are quite deterministic, as long as you know all of the inputs.

But on a practical, day-to-day basis, calling it 'free will' is a convenient fiction or shorthand. While free will may not exist, we largely believe that it does, and our perception of that in turn shapes our perception of reality. So it ends up not really mattering, strictly speaking.

Yes.