I still find it hard to believe USA is so bad all of a sudden. It’s just mind bending, it’s hard to grasp how is it possible considering the statistics and strongest economy. I don’t think I will ever fully understand it.

One country instead of USA then for the “grass is always greener” fantasy I was kinda hoping to get into was New Zealand

So what you want to tell me is that the America sucks?

Honestly this is pretty tame for a spam message.

I don’t understand you guys. We live in the best era possible in the best places of the world. First world, free of ailments of the poverty unlike other 85% of the planet. We don’t die out of hunger. We can earn money posting funny videos on the web and instagram or sitting in our chairs all day in AC temp controlled rooms.

We go back to home from work to watch milions of entertainment options, there are literally innumerable of them. You can import brushes made from animal living in some distant part of the world to your feet to paint some very intricate plastic works of art. You can get from one point of the globe to the other and back for a monthly wage flying in the skies. We squashed hundreds of diseases. We made an artificial network that lets you instantly communicate with everyone on earth.

Yet from the way you say things one could assume that we are in some kind of Middle Ages or worse.

I get the motivation to still achieve higher levels of civilisation and that’s what got us so far after all but I think some perspective is nice so you aren’t stuck in some crazy doomer bubble.

Patience. These things will come. they are as inevitable as the sun rising tomorrow. But they need time and people who work for them to happen. Women and general equal chances, justice and independence are all the things we work for. But they aren’t magic, they need time.

However the trends are unstoppable as the water in a river. a slight regression under trump is just a symptom of the reaction to the progressive change. Temporary bump on the road. Meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

I am proud to be a human. I am proud for us to pioneer cosmos one day. I am proud that we got so far and I am positive that we will achieve even greater feats.

There’s no timeline where the people who are in power let someone like Luigi free. They would sooner ruin the whole country than let him out of the prison any time soon…

I want to remind you that currently Trump is elected and he said “I think it’s really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him," It’s obvious threat to his power.

You can kill a prostitute, homeless and get away with it but not a ceo of big leading company. Not challenge the very ruler of the country. I doubt he is gonna see the light of day outside of prison in his life ever again. They will make sure of it.

He was very wealthy and could live however he wanted to. Or even use family money to do good. He chose this instead.

From all the things he could choose to do with his life he wanted to be a Batman. Not to really help anyone but for that sweet justice high. To get a toke of one of the most expensive drugs on the planet.

This guys gonna rot in jail. His best years of life - gone. Dreams and aspirations, destroyed. Worse than death isolation that will change handsome young guy to a traumatised mental wreck, permanently. All for a minute of feeling good, achieving nothing.

Instead of living fully, finding love and pursuing the dreams he chose bleak walls of concrete. Where other people have memories of familial warmth with their loved ones he will only have memories of rusty prison faucet and grey stone.

Instead of helping someone he ruined two or more lives. His own and the ceo family. Negative force in the cosmos. Nothing but the suffering is the result.

And of course internet people are amazed because millions of silent volunteers that actually work in healthcare and elsewhere, help every single day to make this world better place, are not as clickable and sensationalist as someone shooting smoking guns on the street “fighting the bad guys”. That girl that helps the old lady with the groceries ain’t no batman but every single day she does more than this Luigi guy will ever achieve.

Truly a “hero” of the internet

I still remember putting a spring inside and shooting something out of them at my minis. they are soo old and bring many memories. Mostly how easily they broke. This thing always somehow ended up disassembled on my desk much faster than all the others. It was disappointingly simple though. I liked to take apart these with elaborate click mechanisms

I have learned a great deal about various people on the web but especially on reddit/lemmy. Among others that I may also belong to some demographic. I am more willing to give everyone a benefit of doubt and also I know that sometimes we just look for an online fight and that is the only point of some of the comments. Or affirmation and feel good for someone sharing our view. It is an easy, zero resistance way to bury some things quickly, before you collapse from panic attack in a long supermarket queue.

It only makes sense that the social media are extremely grating on the eyes to browse.

So when next time someone is making that snarky comment or is clearly looking for some drama, know that this is probably just another of those days when it is easy to grab a phone, write some shit. You are looking at milion workhours of unhappiness streamlined with modern javascript and parallel databases. We have all the technology but nothing of the common sense.

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Primo they are Asian so we cannot tell the difference secundo they go to the same hairdresser

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MS Paint.

Now in 3D.

And you should, generally we are amidst the internet world war. It’s not something fishy but digital rotten eggs thrown around by the hundreds.

The only way to remain sane is to ignore it and scroll on. There is no winning versus geopolitical behemoths as a lone internet adventurer. It’s impossible to tell what’s real and what isn’t
the first casualty of war is truth

It sucks but the recovery is still possible. I imagine gaslighting and not taking it seriously by people is debilitating.

When you suffer a brain injury from a stroke everyone will be supportive and offer help but when it is long covid people will be like “what? you are probably imagining things” both aliments are recoverable but it must suck to be constantly denied and not treated seriously

When I used to be interested in hardware I would buy it with half of the top of the line money, the rest invest it in some fund and then buy an upgrade in two years with that investment. Or at least that used to be the case when GPU and all the components had a tendency to become a fancy vintage museums after 2 years. You would be laughed at if you said something about future proofing.

I miss that.

I don’t even want to know what the heck all that means or is about. It sounds like a caricature for real. I try to focus on non fiction things in the real world. I simply don’t remember any of these childish discussions being applicable in my life despite theoretically being the primary target audience.

There’s a limit for insufferableness and chronically online tankies are way past it

Those people could really get some hobbies

Like imagine sperging online about communism 24/7

It’s actually incredibly sad that these people have nothing better to do with their lives. I pity them and hope they get well at some point

So… are these things real?

experimentally observed - yes this is the crux of the philosophical issue that makes me unable to sleep. Real or an illusion of something else altogether

Do the things we measure are real or are just the symptoms