HollandJim @ HollandJim @lemmy.world

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Indonesia’s population is predominantly Muslim, and while I don’t know the ins and outs, some holidays like Ramadan, family (I’m told) is expected to be home. Also, Indonesia is as long as the US, and many airports inside the country still haven’t opened up air travel to the same extent it was before the pandemic, so that means boats, trains and buses. There’s a lot of people to move.

Trying to learn Indonesian now, but it’s basically the “travel period” we think of for Christmas or the the US Thanksgiving. It’s just that they have a phrase for it (I’m thankful there’s no future or past tense…)

I’m sorry but fuck Poe.

We’re speaking of genocide here - be serious or use a /s.

Not to berate you, but your response is as if this is something new for your generation. We all go through this shit unless we're insulated from it by daddy's money or power.

Is it worth your mental energy to fight for change? I'd say it is - over time, it's the only thing that has worked. Letting it slip for someone else to fix is exactly what screws us over, generation to generation.

Hang in there - we're all in this together. As I said before, fight the good fight.

Okay, so let’s blame boomers for it, shall we then?

Would it have been better for you in the 60s, with the Cold War? 50s during the Red Scare? Hope you’re not a writer..

How about the 40s, with WWII? 30s & 20s, with the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl? Maybe the teens - nah, WWI. How about the poverty, plague conditions (a la Sinclair Lewis) and the diseases of the early Industrial Revolution? No? Okay - how about the agrarian 1800s, but then there’s slavery and civil war.. and on, and on throughout history.

I hate to say it, but comparatively we’re in a Golden Age - and it is decaying. We celebrate billionaires like they’re rock stars and re-elect politicians who do nothing for the working man (and woman), but instead go on fake crusades that serve no-one but their self interests. Wokism, the rights of eggs, guns before people, and today no divorce if you’re pregnant - it’s like the Red Scare all over again, and anyone who doesn’t align with it is an “Enemy of the People” - except it’s the actual people that suffer.

It’s not a Generation - every generation gets dumped into the shit the previous one made - it’s the Politics. When some politicians take one half of us and then point at the other half and say “they’re why you suffer”, it’s a lie. We fight amongst ourselves so they can prosper.

Fight, by all means, but fight for better representation and make sure they stick to the promises they make. And not just representation in our politicians but also in work. Unions can and have been a force of good for the average worker - support them so your one voice can make a difference.

Fight the good fights. Don’t waste your time fighting each other for scraps, for lies, for someone’s else’s power.

Oh, have you got a life of regrets to come.

Enjoy!

Just because you’ve learned some new words doesn’t necessarily mean you can string them into a cogent sentence… ¯(ツ)/¯

The “why worry what I can’t control” is the under-40 part, but to be honest I initially considered under-30.

But by 40 you’d more likely than not have or care about children, and then you’d be worrying more about the the world you leave for them. Since they’re always copying you, you’d be more aware that every action has consequences, and that includes cynicism (especially since, by 40, you’re more likely to accept the idea that you don’t know everything).

Maybe by then it’d be in your self-interest to make the world better even by little increments instead of wearing sarcasm like a cloak of invisibility.

Spoken like a true person under 40

First, you have to catch them. Without plates on the bike, they become anonymous asap.

Secondly, you need to understand us Dutch. Rules are for the Germans, as it’s always smart to ask forgiveness than permission (read: catch us if you can)

Go to bed Donny. You’re tired.

But they both needed to sleep. The flight is just 2h 40min (I’ve done this before) so it’s likely they both needed to rest a bit. I know a number of pilots in US and European airlines, and they’ve always maintained that these commuter runs are a grind.

That could also point towards overworked pilots.

Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.

Just consider reality occasionally, ‘k?

Sure it would! But, you know - forage locally. Like within a few kilometers.

My ID.3 gets much better range per kWh than that brick on wheels, and I’d be able to build a solar farm for the difference in price.. I doubt the brick will ever see dirt roads (they slide off easily, it seems).

Get an EV, by all means, but the CyberBlock is the dumbest vehicle around. A monument to arrogance.

That’s not what I’m saying - Arabic nations still need to attend to their own home-grown evils before they can attempt to label other empires as such. You seem set on a particular mindset, and I’m not going to waste any more time with people twisting my words for their own agenda.

Wow we all love people that can’t admit when they’re wrong don’t we

(Edit: yes, no punctuation hurts for this joke but the lack of contractions is a bridge too far)