Meowoem @ Meowoem @sh.itjust.works

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A lot of it is very clearly an ego thing, they're all saying 'I'm smarter than most people who need to push the button and anyone smarter than me is also worse off...' it's the same thing people do with the age they were born 'older generations don't understand, newer generations have been ruined'

I think it's partly because no one wants to admit if they were smarter then they'd make better choices because then there might be someone smarter who suggests that change their mind on something and that's never going to happen.

Like all the comments 'i know things are bad, if don't want to understand how bad they are' it's inconceivable that they could understand their misthinking on a subject and change their opinion, they see it as any extra intelligence will just make them more sure they're right.

Personally I'd hammer that button for a few days then spend some time trying to work out solutions to my problems and the world's problems - if I can't do it I'll go back to the button until I'm able to

It's a wildly unpopular thing to say but it's true, yeah he was rich but there were a lot of people richer then him when he started out and now there aren't any. Why has he been so successful?

There's a couple of options;

He might not be as dumb as he acts.

He might be incredibly lucky.

He could be dumb in many ways but smart in important ones

He might have a negative trait that happens to make him successful in business.

I actually suspect the last one, I think narcissism and a lack of self awareness / shame have caused him to present himself in a way that investors can't resist, newspapers can't stop writing about and regular people obsessively talk about.

I think he has the similar skill as Alex Jones, total self belief and absolutely no shame about saying whatever will play well in the current situation.

I'm not going to call him conservative but he is a fantasist that weaves common talking points into his work for comic effect, I'm not going to base my opinions on jokes made in ya fiction.

There are a lot of examples of weapons restrictions in countries round the world including the one I live in, here having a gun will get you significant prison time so if criminals do have one they keep it very well hidden and certainly aren't going to start popping off shots or waving it around in a mugging, burglary, fight or other situation.

Do you know how many times I've been warned not to hang out in front of a club because the bouncer had an argument with a guy who threatened to come back and shoot the place up? Twice, want to guess which country I was in both times? I'll give you a clue it was the only country I've ever seen someone pull a gun when yelling out their car window in a road rage, only country I've ever had to use a different launderette because the regular one had been shot up, only country where I've been in a bar and two people started arguing and everyone started leaving...

You're normalised to it so you don't understand how much it negatively affects your life, a good example is that you're scared of not having a gun - that makes no sense here or any of the places I've visited where guns are sensibly restricted.

It was pretty funny, but you're joking about something that people are emotionally tied to so they'll see any disagreement as sacrilege

The reason they had more days off wasn't so they could watch Netflix it was because to survive they needed to do a lot of long and heavy chores.

If you want to live the life of an illiterate subsistance farmer wearing rough jute clothes and drinking nasty ale made with dirty water and reed sugar then you can just do that.

It does annoy me that the Devs built in a system to let you set languages but everyone just sets it to 'duhhhhh I don't know what language I'm speaking?!'

But yeah I do like looking at the silly German words on pictures

In English we use Norse meaning northern people, unsurprisingly it is the word originally used to describe them by people south of them. Those people now called Germans get their name from ceaser when he invaded from Italy, named by the Greeks, who in turn derive their modern name from the Romans because they called themselves Hellanes... Spain gets it's name probably because it was located near a rabbit on a Roman coin... They also named Britain of course and all of them would be the ones going to the new world and naming things there

It's weird but it's pretty common

Why? Europe had firm (occasionally changing) boarders for centuries before the sixteenth century, do you think they were simply behind on an inevitable development or that contact with the rest of the world would necessitate their development?

I think it's interesting to try and imagine situations where firm boarders aren't established. In such a situation it's interesting to consider what rules could or would exist regarding immigration and outsider communities.

So just wait a few days for Hamas to dig in then do the same?

you're basically Alex Jones with that level of paranoid delusion, they're just a service that exists not a communist plot to turn frogs gay.

And yes of course people attempt to control narratives on social media, you think it was better when Murdoch could just print anything he liked? and if even if you could prove it's bullshit the only thing you could do was moan about it to some dunks down the pub.

Social media isn't perfect but your characterisation of it is absurd and based on nothing but kneejerk hatred of change

I too preferred being young, things were exciting and fresh back then not jaded and worn down by decades of grind as my dreams one by one crumble to dust while my own mortality starts to loom on the horizon...

Almost everything is better than it was when we were kids and it's a tough pill but it's reality.

We used to watch television at specific times because there would be a documentary about something interesting and it wouldn't be exactly what you want but if you like nature or science or something it's your only choice - if you're super lucky the people who made it would have briefly talked with someone who kinda understands the subject.

YouTube and other VOD services have completely ended that tyranny, you'd be very hard pressed to find a subject I couldn't find you free to watch videos from knowledgeable and passionate people deeply involved in the field. YouTube even has far less adverts than TV, adverts you can skip after five seconds - we used to have to go make a cup of tea every fifteen minutes because the breaks were so long, that was our idea of an addblocker.

Have you ever been to a library to do your homework and found that someone else has the volume of brittanica you need so you just have to wait two hours while they lean on it and chat with their friends? If you're only looking back ten years to your youth then proubably you haven't, kids today certainly haven't - I have though and so have most people my age. That's what progress is, incredibly easy not to notice things getting better beside we only tend to think about problems when we encounter them. All today's problems are fresh and we forgot what problems we had back then.

More people have better access to improved medical care, more access to education, more access to basic necessities AND luxuries, it's easier than ever to travel, to learn new skills, make friends based on a shared interest, there's an unprecedented amount of free entertainment in pretty much every form.

But we're tired and busy and struggling to make ends meet - just like adults were when we young and didn't have to worry about anything but b3ta's Photoshop Friday and which custom doom wad to try next.

I grew up on those and they were all awful, take off the rose tinted glasses and you'll see those chat rooms were basically twitch chat with more sexual predators.

And forums still exist and they're still awfull, having to read fifty stupid comments of people saying totally off topic 'yes Bob, we got our cat six years ago' but it fills the entire screen because he's quoted the entire script of life of Brian in his signature. Finally you find someone replying to the question you were interested in but it's only to ask another question do you got fifty more comments from poorly replying to questions in the OP which have been answered hours ago but they didn't bother reading the thread before posting.

And there's a million great messenger apps out there, of course none of them are as good as they used to be because they don't have my childhood friends on, or if they do they're all to busy with kids and carers to come ride bikes.

'life isn't as fun as it was when I was younger, it must be the internet's fault'

I would love to see someone born into today's internet landscape try to entertain themselves with lowtax's poorly written essays about hentai and his beginner knowledge of ww2 tanks.

This is why our society is so fucked, someone with community spirit wants to help maintain a fun community which is free to access for everyone in the world and what do they get? Nothing but hate and abuse.

You mean traditional media owned and controlled by people like Murdoch? Or rumors and innuendo spread by word of mouth in pubs?

I know you were le born in le wrong generation like every other hipster complainer on the planet but you'd have hated wherever was popular at any time in history because it's not about finding a balanced and sensible view it's about hating whatever is popular.

Yeah, the other day I had to wade past fucking stacks of junk that doesn't apply to or interest me, there was a whole wall of stuff that makes no sense at all for me, adverts for services I'll never use and even study areas that I'm not ever going to need because I'm not at school! Fuck libraries we should burn them all down, how dare they don't serve and cater to me and me alone!

Why though? Did you love it when only the rich could affect popular sentiment?

Such a simplistic and frankly dumb take, have you really thought about what you've said at all?

Regularl people shouldn't have a voice, all media should be run and distributed by an authority of some kind? If you're not rich enough to own a newspaper company then you don't get to express yourself? Only the likes of Rupert Murdoch should be allowed to set trends and influence people?

Or did you just mean 'some women are popular on social media for doing things that don't interest me and therefore influencers and all of social media is evil and I hate it' because that's what it always seems to boil down to with kneejerk anti haters.

I feel like sensible votes wouldn't matter there are two many racists, it comes down to who the biggest population blocks are most racist against - and what counts as a race, like if it's from a list of like five or six races then it'll be different to having French and German rather than just European