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I think there's also an education problem. During my driver's ed class, I was told that pedestrians always had right of way and we needed to yield to them, which is simply untrue.

This is just being a brat for Daddy Sleep

Some of the better arguments abstract it out to civil service requirements and not just military. I understand the urge to make people 'prove' their willingness to work for the betterment of the country before you let them vote, but I don't think mandatory conscription would actually help.

Yeah, there are deffo other factors. Edgelord culture, kids raising themselves, school IT being stupider than the students, and so on. Like, my high school IT department blocked all the .com domains and only allowed .gov .edu and .org. That directly led to my entire class discovering 4chan at the same time and somebody hacked the projector to show anime tiddy during class.

But I really feel like the media influence can't be ignored. Like, a lot of antiheroes from that time period were edgelords, and I know a lot of my classmates saw them as role models.

Yeah, I feel like we can draw a direct line between Musk and the typical 90s-00s antihero. He's acting like Light Yagami from Death Note, not Picard.

I'm mostly responding to "I thought FOR SURE that these lessons being seen by everyone would lead to a brighter future of mutual compassion and understanding between people.", because those lessons were seen, but then portrayed as fuddy-duddy optimism by the media of my teens. The message got switched from "lets work together to figure out the solution" to "collaboration is a waste of time because the protagonist is always correct", and I think that was combined with latchkey kids being normal, and it fucked up multiple generations.

It's a hot take, but I sorta blame the late 90s anti-hero for this. Obvs there's other stuff going on too, but the media influence had a hand.

I'm a millennial, I grew up with Mr Rogers and Star Trek, but then came my edgy teenage years and all the girls argued about whether to fuck Spike or Angel from Buffy and all the boys wanted to be Tyler Durden. Then I graduated and I was weird for thinking Sheldon from Big Bang Theory was annoying, and characters like House and Blender were cool and lowkey enviable.

I really think a segment of my generation never stopped trying to be the lovable jerk that only exists in the movies.

The revolution will not be televised

At least I'd be getting charged more for a real thing and not the normal made up reasons behind price hikes.

Luigi may live or die, but the Adjuster remains

It depends on what you use your computer for, really. My partner isn't very tech savvy and doesn't use their computer for anything more than watching youtube and writing emails, so porting them directly to Ubuntu was super easy.

It has the knock-on effect of emboldening women to put themselves into situations they otherwise would not because “they know how to fight” or what have you.

A'ight, I grew up in an red state with a lot of gang activity and had to learn how to fight just to go to school. I know you aren't thinking of 'attending class' when you said this, but I saw girl fights where they were using the stucco walls like a cheese grater to take somebody's face off.

Allegedly park rangers in the 80s were complaining it was hard to make bear-proof garbage bins because people are sometimes stupider than the bears.

Hey, gimp is a nice open source image editor, don't insult it by comparing it to this guy

I'm in a rural town (less than 2k population), and we still have fucking DSL offerings available. It's wild. 4G expanded out here right before covid, but it's still really spotty and there's too many users for the tower's broadband, so it's actually kinda slow.

It’s strange that suicidal ideation is considered enough to make you “crazy.

It's also incredibly fucked up that some forms of suicidal ideation is considered normal religious behavior too. Longing for heaven because the world is a sinful place is considered normal and healthy in my area, but longing for death because the world is fucked up means you need to be locked away.

I've got persistent ideation because I was raised with the former, but as soon as I stopped believing in the afterlife, people started getting real weird about it.

When I was a kid, I ran my bike into a parked car. Of course, this was back before cars were mostly fiberglass, so it hurt me more than the car, lmao

It's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end. Ergo, I am not responsible for the deaths of those kids.

It's even hard to make that joke nowadays, because that's literally an argument Musk is pushing.

Crap legal advice from lawyers is far too common and it sucks. I grew up in a gang area, so I know several people who've gotten public defenders. Every one I've heard of has been overworked to the point of just suggesting they try to plea deal out because mounting an actual defense would take too much time away from the other cases on their docket.

The general reaction I get to that is 'oh well, why should I care about a gang member's civil rights" and it's infuriating that we're so happy to assume guilt before it's proven in court.

Effectively, yeah. I'm still gonna complain tho, haha

Trump still owes my county from his 2016 campaign. He rented out the fairgrounds for a rally and never paid up.