You have to drink way more Fanta.
mycodesucks
joined 2 years ago
The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.
This is the same level of shocking scandal when they revealed that rich people were paying to have their children admitted to universities.
You don't have to imagine.
It already happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta
Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.
The definition of financial happiness is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend.
While some poor jerk is spending the next 30 years paying 30% of their income on a mortgage, you've got everything you need at a 10th the cost and can afford to weather whatever comes at you.
For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.
For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube's primary audience to stop watching.
"Futurism" hits like a religious word now that you need a blind faith that's contrary to logic to believe there's a future for us at all.
We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.
At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species' DNA.
They're the same people who go "I'm fine with the raising prices. It's a valuable service to me and I make lots of money, so I'm fine with bending over for their shareholders."
It's capitalism signaling for people with more money than values and ABSOLUTELY no sense of pattern recognition or consequences.
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Conclusion: Everyone in a relationship is stupid.