Parents and grandparents are more isolated than they ever been, and have lost social skills along with the rest of societies where phones own the users rather than the other way around. People are lonely everywhere and old folks struggle with this in many industrialized societies. No one is around to tell the older folks how they look, that it’s strange and uncomfortable, and many don’t have grandchildren now to help them see what else is out there in life. Young people need older folks around and both groups benefit as do parental-age people from this historic arrangement. It’s fucking tragic, like watching the death of a species…and that’s before you bring the environment into it.

Older people can be just as bad as young ones about phone addiction and poor habits let alone manners

Europe selectively and slowly finding courage. There will come a moment when the tide finally surges

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Or an equitable economic system. Poverty and inequality breed desperation and support for extremism, partnered with no functional education system it’s the base for every authoritarian regime, ever.

I’ve never been in a single accident and drive a basic compact sedan I bought new off the lot 10 years ago. I could buy it used today, with current mileage for about the same price I paid new. I’ve paid about half the initial purchase price in insurance premiums.

Being a good driver sucks, but it’s kind of like healthcare where…wait a minute I’m healthy and getting fucked there too. As I age I’m going to street race and try to gain as much weight as I can.

This is a better angle that shows some of the tensile strength https://www.dreamstime.com/three-vertical-buildings-carry-surfboard-top-marina-bay-sands-hotel-singapore-luxury-hotel-artsience-museum-las-vegas-sands-image239115513

I’m still trying to wrap my head around how engineers must have had to angle everything (floors, ceilings, interior walls) so that occupants on the “slanted” tower buildings don’t have the perception their building is a leaning prop…because it is.

That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.

It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.

No it isn’t.

(Yes, you’re correct)

No it ISN’T, it’s just CONTRADICTION.

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Came here to make the Minchin comparison.

“heckuvajob” is the established nomenclature.

Jack black isn’t funny at all. He’s worse, incredibly fucking irritating and annoying and a try hard. He epitomizes mainstream US “comedy”; obvious, loud, overstating the delivery of jokes with overwrought physical humor. He and Horatio Sanz must have studied under the same Sithlord. Can’t stand him.

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They will sell it to the highest bidder, likely foreign. That is the whole point of the “sovereign wealth fund”. Trump and the Uber wealthy see it as an asset to plunder, who cares if Bahrain owns Yellowstone or you have to pay Bezos to fly over the Amazon Canyon? The future is amazing!

It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.