Shapeshifting has always sounded like it would be a trip. Teleportation or similar also sounds super fun, and could have actual practical applications.

I guess you didn’t set a limit on how OP it could be, so I could just go for genie wish granting. Although, I can only imagine how zero challenge on literally any activity and an external world with no ontological momentum would fuck with my mental wellbeing.

Not flying, super strength or laser vision. Too much like tools we already have.

Reminder that they basically changed the scale in the 90’s, when history was supposed to be over. It’s higher now than during the damn Cuban missile crisis, not because we’re somehow closer, but because of a kind of ratchet effect as a very baseline Cold War level of tension returns.

Because it wasn’t ever actually about that, of course.

Congratulations, you guys got the illiberal society you dreamed of. Enjoy.

Poor kids, though.

If I have to swim with a corpse I think I’d rather something large than a bird. No chance of it floating up to me by surprise.

For fun? Uhh, kilometers. It needs to be far enough away to become abstract. And I do find the ocean slightly gross and pest-ridden already.

For a good reason, like someone is paying me? A bathtub if fresh, typical public pool size if not, and I’m showering right after.

That’s not it, but you got me curious enough to go looking. Apparently on some keyboards you have to press Fn as well to get them to work, and this model has one of those.

Good to know, next time Nouveau acts up maybe I can unfuck it without restarting.

Everything is a lot more urban now, which is a big thing that would get in the way. A farmer in the great depression would have been seeing and getting to know their neighbors a damn lot, and outsiders couldn’t exactly take a rip out on a highway to bid, either.

For most people under most conditions I’d guess so, but it’s not inevitable. It’s all stardust in the end, and I think you can compare yourself favourably or unfavourably without too much danger, if you keep that well in mind.

Donwloading an RSS reader and possibly failing (that doesn’t look right). It’s also good to always have one open because the hotkeys to move to another TTY don’t seem to work on this machine, and it has an awesome, poorly supported vintage Nvidia chip powering the GUI (edit: the trackpad has caused problems too).

Yep, it’s pretty ironic. That just means anybody could get sucked into ethnic cleansing bullshit, given a few decades.

Most investors are normal-ish people, even.

The weird part is that anyone outside of China was buying up Chinese real estate in the first place. The oversupply issue has been on the radar for years and years.

That’s actually a lower education level than than for all Canadians, IIRC. Which is interesting, since the vibe definitely is that everyone here is in STEM.

And yes, the author definitely surveyed their own instance and not all of Lemmy.

I like Venezuela better, because the CIA probably wouldn’t have been so easily caught.

Lethal kinetic strike? This entire policy is about showboating violence, why would you use a euphemism?

To answer the question, I think family feels right when you have each other’s backs whenever you’re able. When you’re young, that’s your parents or older relatives caring for you, and then when you’re older you care for them. It’s one thing that other cultures do better than the (modern) West.

The thing is, it’s also better if rich and loving parents aren’t required to do well, and a long period of prosperity is exactly why families are weak here now. I hope there’s a way to have both.

I see many parents online (especially in North America) talking about kids moving out at 18, paying rent to live at home, and covering their own bills, and it honestly shocks me. That feels unfathomable to me. I believe that as parents, we have a duty to give our children a good life since we brought them into this world.

It’s definitely one semi-socially acceptable option, although if it’s really like “get out now”, in another culture I think those same parents would be hitting or constantly insulting their kids. And at the other end of parental love and support nepotism is very much alive.

Out of curiosity, where are you?

Excellent, that would be intangible and unverifiable. We can present an unlimited amount and live it up on sweat and tears of American workers.

In practice, businesses will make that decision. He can probably move the US to autarky at the expense of 3000 dollar Iphones and coats you have to save up for like in the 70’s, but nobody outside the US will be interested in either.

Link, for anyone else curious. I’m actually learning some things.

Empathy is good, I’m glad you found it. And I hope you “ascend” (one of the things I learnt), because few people can’t.

Huh. So the depression was using up so much mental bandwidth it made the difference between being able to reflect and improve and not being able to. Interesting. I’m glad you’ve figured it out.

Parents modeling shitty behavior definitely happens, but usually kids gravitate towards or away from it pretty continuously, depending on their own personality.

That’s true. Or at least, it won’t directly. There are other people in the thread that had better luck as soon as they changed their attitude a bit, but I don’t know your situation and can’t guarantee anything.

It’s more a question of if you’ve actually left the movement, or actually were in it in the first place. It’s called “incel”, but it’s specifically about blaming women for said celibacy. And it makes a world of difference to other people if you blame them, or maybe even wish them harm.