Osan

unlucky

I don't think it's unlucky just stupid. In bdsm we have something called RACK (risk aware consensual kink) where before a scene or activity you have to study risks, anatomy, and physiology as deeply as you can and then do negotiations with your partner where you discuss all the risks and establish safe words and alternative non-verbal cues, and everything that could go wrong and the protocol that will be followed if it does go wrong, while changing things and substituting some aspects with others that would achieve the same goal but more safely.

You also generally don't participate in extreme activities with a new partner especially if someone is inexperienced.

When I was a kid physical gift cards where the only way I could pay for online games since my nobody at home had a credit card that accepts international transactions.

I'm starting to think that no place is left that isn't turning into a shit hole.

It's hypocrisy. When the morality and logic behind your ideas is inherently flawed then hypocrisy is fair play and sometimes even a necessity for survival.

In the long run I don't think it would matter that much. They would just move it elsewhere potentially in someone's else backyard but the infrastructure will still run by you and the effects/consequences are still the same. A nice looking backyard doesn't matter when everything around it is on fire.

Well the thing is no empire truly fall. They leave behind, a seed, a catalyst for the next empire. If not destroyed then you're still in the cycle and hope becomes temporary.

I call it the grow-explode-grow theory

A powerful kingdom turns into a tyrannical empire. Empires grow and exploit others till they collapse due to too much power concentration and fewer people benefiting from it. Then smaller kingdoms and republics are built on the ruins of empires. The cycle repeats. It depends on which unfortunate part of the cycle you happened to exist. Also with modern globalisation and capitalism it seems the different parts of the world are now in sync with each other which makes "the empires" even stronger but their eventual collapse more detrimental.

Working is not giving back to society when most of us work for corporations and millionaires who's entire purpose is to exploit said society. This fact might have been less obvious than it's now especially when young people don't feel their work is respected or appreciated in this system anymore.

It's not that society inherently sucks but it has been plagued by systems of oppression and exploitation for so long that it needs emergency surgery.

Is it me or does this feel very 18th century vibes with a 20th century nationalist flavour?

Invading people homes and locking them up, forced displacement ("deportation" ), setting up "return hubs" which to me sounds awfully similar to a slave trade route resting spot. I thought it was established that mass human trafficking and raiding homes are bad.

I wouldn't say I want the pre-internet world but I would definitely want the early-internet world. It used to be the best of both worlds before corporational greed and governmental control took over the entire internet. The internet was just this useful communication tool that happened to have some other niche uses like forums and archives.

Not 90s but the 2000s in the middle east (keep in mind the same technology was released here at a similar time but adoption was slower due to prices and companies at the time not knowing how to market their products in non-western markets)

I have older siblings and younger siblings and I want say me and my friends in the same age group exist in this weird transitional generation. We are too young to have embraced the optimism and hope of the older generations but we are too old to have just accepting the current status quo as how we found the world to be.

As a child I have used the entire progression of the telephone. I have used landline, dumb Nokia phones, blackberry, smart Nokia phones, and Samsung smart phones. I remember watching both satellite TV and YouTube Minecraft let's play as a kid. My dad used to take family pictures using both a film camera and a digital camera. I remember when we had to go out I would schedule the VHS recorder (or whatever it's called in English) to record my favourite cartoon tv show.

But what I believe is the most impactful aspect is the politics. I can clearly remember the Arab Spring (a series of revolutions in 2011). I was too young to understand it at the time but I sure have felt this feeling hope, optimism, and freedom in everyone around me just to realise when I grew up that we've lost.

Also LLMs and AI became a thing while I'm in the middle of university so I have seen how the concept of education slowly change from who learnt the skills better to who can make it the fastest with least tokens spent.

I'm also an introverted nerd so the moment I had internet access I was totally invested. I have seen how it turned from wholesome (and totally not wholesome) forums, chatrooms, and personal blogs, to these gated gardens, to brainrot and then AI slop. And I miss just hanging around uninvited in a small niche online community and talking to people.

I think what would resonate with my age group and some older folks is the feeling and promise that certain things and the future will be ours when we grow up, just to loose it all before we had the chance to.

I think that's because they have to wait for more testing to make sure the model/feature is "safe" for that region and take into consideration the linguistic and cultural differences. I believe it's mostly legal stuff they need to make sure they won't be breaking laws in different countries and see if they would face backlash from authorities or the public. But I think it's mostly the same model with the same data everywhere.