I’m glad I’m not the only one to first think it was the company, not the weather event lol

Hope I don’t turn into an asshole like you when I get older.

Look, it’s been statistically documented that people lean farther right as they get older, because they’re more successful and more sheltered from life without social safety nets. It’s natural, it’s called “fuck you, got mine”.

You were essentially saying someone in their 20s isn’t worth listening to. YOU are part of the problem. We should be considering the opinions of the people who have to live on this planet for another 50-70 years, not exclusively those who are dying soon and couldn’t give a fuck about the future.

I’m talking natural leanings vs all the young people currently being exposed to right wing propaganda which is different.

There’s a common saying “you’ll grow out of liberalism” among older conservatives.

Fair, I can see how we might have misunderstood each other

I mean they also refuse to let their children go to school, because they very much don’t want them to be part of society at large. They’re scared their children will get jobs and stop being part of their community. They’re very much “us vs them”. Those who aren’t into that “us vs them” mentality, make an effort to get out and, depending on country, have a pretty good shot at becoming not criminals.

Edit: My edit to grandparent comment goes further into depth than this comment does. Yes, obviously the poverty cycle and discrimination is the original cause and still an ongoing issue. But after all these centuries, many don’t WANT to be part of society at large. Which is why simply a lack of discrimination isn’t enough. To integrate them, actual social programs are needed.

There’s always exceptions.

That doesn’t change this:

And in general, if you look at politicians, the few who actually fight for the future are on the younger side (think AOC, Mamdani, etc). Yes, obviously there are exceptions. Bernie Sanders being a huge one.

It just says failed to load media for me, is that on purpose or is my client failing me?

I’m sorry, I just think that the zionist actions are bad by default but news articles shouldn’t minimize the people that defy them?

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I got morning sickness during pregnancy. First trimester only I think. She did as well, but not as bad as I did lmao

It’s the so called travellers that are evil. Pretty much all travellers in some places are roma, but it seems increasingly few roma are travellers because I haven’t really heard much of them recently in my country.

Generally, travellers raise their children to be thieves at a young age. Once they break out of that isolated crime community cycle, they’re just people and blend into society.

Unfortunately in a lot of people’s eyes, roma people are still a travellers. Seems in my country they’ve mostly gotten jobs instead of stealing and telling fortunes though, so nobody really cares about them anymore.

Edit: A lot of people are not getting this apparently (and also many are). Travellers are pretty much equivalent to gangs, but in a way even worse (yet also significantly less violent, luckily). They don’t want their children to get educated, because they don’t want better lives for their children. So yes, the original (and generally still ongoing) cause is poverty and discrimination, but there’s an element of “we don’t even WANT to be part of society” here. They have entirely different values from most other people as such. As such, just treating Roma as equals isn’t enough. There’s a need for outreach programs to try to get them to even WANT to integrate in larger numbers. It used to be that basically all Roma were travellers, and a huge problem is that people are still so prejudiced that in at least some European languages, the word for traveller and Roma is the same (it being essentially a slur, such as gypsy). Also through no fault of their own, knowledge of the word “roma” or “romani” is not as widespread as it should be… And the word itself sounds a lot like we’re talking about someone from Rome or Romania.

Not when they keep building them into deserts. Also a lot of the rain falls into the ocean and is then salty. Waste of what is often essentially drinkable water.

Yeah, every time I see a headline saying “Trump, 79, …” I just scroll past it at this point.

Paper Skies on YouTube has a lot of videos about soviet aircraft littered with cool facts. The supersonic booze carrier, the gun that was so powerful it could stall the plane carrying it…

Idk, to me “little kid” means “not in school yet”. It’s the “little” that makes the difference, compared to just calling someone a kid or kiddo.

The thing is, she wasn’t just called a kid, but a “little kid”.

Sure, I’d call early 20s kids too. Hell, I’m a kid, I’m only turning 30 this year. But I wouldn’t call someone a “little kid” once they hit their teenage years. The “little” is what makes the difference in tone. Could’ve said “she’s just a kid” and it would’ve been a believable attempt at intergenerational solidarity.

Lol I have never installed the TikTok app even. I can show you a screenshot from the App Store if you don’t believe me.

They are sending jets and navy ships to sovereign nations all over south east Asia.

Definitely an issue regionally (and globally because TSMC), but a non-issue to anyone living in China (unless they have family at one of those countries)

Even building man made island to build bases to do so

I agreed, it’s bullshit bad faith diplomacy.

There is a social points system that is designed to punish the poor and middle class.

Same as the credit score system in the US then. It’s provincial, anyway, not a centralized system. A lot of people in China are saying it doesn’t affect their lives too much. Many haven’t heard of it.

There is a literal concentration camp for theUyghurs because of their religion.

So this is the worst of them all. But then nearly every single article about it is written by, or cites, Adrian Zenz, a notoriously anti-China reporter. The multi-million person concentration camps might be a myth. There’s definitely some human rights abuses going on there though, even the UN has reported on that. But again, this doesn’t affect most people.

We’re talking about over a billion people in one country. 99.9% of them aren’t going to be affected by any of this. Can you say the same regarding the systemic racism, the ICE raids, etc, in the US? And those are accelerating, China seems to be keeping their authoritarianism stable.

Thing is, the older people get, the more selfish they seem to get too. The entire world burning down in 10 years doesn’t matter if you’re 98. So more life experience isn’t automatically more credible.

There was literally a thread somewhere on the fediverse where someone said their friend (scientist) got invited to China for a 7 figure salary job. That’s not a thing in most countries.

I know what the 996 culture is. These are also mostly people working in the private sector. This article is more about government-paid people.

So what country you want to be in depends on whether you’re a researcher (China good, US becoming increasingly shit), software engineer (China bad, US good), etc. But it still holds true that the US and China have the highest salary ceilings if you’re strategic about it. If you’re a scientist here in Estonia, you need to take foreign assignments to make any real money. Otherwise you don’t earn shit, especially before you finish your PhD.