True but still i expect this will be ‘patched’ in 10 years or less and i’m so worried about what will happen to literature by then

If you get it done to you, you want to get someone back. That is true for the first few times it happens. Later if it happens to you - espwcially if its in a more serious or dsngerous context - it tends to actually make you empathise more and feel discouraged from engaging in that behaviour.

Spending time on a space like modern twitter or 4chan can make you pick up their habits, and also desensitise you to their way of doing things.

In Minnesota, ICE murdered a white woman who was a citizen and bystander (not protestor) and who was just trying to obey ICE’s instruction to leave. This has caused not only massive protests but also relatively strong condemnation of ICE by the state government, bringing the US even closer to civil war.

I can’t believe i forgot that one. Biggest story IMO, has been on my mind ever since i read about it

• Donald Trump has been exposed as an Epstein pedo
• this happened because the government didn’t redact properly on the files. Accidental or on purpose, who knows.
• UK boxer Anthony Joshua almost died in a car accident in Nigeria. 2 people with him died.

Social media news that I know of

• Elon Musk’s “grok” AI makes CSAM now. There really isn’t much more nuance to it than that. It has the ability to make underwear deepfakes of anyone you ask it to.
• Despite knowing this, he hasn’t shut it down, and just seems to find it funny
• the UK government is discussing banning X in the country because of this.

Global events

• Donald Trump took over Venezuela? He kidnapped Maduro, who is now sitting trial in New York.
• He wants to have Greenland now. Has discussed bribing them into joining the USA.
• Iran seems to be having a revolution. Might have beeb incited, in part, by American and Israeli operatives.
• and in Israel Palestine news:

This has made me realise how little news I actually pay attention to

You could get banned from mainstream subs (white people twitter, for instance) if you interacted - not just followed, but simply interacted - with a sub they didn’t like.

This is bad because for the admins it counts towards justification for a PermaBan. They don’t take into account what you were ever banned for just how many you accrued.

Irreversible PermaBan with no explanation. And I always disliked the prevailing culture there.

I think OP is right to be concerned, because while we don’t have karma like reddit (thank god), supposing someome was browsing old posts in a comm[unity] they might utilise the “Top of all time” filter or even the “most controversial of all time” filter - if our OP here makes a particularly useful post, e.g about a tech support issue - then I’m pretty sure having extra downvotes will actually reduce the reach and visibility of the post, using these filters.

Also in this case it was just useful because it exposes someone acting in bad faith on the fed.

I got excited by this then realised i think i already have it from a previous epic sale. Thank you nonetheless!

No mate give it a rest and don’t worry about it. People aren’t going to know when you started college unless they’re looking at your CV or you explicitly tell them, and even then they have no idea what you went through. Could have been working in between years or taking time off for health, it’s not really their business.

I myself will be graduating at 24 unless I switch to a quicker program. It feels a bit awkward but only when I look at it through the lens of hateful people who neg all the time.

Far more people graduate outside of the expected range of 21-25 YO than you realise -

• anyone who worked right after highschool but didn’t like it,
• anyone sitting a second degree or a conversion degree,
• anyone who served in the army before enrolling.

…but you might not encounter them all that often.

(If you’re on a prestigious course you’re going to be with a very young cohort who came straight from high school to university, but throughout the countless other courses in the country there will be 25-50 year olds sitting down for their first lectures in the subject. Most of them will elect to study remotely, e.g online or lecture recordings, so you’re doubly less likely to encounter them)

University was not created to be an age-bound thing like school. We lose sight of that now that it’s been clipped on as a near-mandatory last stretch of the educational conveyer belt.

Nukes

Best of times a phone hast lasted about 4 years

I don’t know but my first assumption would be that thia ia just a symptom of the zoomer ghosting epidemic. Even in a professional context, zoomers a year younger than me have always displayed this incredible inability to respond to important text messages. (Can’t stop grumbling about this to anyone I know LOL)

If you want a really wild explanation consider that, if you’re really not supposed to be there, the police are catfishing for adults who want to date 17 year olds. They see you, check if you’re real, and have no purpoe to caffish you,

Yeah if I’m cooking for myself it’s over too quickly and i have less appetite

I totally agree with this. I prefer to cook for others because the process of serving it out gives a cooldown from standing over the oven and inhaling the food, and so i usually enjoy it more.

So basically the governments of the uk and usa are always like 'ah we can’t tax the rich because they’ll run away and then we’ll go from 10% tax effectiveness to 0%, when countries of a similar developememt level are already doing it and doing fine?

Sometimes people act like they’re helping but it means they just bring up your problem again and again and confuse you as to what you really want to do about it. This could absolutely be done on accident, in an eagerness to help, but i also see it done deliberatrly by a few, just to pester people

Men and women lie when they say they want you to express yourself more. Whether they intend to or not, they get angry or sad about you burdening them with knowledge of your own experiences. Many will atore away anything you confide with them, so they can use it against you further down the line.

I think you need to move out, as hard as that might be. Even if you need to put stuff like your educatiom on hold you should get away from them all for good

Norway is awesome. I really admire your country

Putting a tax on billionaires leaving is actually a brilliant idea…

• Consistent: they made that wealth, in your country, so by the same principles of income tax, VAT, or corporation tax, we know the government believes it deserves a cut. All that money they take wth them is money the government was intending to dip into slowly over the course of 10 years or so.
• Targets a Loophole: Billionaires are of course uniquely positioned to relocate on a whim - normal people and even many millionaires will not be able to do this, as they can’t change jobs on the fly, get someone else to sell their house for them, remotely buy a house in another country.
• Motivates them to be better: the taxation of billionaires is ultimately about increasing the complexity of the system until they’re left with no choice but to be useful. But first we have to weather the storm of them trying to bribe the government not to tax them, before we can get there.