Yah they already have inherited wealth and privilege, will it make ANY difference for the rest of us if their kids don’t get the diseases that they can afford to treat anyway?

Lets say they do make ubermensch super-babies and create peak physical perfection… it will take generations before that creates enough of a class-divide that it will be noticable and by then, enough of them will have fucked around and bred with the common-folk that the edges of that divide are also going to get fuzzier and fuzzier. The world is full of rich people who mingle everywhere and are allowed to impregnate who they want and nobody cares.

The only way you get the science-fiction dystopia with beautiful rich monsters with super powers versus the plucky gang of resistance fighters who are rough around the edges but have hearts of gold, is if you separate the wealthy elite out and make them live on Mars or something.

The way Reddit does is abusive.

Yes, but counterpoint: it was also petty and satisfying as fuuuuck hammering someone with your last point and then blocking them so that after they write up their long-ass reply outlining why eugenics is the true path to a glorious white future, they end up getting an error message.

Yah, it was very bad for actual discourse, but that ship has sailed. people don’t care about debate and discourse anymore, on almost every social media site people post things as stand-alone displays to viewers for points, never engaging with each other unless there’s a contentious point that can be leveraged for up-arrows and thumbs.

We have to get back to talking to each other in real life and stop pretending having introversion or social anxiety is anything but an obstacle to community and a better world

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OnlyFans getting more and more specific in it’s diversity, I guess I’m here for it.

I traveled through there while battling a fever, it felt like a very strange dream. Pictures don’t do the region justice at all, Bohol generally feels like another world.

Same reason a horde of idiots stormed the capitol in the USA when Trump lost an election.

People who don’t have mental capacity for abstraction and cognitive thinking are creatures of emotion and reaction, this makes for a very strong desire for authoritarian leadership. Combine with things like sexual insecurity and gender insecurity and you have a ripe population for fascistic brainwashing.

It’s happening all over the world as companies who profit from fascist movements use algorithmic media to target people specifically and feed them all the programming they need to become the worst possible versions of themselves. And it’s not limited to illiterate conservatives, the left and liberals are also victim to algorithmic perception distortion, which is why we have people on the left protesting cartoons and scolding people over problematic language while there are literal concentration camps being built, and why our liberal population are so complacent and tuned-out entirely that nobody is even doing anything about our impending financial and societal collapse.

This entire state of decline, apathy and outrage at the wrong targets is artificial. Every time we turn on our phones and start scrolling, we are being targeted and made into victims even if you don’t feel like you are. Put the shiny toys and mindless content-seeking away. Read books. Save money. Starve the liches and oligarchs.

What’s weird about it?

We have plenty of “nice” cartoons, my point though is that after a certain age, a child should have a solid understanding of some mature concepts like mortality, because if you’re going into your pre-teens and still can’t watch certain scenes in kid’s media, you’re going to have a very hard time with an array of things as life rapidly comes at you.

I disagree that this is an actual problem, we have so few sources anymore that show any kind of reality that kids can connect with.

It’s worse than ever. It’s a world of AI slop that is often far more disturbing, youtube kid’s channels that are completely lacking in value or education. Life lessons are avoided like the plague in media and in families now. Parents avoid “hard topics” with their kids at a level that has left an entire generation of adults unable to function under any level of pressure, or unable to do basic things like count change and make eye contact.

Will seeing Bambi’s parents die help with that? Not directly, but there is a type of psychological “grounding” that can come from careful exposure to distressing topics as a child.

Life is horrible, but avoiding it makes the problems worse. Avoiding something distressing because you can’t take negative emotions is a valid choice but it doesn’t make you stronger. Your mental capacity, your emotions and your perceptions are all muscles that wither and die without exercise.

If we taught our children that bad things happen but it’s okay and we can recover, maybe there would be less fear and scared adults who cling to violence as a means to feel in control.

I just don’t like the idea of sanitizing and shaving every hard corner off a world that desperately needs people with mental and emotional strength like never before.

Yah, it’s corporations consolidating power and paving the way for AI getting all up in your ass.

Over the next several years a lot of tech companies are going to be restructuring everything based around AI and other new technological ideas none of us asked for.

Everyone has different types of interaction and connection with each other, and various levels of comfortable intimacy with people. But generally, when you do hit it off with someone, it usually starts off with prolonged eye-contact, deeper and more engaged conversations and a back-and-forth with light flirting, even if it’s just smiling and joking together.

That progresses to more physical contact, hand holding, sitting together/lap sitting, hair touching, usually followed by soft talk and close faces. This is where you can easily gauge your partner’s interest, if they’re reciprocating and seem equally enthusiastic you can quickly move to kissing and suggesting going somewhere more private where you can ask if they want to go somewhere to spend the night or if they rather take it slower. If you find yourself taking the lead, it’s always good to give an “out” and suggest an alternative to going direct to sex. Cuddling, talking in private, watching a movie together, etc. You might feel nervous, but the person you’re with might be even more nervous.

If you’re with the right person, you will reassure each other and find a comfortable pace to progress. If you’re already at this point of touching and kissing, it’s not going to be a deal-breaker at this point to be talk clearly about what you want and to ask if they want the same thing, or to even admit you’re nervous because you’re attracted to them. If you’re with the right person, it should feel fun, you should both start feeling nature take over as you want to get closer together.

If you’re having really good chemistry with someone, if you’re having fun together you both start to feel a thing that makes you feel very, very comfortable with them. Laughing together becomes sitting together, becomes holding each other, becomes eye contact, becomes more and more quiet time, next thing you know you’re tangled together and nature starts to take over. It’s not always, or even usually verbal.

That’s how some people do it, some people are more direct and just say “wanna go somewhere?” and they retreat somewhere private to either do the above, or go about getting intimate in their own way.

You can’t go wrong talking. If you don’t feel comfortable talking to the person you’re with on even the most basic level, if you’re at all unsure about enthusiastic consent, or what your partner really wants, you have to back up and either spend more time getting comfortable or admit you’re not feeling that chemistry together and move along.

Nerves are normal, you should feel nervous but more like the way you feel nervous about to get on a roller coaster. It should be exciting so make sure you understand if your anxiety isn’t crossed with your excitement responses. You shouldn’t feel scared you should feel heightened and aware. Your partner should also feel this way, it’s always okay to ask someone “Are you okay?” “Do you want to?” “Want to wait/go further?” and it’s not at all embarrassing or awkward to check with your partner. Unless, again, you’re with someone whom you’re not actually comfortable being intimate with.

I’m also going to be crafting for money if I live to 98.

'murica.

Quit self-medication years ago because it’s lethal, killed my whole family, and right now we should all be hoarding money to keep it out of the hands of the oligarchs and tyrants trying to seize our land.

There was a time in my adult life that I was stealing water from a construction site so I could care for my ill partner after losing work and family members. I did claw out and found new work and a whole new life, but I was down that far and worse and you wouldn’t know it by looking at me now. I’m sure I was more than dirty at the time from having to walk everywhere. I uber’d a lot, but you can’t do that every day.

I came very close to asking strangers for help. I guess I did to some degree, I did ask for help on online forums specifically for that purpose, got very little response… but why does that seem “better” to so many people? Is it the eye-contact with someone you could become? Is it fear that you don’t feel the sympathy you think you should if you look at them?

Is it harder to smile at a poor or homeless person than someone getting out of their nice car? Why or why not?

These are all better questions that readers should ask themselves than try to answer here for the reactions of strangers. We really don’t ponder enough and it’s breaking everything at the seams.

I am stunned how few people can be this normal in this post.

You would think that there’s only two choices by people’s responses: either you have to always give everything you can to anyone you see, or you should throw smoke bombs down and disappear like a ninja lest they zap you with homeless laser rays and make you into drugs.

If you just looked at the replies you would think OP said they were on an expired visa in Los Angeles.

I get that the ICE situation is scary, but for most of the world, this isn’t a concern, the world economy however is always shifting and America is definitely on a downturn, as wages stagnate and prices skyrocket even before the full weight of the tariff nonsense hits. I don’t know about other countries, but the US is going to be just like every other developing nation with a vast swath of citizens living in shanties while a few dozen people hold ALL the money.

In many places, people are still going out and partying, but also in much of the world, the idea of “clubbing” isn’t nearly as popular and people tend to gather in streets and neighborhoods to celebrate and get drunk.

People are terrified.

Funny way to spell “poor.”

Average people aren’t nearly as worried about ICE as they should be, but people are definitely feeling the pinch of a dying middle-class and wealth inequality skyrocketing.

Massive waves of unemployment as AI takes most office jobs, and continues to develop to take many service industry jobs.

It won’t make anything better, we will just have a greater stratification of society, more poor people and the smaller number of rich people get much, much richer.

These rich people will divide the world into power-blocs and the beginnings of techno-feudalism will really show as different oligarchs and corporations become more outspoken in their political and social goals.

Society broadly will be even more distracted and less involved in a system that will be far too chaotic and full of misinformation and fakery that no human will be able to sort through anymore. We will escape into more wonderous virtual lives and feel more depressed as a result. Suicide will skyrocket as depression, homelessness, health problems and extreme weather events make everyone’s lives more miserable. We will start to see the impact of our falling birthrates which will start crashing even faster in the next couple decades. Governments are going to incentivize raising families with short-term subsidies but it won’t be nearly enough for most people who still see no hope for the future and have no social skills anymore.

In under ten years we will be having our first major “problems” with widespread AI control of systems and governing functions. They will be trained and made by above-mentioned oligarchs who have their own agendas, and will behave unpredictably as a result. People will be misled and influenced to be loyalists to varying positions and narratives with SHOCKING ease as these AI systems figure out ways to utterly hack human motivations.

It’s not looking good. This is the optimistic path.

The problem is culturally, they didn’t see a need to fight for it because of apathy.

Thank god we don’t have to worry about that happening he- err… fuck.