WideEyedStupid

Except underground they wouldn’t be damaged by a storm in the first place.

That’s a curious way to spell “kill.”

Fair, it’s not a new term. I was born in the 80’ies, I’m familiar with the concept.

However, it’s now being used with new bullshit meaning (i.e. going outside the Google/Apple app and their own offered selection), and media are normalizing this use.

You know, it’s very possible, because I’ve never actually read an entire EULA, I don’t think.

I fucking hate that word. It’s not ‘sideloading’ to install on my own device what I want to install, to use the apps I want to use; to not use the apps I don’t want to use. I am not ‘sideloading’ anything when I install programs on my PC. No different on my phone.

Fuck off with all these new bullshit terms that are only used to imply that what we’re doing (with our own devices) is somehow outside the norm, to justify the constant enshittifcation and the growing stranglehold these corporations want on our lives. It’s infuriating.

I know you’re making a joke, but the Nazis actually ran into the exact same issue.

The Einsatzgruppen (death squads) had the problem that executing so many people was ‘demoralizing’ to the troops. They started to suffer from mental health problems. It’s not surprising, is it? Even with all the propaganda, even believing they were only murdering ‘lebensunwertiges Leben’ (life unworthy of life), killing so many scared, crying people, including children, takes a toll. Oh and it also costs a lot of bullets.

Because of this the Nazis started using gas vans to kill people. But even that was a problem, because the soldiers were getting traumatized when they had to empty all the bodies out of the vans. So they started using prisoners to do that work…

But well, it was all very inefficient and slow and expensive. And that’s how we eventually ended up with fully industrialized death camps with gas chambers and crematoria (of course with prisoners doing all the dirty work because why the hell not).

Einsatzgruppen.

Hmm, I guess I’ll go with the VR thing. It could serve as some kind of afterlife. Maybe you can meet your friends and family there!

You’re right. But that one isn’t new to me. The Turd Reich is new. And I can’t believe I never came up with that, because it’s so obvious, haha.

The Turd Reich, damn. How come this is the first time I see this. It made me giggle, good job. :D

They are. One of the game’s strengths, in my opinion, is the lack of empty filler and fetch quests. All the quests are voiced with original lines and they’re basically mini-stories, every last one of them.

I don’t like the combat system either, that’s why I always put it on the easiest setting, so I don’t waste time with it and just play it for the story. Let’s put it this way: Amazing story but bad combat? I can sit through that easily. Good combat with a terrible story? EW NO GET IT AWAY. Combat is like the least important thing for me in games. :D

Never.

Wtf, that sounds really fucked up.

Edit, just to add: Both my parents also always knocked before entering, respected the answer “no” whenever I gave it (which, admittedly, wasn’t often) plus never expected an explanation why, and we cleaned/tidied our own rooms, did our own laundry, etc, so that excuse was also never used. And they never, ever touched my computer, opened my mail or went through my phone.

Is it possible they did it in secret when we were at school or something? Sure… I guess it’s possible, but I truly doubt it. It would go against their own principles and personalities.

My parents never really gave me the idea I had to keep many secrets from them anyway. They weren’t bigots, they weren’t religious, there weren’t really any taboos at all, so we could talk about anything and I was never severely punished for things. Sure, they’d get mad sometimes or disappointed, but I was never afraid of them. We could talk about anything. And even when they were mad, I knew I could go into my room and they wouldn’t barge in after me without my permission. Privacy was always respected.

I don’t know if I’m the only one, but this makes me kind of sad. Obviously he likes you, because trust me, you wouldn’t get an invitation to meet his family otherwise, but it seems to me he’s internalized some really… fucked up crap if he can’t admit it to himself. He keeps having to convince himself that he’s definitely not gay, which is something that’s usually not done by people who accept themselves and who are accepted by their loved ones.

A few serious conversations might be needed here.

But poor people used to have plenty of kids. And it’s not like every child had a bright and happy future full of hope and certainty hundreds of years ago, what with wars, plagues, famines and whatever else. Terrible infant and maternal mortality rates. People still had kids. Because they kinda sorta didn’t have a choice. Now they do.

Poor people are still poor. The world is still fucked up. Humans are still hating and murdering each other over bullshit. The specific situations may be different but it’s pretty much the same shit. The difference is choice.

Edit: I am not saying that cost matters not at all, for everyone, but if it was really about cost then rich people would have more children than poor people and they most definitely don’t.

I think it has a very simple explanation, but I doubt many people will agree with me.

I think it proves that humans simply do not have an inherent urge to procreate. Humans have the urge to have sex, sure, and for a long time having sex carried the consequence of having children, but they are not the same thing. When people are able to survive without children and have the CHOICE to not have children, many simply don’t want to.

In the past people needed many children, because many of them died before adulthood, and they needed the rest to take care of them in old age. Women didn’t have the right to say no and many needed husbands to provide for them, since they couldn’t own their own property or even have jobs. When men wanted sex, women had to comply and without birth control they automatically got pregnant, whether they wanted to or not.

I think not having the option to choose, people had children because… that’s just the way it was.

Now people have a choice. And we see what choices they make.

I’m sure many people are going to argue that it is too expensive to have kids, but let’s be honest here. Most humans on earth today are orders of magnitude more prosperous than 400 years ago, for example. If people really wanted kids, they’d have them.

Many people simply don’t want kids and maybe it’s time we finally acknowledge it.

There are only a few groups of people who still have lots of children: the very poor in underdeveloped countries and the very religious. And note that in many of these cases people don’t really have a choice.

The Netherlands has had digital ID (DigiD) since 2005 or something. It’s basically just a government account that allows you to do official stuff online, like your tax returns. You’re not forced to use or even have a DigiD, but it does make some things easier because you can do all your government business online in stead of filling out papers or having to visit actual buildings.

Sadly I can’t use mine at the moment, because I switched phone numbers when I moved to another country and forgot to change it, and now my multi-step verification won’t work and I’d have to go there to ID myself in person to reactivate it. :p

Edit: Was curious so looked it up. DigiD has existed in the Netherlands since 2003, though the name was changed to DigiD in 2004.

I see what you did there!

I’m going to be that person now. Truly sorry.

It’s fewer, not less. ;)

Edit, because why not, since I already opened the door. For anyone who has trouble with this. For countable things, you use fewer. For example:

Less meat. Fewer steaks.
Less traffic. Fewer cars.
Less happiness. Fewer smiles.

We still have zero app-controlled (or internet-capable) appliances and I hope to keep it that way forever… though I’m starting to worry that maybe in the future we won’t have much choice.

Ha, it happens!

Always read the fine print. ;)

I mean, that’s per week, and after tax… Seems like a shitload of money to me.