Probably the ‘uncanny valley’ effect. It is too real and jarring. I also think making a story out of the concept will be very difficult to make entertaining. People want things they can relate to. Men won’t be able to relate to it and just find it jarring and women will just read having period = being a monster and won’t appreciate the implication…
If you think something good can be made of it you have to write something yourself :/
A financial collapse almost certainly and business would struggle until they find alternatives, especially the service sector. But manufacturing, construction and agriculture is not as dependent on internet for day to day operations.
Social I think it would probably be a boom and when internet get back online a lot of people might look back at the blackout as a refreshing experience.
At least that’s my take.
I have glasses and the same problem, I think the glasses chafe against the plastic leather without one noticing until it breaks.
I mean yeah, I got to see that too. I just for some reason thought we knew better and that things would get better for the next generation. Instead I feel like everything is getting worse. Internet is the most prosperous curse humanity ever invented I feel like…
Everything and everyone can be accessed by anyone. Sounds great, until you realize this means pedophiles get access to kids, kids get access to horrible ideas and standards and sexual content everywhere. I guess the content is just a reflection of humanity and its desires, the good and the bad.
Or maybe I am just getting old, but it doesn’t seem the youths are happy about it either…
That’s not rude to say, I believe that myself. But with a dataset of one data point I couldn’t be sure…
Its all clickbaity and fake, I find it repulsive, i cannot stand Instagram for more than a few seconds. I only keep it because some friends chat there. To imagine people spend hours there…
Yeah, I can see why… It is very sexualized.
So women get that stuff too… That’s kind of what I was wondering, if it was just algorithms. Maybe that is just how social media are these days…
How can they allow this and not expect it to fuck up people? I am so so worried about my nieces when they grow older.
Their cousin, the same age as the older niece, used to be a soft and sensitive boy, but he is so hard and calloused now. He already has so many preconceived ideas about things. I feel like social media pulled him into the world of toxic masculinity before he even reached puberty.
In our family we are very familiar with dementia and senility. This is not it. He has always been repetitive (I suspect rather autism or OCD). For as long as I can remember he has always retold the same story in the exact same words to me, knowing full and well that he has told me it 12 times or more before. His mother was exactly the same. But it has gotten worse. Maybe it is because I have spent more time with him recently so he gets more opportunities to tell the same story.
In this family we are on the outlook for dementia etc though. But he is aware of his repetition. It is compulsive rather than forgetful. It is just that he tells his conspiracy theories more often, explaining them in the exact same details he did before. it is more annoying than worrisome.
Yeah, that’s what I have decided to do, to stop contradicting him with his extreme views. Just try to change topic instead. It is no use, he is too old to change now, if anything the change is just deeper into what he already was.
Absolutely, but a lot of it is self-caused or because he doesn’t say no. He has had a lot of stress from work because they pile more work on him and he doesn’t refuse it. This mentality of just toughening things out and not try to change things is a life long thing of his that has tainted me too. You don’t talk back to superiors and tell them they are wrong, you just swallow their bullshit and keep your head down. He is the perfect corporate work slave and he thinks everyone else should be that way to, because it is more practical and productive for society… Especially now that he is at a high position in the company. Why won’t these young people stop trying to have a life outside of work? he never did, he was a good unhappy worker, so why aren’t they? Why do they have other ambitions for their lives?! A typical boomer attitude. Kill you inner-self and individuality and mold yourself after whatever society needs you to be.
So naturally he hates anything and anyone who espouses a more individualistic life style, because if they are right and more happy then he has wasted his own life working away and suppressing himself for other’s profit. Minorities should just adapt to the majority and stop asking for the right to live differently. Goes for everyone.
I understand that someone who has seen a lot in life and have a lot of experience will be annoyed when they see someone do something the wrong way for the millionth time, which you know has never worked in the past. But the constant complaining about it and complaining about the same thing too. It isn’t like complaining about it the 311th time is going to fix it… I just had a argument with him, so I guess I am just venting.
The thing is, he is very critical of mainstream media. There is nothing wrong with his critical thinking of other people, it is being critical against his own thinking that is the problem!
If they bring up the perspective of someone who is negatively affected by a policy that he likes, he will say that the media are biased and are bringing it up to try to affect the public, that they have some kind of agenda. I agree that all media have agendas and bias, that is the nature of humans, of course you are going to want to bring in the perspective of someone you sympathize with! But he is getting to a point of thinking it is some kind of conspiracy and only media that reports things he likes are any good and he seems uncritical of their agendas or their agenda is good.
This is certainly true for him, he is both highly educated and narrowminded at the same time. He has basically no friends, only work colleagues, is quite unsocial (like me) and rarely tries to expand his horizons on things he doesn’t already agree on or is interested in. Anything he isn’t interested in is a waste of time and wrong… I never talk about my hobbies or interests with him because he has always been entirely dismissive and even judgemental about it in the past. Especially things I do for fun, because god forbid you do something fun in life instead of something productive…
Have two mandate periods (8 years) of normal relations under the Democrat. Then peacefully switched presidency to another president, but this time Republican, who also maintains normal relations for two mandates. So I guess 16 years of normal relations under both Democrats and Republicans? I know, too much to ask because that will never happen. Hasn’t been the case for many decades.
I’d use my knowledge of history, politics, psychology and science to become an influential advisor to powerful lords and help them conquer the world in exchange for living in luxury.
Our identities and labels are something for ourselves to decide. There are no rules that forces any labels on you. You can be homosexual if you feel that fits you. Other might be bisexual or pansexual. Or you can still consider yourself heterosexual.
Your sexuality is not determined by the identity of others. Your partner changing their identity or sexuality does not change your sexuality. Remember, it is just a label. A label is meant to be descriptive of you and allow easier communication of how you see yourself.
Pick a label that you think makes sense for you. Don’t let others decide it for you based on their identity.
I should mention that likewise your sexuality does not determine your partner’s identity. You can be heterosexual and be attracted to him. The label does not change reality. It is just a general descriptor.
Its just a fucking label, it doesn’t strictly have to ‘make sense’ in every context. Just describe you in general.