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hockey7318 posted...

I think you're really overestimating the happiness and stability of previous generations.

Overall, certainly I am -- but not on the topics of being able to afford things, which is my main focus here. You used to be able to own a home, a car, support children, and afford groceries on a single income, but many people my age can't even afford rentals, let alone all that other stuff.

My ass is never going to afford being able to retire. Literally not at all. And they're trying to raise retirement age to 72 for us so I guess I'll just work until I die with little to show for it.

Glob posted...

Ive always thought that thats some North Korea level stuff.

It gets worse. You should see the list of American war-crimes on wikipedia. But our leaders tell us that America has been the hero of every war we've taken part of like, okay sure buddy, I'll just ignore literally all of Vietnam I guess

I will say though, you do NOT want to fuck with the American military! Frankly some people in there are just waiting for an excuse. Most of our country's budget goes to our military. We are over 36,000,000,000,000 USD in debt as a country but the government just raises the debt ceiling and spends more on the military again. They have raised our debt ceiling 78 times over the past 65 years for this purpose.

So I guess America is actually a very great place to live...if there's ever a zombie apocalypse.
lmao what the fuck is even going on here? I don't know anymore bro but a carton of eggs cost $8 where I'm at now

Vicaris posted...

Don't think it's easy just saying it's doable because people really do it. I know people who have even. It's just a risk though, and definitely a bit of survivorship bias when I say something like "I know people who have".

But yeah I know people who just up and went to the us and they didn't even know English.

Going to the US and leaving it are entirely different things. And yes, of course people have done it, but it's only a dream for the most of us.

Vicaris posted...

Bro people do it all the time and they go to a country where they can't even speak the language. It's just that they're okay with cleaning toilets, dishes, roofing

I would do nothing but shovel horse shit off tarmac roads in 90f weather for 8 hours a day, every day, on weekends and holidays, and I still wouldn't be able to move. If you honestly think it's that easy then you're delusional.

If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Acting on their monopoly is making them visible for an anti-monopoly suit.

Isn't that happening to Google too?

Whatever. They'll get away with it. They always do.

Glob posted...

I understood completely. However, the correct answer wouldnt be holding you back. It would be additional support on your return to school. Im sorry that you didnt get that.

They would have had to do a lot more than offer support. They would have had to put me through the work of two grades at once. It'd have been easier to just stay back and take the year I missed then continue on.

As far as a curriculum, it should only ever be what you teach, not how you teach it. The way you describe it is not how teaching should work at all.

It used to be that way and it worked out fine. Now colleges offer supplemental classes in writing and math because people graduate high-school with such poor skills in it. The system only wants students to graduate, not to succeed.

I dont doubt this. Its one of many reasons I would never live in the US. The number of US teachers who have second jobs during term time and take on summer jobs is staggering. And yet most of them probably dont even know that thats not normal.

I fucking wish I could leave. I've hated it here for half of my life but I will probably never get to leave because all of our systems are designed for us to fail so that the rich can prosper. It keeps me up at night.

No disagreement with any of this.

The worst part is that they make you stand up for the pledge of allegiance every day and stuff you full of so much propaganda that Uncle Sam convinces you we are the "best and most free nation in the world". It's genuinely depressing how small of a world view people I've met have. They simply cannot comprehend or even think outside of what they're told that there is a life in countries beyond this. It's sickening and pitiful.

SinisterSlay posted...

Don't know why you guys keep living there if it's so awful.
The Canadian border is not that far away, freedom is like a few hours drive for most Americans and your instantly 40% richer as you cross the border.

Bro it isn't that easy.

People my age can barely even afford a place to live. You think I'll be able to pay for a way out? And you can't just go somewhere and stay. You have to get a job, find a place to live, go through immigration laws, live there for years before becoming a citizen, all while still paying American taxes on top of the taxes of the country you're in because America loves to rob its citizens).

I've hated it here for half of my life. Believe me, I'd move to Australia or New Zealand and renounce my US citizenship in a heartbeat if I could, but the system of the country I was born in is designed for us to fail so that the rich can prosper.

It fucking keeps me up at night. If I have to stay here forever then I might simply pass away.

Roachmeat posted...

Except those same barbaric abortion laws also had women dying from sepsis due to doctors literally being too afraid to do anything in fear of being sued.

And republicans have covered up the stats on just how many women died or became infertile because of this. Now they're trying to make it so that women who have abortions are charged with murder. What the fuck is even going on here???

KingInBlack posted...

This is honestly one of the most horrifying things I have ever heard of. They used a corpse to incubate a child. They took a dead body, hooked it to machines, and made it work until it wasn't needed anymore.

And the family just had to live with that. And after all of that, now they're stuck raising a baby through their grief. It's ghoulish.

For a world that is rapidly becoming the one from Brave New World, we're not using their procreation methods.

America is on it's way to becoming the handmaid's tale fr. We have the worst healthcare for women out of any wealthy nation and our (women's) rights change from state to state while men's don't. I don't think a lot of American's understand how baffling it is to have never had a female leader in this day and age.

Vicaris posted...

All right let's go, several scenarios from easiest to hardest, where we can say yes or no to the question: should the doctor save this person's life

Someone's unconscious and needs urgent care

Doctor's are required to treat unconscious patients but certain things they cannot do without a patient's consent.

Someone's unconscious, needs urgent care but has a DNR

Give them urgent care if possible, but if they slip then don't bring them back - that's what a DNR is. They actually have to need resuscitation to begin with.

Someone's signed a DNR years ago but recently, while suffering from dementia, expressed the will to keep on living . The person's unconscious and family members disagree on what should be done.

This unfortunately happens more than you think. There's a controversy on what state of mind a person has to be in to revoke a DNR. The argument is if they are even able enough to make that decision. Doctors will ignore a DNR if the patient verbally consents to life-saving measures. It doesn't matter what family says in these instances because the patient has autonomy.

Child needs a life saving treatment but parents refuse it due to religious taboo

In the fucked up country of America, children are seen more as a parents' property than as individuals with their own rights. Doctors can't force treatment onto children without they parents' consent, even if the child themselves consents to treatment. It's an awful system and plenty of children have died because of it. However, the parents may later be charged with neglect depending on the circumstances. If you ask me, children deserve more rights.

Pregnant woman had signed a DNR years ago. She's unconscious, if she's saved now that'll save the child as well, but it's too early for a premature birth

They recently did this in Georgia. A woman was legally brain-dead but doctors were forced to keep her body alive to save the life of her unborn baby due to the state's barbaric abortion laws. They essentially used this poor woman's corpse to harvest a baby that would be doomed to grow up without a mother. Her family just wanted to remove her from life support but it wasn't their choice. It's extremely fucked up that this can happen and an insult to autonomy and the wishes of a grieving family. This should never be allowed unless somebody who is pregnant consents to this happening after they die.

Child needs life saving treatment after a car crash, one parent disagrees with the treatment due to religious taboo, the other would agree but is unconscious from the same crash.

So long as one parent consents to treatment, then doctors will treat. But if one parent is unable to consent, then they have to listen to the other. Again, children are property in America.

Baby Hitler is having a cardiac arrest

Don't do anything because if you do then you'll alter the timeline.

dj1200 posted...

Exactly. And its hard with passionate teachers because they cant change the system easily. Oh and the pay for majority of public teachers below college is fairly low on average.

My grandmother was a passionate teacher. She became one because she wanted to inspire kids and help them learn. That doesn't cut it anymore. Seeing how the system is now makes her feel so sad for the younger generations.

More and more careers in America are getting to a point where the salary you gain from it compared cost of the degree to become it make it not even worth it. Teachers are one of these careers. They are even quitting because they just can't take it any more. It's no wonder they have to have barely-adults help teach. We're running out of options.

Glob posted...

I dont doubt that the system is poor and Im sorry that you had bad experiences with it. However, the US school system is one of the few that actually does make children repeat a year, something which educators the world over agree is almost always the wrong choice. The issue is not that they didnt hold you back, but that they didnt support you appropriately when you returned.

Also, having a curriculum is not a bad thing. Most of the countries that are good at education have a codified curriculum. Its the delivery of the curriculum where the teachers should be allowed more freedom.

You don't understand. I couldn't get appropriate support because I wasn't even there. I was in the hospital. They still sent me to the next grade for the only reason that it would have cost the school money and made it's reputation look bad. I advanced an entire grade without receiving any education for the previous year, then the grade just treated me as though I already knew everything the other kids in my class know because teacher's can't adjust their time or offer struggling students extra health because every single student has to go through the curriculum as planned. The curriculum is rigid and doesn't take into account the fact that people learn in different ways. The whole plan is to move kids like ants in a row to the next section of the hill.

Im not trying to argue that the US school system is good, not at all, but the intuitive answers for those who dont work in and understand the sector are not always the correct ones.

The system is Hell even for those who work in the sector. They too are ants on the hill in the curriculum. On top of that, the salary of a teacher isn't even enough to afford a home in many places of the US anymore.

Americans have an attitude and an entitlement problem because a lot of their parents' didn't care enough to raise them properly. Partially, I believe, because they didn't receive a good education themselves. We aren't taught about the value of hard work or where our food comes from. Our history lessons are whitewashed. They'll make us read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 5 times (literally happened to me throughout the length of several grades and at different schools) but won't teach us anything about financial literacy, taxes, or mortgages.

Our population is losing our intelligence and empathy, and whether or not our education system is part of the reason why, it sure doesn't help.

Did I mention school shootings?

FrozenBananas posted...

18-20 years olds teaching high school? Holy shit

Glob posted...

Im guessing this is in the US? I knew their school system was low quality but didnt realise it was that bad.

Any time you hear something in the US is bad, assume that it's worse than what you heard. The education system is so bad and has been for such a long time that when I was in middle school, after my mom tried explaining that I have anxiety and Asperger's, they stuck me in the room with all the severely disabled kids and made me take care of them when they didn't want to.

American schools do not hold any student back. I missed two years of school because of surgery and they flat-out told my mom it would be "too expensive" to hold me back. My grades were never good. Now my self-confidence is in a pit because I feel stupid and I can't do the things I want to without the knowledge that was robbed from me.

Teachers in America are not allowed to decide how their classes are run. They have to follow a strict curriculum that doesn't match every kids' needs. There's no room to give a struggling student extra help. All of the students are pawns that must be moved on the board in order for the school to keep up its reputation and income. Absolutely everything is about money here, it's horrible. Education, healthcare (especially for women), housing, companies, workplaces, the people who make our food, and authority figures don't care about you. It's all about feeding their own greed. You can't trust to be helped by any of them. You have to assume that they're taking advantage of you somehow because they probably are.

On top of all of that, you have to worry about school shootings (though shootings can happen anywhere at any time by anyone. even a 6 year old in America brought a gun to school and shot at his teacher). Nowhere is safe. People are tired, stressed, and struggling.

This country is genuinely the worst developed (aka rich) nation in the world. I hate being here so much I have had mental breakdowns over the fact that I will probably never be able to emigrate. I was made doomed to fail at my dreams just by being born here.
Sorry to trauma-dump but this shit is real and I just want you to be aware of it and the fact that a lot of us in America know it's all bullshit and we aren't happy with it either. We're just stuck here because every system is built against us.

The first version of steam deck sucked ass so bad it would run out of battery after like 2 hours of using it. The second version is better but probably not worth it if you enjoy PC gaming more than portable.
Personally, I love portable consoles, so I'd get it - but that doesn't mean you would.

I'm hoping that a job I applied for will get back to me. It's a small place in a small town, so I feel good about it. It isn't anything special but I'll be doing something good and it'll help me get some money. It's good for my mental health too.

Hi. Gen Z here. It's because we're all confused, upset, and hopeless - so sometimes we black out for a moment thinking about the economy and political unrest and our feelings of how we are all doomed to never know the happiness and stability that others before us have felt.

My family and I quote it constantly to each-other.

AI is meant to be a tool to help people work - not a robot to replace people's work.
Human inspiration, creativity, and passion can never be delivered by an AI.

Yellow posted...

The entire point of that is to make queer people feel safe in their workplace so it's not just a silent "what if". It's pretty encouraging to see your manager wearing a pride flag and it makes you feel like you don't have to keep secrets.

It's totally fine if you don't care.

Plus it weeds out the bigots lol
Yes, I can appreciate the reassurance. Nothing wrong with showing is casually like that. But if you have a big mandatory office party or something for it then we've git a problem.

The response to conservative thought is not to try not to bother them, it's to make them feel like they're the outcast weirdo for being the bullies that they are. That's tepid submissive behavior.

The point is to own the air around you, and if they want to say something shitty they should feel uncomfortable.

A lot of the time bigits are like deer in the headlights when you just point out their behavior to them. Seems like lots of them are actually seeking to get all riled up and anger others so that they can make a huge scene and express their dumbass thoughts. Just plainly and calming saying something like "wtf dude? that's not something you say outloud" can stop them dead in their tracks. Bigits nowadays (at least in the US) and so loud and now we're in environment where they can say (and almost do) whatever they want without it backfiring on them. We need to makep people afraid to be bigots again.

adjl posted...

If somebody is saying that people wearing a shirt of a certain colour is evidence that queer people are making society worse, the appropriate response is to point and laugh at how insanely idiotic they are.

Some "conservatives" are actually that stupid lmao

Yes, more often than not, gestures like this are more a matter of virtue signalling than a substantial form of support, but if being presented with an opportunity like that to mock a homophobic dinglemuffin into silent shame makes you feel like they might have a non-rofl-worthy point, you are yourself choosing to align with said dinglemuffins, and that's not a good thing.

fr if they want to celebrate pride just do it on your own or find someone who wants to celebrate for you. There's a time and place for everything. People can have pride flags and do all that if they want to, but being a third-party who presses it on others could just brood resentment for pride all around. Or maybe actually ask a lgbt person for what you think is appropriate and wanted instead of trying to do it yourself when you don't even understand it. It isn't that hard but social justice warriors gonna social justice warrior, I guess.

Falgos posted...

Hippos are far worse aswell. Hippos are territorial.

Oh god! How could I forget?

tbh half of time it's people trying to be too "woke" that makes lgbt folk look bad in the eyes of conservatives. I've never met an lgbt person who wishes for these kind of gimmicks in the workplace or anywhere else. They literally just want to have rights and not get hate-crimed. Virtue-signaling people do stuff like this and then bigots just blame the group they already hate for it and use it as "evidence" that said groups are making society worse for straight people.

Can't we just be normal about lgbt people? Just treat them like you would anyone else. It's not that hard.

MomSpringfield posted...

I wish there was an Applebees close to me. Closest thing we got here is Chilis

There's an Applebees in this county that's next to a sex-toy store. Fun location for going on a date...I assume.

Revelation34 posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_attack#The_Champawat_Tiger

It's been a while since someone brought this up to me! :)

Yes, tiger's are known to attack humans, even quite a bit more than other predators. What's fascinating is that they are even known to take revenge on humans who have wronged them. As are elephants and African buffalo, the latter of which are even called "the black death" or "the widowmaker" due to their number of attacks on hunters. Wise people in Africa avoid hunting these buffalo altogether. An elephant one time also killed a woman then showed up to the funeral and attacked her coffin (sorry, i'm infodumping)

Don't fuck with animals.

agesboy posted...
It's on the basis of animal attacks in general. While there isn't a study on it, you will see the difference when comparing the statistics of individual fatalities caused by different types of animals. This difference is largely because of two factors, the first being that humans live in societies away from predatorial animals, and the second being that due to agriculture humans commonly interact with prey animals. The difference between prey vs. predator attacks will differ, however, depending on where a person lives. For example, in India tigers are a more likely threat that similar predators would be in other locations, due to habitat loss and increased human-animal interaction in India (which is notoriously overpopulated by humans).

But the animals that generally kill humans even more than large prey animals are actually venemous animals! Snakes and bees in particular can take down an impressive number of people a year.

(BTW if anyone is wondering how I know this stuff, I've been volunteering with wildlife for 7 years and have had the chance to talk with wildlife rangers. I also enjoy watching nature documentaries are reading studies. Whether or not that makes me a reliable source is up to your own discretion. I just share what I've hesrd and researched.)

You guys can afford eating at restaurants?

Glob posted...

There are potentially others but it all depends on circumstances. There were lots of practical advantages for me.

Everyone is suited for a different type of life. I'm glad you found what works for you and hopefully your spouse is just as happy with it.

Yellow posted...

But... they want to eat you...

Only because their environment and the population of their prey are being catastrophically destroyed and they're starving,

Also they're like hard-wired sociopaths, they hate each other.

Animals can never be sociopaths because they do not have a moral compass like humans do. Trying to apply human psychology to animals is a fruitless endeavor. And no, not true, polar bears just have to fight each-other to survive. If you want an example of a species that kills for hatred, look in the mirror.

Fine, I don't seriously want them to go extinct. But I wouldn't cry.

Fair enough, I suppose. Just remember that devastation in the arctic will impact the environments of literally everywhere else on earth. If polar bears go extinct, you should cry for yourself and the rest of humanity.

Also, where's the justice for the seals? Seals are infinitely better than polar bears, and those awful things kill thousands. Protect the seals.

Seals have also attacked and killed people. Although they deserve justice too, just like any animal. Walruses as well! There is now so little ice for walruses to climb on top of that they are forced to share small and steep islands of land. The crowding is so severe and the terrain is so foreign to them that they are falling to their deaths en masse.

And here's a fun thing I like to throw out there. Humans are more likely to be attacked and killed by prey animals than by predators. A predator knows you are not in its food chain. Every hunt demands energy that it won't want to waste on a something it's never hunted before, unless it is starving. Meanwhile, prey animals have the instinct to believe that most creatures out there are a direct threat to it. If they can't or don't run, they will attack - especially humans who think they're disney princesses and approach them (rip to all the darwin award winners who didn't listen to the rangers at yellowstone and tried to get a selfie with a bison)

In fact, would you like to know one of the animals that has the highest likelihood of attacking or killing you?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/52222315.jpg
Because cows are nervous prey animals and are kept in crowded conditions where humans make contact with them on a daily basis, the chances of them attacking are not terribly uncommon. According the CDC, the 5-year average of cow related fatalities on humans in the USA (based on a study conducted between 2003 and 2007) is 22 people a year. Compare that to mountain lions, which have only killed 7 humans in the USA over the past 25 years, according to the mountain lion foundation.

joemodda posted...

Damn and we bending ourselves ass backwards to save these things from extinction??

It's partially because their environment is being destroyed by the consequence of human actions that they are forced to travel south and are thus in the range to attack us. This is what is known as the consequences of our own actions (not you and me, but corporations, especially Shell) and if we want it to stop then we NEED to bend ourselves ass backwards to save these "things"

KalloFox34 posted...

What I do care about is making sure I don't ever have children.

IK dude like I'm a woman and the fact that I can even get pregnant is utterly disgusting to me. Even if I were to (somehow) get pregnant and flush it out at day 1 I'd still never recover from the feeling that I was violated by some godforsaken parasite. I would deadass rather lose both of my legs than have to go through that.

I don't want my uterus! I wish I could be spayed like a dog! I'd at least get my tubes tied if I didn't live in America where I will never be able to afford it and where we have the actual worst healthcare for women out of any developed nation.

If I ever get you-know-whated and I'm forced to carry a baby because our draconian government says I need to, then I'd just kms

Been vibing to this song by Citizen Soldier that described how I feel when I get all fucked up from depression.
https://youtu.be/QAujbq2Tms8?si=3a7eEnr9EML6Fr9R

Also their song Inner Critic but I already posted that somewhere.
Guys, if you have troubles with mental health and you don't know how to describe it or think nobody else understands, you've gotta listen to this guy's lyrics. I will never not recommend Citizen Soldier.

Water. Just iced cold water. I fucking love water.

One of my mice died :( She was my sweet girl. I miss her so much.

I'm still madly depressed but I'm also trying a new antidepressant...so that's something.
Might start having seizures if I don't go down on my anxiety meds, though. So yeah I'm pretty worried about that.
I really just want to be fucking okay.

Yeah man fuck marriage. Fuck having kids. Be happy with yourself and you'll be happy for life. Marriage takes a ton of work, you'll have to plan and compromise with each other all the time and nothing is just yours anymore. There are people who get married not because they're actually in love but because they're afraid to die alone. Some people just don't love themselves enough to be alone (a major red flag, btw). Lots of marriages end in divorce anyway. The only benefit I can see to being married is double income and the tax break (which I could rant about, but I won't). But shit, I'd just invite a family member to live with me if we want the benefit of two incomes, and I'd marry a friend without being in love just so that we can each get that tax break. And don't even get me started on having kids!

Marriage is largely an outdated custom. It used to be a societal expectation for people to get married, have kids, all that - and believe me, plenty of people wound up trapped and miserable because of that. Luckily we live in a society where it's perfectly fine to be single. Having the freedom and independence to live your life simply for you and do things the way only you want to is the ideal for lots of people nowadays. It isn't abnormal and it's definitely okay. I'm (26f) the exact same way.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to fall in love someday or to find a really good friend who you want to keep by your side. But it's best to leave that up to chance. For now, just enjoy being happy the way things are. You aren't doing anything wrong and don't let anyone tell you otherwise because then those people are brainwashed, okay?

What is morbing?

Yellow posted...

I feel like there's a chance the polar bear doesn't eat you... No, I can't even joke about it, I legitimately hope those monsters go extinct.

What an utterly lame and selfish thing to say.

Fun Fact: Polar bears are one of the few animals known to actually hunt and kill humans.

They are also between 300-600lbs and the males can weigh 900+ lbs. That elevator would be like 90% polar bear and 10% you. It would probably kill you on accident.

This is like asking if you would rather get $100 or have a head-on collision with a semitruck.

As an America, I don't know and I'm scared. I hate it here. Have for nearly half my life. I really want to leave someday. One of my fears is never being able to.

Anyone from outside the US want to get married? lol

Australia

Kallainanna posted...

Ah no RIP Crumbs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssqRxF7wgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMCKgGO3iE&t=331s
Two fun vids about two very nasty carrot relatives: Cicuta maculata and Heracleum mantegazzianum. Poor Conium maculatum probably feels left out...

Ooh, I love this kinda stuff!

UPDATE

I found Crumbs dead about an hour ago. I knew last night, I knew this morning, I knew when I got back from the store that I'd find her gone. She waked away from her sisters to go and die alone, as animals do. I laid her back in the nest so that they could see and smell her and know that she was gone. They were kissing her and nudging her to try and wake her up
RIP my baby Crumbs.

Please continue to post absolute bullshit here. I need to be drowned in it.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/18b88e84.jpg

adjl posted...

Wearing some kind of hat is mostly to keep hair out of food. Wearing hats of differing styles and heights helps to identify different ranks in kitchens that are large enough for that to be a thing, which is sometimes a practicality thing (you can see a taller hat over counters/shelves more easily) and sometimes it's just for the sake of giving them something to show off with.

I've also heard that a tall hat allows for more air on the head so that their foreheads don't get sweaty, or something like that. idk if it's true or not.

Ya'll pray for my baby Crumbs, she's sick and her little hand looks like it's broken :(
This is her before she got sick
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8b0d6926.jpg
Right now she's all bald and squinty :( My poor baby

My contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVyjOlFlen0

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

they did not do a very good job with the SH2 remake

Beveren actually has a humiliation kink and he says embarrassingly stupid things on the internet to edge himself.

Hellyeah brother

Lately I've been needing to stay up between 1 and 3am because my sick mouse needs medicine, but she's noctural so I have to wait until she's awake and I can catch her. Normally I love staying up late but the repeated nights are draining me.

I'm a thirsty little flower, GameFAQS, I need you to water me with your shitposts and reaction pics. Memes, videos, random facts, absolutely anything goes. I just need something mindless to look at in the dead of night that will either make me laugh or make me collapse in on myself like a dying star. This is a rare opportunity where you're actually being asked to send me your brainrot. Like absolutely just fuck me up man.

FreeHats posted...

Just to add to this, no matter if online gaming costs, cloud save data should be FREE. MS does it and so should Nintendo and Sony. Complete BS.

Say it louder for the people in the back!

papercup posted...

I completely stopped drinking soda about seven months ago. Stopped putting cream in my coffee. Switched to sourdough, though I try to stay away from bread regardless. Stopped buying cereal, started eating oatmeal. Ive lost about 30 pounds since I started making these changes though I still have a long way to go

Good for you! I feel inspired.