@nuhre_ Ya but just like Hollywood there seems to be this unlimited funding with zero accountability for flops as long as the DEI overlords are appeased. Useless positions and jobs that add no value to the company or project are deemed critical in the pursuit of a bigger budget.
@martianwyrdlord I think when boomers die off there is going to be a massive paradigm shift to unfuck what they fucked. Technological progress will make this inevitable. No amount of regulation can hide their lies anymore. The revolution is inevitable, and time is not on their side…
We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock.
We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great.
We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really.
We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much.
We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too.
We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable.
We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all.
We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead.
We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job.
You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest.
Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team.
Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know.
Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside?
Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.
@linmeitalks That’s their computer, remember those things that we used as kids, now they have computers but they are on phones, kinda all in one. So imagine when you were under 16 and someone took your internet away.
@jolearynash Right… no one should have any opinion on government banning things en mass if it doesn’t directly affect you. That might be the dumbest take I have ever heard.
@realBenBloch I contacted all my friends through AOL instant messenger, we didn’t have texting, you could call their house. Every generation has their preferred method do to the technology of the time. Taking that away from them is authoritarianism under the guise of morality.
@elonmusk The amount of people arguing that government controlling you and your children’s access to the internet as an “obvious moral course of action” is disturbing.
@JayDarkmoore I built a computer and had a vpn at 13, there doesn’t need to be a counter argument, government coming in years to late, heavy handed, and making all the wrong moves speaks for itself.