i had no idea he was the age where he had to have middle school class and graduation over a zoom call, but suddenly it makes sense. an entire generation was irreparably harmed. nothing can remedy what has been done to this young man. he will raise armies that slaughter trillions
The US is the largest country in the world that speaks one language, has many power poles/major cities, and you are allowed to just get up and move to any of them without bureaucracy.
this whole article is well worth a read but this section certainly does make me understand twitter a lot better. there are a number of people on here using a text-based social site when they can’t properly parse written text, and so they miss the point and start arguments
that 4chan post about how low IQ people can't understand conditional hypotheticals or second-order thinking seemed silly but so many people are unironically saying "this doesn't effect me so why does it matter"
no capacity for second-order thinking. they're genuinely this dumb!
I said it before and I'll say it again, terms like "elitist" and "gatekeeper" are just used now to make you feel bad about treating your media with integrity.
It's hilarious that there's a whole fanbase that wants this boy to be some tortured art and literature intellectual but he's really just a NYC wigga dude bro who loves bad bitches and coke.
What is going on with movie clips online now where the AI voice describing what you’re seeing is at 130% volume, the actual audio is at 60%, and then there’s this second voice like whispering gibberish underneath all of it at like 8%
The obsession with the Three Gorges Dam comes from the expectation that China couldn't build it, and then after they built it, that it would collapse on its own (Chinesium, substandard construction, etc). None of that happened, so now it's about destroying it outright.