It doesn’t rub me the wrong way because it’s incredibly understandable. People are generally jealous, people have hangups with trust, people want to feel powerful.

Whatever the guy’s reason is exactly, he is essentially not fine with what his wife wants to do, and even if she is completely fine with not doing something to alleviate her husband’s uncomfortableness, the need to do so in the first place is simply sad. It would just be optimal if everyone could do whatever they want at all times.

I make it a point to figure out my issues (why am I uncomfortable with something?) and if it makes sense to get rid of it, to get rid of it. It’d be nice if everyone did that but people are often just not in a mental place to be able to do that.

So in the end, I do very much understand what you mean, however I don’t really get upset by this. It’s incredibly common to “restrict” your partner like this, I mean, monogamy itself is already a restriction. So like you said, you should just let people do what they do, and be happy that it’s not like that for you.

Yep, as long as you don’t visit “local” and no instances are defederated, you simply get the whole fediverse, there isn’t any other experience available at that point.

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism

i.e. care about all citizens equally

But maybe we should let OP say what they meant

I mean caring about everyone is basically the definition of left-wing. So in my opinion this is a non-answer, OP basically did ask “why do people in Nordic countries care more what happens to their citizens?”, which you didn’t say anything about.

You have no idea if they weren’t calm. It didn’t sound snarky to me either.

What are you interested in that no one in the fediverse is interested in?

Why do you feel like an outcast?

I’m asking because you never know how old someone you’re interacting with online is. You could have been talking to people your age all the time. No one knew you were gen z before you said it here. I just feel like age is not really relevant towards feeling like an outcast.

That’d be the only answer I’d accept 😆

Not eating the pizza is indeed incorrect when the goal is to eat the pizza.

I like a good enema

It’s bad for certain parts of the economy and it is dangerous for current rulers.

Actually I don’t expect them to act logically or “adult”, whatever you mean by that. Adulthood doesn’t mean anything.

But that they don’t act like that is exactly why I think there won’t be any world scale wars.

There is no worst, most incorrect way to eat a pizza. The way someone eats something is irrelevant. There is no good or bad here.

It’s a western perspective. And of course it is. How many people of the sovjetbloc do you think are around here? I thought about this for a second and dismissed it because it’s with a 99% chance not relevant to the one asking here.

But still, thank you for providing this perspective, it is like you say, I just didn’t think it was relevant to this question in this place we’re in.

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Something is only talked about if talking about it accomplishes something. Gen X doesn’t raise any strong feelings with anyone, so they’re not talked about. They’re still there obviously.

The reason why is complex, and I’m no expert myself. However, from what I gathered about recent history, what seems most likely to me is that the time gen x’ers grew up in was very stable in the sense that economy was good, no major wars were happening, the cold war was “ending”. So the only thing gen x’ers had to worry about was themselves. So they did. And you don’t really need to talk about someone that just keeps to themself. They cause you no issues.

Another theory of mine is very simple: humanity changes over time. The larger the time, the larger the change. Differences between humans breeds conflict as their interests collide. Since boomers are the current oldest larger impactful generation, and gen z are the youngest, the difference between them are greatest. Thus the conflict between them is highest, thus there are a lot of people talking about those problems. I’ve been hearing less about millennials as well.

It doesn’t actually change being away from university.

The only way it changes is if you change your mindset.

Re-evaluate what you actually need. Almost everyone can free up time and energy from stuff they shouldn’t actually care about, but do care because of societal or familial or whatever pressures.

But if the birth isn’t today, the pregnancy might as well not exist. I mean of course the physical disadvantages of having a big belly are relevant, but the baby isn’t, it can’t do anything, it will never be born

But… Why would anyone do that?

Sure, people might try it out more because of the “apparent” lack of consequences… But the reason we humans don’t do violent shit isn’t because of things, it’s because of other humans, and they remain exactly the same.

If one person turns out to be a murderous maniac, the people around them would probably band together and take them out at the start of the loop, effectively being a very real consequence you’d wish to avoid.

What changes though is only your current external situation not relating to humans is staying the same. Everyone can still continue to grow and go to therapy, learn more about themselves and the world. This is basically almost completely still the real world. Most changes a human notices is the humans around them changing, not the walls of the apartment. Relationships still evolve, breakups happen, new love can be found. Science can still continue, we can use human memory and the internet to collect and analyze data. Instead of amassing physical wealth we might amass knowledge.

Just wanna point out that I chuckled a lot when I figured out you weren’t actually helping your friend clean his rugs.