Standing at a register for check out. Mostly a US thing from what I’ve heard. It’s wicked bad for you.

Oh and AI sucks ass and you’re a bad person if you use it.

Have you tried asking a teacher instead?

Check out your local library! They have books of course, which can open up all sorts of new hobbies, but modern libraries also can have computers, free classes, workshop and maker spaces, tool borrowing, and sometimes even video games and the like. My local one even has free tickets to museums and the zoo!

If you want something free/cheap as hell, take up drawing. You don’t need fancy art supplies, just a pencil and paper. Look up proper drawing classes and books and get awesome at sketches!

This is part of the reason why the robots took over to create the post apocalyptic Cars universe

Even the kids being put into cages? Even the people fighting against the system? The innocents who didn’t participate in making the mess?

You have lazy thinking, tsk tsk

Ain’t that just the way

This is a many faceted problem, but I’ll throw in a few more that I didn’t quite see touched on.

For a lot of people on the left, if you’re more left than they are you’re a tankie and if you’re not as left you’re a fascist.

There’s a lot of worry about purity. For example, there’s people who don’t buy Harry Potter stuff because the money goes to JK Rowling who spends money on anti trans groups. That’s sensible. But then there’s people who think you’re a bad person if you’ve enjoyed it, ever. Or didn’t get rid of the books once you found out.

This is part of the same thought process that makes people have to say how someone was bad, no matter who they were. “Oh you like Rob Ross he was in the military you know”.

The most extreme examples of this are when they go full horseshoe and support Republicans because they are so concerned with flaws the Democrats have, because they think that’ll somehow get people to rise up.

Nothing different. My live rules

I could, I was just wondering where your screenshot was since that was what the prompt was

Our society shifted. Before it was more socially acceptable to be able to ignore these things, and they were more hidden. Now people judge you for it.

So we’ve got:

• Trump winning seemingly out of nowhere so people trying to emulate that
• just good ol racism
• “white erasure”
• conservative backlash against progress feeling like it’s “their turn”
• the Christian doomsday evangelicalist people who want to jump start the rapture by manipulating the wars and politics in the middle East while also controlling everyone in their own country
• the tech bros who think a different apocalypse is going to happen, partially because of a fandom for a Harry Potter fan fic, who are trying to either make real AI as soon as possible or just ditch the rest of humanity to live in a bunker
• good ol sexism
• good ol homophobia n transphobia
• capitalism
• dude deciding to get a sandwich, which led to Nazis.
• Leftists not being able to get their shit together/following through with things, especially in the US which led to point 1.
• social media trying to make money off of what should be free using algorithms that oopsie radicalize people and not oopsie on purpose radicalize people.
• did I mention the Nazis?

That’s just off the top of my head, and from what little I know in the States. Also I wasn’t kidding about any of these.

Screenshots?

Screenshot?

Screenshot?

Touche’.

I think you found a weird outlier and your data set is small. Like, most of the world is religious in some way shape or form, your sample size is too small to make any realistic judgement call

Depends on the metric. If it’s lives taken, it’s more ethical for cat food. If it’s human suffering, it’s more ethical to use mice.

Ok so, you’re vague on what the apocalypse is, but you did say “before everything collapses”, and talk about preserving knowledge. So I’m thinking big solar flare that destroys technology as we know it.

For an apocalypse, this is easy mode. Basically going back to like what, the 50s level of tech for most people. A lot of the world would also not even notice.

Get myself and all the people I care about to withdraw everything they can in cash, even taking out cash loans if possible. Build fereday (sp?) cages for all our stuff. Stock up on a few months worth of groceries and water, and we could probably ride that wave till things get fixed.

It certainly can seem like that, but the biggest problem is our voting system makes it work like that.

With a winner takes all voting system, and only two effective parties in power, everyone is basically stuck with “horrible monster who wants to kill everything in know and love” and “someone close to what I want kinda”.

So people tend to vote among party lines because that’s all they can do.

For example, where I live, both candidates have been anti trans. One’s way worse about it and the other is, in my opinion, probably just saying some rhetoric to try to appeal to some voting base she normally can’t reach. So I am going to have to choose the lesser of two evils, because the person running against her is from a party that actively wants to exterminate trans people, even though the other candidate sucks.

In short, Americans don’t vote for, they vote against.

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