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I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.

Seems nobody will ever put sanity and social safety over their feelings. People don't really understand the social contact anymore. They think that's for everyone else.

The dangers of conservatism/fascism.

If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.

Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.

Washing hands, not eating off the floor, not drinking from the same bottle as 10 other people etc...

Just basic hygiene things

That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.

Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.

Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.

I'll likely always point it out, but I'm surprised at how few people are willing to understand how to consider a conflict resolved.

Imagine for a moment, you're sitting in a courtroom. You appear before the judge. You sit down. An officer whispers maybe three highly accusatory sentences in the judge's ear about things that have long been dealt with. Without you saying a word, and without a few minutes having gone by, the judge sentences you to practice forced disappearance or face annihilation in some form. So many times I've faced people who you'd think believe this to be how the journey from point A to point Z is expected to play out in addressing issues, in all spheres of life, complete with a direct rejection of nuance/elaboration, and it has made me wonder if humanity really is inherently evil, for a lack of a better word.

I'm tired of helping and educating people about how using "bipolar" to describe things like the weather or a job is problematic

nothing. absolutely nothing. if ppl would wanna know they'd ask. let them use facebook, iphone, crude oil and whatever floats their boat. all tipping points have been reached. no need to stress anyone anymore.