My family used to both say I was the nerd and can and need to fix all their shit, AND anytime anything went wrong it MUST be my fault since I’m the one “tinkering” with and fixing their shit.

This is a minor part of a huge amount of reasons I worked my ass off to get fully independent and no contact with my family anymore.

Jimmy Carr

Fern Brady

Aisling Bea

Fiona Cauley

Lewis Black

Taylor Tomlinson

I’m late for work at the Twin Towers!

Kingdoms of Amalur. Though I’m just happy the new DLC was decent after such an odd history getting there. I doubt a faithful sequel can be done from scratch.

Ani, have you always been such a whiny bitch?

My childhood. I don’t understand people who do. Mine was mostly loneliness, confusion, trauma, emotional neglect, guilt, shame, some abandonment, some physical abuse, etc. Every day has been a step towards better than the previous. I don’t want to or miss anything going backwards.

Read more history, even just the last 1-200 years. Really dig in to the shit they don’t get into in school. What you’ll find is that times have always been “troubling” and if anything I think there’s a selfishness some people have when they always focus on somehow NOW is the worst time ever and NOW is when things are terrible and everything good will somehow end.

Honestly, whatever you think is “troubling” nowadays probably isn’t even new or the first time. But so many people don’t understand just how fucked up all of history has been and yet people and countries and cultures survived.

If anything, life today in general for most is far better than in all of human history. Due to advancements in technology and medicine, most people don’t have to worry about basic survival things the same way they might have even just 100 years ago.

The same one that was installed on people’s devices without their knowledge or consent? I think you’re avoiding the real issue there.

Since I was a child. Religious nutjobs in and around my family. Then I became an adult and it’s all I see from people in response to news.

It gets old so I try to tune out, remove toxic people, and focus on enjoying my life.

I remember it when I was a kid. I also remember some people gave put more or less candy depending on how good your costume was. Felt incredibly judged in public. Hated Halloween for so many reasons.

Almost every case of movie purists. The Hobbit trilogy was great. The new Star Wars trilogy was great. The old ones are great too.

I have similar issues with music and video games. I almost always love the most hated albums or games in a series based on the loudest commentary online. I also find the most popular entry to be kind of meh. I think average people have boring taste or just follow a crowd or something.

You mean the idiotic hype machines?

Haha. I never understand the VPN bullshit. Yiu wanna get around local limitations? Okay. But most people argue privacy. Hide your online activity from your ISP by PAYING some other company to instead see all of your activity?

Just stupid. All companies will eventually screw you.

Anyways, OP’s post seems unreal. Like a caricature of everything. Is OP trolling in the first place? I have literally never thought that much about rule34, but OP has quite the imagination there. Not sure why their mind goes there.

Universal Healthcare.

Most research papers are likely ad valid as an average reddit point.

Getting published is a circlejerk, and rarely are they properly tested, or does anyone actually read them.

Interesting how experiences shape us. Glad it sounds like you have only positives with respect to your parents.

I altered my wording. Thank you. I meant it as perspective. 10% today would equate to more than all of Europe.

Both and a spectrum mix in-between. There are no simple answers to things.

I don’t believe this is something easily tracked and updated annually. The point is in terms of amount of population as a percentage. People in the 21st century largely have more food, shelter, and general security worldwide than in all of known human history.

Don’t let anecdotal news about wars worldwide override the fact that much larger scale (as percent of world population) have occurred and occurred consistently in past history. Wars, famines, plagues, and other things have wiped out far more of the population overall historically. While the wars you see today are horrible, and in specific regions they might be decimating, they still pale in comparison to the level of death in human history and the scope of death of past wars.

The Black Death in the 1300s itself killed 30-50% of all of Europe. Ghengis Khan is estimated to have been responsible for killing 10% of the world population (10% today would be more than the entire population of Europe, for perspective). There’s a lot of less than documented Chinese history that also suggests massive deaths from famines and plagues and stuff that seem to have amounted to a large percentage of the world population at the time.

Another thing I have seen a lot of in the last decade, mostly relating the the US, is that while large scale violent crime may be up (like mass killings) overall murder and crime is lower than it has been in past decades. Again, in a macro scope of things. You’ll always have pockets of geography and/or time that are bad.

In terms of total war and death worldwide, this is the most peaceful time in known human history.

I would watch this movie with so much popcorn.