We’re still living in it.

I would in fact state that the worst years were around 1997 with the release of GoldenEye 007 until 2006 with the release of the Nintendo Wii. All I remember of that era were shooters, shooters, shooters, space shooters, racing games, racing games with shooters and shooters. It was the era that went from decent 2D graphics to bland and ugly 3D graphics and all the creative effort went into realizing the 3D graphics.

The video game industry is not like the movie industry, comic book industry or the music industry that are slowly dying because people stopped buying physical copies of them.
And the lack of interaction of movies and comics is slowly making them outdated.
The music industry has become the concert industry, which has turned the small crowds of celebrity worshipers mixed in people wanting to do drugs, sex and/or rock’n’roll into pure crowds of the biggest celebrity worshiping fans.
And even that is probably dying due to AI.

You convinced me:
I changed Pizza box to Mop and put Syringe in second place.

This is the way I see it:

Primary sector: Agriculture - Sickle - Manufactures edible goods
Secondary sector: Industry - Hammer - Manufactures non-edible goods
Tertiary sector: Service - Mop - Helps people through transporting goods, repairing goods, cleaning, healing organisms, cashiering and catering.
Quarternary sector: Authority - Pen - Provides Law and Order through Government, Justice, Police, Education, Political, Media and Mental support (Psychiatry & Religion)
Quinary sector: Finance - Banknote - Gambles
Sextary sector: Automation - Cogwheel - Destroys jobs

As the service sector is large and sextary sector petite bourgeoisie than the service sector I suggest the following:

Mop and Pizza Box

I do think we’re not there yet though.
Both objects are accurate but I feel like we need something more aggressive to show that we’re revolutionary.
Hammers and sickles are both tools that can be used as weapons.

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Changed Judiciary to Authority.
Changed entertainment media from service sector to authority sector so now all media is in the authority sector, as plenty of entertainment shows have tried to and sometimes successfully driven people to adept to their political world views or even driven into political action.

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On second thought, perhaps I’ll replace syringe with pizza box. It evens out the sexes, both mop and syringe are practiced most often by women (cleaning lady and nurse), while transportation of goods is more often preferred by men as carrying goods can sometimes be physically demanding.

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I changed the Syringe to mop in the Tertiary sector as suggested by mech,
although I have to say that nurse is very common job,
which is why I chose the syringe.
Same goes for delivery person, but I’m betting on it being automated away faster than nursehood.

I crossed out cogwheel as a symbol for the proletariat as I realize that I consider a subsector of this (engineers) to be one part of the ruling class (the other being scholars) within socialism and thus not the proletariat.

Two

Clickbait.

And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.

I don’t know, but what I **can **tell you is that
I have noticed that there had been an awful lot of Iranian in European media in Europe flying pro-monarchy flags and by awful lot, I mean all protests in at least four Western countries outside of Iran, and that it’s presented by EU media as normal or semi-normal when it should not be.
We live in the 21st century, not the middle ages or renaissance times.
Then, there’s ‘the Iranian flag replacement on X’ by Elon Musk.
I guess he likes seeing the return of monarchies too.

If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?

Yes

I like pictures with bright colors in them.
To me that’s a sign towards a bright present and future.

All those war, hunger and oppression photos just depress me.

Fleur, Jasmijn, Sanne

Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately?

Youtube algorithms preferring to show you legacy news sites and paid influencers instead of promoting regular users.

If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.

Reunion Islands as well. Not sure if it’s the same person, but he was/is a programmer.

Not as rare as some woman I helped teach my local language in Europe and she told me
that she was born on Eastern Island.

Depends on how your time travel works.
Real time travel would require to set everything back in place except your brain/body,
so you haven’t technically traveled back in time, but everyone around you effectively thinks you have
as they’d never accept themselves as being part of a universe that’s been ahead for 30 years and then reversed in place.

No no no, you’re not coming here.
My European country hits all points, but it’s on shaky ground,
with issues getting worse soon.

NATO is going to ruin us all.

I am critical of the scientific method itself.
It’s missing a fallacy checklist and a proper glossary.
See my 7 point proposal to prole.

The issue here is whether or not you are talking about something concrete or abstract and in current physics there’s a lot of concepts that are being treated as if they are objects.

It’s as if you were reading a scientific paper where meteors are losing materials due to rocks breathing or birds flying into certain directions due to winds howling.
Winds don’t howl, rocks don’t breathe.
Poetry does not help one understand the fundamentals of how physics work.
And I argue that this kind of fallacy is rampant throughout the physics community.

I (and some others similarly) suggest that there should be a systemic rules to prevent that from happening.

Here’s my proposal:

1. Every sentence in the entire paper needs to be checked for fallacies and if they contain them, then they need to be crossed out with a red pen.
2. This checklist of fallacies should be universal, thus not be part of a blind peer review where the peer could uphold his or her own logic.
3. Every fundamental concrete word can be drawn with a shape.
4. Every fundamental relational abstract word can be drawn with shapes and arrows.
5. Every fundamental dynamic abstract word can be drawn with multiple frames.
6. Other fundamental words are names.
7. Words that are abstract cannot use verbs or properties that belong to concrete words, just like non-organism cannot use verbs or properties that belong to organisms.

Cope?

The state of socialism around the world hasn’t had a better year than this one and it’s only going to get better, unless AI will make communism possible and popular.

Computers.
Not even computer games, although that would have added bonus points as a target for bullying, but using a computer in general.

Then again, bullying was more of an attitude thing during my youth, so you didn’t get bullied for your hobbies, but for your behavior.
Ugly geeky kids were left alone if they hung out with other geeky kids. They got bullied as soon as they tried to associate themselves with the cool kids.

That took me a while to think about.

Incarceration.
The US is a living and breathing dystopian military police state yes.

The thing is, it makes people think pineapples originate from Hawaii.