Story of life. I started college in the wake of the dotcom bubble, I finished college when the housing market was heating up… but I had to go back to college again and graduated when the 2008 crisis was still ongoing.
I got a decent job now (decent compared to what I had before) but the AI bubble bursting is… going to be terrifying.
this one hurts
Civilization isnt actually truly degrading yet, and when that starts, it’ll still be a decade before anything serious actually starts to change.
Y u sad tho?
Born to Excel, forced to tend the fields in a new post-capitalistic (prob warlord for a few decades) society? :D
(Friendly joking tone!)
yea… this hits
Hey. My Mom voted for Trump to accelerate the Second Coming of Jesus.
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Unfortunately, Jesus is now in an ICE detention center awaiting deportation to El Salvador.
Jesus being sent to “The Savior” would be divine comedy
El Salvador.
And so when Jesus makes his way back to El Norte, my Mom goes to heaven.
What a silly religion.
Only the apocalypse is important. After that we can hand him over to the Zionists for their rape and torture prison.
Didn’t they just try that Rapture thing and it failed?
Just means they hadn’t ruined the world enough. They’ll try again.
I mean yeah fuck the way the world going. On the other hand Guns Akimbo is so worth a watch as well as Swiss Army Man. They’re both such fever dreams and I very much appreciate Radcliffe going from that terf’s garbage to doing what I would call (hesitantly) real art.
Thank you for the guns akimbo call out, always been curious where that meme came from and it’s freaking hilarious
It pisses me off so bad that JK Rowling had to be a fucking transphobic racist piece of shit. This is me off to an extreme extent because she is a fucking genius author when it comes to one thing. She chose one generation and then wrote a story specifically for that generation, having the writing style get older with the generation. And then she wasted it by being a horrible, bigoted piece of shit and filling the story with the same type of garbage. Like credit where credit is due. That one thing that she did is fucking genius. But she had to ruin it by being herself. Goddammit.
For the record, I’m not saying she’s the only one to have done this or anything, but doing that and capturing that type of magic for a child will easily become an important part of that person’s life. She could have told so many amazing stories and morals to help people be a better person as they grew up and she didn’t. Fucking colonoscopy of a human.
Eh, she spoke to a bunch of people hungry for mid fantasy. She’s not very good at it, just lucked out on timing.
Get some Pratchett in ya, now THERE is a writer who put good into the world
Her editor was very good. As the books went on and JK got veto power over her editor, the books got worse and more problematic.
Makes a lot of sense. 1-4 are great, fun, whimsical magical mystery books. 5 is painfully annoying. Couldn’t get through 6 and 7. As a kid I skipped through them only reading the most important section.
I have since tried to read the 6th book, listen to the audiobook version or watch the movie multiple times and couldn’t manage to get through it even once. It just sucks.
I grew up reading the books as they came out, and where I had read (or had my mom read to me when I was too young to read them myself) the first 3 books repeatedly, I definitely aged out by the time 6&7 were released. I think I read 6 once and I couldn’t even finish 7.
I also noped out of the films after the spider in 2 (holy crap I was way too young to be seeing that film btw!)
oh weird, I liked the darker tones of 567
I think the main issue for me is the genre switch between 1-4 and 5-7.
for me that coincided right about when my voice dropped and I started wearing darker clothes, so that shift was on point for me
If it makes you feel any better there tons of video essays tearing the series apart. It’s not particularly genius, very little if any of what she did was original and from the very beginning it was chocked full of racism, antisemitism, fatphobia and ablelism.
Also that’s an insult to colonoscopies, as they’re important and save lives.
I’m not saying the books are genius, I’m saying the move to write the books for a specific generation is genius. Like most books in a series will be written all in the same style. The HP books were written to ‘grow up’ along with the people who were reading them. That idea and tactic was genius. Literally nothing else.
animorphs…
I feel her genius is the same as the beatles: good timing, great publicity, rabid fanbase
Man, I feel exactly the same about loving wrap dresses. Bitch who popularized them was nearly as bad as Rowling.
Yeah, Radcliffe is in the uniquely special circumstance, where he has more money than God but he also wants to keep making movies. The result is that he only does the movies that he wants to do. He doesn’t attach himself to movies just for clout or money, because he doesn’t need either of those.
I am delighted that when I think of Radcliffe, these are the first things that come to mind. Harry Potter is second.
Emma Watson is still Hermione, but Radcliffe, that crazy twat…
hesitantly
‘Swiss army man’ is absolutely real art. It’s just weird and hard to watch and includes dirty jokes. Don’t be a dick. Haven’t seen the other.
Swiss Army Man is so good. Not as funny or action packed as Akimbo but so many feelings
I may be an optimist in some ways, but I honestly expect civilization will persist through “all this”. Though of course, that isn’t really much comfort considering that doesn’t mean that it won’t absolutely suck for the people within it all.
Civilization is doing pretty well outside the US. If the US disappeared tomorrow, the rest of the world would do significantly better. I don’t know how the world will deal with climate change, but without the US it would be easier to make progress. The tech firms blowing up the AI bubble, and invading our privacy are nearly all American. A lot of the private equity firms destroying the world are also American. If the US could hurry up and finish collapsing, the rest of the world’s civilization could just move on.
I put a lot of US’s problems as interfence from Russia and China to empower the far-right so that Russia has a customer base for oil, and China can race ahead in the green markets.
I think a world without the US would just mean that Europe and South America are targeted in the same way
I think you’re overestimating the influence of Russia and China and underestimating the dysfunction in the US.
The dysfunction in the US has always existed, but it never spilled over into politics quite to this degree.
Russia was found to be sponsoring the NRA, and the rise of evangelicals as a voting group seems to be a co-ordinated world-wide phenomenon.
Whilst one can blame the techbros and robber barons for exacerbating this, I’d argue that those same elites thrived more under stable economic growth than an unstable one
I think the ultimate cause for most of the world’s problems is Russia and its decrepit fascism.
I think also people forget how good the US was in being a stable pillar of free and open collaboration in the sciences worldwide.
What is happening now is a major shift in that stability
Depends on how you define civilization.
And how you define “all this”
*gestures at genitals*
Hey, the NCR came after the Great War, right?
Although I hope that’s not the bar we’re shooting for.
I’d put down a bet that Iceland is gonna be okay.
That makes them suspicious if you ask me.
The great thing now is that we are currently ending the world, so there won’t be anywhere for that civilization to be.
Dont say space.²
If you want a future, kill your masters.
If you want to kill yourself and everyone else, get yourself some weed and eggs Benedict, and just keep doing what you’re doing¹.
¹assuming you’re not spectacularly cool. If you’re spectacularly cool a change in behavior may be required.
²Nobody who says that has ever allowed a serious expert into the same room as them. It may not be theoretically possible, we certainly aren’t within a century of unsupported space settlement. We haven’t even sent a person out of orbit yet.
Agree with your sentiment internet friend, but might want to drop that last sentence. We, uh, did go to the moon, right? Right?
Moon orbits what? Doesn’t count as leaving. Might be technically out, but kind of only supports my point.
Also I don’t think we still have capacity to do that as a species, but am not sure where the Chinese space program is focused on so can’t say for sure.
Ok then we have different definitions of “orbit” and “leaving.”
I’m saying it might technically be outside earth’s orbit, but it is orbiting earth pretty close. So maybe technically but having to reach for a ‘technically’ supports my point.
And also I dont think we could get a person to the moon and back right now.
Probably could not get a person to the moon and back, alive. Agree.
I’m job shopping and the effort feels futile. I am fortunate to have one already, although it is quite stressful and the pay is low enough that I must work a part time job as well. I worry about those who depend on medicaid to stay alive and will have the added stress of finding 80 hours of work per month in a depressed market come January.
I am sorry to have laughed
You are more than an employee
Come wash dishes w me bro
Surely there are jobs that pay better… r-r-right?
might as well start your own business.
