Babylon 5.

Life expectancy is already declining. This isn’t just a “new generation” thing. From Gen X onward we’re all doing worse.

Damn. Put a faraday cage around the router and plug in your own router to a LAN port.

Dobby has given you a hairball.

Wrong /c/ for logic, friend.

Damn. Lol.

While not everyone should have kids and I fully support people choosing not to have any…

You can have this and have kids. Just not every day. Unless you’re stupid wealthy and have a nanny or something.

But maybe I’m weird and am one of the few that actually like my kids and having them around. Sure, they can be a pain in the ass sometimes, but not so much that I want to escape them or anything.

Dial up was offering you something you might not have ever seen before.

Not loading your page full of ads while you try to pay a utility bill.

So they can be as baked as he is.

Sure. All the stuff the kids watched. Pixar, Dreamworks, and others. Not so much the episodic cartoons, but I’ve seen quite a few of those, too.

Most of the major series. Lost, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad… what contrived situation can writers either a) use as shock factor, or b) make the situation worse in some incredibly unlikely way. Throw in a dose of shitty relationships, too. While not actually putting a ton of effort into plot, wit, thinking characters instead of reactionary ones, or original ideas. They’re soap operas with varying degrees of violence that get worse writing as the show carries on.

Gotta use the cheapest processor to get the job done.

But to allow evil to be done by being pacifist, I suppose that some mental gymnastics help wash one’s hands of any responsibility for their inaction to prevent or stop such things? BTW, refusing to kill or cause harm as a conscientious objector is not the same as pacifism.

Nothing will happen.

Frogs in a pot of water being brought to a boil.

Those in charge will handwave away the job losses and blame some other factor for the economic downturn other their own shortsighted greed while they cry for their bailouts.

Yeah, I saw those in middle school. Definitely scarring.

I wonder if it could be refined to be less…literal? “Adolfo Semit Al-Jihad” or something.

Testament.

The slow death of living in a post-nuclear world. Terrifying in its hopelessness. You don’t actually see the destruction from the nuclear detonation, only people slowly dying. I know there are other films like Day After or Threads, but in those they depict the epicenters of the bombs destruction, not the slow death outside of the worst hit area. I found it crushing in a way that the other movies didn’t match.

“Avoid companies selling you infotmation…”

Ironically Kagi sells you information, just that the info is free of ads.

Yeah. There‘s two kinds of people that need to be dealt with in a revolution. The ones that need to be removed, like the corrupt leadership, and the people telling the revolutionaries to stop because “we need to stop the violence and have peace” or whatever.

The former is obvious. The latter because they want to reestablish existing systems because they benefit from them. To dismantle them would be to harm their status. So you wind up basically letting “bygones be bygones” and just sweeping the corruption that cause all the problems under the rug in the name of peace while it continues quietly in the background. Nothing changes except the surface level view, the shitty people just try to stay below the radar.

So yeah, the “pacifists” are often just as bad, not because they’re actually against harming the corrupt people in the regime, but because they’re against harming their comfort zone. They’re protecting the status quo.

So, conditionally, I am against pacifism.

Let them eat cake.