I remember the time before everyone and their mother lived chronically online and were constantly bombarded with (fake) news. Terrible stuff - wars, famine, whatnot - has always happened, now we just know about it instantly.

I think it can be difficult to relate to such abstract concepts and consequences that you don't feel directly. After all, it'd be much easier to press on a button that'd kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death. Out of sight out of mind.

My point being that I don't think he's indifferent to people that he doesn't know, he's simply not able to process all the ramifications of this particular thing. The effects of data collection and manipulation is quite subtle, after all, like the frog in the slow burning pot

This guy is gonna be the end of all of us. I feel sorry for Americans with an IQ above.. 70 for having to watch this in real-time and live through the age of stupidity

I think we forget that generations aren't monoliths but rather the product of a pluralistic world.

I still hear "don't worry the old people will die out" as if young people can't be morons and don't vote, say, far-right

Greeks don't live on stolen land built on theft, oppression, and active genocide. Israelis do.

All countries are "made up".. modern Italy was fully unified in 1870 and Germany in 1871.

What is a real European country in your opinion?

Most of all the Russians simply can't stomach a reality where they're not a feared global superpower, to such a degree that they'd rather shoot themselves in the foot and be a shithole rather than just a regular better functioning nation

What the hell. I thought my country had a housing issue..

Trump supporters can't even read, much less take any kind of higher education degree

The thing is that not every idea they have is bad. No one wants an overflow of cheap junk from China, but the problem is obviously how they're going about it - basically halting trade in general rather than having a logical and pragmatic way of working; but then again their end goal isn't actually to improve USA or to help regular Americans in any way so it figures.

Let's not excuse a guy attempting to blow up a random fertility clinic.

It's perfectly reasonable not to want children yourself, but definitely not to (attempt to) blow someone up for wanting it, Warhol sympathy or not.

Yea, let's even bash them when they work for something good.. good idea!

95% of the world's population uses Celsius, by the way.

You misunderstand. Elon is retired from US politics now, obviously, and will return to being a force of good!

An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down

Huge loss for the environment, big win for AI stocks!

And that shows you don't understand the power of "just owning shares". It's a whole fucking shit load better than having income or money. He can take whatever loan he wants with his stocks as collateral. He skips out completely on doing anything helpful to society whatsoever. People are struggling because of this system, yes, and people like Bezos are happily living grand off of it

You guys need more than just two relevant parties. AOC being this popular should prompt her to start her own movement, supported by Bernie, raher than clinging to the "Democrats".

I was happy to learn that the snacks I always liked the most - Knoppers, Ritter Sport, Corny bars, Milch-Schnitte (Ferrero owned) - were European (specifically German minus one), as are many müsli bars! Guess you can tell Germans like hiking, huh?

And for Sweden I also like me some Kex.

I get that it's a frustrating accusation, but as a man I recognise it as generally true, even if I don't resonate with it. Women rarely commit mass shootings, rapes, stabbings, forced drugging, muggings. The people causing trouble in my neighbourhood are exclusive male teenagers and the only genuine threat to me ever is by other men. And no, it's of course not an inherent feature in male genetics, nor is it anything close to "all men", but it's a cultural issue based on how we're raised and it should be fair game to discuss it - although with a better tone than what's normally applied.