This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.

There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.

Honestly, even if time travel were theoretically possible to be invented, there's also a high chance that we're just going to destroy ourselves before we get to that point anyway.

Personally, as a European, I would be pro this happening if Canada wants to join and the EU is willing to let them join.

I get that geographically it wouldn't make much sense, but culture is also important. Geographically, Belarus for example should join the EU instead of Canada, but I think most of us can agree that Belarus should not.

Elon Musk being against the social media ban on under 16-year-olds is him basically reaching a good conclusion from the wrong equation, because he's not doing it out of privacy concerns about how everyone would probably have to verify themselves to prove that they're older than 16 years old. He's doing it because it would not be good for his business.

I'm not sure how they could implement this without requiring ID verification on every single internet user. I guess I'm not familiar with the topic enough to say if there is another way that they could pursue, but even if there is, at the same time, I'm not too confident in the governments opting for the other options. I'm from neither Spain nor Greece, so I guess I can't speak on this, but I'm just referring to governments as a general group. And because a lot of different countries are trying to do this at the same time, I'm also not too confident about my own country not doing this at some point, sooner or later.

Monkey's Paw.

"Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay", except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.

What's the point then? I pay for a game that I'm not even playing just so, what, my numbers of "completed" games goes up?

I'm someone who likes seeing the stats go up as I watch anime. But I do it naturally and over time. This AI idea is like if I were to start an anime, put it on auto-play while I sleep, and when I wake up it'll be done, without me seeing a single scene.

I feel like this will end up being a cycle. The AI companies are pushing for AI summaries, which then leads to younger Gen Z and the new Gen Alpha being familiar with and preferring AI summaries. This, in turn, leads to other companies implementing AI summaries because they see that's what the new generations are using, which leads to the new generations being even more accustomed to those summaries, which leads to more companies implementing them, and it's just an endless cycle.

If it's any consolation, a lot of us don't feel like adults

I remember I was asked by multiple people when I turned 18 how I felt. What I felt was that that was a weird question lol. It's not like one day passing made me suddenly feel somehow different from the day before.

I'm probably applying too much logic here which Reddit admins don't seem to like, but... how can defending oneself if something happens (not even preemptively, but after the fact) be threatening violence, while Trump repeatedly saying they're gonna own Greenland one way or another is not threatening violence?

I'm not who you were replying to, but I agree and disagree with your comment.

I'm not saying someone can't be happy single. But society makes it hard to be when the world revolves around relationships, being a virgin is used as an insult, etc.

But I do agree with you that not everyone needs to have a partner. I don't see myself ever getting into a relationship, and to some extent I'm often close to making peace with that, until I see a post, a comment, a video, etc, that makes me feel inferior due to it.

I do appreciate, though, the fact that you admit not everyone needs to have a relationship and that not everyone will have one. I'll take this approach every day of the week over the "Naaah, I'm sure you will be in a relationship soon cause everyone does!", followed by moving the goalpost (it's always "soon" regardless of how many years have passed).

I've been playing EU4 since around 2018-2019 (on and off, to be fair, not consistently), and still don't know a lot of stuff about the game.

It probably doesn't help that I'm playing it on and off because I keep having to relearn things I used to know.

Damn, I got here too late, I wanted to make this reference too!

Woah, I haven't heard about this. Are those temp bans on specific subreddits or a site-wide ban for not being pro-Trump?

Yeah, I don't miss the pandemic itself and the risks involved, but I must admit I did like my weirdness essentially becoming commonplace and encouraged haha.

Oh, for sure. I wouldn't want that. To be fair, I just want to not be looked at weird for never having been in a relationship more than I want a relationship at this point.

That's not to say that I would want a horrible relationship just so I can say "I was in a relationship". But oddly enough some people would view me better if that happened, because it means I was able to attract someone.

Wow, they're not even being subtle about it! Like, seriously, one week?

Spot on! There is some overlap for sure, but I don't agree with the notion that if you can't get a relationship, it means you're a conservative.

I've never dated and am not conservative at all, but I sometimes feel like I'm looked at with suspicion by other leftists when I mention this.

I sometimes see someone being sad about not having had a partner, and someone will reply stuff like "Have you tried not being sexist?", even if there's nothing in the post to indicate that they are sexist. But some people immediately assume that, because never dating but being progressive does not compute for them.

That is something I never understood about Christianity: Why would God place equal importance to "being a good person" and "believe in me or else"?

To me it seems like being a good person should be way more important. But in practice it seems like believing in God is the key and everything else is secondary, like you can be an asshole but just make sure you're a believer.

Perhaps a dumb question, but I'm not from the U.S, so a genuine question here: Why might the Superbowl be a way for a lot of Americans to learn about ICE?