It’s interesting how a person’s take on modern medicine gets completely reorganized when they’re not able to breathe.

“I don’t care until I’m affected” is what many people’s mindset is.

A teen detective? Is he some kind of child prodigy to have already started working? That being said, I always wonder why animes always have the main characters being in their teens or early twenty’s. They depict those who are in their late twenty’s as being ancient and near their twilight. Granted I don’t watch many animes unlike many people here, but the ones I’ve seen have the main characters being really young and already doing adult stuff like Evangelion and Attack om Titan. People in their 30s and middle age people are sidelined as if they are pensioners. There are only few fully grown and mature adults who gets the spotlight.

I remember when I felt invincible, like the world is my oyster. It felt like yesterday. Even though I didn’t achieve everything that I hoped, I’m glad I was raised to just enjoy the journey.

I say we nuke it from orbit then.

Quantum computing will only be useful to a handful of people instead of mass consumer use. Quantum computers are mainly for cybersecurity.

Thank goodness my YouTube bookmark is on my Watch later or subscription to avoid these clickbait videos.

Billionaires will still keep it afloat. They recognise the importance of media for mass indoctrination. Like with investing, they diversify. Even if one asset is not making money, there are profitable assets they could take money from to keep underperforming assets going because the latter has intangible value to the owner. Twatter isn’t even making money for Musk, but that doesn’t matter, it is its intangible value as propaganda which is important for him and other billionaires.

I avoid killing insects and other small bugs but you’re right, I only kill the ones that carry diseases like cockroaches and mosquitoes.

The US and UK has the same problem of two party system and late stage capitalism. Although, the UK has a much more dramatic shift, not seen since the 1900s, because of the rise of Reform and Green Party.

And I don’t know how people keep eating this up.

My job is also tough and more recently I felt despair because of pressure. But I remind myself that I chose my career because of good pay, which could improve once I leave my shithole company.

If money isn’t an issue, I would pick a more relaxed job. There is plenty of snobbery against blue collar jobs, but they are the most relaxed jobs I have ever had.

He promised in 2024 Americans will not be voting anymore.

This is like “reverse Nokia”. The then Nokia CEO rejected to adopt touchscreen technology because he thought “people like buttons”. That was the start of Nokia’s demise. Now, car companies took this lesson too zealously and replaced controls with touchscreen, but this completely compromises safety!

And if you don’t, everyone belittles you for living in your parents’ basement?

In more individualistic countries, that is the case. Living with parents and relatives is common in more family-oriented cultures. Even in Europe, the mostly Catholic countries still have people living with their parents. But for Protestant and individualistic European countries, they will judge you harshly for it.

I have to say though, I find that some people who expect anyone over 25 to even move out are a bit simple minded considering the cost of living crisis. You have to have a good job to afford to move out. It is unrealistic these days for many people to do so because of housing crisis. Heck, even with a good job and good pay, the current expensive economic situation mitigates all those advantages! I had a manager who still lives with her parents. My best friend still lives with his parents as well, long after he turned 18and working for many years now. And the more simple minded individuals expect the old ways to still be applicable, but those same individuals actually don’t have savings, unlike people who still live with their parents.

Ideally people should move out of home because it is part of growing up and maturing, but the current exploitative system prevent most of us to fulfill our own potential.

Starbucks coffee is shite. The main reason many people go there is because of the image of status symbol, especially in many parts of the world. The chain also ruffled feathers here in Ireland for setting up shop everywhere, driving down prices of their coffee to force local cafés to close. Then, when local competitions are gone, Starbucks raise prices to extortionate level. For these reasons, I boycott Starbucks. Thankfully, what Starbucks did in Ireland was nipped in the bud, locals prefer their local cafés.

Besides, countries with older café culture rail stronger on the overgrowth of big coffee chains like Starbucks. For example, the coffee chain in Australia never became popular enough. Because Australians see cafe culture as being more community based, where they chat to neighbours and baristas, a habit picked up from Greek immigrants to Australia long before coffee chains took the world by storm.

Probably the angle and lens skewed the perception?

I don’t disagree. But I find that many people do things because it satisfy their own ego. So, they become disappointed when they find out that recycling on their own doesn’t effect as a single effort, and just give up. Like, just do the right thing because it’s the right thing, not because they are looking for emotional rewards. Call out those who aren’t doing their part, in particular companies who are being hypocrites, instead of surrendering and doing the wrong thing adding more to the problem.

What people don’t realise is that saving the earth is a collective effort. Companies do propaganda to shift the responsibilities to ordinary individuals, and ordinary individuals also shift the responsibilities to corporations. Even if we get corporations to be held more accountable, there are still far too many ordinary individuals who don’t even bother. And if we count how much pollution and carbon footprint that each of offending individuals emit altogether, I’m sure it will become substantial. And it’s not hard to find such individuals who don’t care in our everyday lives.

If this is how environmentalism is being taught to many children, no wonder they become disillusioned when they find out their attempt to save water and recycle is a “drop in a bucket”, and then give up entirely. I was under the impression that conservation and environmentalism is a collective effort and to just do one’s part. Because individual small things add up to the collective. As Tesco once said: every little helps. One is not the sum of the whole. Is the private sector mostly responsible for environmental damages? Yes. But why add to it? If you can’t beat them, don’t join them. Beat them with a bigger stick after speaking softly.

I’m not sure about step 4. I mean, China is pretty strict with those kinds of things.

Facebook in Philippines is literally free to use even for those without mobile data. However, people there don’t realise they are the product. Or worse, they don’t realise they are guinea pigs for social engineering by techno-industrial complex.