No problem, glad I could help.

One child policy left them with a population bubble that’s going to burst. Meaning population will nosedive because the older generations were so much bigger than the newer ones, this means there’s not as many grandkids making money for the family, especially since their youth is having a hard time finding good jobs, also, since the youth are unemployed, they’re not as likely to come up to speed as fast as if they had been working in their field should an opportunity show up. And with so much of their youth being educated, nobody wants to farm or manufacture anymore. Population bubbles come with EXTREME economic dangers that will require massive policy/societal change at just the right time to navigate through. It’s like doing WRC racing in an 80s Porsche 911. I’m sure it CAN be done, but good luck.

However, the US is trying to manufacture this problem with chasing off Latinos. Without immigration, were a nation in decline.

Farscape, heading towards fallout.

He is both the leopard and the face.

Oh I totally agree. The system is fucked. I was just saying that me personally, as an 18 year old kid, had worse impulse control than me personally at 21. I’m not saying this is the case for everyone, im a dopamine chaser that doesn’t get it elsewhere. I get that. I was just stating that I had alcohol problems at 21-22. If I had easier access at an earlier age without having to deal witha shady person? I’m just saying 19 year old me with too much money couldn’t handle that. That’s it, I’m not saying 21 is justified when you can go to war 3 years earlier. All I’m saying is that my old alcohol problem would have been way more problematic had it been easier to access at a younger age.

I don’t understand the down votes for telling my experience and how it would be different in an alternate world.

I dunno, I’m neurodivergent and was awkward in my youth. Didn’t know how to cope, so I found others that didn’t know how to connect with society. Even in the late 90s/early 00s, you just didn’t check for that sort of thing unless it was really apparent at the time. So a lot of us went undiagnosed, unhelped, and just kind of on our own to figure out life because our parents didn’t raise us. Nobody did. But there was drugs and alcohol

I’m just saying putting something off that can be addicting is a good thing. Be it high fructose corn syrup, nicotine, alcohol, there’s even new studies saying teens should stave off weed a bit longer.

Good. Those things were torture devices. They weren’t even fun, the only way you could move quickly was backwards. So kids hitting heads, necks, backs, fingers, pinching/smashing hazard, then one wreck happens and since all the kids are going backwards at speed, there’s instantly a pileup of mangled kids. Those things were so dangerous and they sucked shit even if you didn’t consider the danger? Give me 20 kids with hockey sticks and a tennis ball ALL DAY.

I never, ever did that… Smashing them between other kids scooters? Every damn time.

I honestly dont even remember what it was like. 22 years feels like an eternity but I didn’t even have to go to gym my senior year, because I had joined the national guard already.

Or explaining that the game actually IS safe, except how little Timmy was doing it and that’s why he’s going to be really good at multiples of eight from now on.

And like 3 pokemon

Not really, brain development doesn’t stop until ~24. Alcohol inhibits that. I mean, I don’t think you should wait til 24 to drink but there is reasoning there, even if that’s not their reasoning. But if I was legally allowed to drink at 18, (I did, but not legally) alcohol likely would have been much more problematic for me, personally.

There is also the fact that when getting alcohol illegally, you make deals with shady people like anything of that nature. I dunno, there’s lots of arguments to give here but none that would decisively say which is right and wrong.

I can’t see that being an issue with GTA. It’s far too big to fuck up like that, which is why there’s a delay.

How can you say that when they haven’t made a game in a decade? Its like saying the beetles are culturally irrelevant. GTA continues to influence other games and is relevant to society even if they never made another game. I think fortnite is a dumb capitalist nothing game but I can’t deny it’s relevance.

Holy shit, I didn’t think of mar-a-fatso. I seriously hope you can storm that place.

Jesus christ, 7x7? I got my bachelor’s , did the things you’re supposed to do, and when I found out what that life was like, I quit and became a forklift operator at a union job making more money, with better co-workers and less stress. I have little to no structure or micro-managing, don’t feel caged, I’m given the freedom and trust to manage myself, don’t deal with inane BS like meetings that have nothing to do with me, no stress whatsoever, when I leave those doors, im a free man. It infuriates me that I’m still paying for that bullshit paper that I’m not using, simply because older family members said I had to. Fuck.

After the boomers, none of us really stood a chance at fixing things, because we were raised by broken people. Broken people break other people in different ways than they were broken. That generation (as a whole, I know I’m generalizing, which is bad, I recognize there are a lot of amazing boomer parents and otherwise good influences) but in my personal experience, I’ve had FAR more friction with boomers than any other generation, by a VERY wide margin. It happens to such a degree that I sometimes question if I’m the problem. Then I get yelled at by some fat, bald guy with a goatee while I’m walking my dog, for him smelling the flowers around a tree between the road and sidewalk. Which is city property. Also, he always poops and pees before we go for the walk, so that wasn’t an issue either. This guy was just a dickhead trying to assert some kind of power because he was unhappy in life. I’ll give you one guess which flag he actually had ABOVE the American flag. That was before the election. The flag is now gone, but… I know where it was.

Holy shit I went off on a tangent lol. My apologies for my rant. The axe never remembers, the tree never forgets.

If I’m in a hospital for 4 hrs, there’s a better than 0 chance I get priapism. (Have a thing for nurses)

Get Gwyneth paltrows people on making a candle that smells like that. Or those little glass stink bombs.

Check out teen titans go. They actually teach about things like equity, credit score, mortgage rates, “clean coal”, pyramid schemes, civil rights, capitalism among many other topics that adults wouldn’t even bother with explaining. Which I think is doing your child a disservice, as well as being insulting.

Archer is my hands down favorite. Even the 3 shit seasons are still better than most shows. I just love the clever (and not-so clever) wordplay and insults in that show, many of which you can’t say on the internet anymore. Which if you’re of a certain age, is baffling.

I can’t even watch it now. I’ve seen the movie countless times, haven’t watched the ending in probably 20 years. It’s just straight up better if you cut it off like the sopranos lol