Because the reasons you have for not actively effecting this change apply to everyone else as well.

True. Culture, history, etc as an experience is valid.

It is where people pretend it is important to quality and taste, I call bullshit.

As for the experience… If the old bearded Italian man who served you traditional cheesemelt pig in wooden clogs while singing Por Trancone Parditto were to, say, replace the cheese with Swedish Gulost and not tell you… You would have the same experience.

Not saying it’d be the same, but that the food taste and quality are entirely separate from the authenticity.

Ah I see you are enjoying yourself. Would you care to know that you are, in fact, enjoying yourself incorrectly?

There is no joy to be had the way you are doing it. If there is, it is a fault in your character.

Tradition and authenticity is bullshit.

Food from good ingredients prepared well matters more than if the cheese was stared at for two hours by the sheepwife of the mayor of Scrumthrorpeshireffield.

For example: Wine tasters were clear that French wine just tasted better than Californian wine. They were extremely convinced. Then they tried a blind test and hoo boy did everyone get pissed when they couldn’t tell the French wine was better without knowing it was French first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)

And if he is: Does he know? Is he moving his GI Joe figurine forward on the chessboard and going pew pew while being outmaneuvered in 3 dimensions?

If people offering criticism offend you so much, just stop listening to them 🫡

Dunno why they needed to manipulate the upper ground plug to be more rapey. It would honestly be funny enough unaltered.

Leaving when others are getting fucked is making a stand and having principles. Yay applause.

Going lalalalala and staying on right until you get fucked is just whatever. Don’t brag please.

A Celebrity Does A Grift.

This happens a lot.

In crypto, it usually goes like this: Celebrity makes a coin. Uses fans goodwill to make them buy in. Coin gets rugpulled (oh no!) as in the celebrity and their tech friend cash out and leave the fans with a dead coin worth 1% of what they paid.

The celebrity will then say they were flimflammed. Fooled. Duped. Tricked. Teary apology. Very sad. Victim like you and me. Very also kept the advance $50k from the tech people. Also kept the cash they got from rugpulling. Don’t ask about that.

“CEO of shoddily coded autocomplete app says it will kill us all and he should get a trillion dollars to stop it.”

Basically the same headline repeated 8392 times the past three years, just phrased differently.

All autistics are human.

Some humans are shitty people.

Therefore some autistics are shitty people.

QED

I was a teenager before smartphones were a thing.

Things I did when not phone, and no random book or comic nearby:

Waiting for bus: Running off to explore the plants behind the bus stop shed, missing the bus.

Waiting for bus: Trying to see if I could grab the bus stop sign and somersault by running up the bus stop shed wall. I could not, and faceplanted the concrete breaking my glasses.

On toilet: Grab shampoo bottles to read, comparing the grammar of the instructions.

School recess: Climb onto the school roof, get in trouble.

School recess: Try and kick the feet of a school bully while he was proudly demonstraring rhe roundhouse kick he learned to see if he would fall on his ass. He fell on his ass and we did not become friends.

The absence of a phone will not calm me down.

The two countries are deeply economically tied, are political allies, share much of the power structure. I don’t think it makes sense to separate them in this context of morality, corruption level, or personal risk.

But it was an unconscious simplification that may not apply to others judgements. Apologies for the confusing inaccuracy.

Today! Very well news! Good journalisted news! Headlines:

My toddler says she will never eat food again in her life because we demanded she eats two pieces of broccoli.

The child rapist who shits himself says he will kill the world if they don’t do what he says.

My cat says (interpreted) that he is literally dying of hunger and sadness if he doesn’t get a double portion of his favorite food.

CEO of shoddily written autocomplete app claims it will kill us all if he doesn’t get a trillion dollars.

Fridge magnets fell on floor, say FOOD ANY IS IS SUN FOR THREE.

It is good to tell stories like this, for the public good, but I refuse to sympathize.

He chose to “make a fortune” in a famously and obviously through-and-through corrupt dictatorship known for figuratively grinding migrant labour to bonemeal to pave their roads. Literally chopping up journalists. Murdering villagers for a fake greenwashing project.

He put on tall boots and waded into this pool of blood to “make a fortune”. Smiling at people stabbing each other in the back, he brought his son along to grab soggy fistfulls of blood money. And he just… stayed there until his luck inevitably ran out.

The privacy statements are fucking lies.

I will not share my innermost mental issues with some group of 20-something “move fast and break things” sociopaths in Silicon Valley.

He’s really getting under my skin. I think I will go over there and give him a piece of my mind.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without? Yeah that sounds like something a manual cunt would say.

Appealing doesn’t get them out of paying.

I mean yeah? As a PC gamer what are you supposed to use? Fucking… Windows?

I know some people still manage to tolerate paying Microsoft for an operating system that serves popup ads, popunder ads, inline ads, bundles spyware, bundles adware, bundles malware, and literally spies on you. They either manage to filter all that out or tolerate having to spend time turning it off or mitigating it every two weeks/months when an update introduces more of it.

They angrily cope. They say things like “what is so hard about just clicking Close / Ignore on a few buttons!?” when this is pointed out. But they grow fewer and fewer.

Macs are mostly valid but expensive. If work doesn’t pay for one, or you have another big hobby that makes Mac a necessity, buying one for gaming is a bit silly.