thanks for the nuanced response, i will take it to heart.

ok, thanks, i’ll keep it in mind

I think this may have just happened to you OP. That’s not a common way to see children.

i don’t see it that way, but a lot of people in the US seem to, at least from what i can see. see my other comment for explanation.

Tons of people have kids, tons of people want kids. The idea of ‘you’re a child’ being the worst insult is baffling, honestly.

yeah tbf i’ve never set foot in the US; i get this notion from social media, movies, books, etc.

wait let me record a 10 second sequence of a movie.

https://files.catbox.moe/3ouv81.mp4

(the video should have audio, in case it doesn’t play, a download should do it)

anyways the woman says “have you ever considered that you’re wrong? hah, of course not! you’re a child.” upon which the other person freaks out. which i have seen sooo many times in pieces of media (especially from the US)

anyways, meanwhile, children can actually be really reflective and understand a lot, also when they’ve made mistakes or hurt someone. so saying that somebody is a “child” when they can’t reflect on themselves, in my opinion, is inaccurate.

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geopolitical stability is partially caused by a balance in technology level. england could only rape china and india in the 17th century because china and india were backwards ass farmer’s countries back then. they industrialized and eventually kicked the english people out. which is why china is so focused on industrialization today. they know what’s coming to countries who don’t have the mechanics to fight back.

i grew up in a small austrian town but it didn’t really have much nature besides 3 trees standing next to our house (that i used to climb btw, was fun).

now i live in vienna and i spent like 10 hours last week exploring the river bank of a small river around here, it’s beautiful. so much better. i realize that this is because of many factors, but one of them is that a flat empty piece of land can just be so absolutely mind-bogglingly boring and generic that nobody even bothers to try to make something beautiful out of it. at least that’s my take.

Oh and vienna was built between the mountains on one side and a large river on the other side, and i am starting to think that that does make a difference. I’ve yet to put it to proper words, though.

No, i know mine wasn’t. I think future generations will have it better.

i mean that if you have an infinite space, the total useable energy does not converge to zero even though it does in every small region of that space. local convergence to zero does not imply global convergence to zero. if you took Analysis 1/2 in maths university, you know that.

ehh, “entropy always wins” is only valid in closed systems. the universe is not a closed system.

not if we export it to other planets first ;-)

except if it clones itself indefinitely … like siberian forest trees.

chances are high that when wikipedia shuts down, a trillion alternatives to it (which are just archived versions) are gonna pop up immediately.

this is the turing test all over again: you can’t actually tell whether it’s handmade or made by a machine.

yeh

hot air balloons also have no stall speed.

done

yeah the UK is going downhill very quickly and it’s evident in how nervously they respond to that saying.

i indeed only found out about that rn

But you seem like a refreshingly normal person rather than one of the ideologically motivated internet cold warriors

hehe thanks, i try to be.

i mean yeah, literally, look at how the Iranian regime is allowed to post its anti-US propaganda lego movies on Twitter.

edit: nvm that was a bad take.