Asklemmy

Almost the only way to get a 49€ ticket in germany is with a smartphone

The fact that the entertainment industry has weaned entire generations with a way to access popular works, or events such as sports and concerts - and then started to privatize them, first with cable, then with subscription services, and each of them with higher costs and more draconian controls than the last. It feels as if the concept of "popular culture" was manufactured to hook us into paying larger amounts of money to the entertainment industry.

I worry a lot about the generation of kids coming up with full access to the internet and social media. Their schooling and social contact was all completely online during COVID. Being constantly connected to everything by the internet is all they’ve ever known. Yet they still feel lonely and alienated. Depressed, anxious. The statistics on self harm and suicidal thoughts with teens are insane and so scary.

I feel like at a certain point when they grow up and understand the ramifications it will be studied as a sort of generational trauma and they’ll tell us, as parents, you should have protected us better… I do what I can but corporations and politicians DO NOT have their best interests at heart. If they are addicted to their products and making them money…that’s all they want.

fossil fuels

Growth of lynch law and political statements, primarily based on religious/moral motives.

In my opinion, you have to do anything as long as you're not hurting the freedom of other people.

But no, taboos exist for some reason. In my country, LGBT is a taboo, even though they're not hurting anybody. Moe/loli are also taboo for some reason, even though they're not harming anyone, in contrast to gore which gets its place on most movies. Alcohol & weed is a different beast, I guess, it causes a hard-addiction and damages people's minds. We're getting sensitive about small things and get completely ignorant about what is really killing people and nature painfully, like social inequality/injustice, lack of education, healthcare, etc.

Alienation is also a problem, it's been here since the 19th century, just that now it gets a boost 'If you're not on social media, then you don't exist'. Every public event is a public relations event now as well. It's damn important to get a checkbox that we attended a f...ing meeting. Attendance and formal presence becomes more important than social interaction, knowledge and problem solving.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that sexual abuse of people under the age of consent or sexual abuse of adults who didn't explicitly consent in any means equals to torture, which is against the other's person's will and it breaks the freedom of abused person and it shall be forbidden. Note that people under the age of consent cannot consent because they are not responsible for themselves and cannot make such choice. My point is that moe (including loli and shota, which can look disturbing) are stigmatized and did not deserve an attribution to obscenity or sexual abuse material. This stigma shall be broken.

Smartphones have made the generation after me spoiled and stupid. Literally had to teach Gen Z hires how to use basic shit on a desktop computer, and watch as they chicken peck the keyboard.

Negative real interest rates.