Nah fam you should probably wait until Trump dies, which won’t be much longer.

My point was only that a lot of the news is a little hyperbolic, you should check other sources to see exactly what people in your situation are facing, I ain’t passing out financial or travel advice, just providing perspective.

A couple points that media routinely skips right past because the current drama is great for clicks and views.

1. The current “escalation” of immigration hostility is only slightly more aggressive than it’s always been. Not counting the performative stunts ICE is doing in cities and neighborhoods, those are also just isolated cases that most people will never see in person, even ones who live in areas that have news reports showing fires and riots and standoffs… these kinds of things are happening in areas like, one square block at the most. Not downplaying it, but I do want people to have an accurate perspective.

2. And that percentage of bad cases and horror stories against tourists is very, very small to begin with. At least compared to the HUGE number of people flowing in and out of the country every hour. This is why the whole spectacle being played out by this administration is so ludicrous and pointless. More people were still deported under Biden. More people still stay in the country illegally just by overstaying their permits or travel visas. Most will never be caught or prosecuted.

The beach is a nesting ground of vast biomes of creatures, singled-celled, through to vast arrays of worms, some parasitic, all the way up to burrowing arthropods like sand fleas and their many, many cousins. We don’t usually have problems with any of this stuff when we swim or hang out on the sand because… and I cannot stress this enough, we do not eat raw produce we find in the sand.

Please do not eat raw produce you find in the sand.

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No but they will have an entirely squirrel themed Magic deck.

Compare this percentage with how many are MAGA and you start to see a distinct pattern.

If you can separate out the politics, America really is a beautiful country. So is China, I’ve been to both. Everyone should see both at least once.

People are far more scared of inconvenience than death.

Most people would rather put their pet down than have to care for them in some new way that requires money and attention, and this is what people who don’t understand autism think it is, like they will have to strap their dogs into a special chair and spoon-feed them.

Same with people. Most ignorant anti-vaxxers are far more terrified of being locked into caring for a disabled child than having a child die from a “natural” disease. And while they don’t consciously think this way, some layer of their brain has indeed weighed this out and formed their opinions.

No, and I’ve been giving it a lot of thought.

I had a brief, fanciful idea a few years back that if everyone starts using AI that it would help increase personal education and knowledge throughout the world.

That worked out as good as the feeling I had back in the mid 90’s where I said “Wow, if everyone has access to all this information, the future generations of this world are going to be fantastically intelligent, we will have starships by the time I’m old!”

We might need to accept and start compensating for the hard fact that we are just complex apes and have fundamental limitations as populations. It might not get better. We might make more new things and we might create new ways of living, but we’re always going to be spiraling around our own limited cognition and our survival instincts that make us forget to think.

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I’m not policing shit, but it paints an impression that you might not be aware of if you care about people’s impressions.

I can’t imagine using the word “normie” unironically in 2025.

A lot of people get called “idiots” but that doesn’t mean I can’t actually differentiate who’s really an idiot.

(There is a subtle subtext in this reply, see if you can catch it.)

Every country is worried about their currency collapsing because all economies are deeply connected. It just takes one major trading partner to collapse for a domino effect to ripple through the world.

There are a lot of delusional people in here posting about their personal shower-fantasies of what they would do in the apocalypse. You can safely discard all that. If it gets so bad you need guns and tools and… blacksmithing supplies? you are so utterly fucked that gold and bartering will be the last of your concerns. People will be fucking eating each other. You simply cannot run to the woods and start living off the land, you will starve and die without acres of ready land already producing food. Real-life isn’t like a survival video game, there is no tech-tree that you can climb and start producing food.

Read some Cormac McCarthy for a more realistic view of the end of the world. (Then have a therapist on hand for the after-effects.)

For a financial collapse, gold would probably retain value, a society still needs something to base the value of its trading on, we can’t just all carry around sacks of grain. How much value gold will retain is very hard to predict, but people have been using it for so long that it’s already survived several widespread disasters and is still in use.

If it gets so bad that you need tools for building shelter, you are absolutely fucked unless you already have farmland and can defend it. People are massively ignorant about how difficult it is to live off the land if you don’t have experience in it and a lot of supplies and knowledge accumulated. It takes acres of crops and animals to support a couple people. It takes months or even years to make that land productive enough to keep you barely alive. Then if you have hard winters you better hope you have a stockpile.

Financial collapse is one thing, but a total societal/technological collapse would be bad in orders of magnitude that I don’t even know how to describe it.

Source: work in logistics.

Why? It’s not inherently valuable beyond a handful of industrial/electronic uses.

It has the precedent of societal agreement going back thousands of years longer than literally anything else besides food and prostitution. If the world started over from the stone-age, people would be using precious metals to represent value all over again. You don’t need it to make sense, you just need a social agreement, and that doesn’t happen with just anything that can fall apart or decay or be found easily.

I do have a problem with morons saying that buttholes are the cleanest part of your body and then suggesting to eat ass.

You are unhinged, possibly insane and cannot converse like an adult. Have a good one. I’ll never see your comments again.

There’s no such thing as a part of your body that “won’t get clean no matter how much you clean it” you have to understand that is an irrational statement and if you don’t understand that, you’re going to have a lot of issues in life with understanding how hygiene works and what “clean” even means.

I implore you to understand how the world works a little deeper or you’re going to be that insufferable partner who bases their ideas of what’s “pure” or not by vibes and tradition.

it’s not a clean location, no matter how much you clean it.

This is irrational, you may be on an OCD spectrum and I don’t say that to be a snark but many people learn they have issues from exchanges like this when they realize the stories they write for themselves to explain things aren’t normal or rational.