This is an old Mandela effect.

The issue is that they don’t actually remember what the sun looked like, because you can’t really look at the sun.

Their memories are of the crayon drawings that they made in school.

Go to the small concert venues and see them play.

Pro tip: Cut the baguette in a 45° angle.

It makes the first bite easier, and it looks better.

Look at a population pyramid.

This site has done nice animated options: https://chartingtheglobe.com/demographics/population-pyramid

If you want to see more regional overviews, then the CIA also has some nice selections here:

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/population-pyramids-by-region/

The main issue is that the population is getting older. Not enough new borns to pay taxes to care for the old people in twenty years. This can only be solved by immigration from countries with higher birthrates.

That looks like the Emerica G6 Wino slip-ons.

I wore those out in about a year just from walking. The bottom isn’t very good, which is a shame, because they’re otherwise very comfortable and durable.

Ideas can spread but also get corrected when people interact.

It used to be that people talked to each other and set the dumbasses straight whenever they spit out this kind of “politics”.

These days everyone is just angry online and they’d rather change their online network than to change their minds.

Someone should have told off Trump long ago. They didn’t, and since he chose to communicate official statements on Twitter, instead of passing it through advisers and secretaries who could advise him better, it’s only gotten worse.

Fascism is an idea that needs to die, but it’s really difficult to confront the idea when the fascists hide in their online safe spaces, like X and Truth Social, where they only interact with bootlickers and block everyone else.

I think the best way to kill fascism is to talk openly about it with other people offline.

On every single skateboard post or short video, somebody will mention Mullen too.

But anyway, outside of skateboarding, millennials also know of Bam, Sheckler and maybe Dyrdek.

Gen-z probably knows of the YouTubers that show up in their feeds. SkateIQ (Mitchie Brusco), SkateNomad (Mike Boisvert) and probably Andy Anderson because he’s everywhere.

I think it’s safe to say that skateboarding isn’t as mainstream as it used to be when MTV was the main youth cultural feed, but it also allows for a lot more unknown people to rise up. Nobody cares about what young dude Thrasher and the industry wants to portrait as a professional. The skate scene these days basically consists of old men and young women watching footage on YouTube.

That’s a valid point.

What I’m addressing is that after the EU mandated schools to include everyone in the same classes, things just don’t work.

It used to be one class with “normal” students and one class with *special " students, each with their own teachers. This was highly ostracizing to a lot of pupils who had a mild ADD diagnosis, and that number keeps increasing as parents become more accepting and take their kids for diagnosis.

The current strategy is include everyone in one class and then use supplemental teachers where it’s necessary. Big unsurprising shock is that it’s necessary to have a speciel teacher attached to every single class and they can’t find neither funding or qualified teachers. Surprised Pikachu!

It would be easy to say that we should go back to the old system, but that is also wrong. What they need is to educate every teacher to be able to include the “special” students.

I’m not saying there shouldn’t be a “special” class, but it should be reserved for the pupils who are further out on the spectrum.

When I was a kid myself, the special class was for kids with Downs. That hardly exists anymore, because of the option to abort after the chromosome test, and because these kids are funneled into special institutions to begin with. Kids with ADHD or autism would be in normal classes and failing because nobody recognized it as a handicap. They do now, but prior to the EU decision it was the opposite problem. The special classes were full of kids with mild diagnoses. The EU decision addressed this issue, but it wasn’t the right way, because there was no money given to update the qualifications of the teachers.

What I am suggesting is that we accept the inclusion, but also that we to ensure that all teachers are capable of handling it. We shouldn’t ostracize kids with mild diagnoses by putting then in special class or having special teachers. If we want to include them, which we should, we need to go all in on making the mainstream education include them.

I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum.

The question of whether to get a diagnosis is more about handling any issues that come from it. Some people need medication, some people needs extra help with certain things and some people just needs to know about it - in order to function in the way that makes sense to them.

If you need those things to function, it will help to get a diagnosis, because it can make it a lot easier to get that help, especially if it’s medical.

But, make no mistake. Everyone has something. It’s only a question of whether you need to treat it.

In a perfect world where there was no prejudice, we could be screening all school children and hand out paperwork along the grades, so you’d get an 8 in Math class and a 4 in ADHD. You know, just to get a full picture of the person.

But joking aside, there’s no reason why teaching can’t be more inclusive of these issues and just teach everyone as if they have autism and ADHD, even if they do not have a diagnosis. More often than not it’s only a matter of being allowed extra time for certain tasks or a slightly more pedagogical approach. Everyone can benefit from that, so it’s completely wrong to place diagnosed kids in special classes, when what is really needed is better educated teachers.

“Nippon” isn’t hard to pronounce for Germans, either.

I don’t know about that. Even if Germans are not shy of pronouncing letters wrongly (using V as F for instance), the P in Nippon makes no sense in German. It would have to be spelled with an H to make the right sound.

It’s certainly possible to drive from Finland to Portugal. It takes a little more than two days of constant driving. About the same as Seattle to Miami.

I’m not sure I follow the importance of this, unless you’re into long road trips. I would choose a flight in both cases, or a least spread the drive over several weeks for the adventure.

Most people only ever know their local area. And even that can be more than enough. People who live in New York or London don’t have a chance of knowing every street in their cities. They only know the routes that make sense in their lives. They only get to experience wherever they happen to be throughout their lives. Does it then matter which city is bigger, when you can only ever experience a fraction of it in a lifetime?

Neither EU or USA has any city in the top 20 of largest cities world wide anyway. All the really big cities are in Asia.

My point is that I don’t think it makes any sense to claim any value in being from some place that has the largest land or population or cities. They’re just facts that have nothing to do with the individual person.

It matters a lot more to me how people behave, what they are capable of or what they know. I’m not impressed with anyone who simply bases their self worth or identity on being from some place that has something that is bigger than some other place. Maybe patriotism is the real explanation.

And that’s the thing that annoys me about Americans, because quite a few of them seem to have a superiority complex over it. It’s perfectly fine to be proud of what your fellow countrymen have achieved, but it doesn’t automatically reflect back on the individual.

Or put differently: “Oh wow, the Grand Canyon is really impressively grand. Now, which part of it did you make?”

The size bragging.

No, Texas isn’t that big. Texas is about the same size as France.

USA also isn’t that big. Europe is larger than USA.

Sure it’s big and all, but the main difference is really just that there are fewer people in USA than in Europe. It has a lower population density, making everything seem further apart.

The reason I find it annoying is that the most obnoxious types have a tendency to use it to validate their own opinions on every fucking topic. Obviously we tiny Europeans just can’t comprehend the scale of their American way of doing things in the most backwards and old fashioned manner.

I’ve met plenty of American immigrants. Most of them are really nice and humble and appreciate learning how stuff works here. However some will eventually encounter something that doesn’t make sense to them, but rather than learn, they’ll cave in on trying to explain in the role of the world conquering strongman why it just won’t work in the scale that they’re used to in America, as if that would make any sense to do in that situation.

It’s delusional.

Yes 22 would make sense to the alien.

I think it’s interesting, that they can steal all this stuff and yet be unable to figure out how to sell it.

All the money, all the data, all the energy, all the computer power, all the political control. And yet, they can’t manage to sell a single dollar worth of their product.

Of course it’ll be shittified by commericals in and out of the content, and of course that will lead to paid models, but it’s not going to be very profitable, because nobody _really _needs bad intelligence. “Oh, it costs something? No thanks then, we already have intelligence at home.”

Yes yes, the users are the product, yes, but who then is buying that user data? Commercials and stuff yeah yeah, but at what point does any of this manifest itself as a single fucking sales transaction where a real person pays a company for a real product? Fucking never.

The whole thing is worthless.

It’s impossible to earn that much money, but at some point it’s also impossible to hold or spend. Banks can only take so much safely, so it needs to be placed in companies and investments that require some management and all the consequences and responsibility of running those. Spending it is problematic because it will disrupt whatever market it is injected to, potentially harming a lot of people.

The only real solution is to avoid billionaires in the first place by taxing corporations much much harder.

Based on your description I’m going to take a wild guess: Your father is a “functioning addict”.

It explains everything, including his self destructive behavior.

It’s difficult to read if you can only watch the person typing.

Sort of like lip reading

Only if it’s the correct amount. It’s a tricky balance, so the safe option is to leave it out completely.