Yes

A little from column A, a little from column B…

Reality itself has become a satire at this point

This is the main point here, IMO. A child is a huge responsibility and the early 20s is a period of life you’re still figuring things out. Culture also plays a role here; where I’m from, people are deciding to live together (without having kids) for a couple of years before formally marrying.

Some books and mangas, but mostly the Ghibli movies. Specially because when I watch one of them, I immediately want to go on a full Ghibli marathon.

They’re beautiful.

“I am warlock Rustus and I serve Master Tetanus! Meet my blade, Godxidizer!”

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Ew Linus

Most people will never question Google or Meta’s data harvesting while using their apps, but I’m sure you know this already.

The issue with offering me money directly for personal information is that I’d immediately nope away because that sounds like a scam or something malicious.

“Personal data” is something very abstract and most people have little to no idea what it means to give it away. Nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to limit what’s being shared so even those that have a vague understanding of what it means may not care too much.

I don’t have social media accounts and I’ve been using VPNs nonstop for the last 10 years. Degoogled, Firefox, uBlock Origin, PiHole, etc. I got used to this, but it’s a balancing act. I don’t self host. I’m forced to use Windows at work. Credit card for groceries and stuff.

It’s incredibly weird to think how easy it is to create a behavior profile of the average joe. It’s unsettling to imagine companies like Meta and Google have decade’s worth of data on people.

As you said, they shouldn’t share that, but they do. And in places with no way to have that data “erased”, some people will have an unfathomable amount of information about them harvested throughout their whole life.

Even if that data is never used for anything malicious, it’s still disturbing.

Can you imagine how it would be like to see Theia about to hit proto-Earth just above you? Then “pause” the scene and look at it a few hundred kilometres away…

Or just peek inside the clouds of the gas giants…

Or the depths of frozen moon oceans…

Or stars being slingshot’ed near supermassive black holes …

Dang, it almost feels like a curse to know how big and vast the universe is while being confined inside a single body for a few decades…

Honestly I’d love the power of being able to see any point in space and time. To witness the birth and death of stars and look around alien shores. To peek at the absurdity of the diversity of life eons before human history.

I’d probably go mad pretty fast but hey, it’d be pretty neat.

Is it possible to learn this power?

I mean has it ever betrayed you???

Ah yes, Google and games. Why does this feels so familiar?

The clouds are hungry for your digital flesh and bones

I’d have to go to a telecom store to do that in person, which I don’t really have an issue with, except that it may take a whole afternoon on a queue waiting for my turn.

Anyway, I rarely use mobile internet and when I do, it’s mostly for text messages, so I don’t feel a pressing need to upgrade.

I have a very, very old SIM card. It’s from the 3G era, which means I miss out on my phone’s 5G capabilities. However, when I went to buy a new card I found out you’re required to take a selfie and send to the telecom company alongside your ID and email, which is creepy enough to keep me using my 3G SIM…

That’s right; Brazil uses C⁰ (Caralh⁰) units.

For example, 60⁰ is “hot pra Caralh⁰”

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