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Please avoid commenting in everyone’s stead.

Bootylicious is still being used, sporadically.

Horsemen of the apocalypse.

The king has to worry about the traditional four. The working class has to worry about authority and taxes. And the beggar doesn’t have to worry about any because they’re already living the end times every day.

He likes to brag about having candy, but not to share.

The screen is a mirror. But physics don’t work in a dream other than what you observed and can replicate manually. Every experience of physics within the dream are generated manually, piece by piece.
Some might say you don’t walk or run, you float or float faster. Others would say you don’t even do that, but rather the dream world moves around you.

So when you look at the screen of a phone, it’s like a dream within a dream. It has to be crafted and you get sent within the screen, turning that into the actual dream.

If you’ve ever fired a gun in a dream, you’ll note that it usually doesn’t work. Or if it does, the targets drop without you “feeling” the entire process start to finish. And if you focus on the strangeness of this, then next time you fire a bullet, the knowledge you have of how that works gets added. So you see the bullet coming out of the gun, you follow along as it travels and you see it hit the target as you’ve seen it before in real life, whether it’s actual practice, a game or a movie.
However, everything else comes to a standstill. The you that shot the bullet is left behind or no longer there, the target being shot waits there quietly to receive the bullet or even actively cooperates and the background world no longer matters.

The dream world isn’t fixed, tightly bound by the rules of the real world. The dream world is what you focus on at that moment and everything else changes to fit. So if you don’t see a cellphone in your dreams, it’s because they’re not relevant to you persistently as a cellphone and they instead become (the gateway of) what they show you as soon as you focus on that.

The centennials.

Want to feel older? The series was made in the previous century.

Sorry, your emotions are way over the acceptable size and weight limit. You’re going to have to find other means of transportation, such as an oil tanker hauler.

I’d say it’s a thing. Different bodies, different habits, different rhythms.

Because due to a lack of proper infrastructure, we often come to see the others as being in the way.

No, they visit here as well. But they’re chill about not being welcome. If you wave them off just right, then they go and ruin someone else’s day.

No offense to this, but teens on motorized wheels are usually a menace. Not their fault though, the need for speed is omnipresent. Regardless of vehicle, we want to go fast and furious.

*Terms and conditions apply.

To be fair, they’re the annoyed ones. Yellow jackets usually don’t care about you as long as you don’t get near them or their nest.
Maintain social distance and you’ll be fine.

Unless you’re a honey bee, in which case it’s go time.

There’s bad blood there, but the original DA team should be completely gone with the last members having been sacked during Veilguard debacle.

Maybe EA would like to shit on it one more time with a crappy remaster, who knows.

FBI used to create or take over such websites and collected the credentials of any visitors, then made lists of targets to arrest. Nowadays, they skip the arresting part.

Organize and help her and others like her.

Uh, yeah you do. What do you think charities are for? Helping people?

Too bad he wasn’t a Jeffrey… Those guys get all the fun roles.

Sadly, posturing is often a great motivator for poorly thought-out decisions.

Pushing through with a wrong decision regardless of the end result would be a matter of losing self worth, I think. Apologizing is often felt as a position of weakness that opens up a vulnerability in a pretty much shoddy armour of fragile self worth and losing even that much might trigger an existential crisis that threatens the core of one’s identity.

Another part might be us not being wired to naturally consider long-term effects, as it’s usually a taught trait. So much of our emotional presence is rooted in the moment rather than several steps ahead. And a psychological danger is often resolved with an immediate and superficial response.

To become and remain what is considered as well adjusted is a difficult process that needs repeated efforts of introspection. And not many can or are willing to go through the process. So being respectful of one another is something to be admired because it’s not something we can do by default. I’d say instinctual and often disrespectful responses are our usual default state instead.

When we talk about things, we use our accumulated knowledge to create a context. However because that knowledge isn’t the same for everyone, the understandable context can be similar, but different.

So for example, a person who doesn’t know about college trans athletes, but knows about trans won’t understand the same context as someone who knows the subject in depth or as someone who knows little about the concept itself. But if they all recognize the 1% as the rich elite, then they can all vaguely share that partial context.

It might be an exaggeration in my case because yeah, still I would say that people in general should avoid expectations for everyone participating in this kind of conversation to share the same understanding of the context at hand.

Common sense isn’t universal. Perception is unequal. Divergence in way of thought is to be expected.

But yeah, I support both opinions you’ve extracted independently from each other.