Have you heard of a place called Australia before?

Can’t wait to impress someone by jumping over it in one clear hop.

(than at some point in the past)

No, than the previous adjacent moments in past, not some random arbitrary point selected so far back in time that our lives would look radically different and the comparison between the two points becomes dubiously relevant.

I think you should continue to post comments and let everybody decide on them collectively, why would I want you to silence yourself on this particular topic? If you didn’t make this type of comment someone else would have and this branch of the conversation would likely have happened anyways. Now it has and people can upvote/downvote to reflect how they feel. I don’t know about you but I still read downvoted comments? I am a curious person and there are many like me!

Why would I not downvote a comment I consider missed the essential point on something I am passionate about and feel materially impacts us all?

No but the future that was possible for the older people around me in my country is gone and global collapse is accelerating, things are getting worse… what the hell does 1925, 1825 or 1725 got to do with it?

I agree in a sense buy I am not invested in framing it as a moral panic I am just pointing out the fact that it is clearly a moral panic.

Not necessarily or exclusively? I am talking about tools like this…

https://www.avoyd.com/avoyd-voxel-editor-documentation.html

edit sorry feeling a bit oversensitive this morning I guess

facepalm have you tried looking up at the real world around you recently?

The correct solution is to not have a moral panic about social media that plays into the hands of rich radical conservatives who own said social media platforms and are purposefully driving the moral panic and rightwing toxicity.

Social media is so toxic, we should all get off it and just go back to relying on institutions like CNN for our perception of the world!

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…like how people use custom terrain generating tools to spruce up multiplayer Minecraft maps?

That is top down state administered violence, it is very scary and real but what I am talking about is how increasingly sure people have gotten that random stochastic violence will happen to them for almost no reason by evil people acting individually, it is a growing sense that every alleyway has a random assailant waiting in it for no reason other than to attack because there are no superheroes left or something.

That attention span exists as a relevant concept and that people are ruining it with technology.

If our attentiveness is struggling it is undoubtedly because life is harder and crueler these days.

Our attention, if we are being treated humanely and sustainability by the societal conditions around us, is fine (we aren’t though, this being the issue).

edit Same thing with all the “kids these days” things about kids not being able to focus, being a kid these days has got to feel hopeless in a million ways that are too crushing to focus on not the least of which are the adults around you condescending your fears of the future even as they destroy it.

I actually genuinely believed for awhile as a kid/young adult that ADHD was a gift and that society wouldn’t try to strangle and kill me for having it in a million ways.

I would think for bonsai might be useful for custom terrain generation for luanti multiplayer servers.

Tripod Assault Walker from the TV Brightness War of 2025

Blockhead - The Music Scene

How do you get all the candy into the baseball bat tho?

Syncthing!

“Continuity of housing and stability for vulnerable populations is clearly in the public interest,” said McElroy, ordering HUD to maintain its previous funding formula.

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“Our agencies are just scrambling right now to try to respond,” said Pam Johnson with Minnesota Community Action Partnership, whose members provide housing and other services for homeless people. “It also just reverses 40 years of bipartisan work on proven solutions to homelessness. So it’s really, it’s kind of shocking.”

For decades, U.S. policy favored permanent housing with optional treatment for addiction or mental illness Years of research has found the strategy is effective at keeping people off the streets.

Well, vending machines are for bytes I suppose.