UK supermarket has a massive stand of Easter eggs in the entrance area right now

*When you’ve been mortally wounded by a giant crab *

Incest Winced? I’ve had that too, why so many videos in that category? Cringe!

Guatemala is a good place for frogs!

If you’re going to end your sentences with “lol” you don’t also need to say that you’re Gen Z. One or the other will do. 😏

I agree your original point stands, regardless of the timescales involved.

The invention of the smart phone did make international travel less intimidating, even if some of the functions took a while to appear.

Given that this has moved from discussing the topic to personal attacks, I’d say this conversation has run its course.

I guess so. If you wanted to fake a reaction you could choose to, so the opposite must be true too, right? Choice happens at different levels, and most the choices we make happen at a level outside the conscious mind so quickly we wouldn’t register them as choices

Yeah, totally.

I laugh at my hayfever, through the sneezing and the coughing. My husband gets angry.

So we have very different levels of “suffering” to the same experience.

Good example, thanks.

I’d say they are choices, just not concious choices.

You can demonstrate this by noticing the way different people have different reactions to the same experiences or events.

Easiest to see in people because of the greater awareness and agency but it applies to cows too because they’re smart enough to have individual personalities

And the less said about the cream corn the better

Freedom no, that’s not a binary state.

Free will? Yes. They have the capacity to react to their environment. The veal cow’s sadness and suffering are evidence of the free will to react.

Which is also free.

Fair enough. If they’re cash poor, grabbing one of those cheap games consoles is a good plan. 😟

Looks like someone cast “Escape Velocity”, which I think is a druid spell.

For a lot of games, yes. They provide the infrastructure for communication and connection.

Its why you can, for example, send an invite in AOE via the in-game system or the steam system.

Its why so many games show your steam name and avatar in the multiplayer menus.

You surprised to hear this?

Good point. Steam provides a lot of the same multiplayer services and match making and they’ve never cost me a penny.

Regardless of the box cost, there’s no arguing with the price of games in a Steam sale!

I don’t think I’ve paid more than £15 for a game in years and years.

Not always. Most generations keep the last stupid thing they play with alive most of their lives!

My social circles still quote starwars lines as a joke, which started when the prequels came out 💁‍♂️

That’s an important and insightful point to make.

Would you like help with processing further into the enshitification of conversation?

I suspect if China wanted to impose a Lingua Franca on the world, they’d be pragmatic about it and invent something the world could learn and accept.

They seem to be very outcome focused rather than worrying about how they get there.