My dad is a Vietnam War vet, and the shit he saw in malls while trying to buy me one as a child, shocked him.

I am AM levels of incandescent rage.

We're just digging down into further value abstraction.

Maybe the illiterate have it right. I don't see them suffering like I am right now with the curse of being able to read that string of words.

👏👏👏

Kind of the unofficial "word of the year" a while back when all those Russian oligarchs were flying out of windows like they thought they had bought the rights to gravity.

How were you expected to keep your shit together in a place like this in the 18th century?!

Fucking hell we've never had a sustained culture. That's what 2 centuries worth of wave after wave of migration does, because we're a migrant country. Not being indigenous to this region is the only sustained fact about this country.

Remember those programs that took city kids out of the city and brought them to a rural area to experience nature?

My idea: We do the same for tech bros except we take them to the woods and then just leave them there without their phones.