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Post-Brexit Britain

The public acceptance of gambling. It's fucking everywhere. Even things that seem relatively innocuous on the surface, like trading cards or blind boxes, are less about the fun of collecting and more about the rush of ripping through multiple packs or boxes to focus on the resell value.

I never imagined a world where we can easily bet on natural disasters and cancer on a whim. Please fire me into the sun.

Flagrant acts of racism.

Portland pretends to be better than that, but I keep having casual reminders that we're really white-coded. A black guy walks into the liquor store at 10:00 am and both the women behind the counter have a collective sense of panic when I'm walking up to check out. There was nothing off about him. They just had some immediate sense that he intended harm. The one checking me out said, under her breath, "oh, I thought we were getting robbed".

It was obvious the dude noticed their reaction, and it made me feel fucking horrible.

Is it too obvious to say a Hitler-like figure running a country I thought such things couldn't happen in?

Okay, less political answer: reality shows that go too far with exploiting people. An early season of Big Brother had long lost siblings find out they were siblings on tv. Such moments shoukd be private. There was a reality show where a guy thought he was called for jury duty but it was all fake. I don't understand how it's even legal to film a reality show without telling the guy he's in a reality show. There was a reality show where a woman has to guess who her biological father is. that's not something we should be making a game of.

Conspiracy theory nuts start to get big bucket things right. Like a giant cabal of child sex traffickers running global political and financial systems, including Hollywood.

I mean, it's pretty much just that one so far, but damned if that wasn't an evergreen theory over the last few decades.

Mirror

People being 'anti-science.'

I grew up with Star Trek and old school science fiction stories where the rulers were 'The Council Of Science' or some such. There used to be a Presidential Science Advisor in the White House.

AI generated music, images, and videos.

My dad! Thanks, dad!! /s

Trump's second term, specifically. The bar is in free fall and apparently rock bottom is not the lowest you can go.

How selfish and cruel people openly are.

Blows my mind how common it is nowadays.

The shit that comes out of stranger's mouths to me shocks me on a weekly basis now. Years ago it probably shocked me on a once every couple of months basis.

My penis. When I was 600lbs and couldn't see it I longed for the day I could look. I kept working out and kept losing weight and... kept not seeing it. Finally I got down to 120lbs. I can see it now. I wish I hadn't.

I'm thinking about going back to massive overeating to hide my greatest shame back underneath what I used to think was my greatest shame, but after these last several years of making myself vomit to lose the weight my throat's just too sore to eat much.

Driving straight through a stoplight from the right turn lane. There’s this intersection where I live that looks like this:

Most people going straight through that intersection want to take the exit right after to hop on a freeway. Twice now I’ve dealt with people following the red line from the right turn lane, forcing everyone else to merge around them to take the exit.

Trump as president? and again?

Reports on the high rates of illiteracy and semiliteracy among American adults.

News reports on measles outbreaks.

Over the course of my life, DRM-restricted streaming services. I once thought people would be naturally against that. You're going to want to have your own copy of media you love to keep forever, right? Apparently I was wrong.