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- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 day ago:
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.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I’ve heard of both unusable-ass websites and unusable ass-websites.
- Comment on The Messiah! 1 day ago:
And on the fourth day he rocked a Samurai concert
- Comment on Love what you do 2 days ago:
Well, isn’t that the question of the ages.
Each generation wants to know why the next is getting it so wrong!
Its mostly good news on that front, from a psychology point of view. Perhaps the best lens is to use developmental models to answer your question, though I will say the assumptions in your question are only partially true. Your own experience might be giving you the impression it’s “most”
If we consider developmental needs, child take a long journey from being totally dependant at birth to being totally independent, usually by their early twenties on average.
Individual stories vary but one part of that process of individualization is pushing back and creating friction between the existing power structures and themselves.
It’s why teenagers are so famously, and seemingly, unnecessarily hostile especially to parents and authority.
Its a short answer to a complex question, does that give you something to go on?
Its a part of growing up, happens in every generation, even if it looks a bit different each time
- Comment on Love what you do 2 days ago:
I’m a psychotherapist. And I train others in the field too, from entry to degree level.
- Comment on Love what you do 2 days ago:
I dunno. I switched careers 10 years ago, and I have some good years and some bad years for my income but I still love it and wouldn’t want to do anything else.
A proper “I’d still do this if I was rich” job. Still, I really do need and appreciate time off from it to recharge.
I was warned it’s easier to burn out doing something you love because you won’t want to stop even when you can, and it’s true.
- Comment on Love what you do 2 days ago:
Are under estimating how many people are interested in that?
- Comment on I'm not even gay 4 days ago:
The classic is “big boys don’t cry”
Masculine social standard. Personally painful and shaming for a lot of guys
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 5 days ago:
Me too.
The increased pay covered the training costs and lost earnings within five years and I’m so much happier.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about corn syrup, but I assume for all the talking about it and the way it’s used that it’s basically ambrosia if the gods lived in a trailer park instead of on Mount Olympus.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The inhabitants call it Forohfore
- Comment on I've always thought THIS was unfair 1 week ago:
I asked and found out what “turn down service” means.
- Comment on Pragmata | Trailer | The Game Awards 2025 1 week ago:
Looking at that girl I assume it’ll mostly come out in 2026. Mostly.
- Comment on How would you decide? 1 week ago:
I’m aware that some people choose to take that view, which I find ironic!
- Comment on How would you decide? 1 week ago:
It’d be fascinating to see how your choice to take this view has shaped your life!
- Comment on How would you decide? 1 week ago:
What a depressing view of people.
As a therapist working with a philosophy of individual empowerment, and seeing it work every day, I’m glad to have my view of life.
It’d suck to feel like we’re all just like plastic bags being blown about in the winds of fate!
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 1 week ago:
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.
- Comment on How would you decide? 1 week ago:
I have the empirical and theoretical evidence to prove that wrong.
Everybody is self made, not everyone will admit it or recognise it.
Off all the factors that govern our lives, from the circumstances of our birth, to random chance and our daily routines… Nothing in our lives has a bigger impact on who we are as a person than the choices we make.
- Comment on How would you decide? 1 week ago:
I can make financial security happen by my own efforts.
True Love has been more elusive because it’s one order of magnitude more complicated!
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 weeks ago:
No, who’s on 1st
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 3 weeks ago:
With right wing nutters trying to undermine the rule of law all over the place, I feel like stuff like this isn’t helping.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 3 weeks ago:
Is this an OS level thing or a per-app issue on Android?
My system blocks adverts to such a degree I don’t know what this looks like!
- Comment on If you are nervous about trying it, then just take this simple test first 3 weeks ago:
About a teaspoon
- Comment on I will never understand how we as a society moved from normal life to scrolling TikTok while driving 3 weeks ago:
Life was never normal.
Shits always going down
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 3 weeks ago:
Checkout the custom settings for Ixion.
Its exactly what they’re asking for, and it works well
Increasingly seeing this in games, and I love it.
- Comment on I dunno 3 weeks ago:
Its BOSMAS for maths and BOMDAS for twerking.
Easy mistake to make given the amount of maths involved in dancing.
- Comment on magic recovery 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they’re equivalent, they’re not the same!
A toaster that uses the equivalent electricity as a PC can’t run games except Doom.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well, if they stopped drinking… Like ever… It’d be easier to believe them
- Comment on Over a decade in the making: Lanthanide nanocrystals illuminate new possibilities 4 weeks ago:
Ah, yes. I see. 99% triplet-energy transfer. Good, good.
Sounds like a video title on porn hub
- Comment on I used to always insert something inappropriate to the Nativity scene and my parents never noticed 5 weeks ago:
But the first time someone has inappropriately inserted Yoda somewhere.