(07-19-2019, 03:52 PM)ScottyB Wrote:Apoc Wrote:Everyone just seems so much angrier and hostile than they used to be
this is an apt description of the entire world btw.
we certainly have our own unique blend of race relations, classism and public education that's mostly failed multiple generations....but if you want anything close to a living standard similar to the US, you're quite limited before you're going to run into more angry, myopic assholes.
i bet Austria's nice this time of year
My two choices, if I want to stay in my current org, are Ireland or Switzerland. They each have their own problems. Kids being wound so tight they experience crushing anxiety or getting shot in school are not among them. I'll sacrifice my guns and weed for my kid to experience that kind of psychological safety.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth