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In our teens me and my friend gave each other random items that had really dumb picture of the person who was giving the gift. T-shirts, mugs etc.

Yes and if these dense mofos would let me take a while longer, everything would work better and company would literally make more money. But nobody really cares, it's all just about takin part in this weird social fiction that exists to pander someones ego.

Name one socialist/communist nation that hasn't been growth based industrialist economy? I think anything growth based is not gonna happen much longer, due to energy shortage, habitat loss, climate change, running out of critical minerals etc.

Sure I'm open for some degrowth socialism but don't really believe that's the way things gonna work out.

Eventually but I think society might need to collapse and rebuild in between, and that supporting this level of complex civilization isn't gonna be possible, nor IMO desirable.

This is not to say we would go back to being cavemen, just that society has less tech and energy at its disposal and less people.

I guess we could get there without collapse, but I have zero faith in any kind of degrowth moment despite agreeing with it ideologically. This would help us avoid much death and suffering but it doesn't seem to be priority for anyone in power.

Tony Blair institute is basically retirement home for ex politicians where they can just talk nonsense and get paid for rest of their lives.

Probably not too much so his big tech friends can scrape all data they need.

That's kinda dumb take, plenty of insanely creative indie devs who are the programmer, artist,composer, sound designer, writer and game designer at the same time, and put out very original quality work. Literally some of the most creative people out there.

If you are able to, I would almost always recommend changing.

That's correct.

What I said to him among other things, "mee muualle siitä setämieheilemään" =" why don't you go be 'uncle man' elsewhere."

Uncle man would be something used to call out middle aged men who are being nasty, usually for women much younger than them.

I called out man in his fifties being sleezy around women who didn't have any company.

I roasted him , to which he responded "you are bad" (in my native language that word would specifically mean bad at something).

Bad at WHAT bro?

Only places you are allowed to go to toilet on your trip challenge.