Perhaps old games with poor graphics are so popular because people are particularly fed up with reality these days.

All the fantasy characters that my little niece comes up with. There’s Ella, for example, who runs a dinosaur zoo, or Bruno, the cloud architect (he’s not an IT guy).

Yup. Just imagine what the seats would look like if they were white. Probably also a graffiti pattern, but an extremely unpleasant one…

Yes, can always be more relaxing tho

So definitely not Trump or any of his cronies.

Their fancy clothes are probably all burnt by now, but it’s their own fault, they just shouldn’t have attacked the wilderness.

Shouldn’t B-flat tho… sorry…I’ll show myself out.

Neato, thanks! Now I am the master of life and death! Very cool that you can also see how others have decided.

The Trolley Problem meme originates from a philosophical thought experiment that presents an ethical dilemma: whether to pull a lever to divert a runaway trolley, killing one person instead of five. Initially proposed by philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967, it has evolved into various memes that exaggerate the moral choices involved, often depicting ridiculous scenarios to highlight the complexity of ethical decision-making.

I think the strongest brand America has ever had is capitalism™. And I don’t think anything would change in the entertainment industry if America was openly autocratic. I think the US is organized that way for a very long time, just with a veneer of democracy to keep the people somewhat happy.

As a European, I can’t see any difference. It is true that Bush junior - just like his father - shamelessly exploited his supremacy to bring Iraq under his control, but I don’t see what has changed since then.

Why is that?

That’s right. And the US is well on its way. It is unfortunately almost an exact copy of historical events.

Yes, the “Klüngel” has a very long tradition in Germany - from carnival clubs in Cologne and Düsseldorf, to beer tent friendships or fraternities in Munich and elsewhere, to the Rotary and Lions Clubs in pretty much every German city. But I still agree that things have gotten much worse in recent years.

It’s a crying shame, especially as many voters either still let themselfs be fooled by the pretended bickering of the parties or can’t do much on their own to actually change anything. They don’t see, don’t want to see or just watch helplessly as the majority of at least the top politicians pursue the same goals despite their apparent differences: Unscrupulous self-enrichment and favoritism at the expense of the citizens and even future generations.

I don’t think the situation is likely to be much different for adults, as German mainstream politics unfortunately hardly represents the interests of the population anymore, but increasingly only those of the economic elite.

CDU politician Friedrich Merz, the candidate for chancellor of the largest popular party and, unfortunately, presumably the next German chancellor, is just one example of many: The man was head of the supervisory board of Black Rock Germany until 2020 and has always been a keen business lobbyist throughout his whole career (source).

Both the top candidates and the minor functionaries of many other parties have similar “affiliations” that can hardly be described as anything else than open corruption. The fact that the press continuously uses the trivializing PR term lobbyism in this context should not fool anyone anymore.

However, as there are hardly any credible alternatives, people still have to vote for these established parties - or worse still: they vote for the opportunistic demagogues of the AfD, who pursue the same neoliberal economic policy but hide this fact behind xenophobic and of course absolutely fictitious bogus, just like the MAGA people in the USA.

So I guess it’s not too surprising that many Germans have lost faith in politics - I’m pretty sure that this is true for most age groups.

Unfortunately, only for their own benefit.

Probably not too many, but she seems to have landed a good job with this degree regardless.

Idk, but Disaster Girl has apparently made a good deal including a 10 percent cut on any future sales. Not that I think that this NFT has sold for even near the original price but she will still get “royalties” from the looks of it. Good for her that she used this bubble in time.

I was wondering about that as well. We’ll probably never know. Anyway, I’m glad that her unwanted internet fame in this timeline hasn’t ruined her life and that she seems to have benefited from it instead - at least financially. That’s nice, because she really deserves to be compensated for the joy she brought to the internet over the years.

How time flies. Sorry to break it to you, but Disaster Girl is now 24 and apparently working as a Smart Cities & IoT Analyst at S&P Global. But hey, Side-Eyeing Chloe is still just 13 now.