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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by usrbinbash »

low_tech_love wrote: post #937
usrbinbash wrote: post #901

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> What do you think of the argument... I think that a single train can hold over 1000 people, and requires much less energy, not to mention space, materials, infrastructure and maintenance, than hundreds of individual cars in which these 1000 people sit in 1s or maybe 2s. Again, it doesn't matter how they are powered; cars suck as an idea; simply because of how horribly they scale. They require tons of resources to b…

Honest question: doesn’t the factor of individual freedom to move anywhere you want any time you want have any weight in this matter for you? You’ve got good points and I live in a rich European country for 7 years without a car, but there are other aspects of this kind of forced communal life that depress me quite a lot. In fact the problem here for me is exactly that you don’t need a car because even if you have, t…

> Honest question: doesn’t the factor of individual freedom to move anywhere you want any time you want have any weight in this matter for you?

Let's get the obvious out of the way first:

Does it matter more than keeping our habitat viable to support the continuous exstence of our species? No. No it does not.

With that out of the way: I don't see why individual freedom to move would be impacted by this. Imagine a world where we invest as much into public transport as we now do into cars. Imagine how spacious, frequent and comfortable the public transport is in that world.

Additionally, focusing on PublicTransport doesn't mean cars need to be abolished completely. Need a car for a day? Where I live I can rent one (and a nice one at that) within minutes on my phone, and get it from a public garage where it is stored.

We will need to have street infrastructure in the future as well anyway: Local delivery, emergency vehicles, construction, etc. That's fine. That can stay. And so can rentable cars for those in-between times when people actually need a car.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by usrbinbash »

kortilla wrote: post #935
usrbinbash wrote: post #901

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> What do you think of the argument... I think that a single train can hold over 1000 people, and requires much less energy, not to mention space, materials, infrastructure and maintenance, than hundreds of individual cars in which these 1000 people sit in 1s or maybe 2s. Again, it doesn't matter how they are powered; cars suck as an idea; simply because of how horribly they scale. They require tons of resources to b…

It sounds like you’re more interested in trains than solutions to global warming. > This is how actual people in actual cities live, today. Many european and asian cities are completely accessible by public transport. And many people hate it too. Look at the popularity of cabs/ubers/limos in those cities. Scaling up packing as many people as possible into cities is not a desirable goal to significant chunks of people…

> It sounds like you’re more interested in trains than solutions to global warming.

No, it really doesn't sound like that.

Trains, and other public transport vehicles, in comparison to the damage that individual traffic does, ARE a contributing solution to global warming.

> Scaling up packing as many people as possible into cities is not a desirable goal to significant chunks of people.

Oh really? Then how did cities come to be in the first place?

But you know what really makes cities a hell to live in? Covering them with multi-lane roads and giant parking lots for those flotillas of pointless metal boxes with rubber wheels.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by harhargange »

I used it a recently as 2021 to practice stand-up sessions, get some confidence to show my face to strangers and be connected with the world at the absolutely worst point in my life. Even since a decade before that I frequented Omegle and saved a few conversations for eternity which I shared on Twitter long time back

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by geraldhh »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #775
midasz wrote: post #534

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Teenage me loved the edginess. Adult me just finds it boring. More like a phase thing to me.

Our generation grew up on offensive / edginess, things like late 90's shock rock, South Park, Jackass, Saw, etc. Nobody cares anymore, and it feels like nobody's tried to out-edge series like South Park. It feels like we've reached rock bottom so the only way is up. Which is a good thing btw.

> nobody's tried to out-edge series like South Park. It feels like we've reached rock bottom so the only way is up.

maybe you haven't been looking or looking with a different perspective, but it was definitely tried and accomplished, imho.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by geraldhh »

Aicy wrote: post #592
yafbum wrote: post #547

Every social app is a party, and every party peters out one way or another. Too few people? It's dead. Too many people? Chilling effects. No budget to police the place? It becomes a magnet for abuse / spam / porn / scams / human trafficking / you name it. This party lasted more than most, they should be proud to have had such a long run.

Not sure what parties you are going to but mine have never had human trafficking

with your head up ur ass, you just didn't notice

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by riffraff »

jakderrida wrote: post #519
riffraff wrote: post #471

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It's also whatever is removed in time because people simply forgot about it. It's a constant discourse in my country to think of today as "dangerous" and idealize some earlier decades where you'd "leave the door open" while by all metrics crime was actually higher. We just collectively forgot about it. That's one of the reasons every age and culture has a golden age/arcadia/Eden mythology.

>It's a constant discourse in my country to think of today as "dangerous" and idealize some earlier decades where you'd "leave the door open" while by all metrics crime was actually higher. This highlights a great point about past media. Films like The Warriors, Class of 1999, and even A Clockwork Orange play into this notion that juveniles have become worse and worse and we can expect a hellscape from future generat…

I doubt it's about last century media, "youth have no respect these days" goes literally back to before Christ, we have ancient Greek texts that say this, and probably older still.

I do agree kids _seem_ to be more risk-averse these days.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by geraldhh »

gosub100 wrote: post #781
rsynnott wrote: post #626

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Yes; moaning about both the youth of today and old people goes back, at least, millennia (though there are sometimes cultural taboos against moaning about old people which dampens that down). My pet half-serious theory is that we currently talk a lot about the dastardly millennials and boomers because senior media staff are largely genX; note that we don't hear much about genX these days. This will start to change in…

the whole generation-labelling thing is fabricated, likely because it gives the media something else to divide us with. the only officially labelled generation was the baby boomers.

> officially labelled generation

can't find "un office of generation labels" please advise

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by jhatemyjob »

tremere wrote: post #662
jhatemyjob wrote: post #531

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The public internet has always been garbage dude. Ever since eternal september in 93. The trick is a good filter. It seems like you lucked into some good filters in the past, but forgot to rotate them when they stopped working

Humor me. Recommend a filter for me to get me started. It doesn't even have to be that good and if I'm disappointed I won't be able to reply anyway.

nice try

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by olifante »

BobaFloutist wrote: post #941
_wf2l wrote: post #852

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so basically, you're suggesting that the terrorists goal to attack the US and destabilize the globe is correct, and the terrorists won? sounds like the war shouldn't have happened, and the correct solution was not to do that

I mean I think at least a plurality of people on this website agree that the War on Iraq was a mistake. A lot of people at the time were very clear that it was a mistake.

That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by concordDance »

shanusmagnus wrote: post #884
concordDance wrote: post #584

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> For one, there's children. For another, moderation and law enforcement is a good thing I think the idea that the government has any place controlling people's ability to freely communicate in private is at least five orders of magnitude more dangerous than allowing children to communicate freely with random adults. But I expect you're one of those people who thinks everyone should be required to wear a microphone t…

You could have had your first paragraph without the second and the world would have been better for it.

Aye, emotions got the better of me.
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