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Densely populated isn't a problem for everyone (I like dense), and the pollution isn't as bad as it used to be, right?

The authoritarian part is a major major issue of course, but my layperson perceptions of the material conditions of China is that it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, and is getting better

And another upside, good public transit

I don't even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that's not like, food

Maybe it would help the world course correct away from neoliberalism and the growing (and present/ threat of fascism. It's clear that neoliberalism has failed, and we're now seeing the consequences of it

Though, in practice it's probably more likely something else weird will happen, and wealth inequality and capitalism will stay

Although, I do wonder if, if a big great-depression-era-like crash happens, we would ever be able to get out of it again, in terms of growth. We're already seeing the immense and pervasive amount of squeeze in the form of universal enshittification, and we might be hitting towards the limits of growth, at least without radically overhauling our societies and economic system. Maybe the contradictions in capitalism are getting too strong

I seeee, it did cross my mind it being a joke, but I also thought you might have been mocking it lol

Why? New slang has always been forming, it's literally how language evolves

Oh I fully get you, and it is a problem, but at least enough of the people I know consider discord's behaviour problematic already that it would be possible to get things rolling with migrating smaller communities and friends

The big communities though? Yeah no. There's a reason Facebook is still used, it's used a lot for organizing things

If they were on the position to produce it, they would have. I highly doubt they chose to not make high end cards "just because", especially because that's where the profit margins would be the highest

I think that you're simply expecting a bit too much, and a little too far ahead in terms of your requirements. 4K RT 120fps is something that's just barely starting to get achievable at the absolute highest end, and even then not without compromises

Don't worry, once it goes public it will get worse and easier to replace

I mean I use it, and I'm in my mid-20

What do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can't just plop them into another field

The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering

Yeah, possibly. Either way hard to predict how such a hypothetical would end up. Maybe you'll get stuff like china coming in and providing guarantees to Africa etc

Either way, probably a mess

Well I'm mostly thinking they're gonna benefit depending on how ignored they end up being in any potential conflict, as a consequence of not being in that conflict. That's mostly speculation, I don't have anything to actually back it up beyond my meanderings