The thing is, all of it, yes, all of it was and still is avoidable. We have the tools to unfuck the climate change, to get population levels under control, to distribute enough to those who need it.

We choose not to. Fucking hell.

The west has been living of a shrinking technological advantage to China, and at the same time, profited of producing things and selling things to China. At the simplest core, the crisis of, say, European car brands is to a large part driven by the almost comically simple fact that Chinese companies figured out how to build decent cars and Chinese citizens choose (understandably) Chinese cars over Western ones. Coupled with absolutely horrible dogshit economic policies here, as much as I hate “Imperialism, but Red”, the fact that someone like Xi wants to run the show for more than 5 years might be our downfall. We plan to next quarter, they plan to the next quarter century.

Loneliness is difficult to deal with, especially if you used to be married and are at an age where new people don’t come easy any more.

One of the “death bed confessions” of my granddad was that he regretted never re-marrying.

Yeah, that’s on him.

There is, however, a big difference between (let’s say) “you smell and look at your feet too much” and “you command people around and treat people as inferior”, for example

Nice bait, dude. I hope you get something from the answers here.