Guttural

This guy's solution to becoming crappier over time is "I'll drink every day, but abstain one day a week".

I'm not convinced that "that ship has sailed" as he puts it.

It'll happen at the same time as the mythical collapse of China, which never comes.

I'd welcome the end of imperialism as well, mind you.

Imagine being on the wrong side of reality

Fair enough, I wish it is that way!

Ford Ka? Or another type of Ka?

How do you know? Can you prove it?

I have no way to tell, one way or another, so I'm not saying you are objectively wrong.

But you sound... Categorical.

If, and that's a big if, you don't remember a thing, then things could have happened that you won't remember.

I don't actually believe that this is what happened, but it's not the rational slam dunk one might think it is.

I wish it is that way though. I don't want to relive the experience I went through earlier in my life.

Main character syndrome?

My conscience ends.

If the materialists are right, the atoms I'm made of end up reforming my conscience into another mortal coil as a matter of statistics.

If they're wrong and there's a spirit that's not bound to the material world, I end up living inside another hull that accepts consciousness. Repeatedly. Could be human, alien, or that of an animal.

If that happens, I want to live in a world that respects all consciousness.

Must be nice living in that bubble of yours: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned-by-russias-economy-trump-mulls-more-sanctions-2025-01-23/

Or do you know the Russian economy better than its dictator?

Women are also capable of misoginy. They're statistically less inclined to be because the problems with misoginy are more tangible for them than it is for men.

I don't expect the economy to fully collapse, no. It rarely actually happens. But standards of living deteriorate. It already started btw, the inflation being reported in the media is not something I invented.