I feel like there's been a massive rise in "gonna act like an arsehole because I can" over recent years.

It's worn me to the bone. It's relentless. We've built a world where people have decided it's no big deal to literally destroy other people because their personal gain is more important.

Everything is under siege. All the time. You can't just opt out and go listen to waves on the beach. Some arsehole is gonna find you there too and find a way to make life shit for you.

I was chatting to a nice lady yesterday about her computer. She couldn't work out how to attach a different keyboard to it.

All the while I'm thinking "how long before someone hacks your Windows OS and cleans out your bank account?" She has no idea how exposed she is. One click on a dodgy email and her world could be flipped upside down.

How did we end up creating a world where people are thrown to the wolves like this? How badly have we screwed this up.

And this is just that section of the world where nobody is dropping bombs on my home, or shooting children in classrooms, or banning access to abortion and other healthcare.

We are living in the worst timeline. If there actually was a multiverse with different planet earths then ours would be the one that nobody else wants to visit.

@ewen i dunno, given the hypothetical, i'd assume that our world was so bad BECAUSE it was being manipulated and exploited out of sight to, but for the exclusive benefit of, the worlds technically advanced enough to get here. multiversal colonialism

so there’d probably *lots* of people that would want to visit, buy cheap exploitation-produced stuff and cool urban “shitworld” art, mess up a couple locals because we're all subhuman scum to them and then pop off back to their utopias. laughing about how it's our own fault for being so savage and primitive that we banned slap bracelets instead of realising that with a few modifications you can travel to parallel worlds with them because our brains are too shitworld and now with them in control we'll never figure it out

@Urban_Hermit @ewen gosh what a name

to be a piper of h-beams