Fascism (hopefully).
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” - George Santayana
I live in the post communist part of the EU and I'm very happy that wokeness and the culture war haven't arrived here yet. Everybody here still follows good faithed common sense, which is a refreshing change from the UK and Germany (both of which I have spent time in), where it is a topic of conversation. Yet not at the cost of LGBT rights, which are legally in step with the West.
Genuine question which I promise I am asking in good faith: what do you think "wokeness" is?
Oh sure! In the UK it was stuff like the use (and expectation) of pronouns. Or institutions taking steps to be 'LGBT-friendly' and making sure they tell you about it. Sometimes it felt almost forced and I just got tired of it as a topic.
I too want these people to feel comfortable, but as long as the legislation is there and people try to be friendly (just like they would be to anyone else), the rest just feels like an overreaction to me.
Im living in post communist part too... or not so post communist it seem lately. The culture war is here, the old commies call themselves right wing nationalist christians, and rebuilding the commie system, saying everybody who is not with them is enemy, commie, and liberal homosexual, pedophile...
Fidget spinners.
Neurodivergent people everywhere appreciated how it made them go to being 5 bucks at a gas station instead of 20 + shipping
Why? It's such an odd thing to hate
"clutch"
Starbucks and Krispy Kreme
The craze for self-driving cars, especially if the current machine trend is anything to go by. Two issues with it I can't help but understand is that driving needs a human factor and that if the freedom of being in the driver seat wasn't an issue, we'd be significantly closer to desiring a system of long distance personal rails instead of cars. I'm all for metasystemic road reform.
Building that amount of steel infrastructure really isn't as easy as you trainbrain idealists seem to think, we really shouldn't destroy the planets climate just to make a huge grid of expensive to maintain tracks when there are far better options - such as fleet managed self driving cars.
If course trains are great for medium length journeys on high volume routes, commuting for example but they're not a one size fits all solution
Both options are pretty destructive to the environment (though I was thinking more monorail-esque than trains), but roads and cars I would think do more negatives, from the road construction to the CO2 to the car accidents. And it might not even be rails that are the best option, I just know our traffic system is horrendous.
Tamagochi
