Broadly the larpers on here think that fertility declines can be counteracted by stripping women of their rights and implementing some sort of (this varies) hypertrad social structure with religion as the social technology to hold it together.

Of course, this wouldn’t work. https://t.co/R63KJsGcQP

— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) July 4, 2025

It is impossible to recreate the cultural past by recreating the material conditions of that past. Culture simply does not work like that; as Nietzsche knew, there is no going back. That project is doomed to fail in really heinous ways.

How modern logos would look like in ’84.

Cool, but some of these fonts were not around in 1984 and regarding the Discord logo, there were absolutely no game controllers that looked like that in ’84. That would’ve been a joystick like this:

In my hands is my new PlayStation 2. Jack Tretton is smiling at me. Everybody in Best Buy is smiling.

I take off my PS VR headset. I am back in the senior care facility. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put the headset back on.

I hold my PlayStation. I am smiling, too. https://t.co/IFMw7gdQuA

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 2, 2025

I do not like this post. Not at all.

Videogames are something I never really got into and I never owned a PS2. But I do remember that release day as it was all over the news.

What pre-internet experience do you miss the most?

I miss the lack of surveillance. Not that there was none, but it had a cost; if someone or some entity wanted to keep tabs on you it was an active effort. These days if you have a mobile phone or a car made since ~2015 nearly anyone can buy your data and find out a huge amount of info. The government of course can also track your every move effortlessly. And don’t even try to convince me that smartphones do not “listen” to our convos. Unless you’ve gone full clown, it’s obvious that they do.

We’re all in the panopticon now, with no way out.

It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human.

They are going to regret all of those painfully-stupid tattoos too.

But it’s the complete lack of social skills of that generation that is the real problem. At least a few are attempting to do something about it, but it’s a drop in the bucket and probably will not matter.

Dating requirements.

This isn’t entirely wrong, but it also isn’t fair to women.

It ignores that being attractive isn’t actually that easy. We live in an obesogenic environment that requires a lot of self-control. And to be what most men consider attractive¹ involves quite a lot of work from women: “natural” makeup, shaving legs and armpits, dressing decently and flatteringly and other skin care and body care routines that most men are not even aware of.

But it’s right in that men are more judged on things they have no control over, especially in the US².

As a first approximation, women are valued for merely existing; men are valued for status and achievements. Those men who have neither are considered disposable by both men and women.

1. If you don’t just naturally have it like my partner.
2. Women in other countries aren not so incredibly, unhealthily obsessed with height as American women are. Don’t know why.

Burger King Stuck in the 70’s.

Nope. That’s what some early 1990s Burger Kings looked like. Which is itself a poorly-done revival of 1950s diner motifs, which was a rehash of 1920s prefabricated diner aesthetics, which was itself a recapitulation of earlier horsedrawn express wagon designs that were popular in the 1880s.

So. Nothing is original. All is appropriation, remixing and reinvention.

Gen Z Woman Just Discovered ‘Millennial Pause.’

This pause is real, but is not due to just the former quirks of various social media apps. Not at all. It’s because analog recording tech such as audio cassettes and VHS tapes usually had a 1-3 second period where they had to spool up and actually start recording when you hit the button.

A lot of millennials (and all of Gen X) remember those times, while Gen Z has no clue; all of that was gone by the time they came around.

And that is where the pause comes from.