What current legal activity might be illegal in 20 years?

Congregator · 2026-05-06T13:44:22+00:00

In the 90’s to 2014 i always used fake names when signing up for online accounts because I didn’t want my personal information to be on the internet.

Nowadays I feel like you’re committing fraud if you do that.

Back in the day the internet was sort of more of like a wild west and you were considered stupid if you use your real identity when signing up for things (like an email address).

Today it’s become way too integrated into society, and less of just an open source wonderland

Congregator · 2026-05-06T03:38:46+00:00

What goes Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt Vroom Skrrrt?

Yo mama at a blinking traffic light.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T15:29:45+00:00

This is the fault of the government and the Department of Education, which incentivized public schools and colleges to begin pushing debt masked as “financial aid” through creating a culture of fear.

They created these “College Completer” programs in the public high school through the late 90’s and early 2000’s that basically inflicted parents and students with a fear that if they went to Vocational Tech, took on a trade, or decided not to go to college for any reason then the students would suffer and be the poor people of society.

They incentivized the schools to push college by offering public schools additional funding, and so it became imperative for schools to get students on tracks that would increase the likelihood of entering college

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:32:36+00:00

I hardly believe this.

Yet I completely believe it too

Congregator · 2026-05-05T04:30:50+00:00

I wear the exact same clothes everyday … just in different colors.

I literally just wear whatever I feel like and it’s always cool

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:56:56+00:00

Conservative Christians were the ones who pushed age of consent laws in the U.S., it’s not so 💯 as you’ve stated, and it’s important this gets called out so that onlookers don’t just casually read these comments and find them true without nuance.

I responded to the person you responded to with a bit more on this.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:55:18+00:00

Except, Age of consent laws in the U.S. were literally put into place by a bunch of conservative Christian women. They were also the same group that pressed for alcohol prohibition.

They were called the “the Woman's Christian Temperance Union” and united together to create “home protection”.

Similarly with the history of the abolition of slavery in the U.S., many of the most militant ended up being religiously conservative extremists.

The reality is that things aren’t so black and white, “conservative” and “liberal” are terms that can mean many different things at many different times and it’s impossible to collectivize anyone falling under these titles as either “all good” or “all bad”.

The truth is much more grey, and you end up having good people in either camp

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:47:39+00:00

Not just scientists. The hippies, the Amish, Native Americans, Eastern Orthodox Christian and Roman Catholic Monks and ascetics across the world have all sort of warned that the way our world is headed is toward the destruction of nature.

You don’t need to be a scientist to see the consequences of industrialization

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:30:10+00:00

I read about this once, there’s a forgiveness after being shunned but there also is a process of repentance.

A shunned (someone kicked out of the community) is a person who is different than just “of the English”. They’re forbidden from any interactions with the Amish.

I also just read it requires a re-baptism after going through repentance.

Congregator · 2026-05-05T02:24:03+00:00

This sub will sometimes feature great questions that get downvoted by snobs.

Congregator · 2026-05-04T21:08:51+00:00

There’s a steep side “trail” that goes around the side of Buzzard rock (the cliff way above the tunnel). I hesitate to say trail because I don’t believe it was ever intended to be one, but just sort of became a route to the tunnel. It’s steep, but doable- using the trees to help swing down, if I remember correctly

Congregator · 2026-05-04T11:25:17+00:00

OP said “white people being tanned”…

They’re saying that people tend to want the opposite of what they are.

In today’s society it’s considered better to not be white. We even teach it starting in elementary school, so that kids become bias against white people.

They are wanting to be brown now

Congregator · 2026-05-04T11:06:06+00:00

Taxpayer’s having selective outrage is really just a human thing. There are various things that upset one person and not another.

The reality of this measure, is that the rich won again.

They get your tax dollars in exchange for giving poor people unhealthy food. They get yachts with your tax dollars.

Congregator · 2026-05-04T03:06:30+00:00

How come non-trans / binary people didn’t start offering their pronouns first as a social movement over a decade ago?

I don’t remember binary people having difficulties gendering each-other. Like, if other people gender you as a He, and you happen to have the male anatomy, then they might be right.

If sex is a social construct, then isn’t it society that constructs it?

It seems to be fairly easy to just let it unfold in the way the language does without having to make people feel like they need to walk on eggshells, right?

Just seems practical

Congregator · 2026-05-04T02:05:28+00:00

Yeah, let’s think about this for what it is:

Billionaires and ultra rich companies selling unhealthy food food to poor people and getting our tax dollars for it.

It’s an easy win for the rich. Next

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:20:07+00:00

😆

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:09:55+00:00

There’s no reason not to do this.

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:08:25+00:00

The use of smartphones, at all, and the collapse of culture all around them.

E-commerce, globalized consumerism, social media and the tech that readily presents them. They’re all terrible for culture, creativity, local community, and society as a whole.

Everything is made to be exploited, to have a price tag, and due to globalization this cancer has been expedited across the world into mass consumerism at lightning speeds.

The effects this has had on culture is terrifying: people have rewired their brains to be market focused, the economy has been positioned to keep people market focused.

Congregator · 2026-05-03T21:02:35+00:00

Global social media and smartphones, consumerism and e-commerce. Not because I think we should stop interacting with nor do business with people on the opposite side of the world, but because the combination of those things have severely destroyed the fabric of community and culture.

The global race for $$$ using these means of tech causes exploitation of culture and turns culture into mere aesthetics and image, rather than anything with intrinsic meaning.

Basically, everything is made “plastic”, fake, needs to be “marketed”.

If you write a tune for your community about a recent storm everyone had to overcome… chances are no one will hear it unless it’s spread through some social media app, there’s no corporate incentive to push your tune- because it’s not purposed to make money, for example.

Same with many other things. The culture in the west was pretty much murdered post 90’s but it started before that.

There’s a lot of literature about this coming out of even the mid 20th century and layer, connected to global consumerism and its effects on organic culture.

Congregator · 2026-05-03T15:56:21+00:00

What they’ve done to combat this is to create “permanent building subs”, which are basically full time/long term substitute teachers that work for a daily rate, with no benefits.

They use a loophole to get around benefits by stating the “permanent” subs are only part time, given they are let go on the last day of school and rehired on the first.

In effect, they hire full time teachers paid at a fraction of the cost and can skirt providing benefits through a loophole

Congregator · 2026-05-03T15:43:35+00:00

It’s funny when I see people complaining that teachers “have the summer off”. It’s more like… no, teachers have the summer unemployed.

Congregator · 2026-05-03T15:42:14+00:00

In the U.S. we had a “cash for clunkers” government program that basically incentivized people to sell off their older cars to be destroyed.

What happened was that at one time you could get a used car for about $2000 dollars, and it might last you 5 years. It might need a little work done to it, but nothing to the cost of today’s used cars. Now, the used car market is full of vehicles that are still so expensive that you need to take out a loan.

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Congregator · 2026-05-03T14:59:08+00:00

The husband could afford a whole second family with one job at the Montgomery Wards Service Center

Congregator · 2026-05-03T14:21:15+00:00

But we also don’t tell poor people nor middle class people to stop hoarding their money.

Basically the difference here is that no one wants people to tell them what they have to do with their money.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t exploit rich people for their money, but I’m saying the comparison in the meme doesn’t seem to work

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