What is something happening in / to the world today that would have sounded totally unbelievable to you 15 years ago?
Posted by Substratas@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 178 comments
And if it's something negative, do you believe it will change for the better again within our lifetime?
Full_Helicopter_2764@reddit
A reality personality being president of the United States.
mrbluewarrior@reddit
Drones
Loworz2@reddit
If we are strictly talking about Balkans, I would say very few things changed but I would say that the main thing is that the younger generation are growing up on the American side of the internet (which imo is the worst time we should be using it). If we are talking about like the west which is the most mainstream of them all... even in 2012 the west felt way more authentic and nicer to be than it is now.
Acceptable-Major-575@reddit
younger you also doesn't exist, you are a completely different person now
terra_filius@reddit
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man
miniatureconlangs@reddit
but I find that wet feet soon get caked with sand and grit that's very unpleasant, especially between the toes, so when I go for a stroll I stay on the sidewalk and I always wear a pair of nice, warm boots.
Lost_Ice6272@reddit
Agh
Dawncracker_555@reddit
That there might not be a west to go to when I decide to leave this place.
Fearless_Permit1583@reddit
What do you mean?
Dawncracker_555@reddit
USA politics have gone mad. EU is trying to get it's shit together in this geopolitical situation. People in Canada claim that the housing and debt situation is completely out of hand.
Now, what today's Germans call a crisis I call paradise from my standpoint, but the prognosis isn't exactly good. IDK what's going to happen, but the exit strategy from the shitshow of Serbia was to move west. There might not be a better life in the west to move to.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
š¢
Brawl_starr@reddit
AI
Tramagust@reddit
AI existed 15 years ago. It just wasn't mainstream and marketing panic.
Brawl_starr@reddit
I mean image gen and llm's
Tramagust@reddit
Both existed but they were in labs and universities. GANs are from 2014 https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
LLMs were first achieved in 2000: https://www.isca-archive.org/icslp_2000/xu00b_icslp.pdf
Alone-Excitement8864@reddit
Ok bro so instead of saying just AI: We should say wide spread adaption of AI and llm's. I remember I watched a video about gpt2 years ago.
blueliondn@reddit
GAN's were not in labs or universities, anyone with good hardware could run them and they take different approach from diffusion models, it's a totally different thing, goal and philosophy that takes massive amount of images of same kind (e.g. dataset of flowers) and after some epochs generates few unique image of flowers
For LLM, if you define LLM as a model that predicts parts of words (next token) using transformers, then you're wrong too. But however you define LLM's you can't go earlier than 2016 for that
Tramagust@reddit
I define LLMs as LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS. Large models are producing language can be traced back to the paper I linked and is in fact commonly cited in academia.
The fact that you could run a GAN at home does not refute my point. So IDK what you want.
OkBarracuda4108@reddit
The good llms that we have today are transformer based which was designed in 2017 by Google
icameisawicame24@reddit
I remember discovering Cleverbot when I was like 13-14 and it absolutely blew my mind.
dorobica@reddit
Came here to say this, such a weird technology
ZinbaluPrime@reddit
What you call AI is not actually AI. It is a LLM which is a very niche strain of AI. What you think of id GeneralAI which is not likely achievable with our current tech
What we have now are basically chat bots that are wrong 50% of the time and the 50 is bloated shitstorm.
Unless you are mentally challenged, current "AI" can help you cook some shit, but you are way faster googling the answer yourself.
Party_Banana_52@reddit
I mean, it is more than faster googling. How does human mind work? LLMs are just simplified versions of human mind without the complicating characteristic details such as limbic system.. So it is just soulless logic machine which puts random associated things together.
And when you use it efficiently, it saves lots of time and effort for you. Because often that "putting things together" part takes time.
Hot-Charge198@reddit
if i ask a human 10 times the same thing, i will always get the same answer. an ai? not even close
stoputa@reddit
Not really, LLM afaik was not directly inspired by the human mind, it does not have a neural-like structure like a lot of the traditional ML approaches.
It's basically a matrix multiplication (how we get to those matrices is the complicated part). That sort of parallilism is just not there in human brain. LLMs are successful because of some clever advancements 10 years ago and abusing open/licensed data and computational power ever sincd. Though admittedly I may be missing something on the neurological aspect
I want to return back to home computers being "the big thing", I've never felt so depressed with the state of technology
virginitor@reddit
Wrong 50% of the time? LMFAO. Buddy using the ChatGPT free model with 5 sec ads from a web called free text AI and think he said something smart.
fk_censors@reddit
It can turn grainy pictures into actual text or spreadsheets, which is very helpful.
Ujemegaz@reddit
Yes.
pythonprogrammer64@reddit
Same
mother-thc-21@reddit
Pls donāt depress me rn
cedesse@reddit
The speed at which democracy has gone completely down the drain
The Epstein network's total control of the elite
The extent of Mossad and Israel's power
The complete politization of common ground and facts
Artificial Intelligence (or Machine Learning, which it really just is)
The insatiable greed and political ambitions of the rich
Burning_MatchStick@reddit
Here in Europe the democracy works fine net evryweahre but mostly ..
cedesse@reddit
Europe is definetely not worse than the United States.
Even if the European Commission is not directly elected, it is actually healthy that you have multiple political decision levels that can challenge each other. Commissioners - not even Ursula - has more power than the majority of the PMs of the member states will allow. The Council still holds ultimate power over the decisions.
The biggest threat to democracy is corruption. The magnitude of money in US politics has gone through the roof during the past 20-30 years. That alone makes it much, much worse than Europe.
Russia is a complete cleptocracy. Putin is one of the richest men on the planet after 25 years in power. The US of A has been bad for a long time. But it has moved much closer to cleptocracy under the Trump administration. They aren't even trying to hide how they are filling their pockets anymore.
Bribing politicians and parties - even if we are talking millions of Euros or Dollars - is a fantastic cheap way to control legislation - and block any attempts to share the goods more evenly.
Apatride@reddit
Europe is actually worse. The EU makes most decisions up to regional level and cities/towns usually have no power. It means that when Von Der Leyen (who we, the people, cannot vote out, we can't even get her investigated) decides something, it is applied, no matter who you voted for.
betacarotentoo@reddit
Israel's power is old news. More than 15 years older.
cedesse@reddit
I think the reason I included it in the list was the Epstein files that pretty much reveals that Israeli interests were using Epstein as their willing tool to ensnare nearly every influential fucker in the US of A - as well as some European top figures.
Apatride@reddit
Well, here is the thing: Was democracy a tool to prevent this or to empower this?
The outcome points to the latter.
Aggravating_Dark9933@reddit
My government teacher liked to frame it as āpreventing a populist uprisingā. That tended to be code for āitās an oligarchyā.
Remember the original version of the government only the House of Representatives could be directly voted in. The States appointed Senators, the electoral college voted in the president, and the President appointed Supreme Court.Ā Guess what seats had the least amount of power? Thatās right, the House.
The People never held power, and they only started loosening the reins when they knew they could still control things.
America was never even to pass its own āis this a democracyā test. Namely because voter turnout was so piss poor.
Apatride@reddit
Bad voter turnout is a consequence, not a cause. When the person who gets elected has no major influence over what is going to happen because lobbies run the country or, worse, there is a super-government who makes all the decisions (EU), people tend to realise that voting is utterly useless.
cedesse@reddit
"If voting made any difference, they wouldnāt let us do it,"
- Emma Goldman
Apatride@reddit
I did not know it was from her. I knew it from a French comedian (who died in very dodgy circumstances after running for president and having a decent chance to win), Michel Collucci (AKA Coluche): Si votait changeait quoi que ce soit, ca ferait longtemps que ce serait interdit (If voting changed anything, it would have been forbidden a long time ago).
Silly_lil_Guy_o3o@reddit
Democracy only goes as far as the people deciding who makes the rules for them, hence why most countries are "republics" and insatiable greed/political ambitions have been a thing for as long as we have existed. We were just less "wise" to it.
cedesse@reddit
I agree with that analysis.
Representational democracy is basically a supervised playground. As long as we (the playing children) stick to arguing with and fighting each other (something commercial and state-controlled media are designed to instigate), we feel our opinions matter and that voting makes a difference.
And since the majority of people care very little about "the system" and how it actually works (or how corrupt it is becoming) - as long as they aren't starving, democratic institutions don't pose a threat to those with real power.
From a powermonger's perspective, democracy and parliamentary systems might not even be needed in the future. Countries like China have proven that you can keep people fed and relatively happy even without the (illusory) freedoms that people in Western countries take for granted.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
InternationalPie1306@reddit
Vietnam-1234@reddit
LGBT is legally existing in this world. (Not homophobic but I found it weird if someone is gay in 2012)
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Where are you from? Iād argue that 2012 was better for being gay, especially here in Sweden.
Vietnam-1234@reddit
I'm from Vietnam, btw I forgot that this is Balkan sub, I should not response this question lol
Mysterious-Put1459@reddit
Italy not qualifying for World cup 3 times in a row
Mountain-Yard-928@reddit
It's okay we deserve it
piergino@reddit
Fucking ashamed
Martha_Fockers@reddit
i had to return my freinds italy jersey for the wc because like why would you even wanna wear it mfers didnt even qualify.
and the store wouldnt take it back man.
DraculaTickles@reddit
This is the official Italian World Cup 2026 outfit.
Martha_Fockers@reddit
Shoulda gotten him a Hawaii shirt and said hereās your Italy soccer team jersey !
Chance missed lmao
Similar_Parking_1295@reddit
Your team sucks for years. You havenāt had a good team since the early 2000s.
ipidov@reddit
Welcome to the club.
floare_salbatica@reddit
And Turkey beating us. They were a nobody in football when I used to watch football games as a kid with my dad.
Mysterious-Put1459@reddit
I guess you didn't watch the 2002 world cup then
floare_salbatica@reddit
I recall something, but I think it was a matter of luck too and a spike in their evolution, not like a constant thing. It's not a team I would hear of, they didn't really matter back then . At least, from what I recall, on European level ( Turkey not being truly European aside) teams that mattered and were feared were: England, France, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy. Croatia was more of a hit or miss. And that's about it.
Icy-Temperature377@reddit
Meanwhile Croatia 3 medals in 6 WCs during my life
Dembus22@reddit
Apatride@reddit
This is going to get bloody. Or at least Ketchupy.
Apatride@reddit
Most Balkan answer ever. I remember hearing about riots and repression in BG and it was not over politics but about football.
StruggleSecret786@reddit
The lockdown during COVID-19.
Apatride@reddit
Most of the answers so far are either evolution rather than revolution or thinking that Trump is the first US president to go completely bonkers (remember, Georges Bush Sr started a war against Iraq and used a relative of the Kuwait Ambassador to the US to lie in front of congress to shift public opinion).
My answer would be the role of the masses as (over)consumer and producers being threatened (due to AI and automation) and, as an extension, their lives.
casual_philosopher02@reddit
I agree SOOO much with you. The American consumerism is insane, you see people fighting over a Stanley, a Labubu, going out of their way to buy the whole pink limited edition COACH bags, which they regret and try to return.... They are out there buing 3 of the same type of bag, who needs aaall that? I may not be the representative of Greek consumers, but I sure as heck would never do all that..... They buy so much that their thrift shops have clothes that were designs of 2025-2026....
Apatride@reddit
They surely take it to the extreme but this entire model cannot survive what is coming (the 5th industrial revolution). No matter the solution we adopt, mass unemployment will kill consumerism and capitalism as we know it.
The problem is that once we stop producing and stop over-consuming as we do now, there is no incentive for people in power to keep us alive. At best we will have the strict minimum needed to survive (Universal Basic Income, which is unemployment benefits rebranded, just worse because there is no way out of it) and will be parked in ghettos, at worst they will eliminate us (pandemic, world war...). Although I am not sure the former is really better. Of course, there is a 3rd option where the rich and powerful share the benefits of this new technology with us because they are nice people... (yeah, I laughed as well).
PrizeSyntax@reddit
Yeah, but the world wasn't as connected as today, add on top all the soc media and AI crap +propaganda from all sides turned up to a 100 with said tools, and you get, today
Apatride@reddit
I agree but again, this part is an evolution, not a revolution. I have been on Compuserve in the late 90's (the ancestor of social media and internet), I have used paper maps for work in the early 2000's then used the Michelin itinerary maps (printed) a few years later then started to use satnav around 2005 (satnav via Google Maps hasn't changed much since). All of it is an evolution. Same thing for propaganda, it just adapted to the new technologies and, while it looks like it is more efficient, I would argue it is not since it just adapted to information being more widely available (back in 1930 Germany they were banning any narrative that does not fit the government's narrative, we had a brief time where access to information was unregulated and accessible to most around 2010 and what we are seeing now if the governments efforts to bring the situation back to "normal").
On the other hand, the change that is looming will dwarf any major event, including the Industrial Revolution(s).
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Good point!
brouuorb@reddit
sparrows becoming uncommon
Women_Suffrage@reddit
House pricing
LenaLena93@reddit
Probably Trumpā¦ he was a host to that reality show 15 years ago, right?
Signal-Dog9356@reddit
Actually Trump is a continuity of American policies since 15 years or more, but in a vulgar way. In reality, America has shifted even before Obama as far as international politics, Europe and so on, but with Trump everything gets magnified through vulgarity and an omnipresent social media lens.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Interesting point. When do you think was the turning point for USA?
Creamy_Commodity@reddit
Reagan
NecessaryStory4504@reddit
The fall of the USSR, for me, USA believed itself to be the victor of the Cold War ( and no more enemies to fight) and that therefore the direction of the world was theirs. The emergence of China and other more secondary actors should have made them reduce their hubris and return to reality: the opposite happened (and I hope that the Iranian crisis will be the end of it).
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Oh, is that the fella responsible for the unaffordable universities & hospitals today?
TiredOperator420@reddit
He is responsible for very low taxes for the rich which allowed a new class of very rich oligarchs like Musk, Zuckenberg, Thiel, Bezos to emerge and influence domestic & international politics.
fk_censors@reddit
Because before that, the poor and unconnected were dictating public policy, sure...
Creamy_Commodity@reddit
The costs today are just an escalation of the deregulation & privatization he pushed during his administration. His administration deregulated a lot of medical costs and cut federally funded healthcare, which pushed providers toward profit seeking. Similarly with education, his administration cut federal funding by 25% and shifted financial assistance for students towards loans rather than grants.
fk_censors@reddit
Healthcare is the most heavily subsidized industry in the US by the government, and one of the most regulated, if not the most regulated industry. Healthcare practitioners can't even send you an email because of the regulations!
It's the absolute worst example you can give for "excesses of capitalism", unless you're some Putin shill trying to attack the US for any reason whatsoever, no matter how irrational.
It's almost like saying the Trabant was so shitty because of capitalism. It's nonsensical.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Absolutely disgusting. The same thing is slowly happening in Sweden, but it takes about a decade or two for āwater to start boilingā.
sneshny@reddit
also see the citizens united v usa ruling in 2010
made big corporate money an inherent part of american politics
Signal-Dog9356@reddit
I think Obama was one of the first to turn the shift towards China as an emerging power. Trump in his first term started to whine about German cars flooding NY streets. And on
No-Butterscotch395@reddit
I agree to an extent, but no president has ever made such drastic cuts to science and research funding
Signal-Dog9356@reddit
Agree
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Strongly agree!
Muted_Ambassador_902@reddit
AI-robot dogs
ArtichokeOutside6973@reddit
Turkey was somewhat respected country and we had hopes for EU. Cyprus was about to be unified. We weren't that nationalist and people were more optimistic back then.
Sure we were seeing the issues but our parents used to say "you'll fix it." and that's it.
We learned we can fix nothing. System was already corrupt.
writebyhand@reddit
I don't think Turkey had any chance of joining the EU, really. It was just a beneficial lie on both sides. Turkish leaders told this to the population to make them feel like things were going in the right direction, and European leaders strung along the Turkish leaders for their own interests. Even before the 2000s, you'd have been hard-pressed to find European leader who seriously thought through Turkey joining the EU and fully supported it. If turkey had 1/4th the population, maybe, but at 80 million it would've
ArtichokeOutside6973@reddit
West got what west wanted. Now the entire continent swarmed by refugees and everyone is crying about it. No one thought the outcome really. Turkey is secular. Sure we can tend to Islamist politics but it is our own choice now. We are secular at core and will always be. I think Turkey should cut all of the ties with EU and strictly keep the relations under the business partnerships. Europe is hostile to us and it always will be.
Visual-Poet7838@reddit
An Island run by a mossad agent, offering sex and other services to the absolute elite, while the elite funds terrorgroup that are directly connected to those they are fighting publicly why turning city after city into a massive concrete cemeterary, while everyone has the tools to watch the war in live trasmission, having the means to access tons and tons and tons of files proving that their president and his gang are pedophiles, while bombing a girlschool with bankbreaking, overtechnified rockets.
avitoxol@reddit
i can't believe holograms are not a thing yet
AccomplishedQuit6535@reddit
EU turning into a dictatorship
TiredOperator420@reddit
That technological progress would be the gateway to authoritarianism and dictatorships and it was supposed to help people make a better living and automate and streamline things.
Enshittiffication of products, ages ago I was hyped for new computers, phones, cars, nowadays, not so much.
Erosion of work/labour, every higher class person nowadays has a boner when thinking about replacing people with AI (LLM) and push middle class into poverty, so expanding on this point: erosion of middle class.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
You devoured with this comment! ššš
TiredOperator420@reddit
With what I have said about erosion of middle class, I forgot two words: housing crisis.
There are no enough apartments in the places where jobs and schools are and where most people actually relocate to.
Lost_Ice6272@reddit
Housing being treated as an asset rather than a human necessity, a shelter!!! There's a great article on this online.
TiredOperator420@reddit
In Poland it's "investment". Some people/companies don't build houses for people but "for investors".
Substratas@reddit (OP)
Here in Sweden as well.
The housing crisis in Stockholm is the absolute worst (people waiting in queues for decades, literally).
Lost_Ice6272@reddit
Yes yes yes
Substratas@reddit (OP)
For me itās the exponentially widening of the gap between the rich and the poor. It has reached beyond any level I could have possibly imagined during these last 15 years.
The word room mate did barely exist 15 years ago, now I hear it from so many adults in 1st world countries. A child over 22 living with their parents was not a thing in Sweden 10 years ago - now itās not that unusual. People canāt afford having children anymore.
The world is like the āboiling frogā fable.
Active_Unit_9498@reddit
IDK for other languages but the term "roommate" has been around in English for centuries. People used to be so poor they shared a single bed, sharing a home or apartment was common.
IkmoIkmo@reddit
For real... just read Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, he describes the commoner city life, sharing a bed in a Parisian lodge infested with cockroaches while working double fulltime. In the book you'll get a sense of words that we don't really use anymore today, like the lodging houses, dollhouses, flophouses, spikes/casual wards etc.
Orwell is a person from my parents' time, recent history, not some medieval peasant 800 years ago.
If people actually ignore their feelings for a second and look at some actual statistics, they wouldn't post as much nonsense. The number of households with 1 person in it has skyrocketed and has never been greater. The average number of people per household has been declining without stop decade after decade for a century now. [0] Yet new homes are bigger than older homes, and the number of homes built relative to stock outpaces the change in the population, leading to fewer people per bigger home. In other words, square meters of space per person has been consistently on the rise. Yet people feel they're uniquely worse off and that the past was paradise. Anyone who has a clue doesn't want to go back to the past in terms of material wealth, housing etc, it was all far worse.
[0] https://www.savills.com/research_articles/255800/188372-0
Substratas@reddit (OP)
It still doesnāt exist in Albania. Iām not saying there arenāt people who donāt have room mates, but I never met one who has.
Itās probably because most people in Albania live with their parents until they can afford their own home while in Northern / Western Europe people are expected to leave their nests very early.
IkmoIkmo@reddit
This is simply contrary to the facts, the number of single-person households as a share of all households has never been larger.
fk_censors@reddit
In the Balkans it was way worse before the 1990s. The powerful had literally life and death power over individuals (which the rich and powerful don't today, at least not as openly and easily), plus they had access to luxuries that normal people could only dream about - like traveling to Western Europe.
Jujux@reddit
15 years back the top 10 richest men in the world had 400 billion combined wealth, now they have 3 trillion.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
And one of them has almost 1 trillion.
Citaku357@reddit
This thing isn't just a 1st world problem, but a whole world problem
Substratas@reddit (OP)
None of my friends & relatives in Albania have room mates - and things are still āon the riseā because the country had not experienced its peak yet, while the rest of the world peaked during the late 90s until 2008.
Citaku357@reddit
https://albaniandailynews.com/news/economic-inequality-higher-than-official-data
Citaku357@reddit
Are seriously suggesting that there is a growing division between the rich and poor in Albania?
https://wid.world/country/albania/
hruschov@reddit
The trains in Italy are on time but not in Germany
VereksHarad@reddit
War with Russia. A war in Europe in general. But with Russia trying to take over Ukraine and failing after several years of fighting it's even more unbelievable.
Purple_Ad9542@reddit
White replacement
Unbanable4221@reddit
Burek 4 marke
KaradjordjevaJeSushi@reddit
Hhhhehehehhh :)
DramaticRazzmatazz98@reddit
International wars.
Apart-Succotash-6872@reddit
Dƶner 8 Euro
c0sf-fkr@reddit
The fucking Russians are invading europe...again...and Germany are the good guys now. I'm confused
MotherPunker420@reddit
A WW1 style total war between 2 european countries
v-s-g@reddit
1 thing is for sure - in the 90s and early 2000s, the future was looking bright, we were imagining flying cars, prosperity, discovering new civilisations and what not. We are now in the ānearā future from that time and things have gone to shit. And the future now looks like a bleak cyberpunk dystopia.
babyliss1903@reddit
Crypto currency.
Life-Caterpillar-187@reddit
The amount of capitalism that has seeped in every aspect of life. Work, love, pursuit of happiness. Every thing is commercialized.
Hairy_Addendum7789@reddit
The top 40 music charts used to feel exciting and fun. That world no longer exists.
_msky_@reddit
Russia attacked Ukraine
Distinct-Swim5550@reddit
that has been ongoing since 17th century my friend, when muscovy signed the alliance with khmelnitski's kossaks, but later atacked them and usurped the ukrainian land.
also, not 15 but 18 years ago russia attacked georgia - another friendly nation - for no reason.
so, no, that was not unthinkable, although no one of us wanted that to happen.
CrumpledKiltSkin@reddit
I'll never forget where I was when I watched the news report of jihadists flying those two passenger jets into that little blonde girl
Substratas@reddit (OP)
That sounds more like the prophet than like 9/11ā¦
Kiwi_Knight69@reddit
Surely you know by now who it was actually done by right?
nindza-22@reddit
There are many things, but what hurts me especially is kids not listening to music. Like, really listen, analyzing the texts, having artists with deeper messages. They will play it in the background of their videos, but really no connection.
Every generation had some stupid fashion thing, but the music was always the high quality "glue". But for the first time in recorded history, the music isn't the "main event", kids just have the stupid fashion things.
astrit91@reddit
An American president basically outright calling out and dissing other nations and world leaders. That just didnāt happen. Youād hear politically sensitive phrases being used. Now we hear and read Trump saying all sorts of stuff which sound childish.
LowPsychological6734@reddit
15 year is kinda short of a time but i born in 1991. grew up in a very small village. we were not poor but there was nothing to buy LOL. there wasnt even a grocery store in our village.
the advancements of technology and democratization of everything makes my head spin. unless you are very very unlucky (born in a lower caste in india or something) you can pretty much access a lot of shit people 30 year ago would not even dream.
i can literally talk with machines and they respond. how cool is that ? how cool is the fact that i can use this for free or with very little price. if you told me about chatgpt (or alternatives) in 2003 i would assume only very rich people could afford them.
if you have a bit of luck and born somewhere in the west you dont have that much different of a life compared to the richest man in the world. there are very few things that jeff bezos could access and i cant.
Martha_Fockers@reddit
that its all just a game.
CockamouseGoesWee@reddit
I am barred from going to the restroom in the university I pay thousands for because of a letter on my driver's license.
I literally have to Hidden Figures dash home which is 20 minutes away whenever I need to pee and have had people talk to me about always being late. Like broski, I need to pee and sometimes can't hold it for 8 hours.
LightHope8@reddit
Imma need you to elaborate on that
CockamouseGoesWee@reddit
I'm trans. My state (I am Greek diaspora) has banned me from going to the bathroom according to Senate Bill 104. I can be arrested and charged if I go to the bathroom. So I obviously don't.
I just wanna be a nurse and help people. I tried asking my instructors and they don't know if I am permitted to use the restroom during rotations while I am a student.
og_toe@reddit
wtf. easy fix: where i live the bathrooms arenāt gendered they are just individual rooms labeled WC. thereās like 0 reason to gender segregate bathrooms. nobody has any issue with this system at all
tomgatto2016@reddit
In my university, bathrooms are single rooms with three stalls: male, female, disabled. If the male one is occupied, I piss in the female toilet. If the female toilet is occupied too, I piss in the disabled toilet (but with a bit of shame). There's no difference within these three, and no one can say anything. It's the perfect system
CockamouseGoesWee@reddit
Yeah, I've never had any issues with gender neutral toilets. Who's going to the water closet or restroom or whatever and thinking about anything but going to the bathroom, washing their hands (I hope), and then going back to whatever it was they were doing?
Electronic-Ad-6191@reddit
Yes, having just one toilet is common where I live too. Idk why they started to segragete them more and more
Fourteen14XIV@reddit
I know this will sound a bit disgusting, but have you tried adult diapers, dude?
LightHope8@reddit
This is so disgusting, I had missed that, had no idea it actually came to law.
Fourteen14XIV@reddit
Didn't Kentucky recently confiscate all trans peoples driving licenses?
CockamouseGoesWee@reddit
It's not nationwide, but there are state bans in place. It's great cause my university has a queer alliance organization, but there are zero resources or knowledge over anything about trans people, and turns out I am the only trans person in my program, so they tell me to just look at the laws myself.
It's all good, my grades are still high and I only have two more years of this. I'll play nice and obey the law and then leave this place.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
What the actual f**k - I did not get it at first!! I am so sorry to hear that ā¤ļø
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neuralek@reddit
They might be trans but not legally changed in the docs, so they're stuck in the no-mans-land if toilets. (I would just piss behind a bush)
LightHope8@reddit
I think they actually opened gender neutral bathroom right on Governor Mike DeWine's doormat.
Substratas@reddit (OP)
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fk_censors@reddit
Romanian cuisine. It is nothing like it was 15 years ago. Most traditional recipes have been lost, and replaced by fast food Italian type food (pizza, pasta, hot dogs in pretzels, more pasta, tiramisu, and other mediocre food) and by American food (pizza again, hamburgers, lava cake, fried doughnuts which replaced the Romanian papanaČi but took over the name etc).
You can't even find the traditional food in restaurants (staples like matzo ball soup or regular unsoured chicken soup, poultry with quince, marinated meatballs, organ meat, kremwurst, imam bayildi and other eggplant dishes, stuffed tomatoes, imperial doughnuts, pilaf, real papanaČi etc). Even the sarmale (minced meat and rice rolled in sauerkraut or grape leaves) or peppers filled with minced meat and rice are a watered down version in restaurants (the real recipes takes a day or more to make, cooked very slowly). The mici (kebab-like minced meat patties) are missing a lot of the traditional ingredients like allspice, as restaurants use baking soda and pork fat instead as it's easier and cheaper.
Even the name of the food follows American patterns, no longer differentiating the gender or age of the animal - there is no longer rooster/cock, hen, or chicken dishes - they are all "chicken" now.
tipoftheiceberg1234@reddit
Honestly not even trying to be edgy but the multiple genders. People often say āwell where do you draw the lineā or āat one point did things start getting out of handā
And for me that point was and still is when they introduced the 7+ genders. I get trans. No issue with trans. But they/themā¦ I have no idea how that wasnāt universally shot down even by the most die hard LGBT activists. I remember the first time I heard people seriously contemplating/thinking about that in like 2014/2015 and thinking they were out of their minds.
Itās been 10 years, Iām used to the idea now. Someone could come up to me and say my pronouns are they/them and Iād be like āokayā and refer to them as they/them even in private. I actually even did it that when they first started coming out and saying that.
But it is one of the most unbelievable societal things I have experienced in my entire life and honestly thatās when I knew that nothing was sacred anymore and everything can happen if you complain enough.
So the genders. And Trump. I cannot believe he won. Twice. Twice!!! Heās so obviously stupid like what are you doing. Like obviously not the person to vote for. It bewilders me.
Electronic-Ad-6191@reddit
Did you think of 2 genders as sacret? 15 years ago I thought it is interesting, now I don't really care about labels. Sacret would be the child wonder I had back then, I don't think I can say that the way people called me was sacred at any point in my life
Stellar_Synth@reddit
I could belive 15 y ago in advanced chatbots, but AI making pics or videos based on promt, no way man.
Electronic-Ad-6191@reddit
Naah 15 years ago is exactly when vsauce made video including nvidia trying to do exactly that
Electronic-Ad-6191@reddit
People were saying not to post our faces online, that facebook is going to create fake personas out of these pictures
mdgart@reddit
You cannot step into the same river twice
Careful-Evening-5187@reddit
Israelis being called out by the mainstream media on their barbarism.
This would have been unimaginable in the early 2000's.
Boysenberry_Boring@reddit
early 2000s were 25 years ago, not 15. but your point still stands
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Fluttershy_22@reddit
Fr.. it makes me so depressed.. i canāt seem to remember everything in the times when i was little but i know nothing is the same anymore, sure growing up is playing huge part because of different perception yet itās undeniable that the world once before is not like the one we live nowadays and honestly makes me wanna cry
Ujemegaz@reddit
Pandemics.
not_jbp1@reddit
0% democracy anywhere in the world. This is why i prefer a king nowadays.
EdgyNationMemes@reddit
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Dawncracker_555@reddit
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EdgyNationMemes@reddit
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piergino@reddit
Covid
GlitteringLocality@reddit
Having to identify as a personal brand online.
RegularUser2020@reddit
Idk , the war in ukraine maybe, on this scale
alteransg1@reddit
Aliens (as in they're here x-files style, not sci-fi ones) is goving to become a very lame topic. There already were like more than 3 events where governments or government individuals try and say aliens are real and everyone just laughs at them and says "gtfo and stop distracting from actual problems".Ā
ISupposeStillHuman@reddit
15 years aggo well not that long but 10 years I wouldn't know that God exist . And that he give us pretty cool super powers . I used to be more "humanly logical" not believing in something absurd but lately I often find myself questioning reality
MrOphicer@reddit
The smell of extinction at worst, and collapse at best, is increasingly more nauseating and present.
ilivelife123@reddit
Our parents (maybe not the ones in ex-yu war or other dictatorships)lived through relative increases in living standards and incline in democracy. We are almost certain to live through the opposite. Democratic decline, climate change, decreases in economic opportunity as the wealth gap increases. Say what you want for other US presidents, they appear like saints compared to the Orange Clown. Oh and mix in social media brain rot and AI and it gets even more fun
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Varterove_muke@reddit
Trump "shenanigans", to put it lightly
Substratas@reddit (OP)
USA in general. It used to be a country many people were looking up to.
Now itās literally a circus. What a fall from grace!