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watching seinfeld, and it's crazy how people used to "pop in" not too long ago. like the only good reason not to text someone at least 5 minutes before ur at their door is really just the technical inability to do so
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@utz Seinfeld feels like a parallel reality. kinda hard to believe the world used to just be like that
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@nyx literally, imagine how it feels for a rural european
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@utz oh shit yeah it must feel even more alien to you lmao
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@nyx a former classmate has an ami bf now and was posting from amerikkka on instagram one day and it was so weird to see someone from my "real world" in what looks like a movie set to me, we texted about it and she said that amerikkka literally does not feel real when ur there for the first time. also had me reevaluating how i relate to real content from over there like tiktoks and stuff, i cant help but feel the people in them live in a sitcom action movie high school musical ass world. like the architecture, these certain doors with the circular door knobs, the sliding windows, the way the streets look are just markers for an unreal world i see them and immediately susbend my disbelief. but enough ramble lol
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@utz I think this is just you having an accurate idea of what the US is like because you haven't been raised from birth to become accustomed to a fundamentally alienated Disney Land esque potempkin village society that is built entirely around consumption. we don't even notice it because to us this hellscape seems normal
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@nyx i mean i have to be careful not to simply pose my perspective as reality but there's definitely some asymmetry here. in that light it's also interesting to think about this amerikkkan view of europe as the romantic old world and things like the paris syndrome.
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@utz this is true, although I don't have any illusions about Europe so much as think it's probably generally less of a wasteland in comparison