No, just part of the establishment. ;-)

Funny thing is, this meme is so old by now, that “child” should be substituted by “parent”, as this is all completely ancient GenX/Millennial internet lingo…

Part of what you describe (sans the transfer thing) sound like the main plotline of Bladerunner.

Ah yes, sure, Begriffsassoziativitätskombinatorik.

(Yes, I just made that word up. And also yes, it makes sense and might be the word describing what you were just thinking about.)

Depends. I like it, but it lures you into lazy naming of stuff, that being especially pronounced in state administration.
And written form is hell to comprehend for dyslexics…

I think you might enjoy “The Meaning of Liff”…

It’s missing an “e” at the end…

And yes, I heard the German language is supposed to be full of such special-purpose words (and if not, we construct fitting new ones by endless concatenation)
So I guess, I am the lucky one in this thread. :-)

One a scale ranging from 1 to 10:
How high are you right now?

But you can. Just buy yourself a Burger King first. American kind of freedom…

This gives me some hope. Maybe the connection to actual violence is weaker than I think.

Still a crazy form of behaviour, though. People regularily get killed by it (I just now read the mentioned Wikipedia article).

Who did?

Bro it’s a fucking war zone.

Wouldn’t that not be just another reason to not fire weapons randomly in populated areas?

But what you are saying is basically exactly what I am trying to get at:
War has become so much normalized in the region, that people just don’t know otherwise any more.
Quoting the somewhat fitting Cranberries song:
“In your head, they’re still fighting”.
Even while a glimmer of peace is shining across the horizon.

Just let me revel in the positive illusion for a while.
Perhaps this time it is different…

That is some of the crazy part.

Guns being so common and widespread that they are routinely used in everyday civil life events without anyone bashing an eyelid.

I have the slight fear that it will take a very long time until the Middle East won’t regularily erupt into violant outbursts any more…

Gunfire to celebrate a ceasefire… Nicely shows in what crazy kind of world we are living in…

But also: Phantastic news!
A really positive start into my day for a change!

I now just hope that actually works out as planned.

Wow, you spotted an Erlkönig painting!
Must be the new Swift model being tested under realistic street conditions!

You have some autocorrect typo there:
“That’s all I was singing when I saw the hole.”

Mandatory soundtrack:
https://youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU

I am only exhibiting that specific rational-humane dimension currently because I have the feeling, that Lemmy is too much of an left echo chamber at the moment drifting to much into extreme territory.
That doesn’t solve anything, but is part of the problem.
As is the same process on platforms like truth.social. Just the other way round.
I am actually part of what is trying to bring another (and be it just a single…) additional dimension to a currently totally one-dimensional discourse.