I don’t know how universal it is, but movie tickets here have at least tripled since I was a kid, 20 odd years ago.

Meanwhile, me and 4 friends pooled our pocket money together to buy a video game that we could barely afford. Brand new video games are the same price now.

I’m not saying “they should increase their price”, but it is wild how somehow they haven’t in decades

Yeah, when I saw “the cops tased him” and not “murdered the shit out of him”, it was clear he was white.

I mean, sort of?

It’s much more likely to be indicative of a mental health issue, even if it’s just anxiety. Insecurity around how one looks it’s usually related to unrealistic societal pressures and bullshit public “standards” as to what qualifies as beautiful.

This usually occurs to women much worse than men and is often directly tied to their “value”.

It’s easy to see someone fuck their shit up with plastic surgery and go “haha, that’s your choice”, but, in general, our modern western society is hyper individualistic, where people’s difficulties are said to be personal failings. Whereas as a socially evolved species, it’s much more tied to our peers and culture than people either realise, or want to admit.

Plus it’s easier to ignore these things when you don’t like the person at the center of the current discussion