Have fun

Still better than South Africa where you get to mine nickel as a child and possibly either die in a cave which entrance has crumbled in, or die afterwards of toxic air pollution to your body due to mining.

Could still happen in the US during their lifetime. Never give up hope.
- It has, and recently.
  February 22, 2024
  U.S. authorities have accused another sanitation company of illegally hiring at least two dozen children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities, the latest example of illegal child labor that officials say is increasingly common.
  The Labor Department asked a federal judge for an injunction to halt the employment of minors by Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Service LLC, saying it believes at least four children were still working at one Iowa slaughterhouse as of Dec. 12.
  https://apnews.com/article/illegal-child-labor-slaughterhouses-8f95aef240050c6910aa8e1b6bce1c6a
- MAGA dipshit: "How do I get out of this third world country simulator"
  "Lol you can't, you voted for this"
Well, the Musks got to make money, too.

That's bad RNG, but there are worse spawn locations.

Speaking of which my youngest sons contact for his mom is Spawn Point and I think that is hilarious.
Tell me about it...
- People's Republic of China (I was born there, later moved abroad). The only thing keeping me sane right now, is the variety of entertainment I can obtain. Can't imagine having to watch WW2 tv drama about resistance against imperial japan (watched too many of those), or like romance dramas, or some show about some old dynasty in history, those are basically the only things that exist in Chinese media. And its so cliche, there isn't even anything like the GoT style thing where "any character can die" trope happens, I've watch so much of those dramas as a kid, I could literally predict plot points.
  There is HK drama which is slightly better, but still they follow similar recipes.
  Authoritarianism really limits how much creativity there is in writings and media.
  And yes I know VPNs exist, but would I even have knowledge of VPNs in the other timeline where I remained in mainland China?
  And that's only the access to information aspect.
  There is literally no "mental health awareness" in China like there is in the west. You are either viewed as "lazy" or you're "completely insane", there is no in-between. Nobody would give a shit about depression, "stop being lazy" is what you would get told. You can shit on the US all you want, but at least the Americans with Disabilities Act is a thing, wheelchair ramps are a thing. In China? Nope. Very ableist mindset. And if you don't ger married? You get basically socially ostricized. If I was still in China, I'd probably have either killed myself or killed some CCP Goons (the cops) in a fit of rage because I've lost my sanity in that state-capitalist society, then be sentenced to death penalty.
  Healthcare? LMFAO Nope. Everything is just as expensibe as in the US. But you also have to compete with a billion people on jobs.
  Also, Hukou restricts where you can settle, because kids can't go to a public school in a place that's not where your Hukou is registered. Its kinda like undocumented immigrants in the USA, except its in your own country, your own borders, like you're supposed to be a "Citizen", but apparantly, Hukou is like the intra-country's citizenship.
  Overtime pay? Nope
  Unions? Nope. I mean unless you are talking about the CCP's "union" or whatever BS organization that doesn't do shit. 无牙老虎 basically (tiger with no teeth)
  Workplace safety? Nope.
  If your employer refuse to pay you after you worked there for a month, well good luck buddy, there is no "Deparment of Labor" to help you with that (there probably is de jure someone you can complain to, but de facto nobody would do anything).
  Toxic masculinity, "You're a boy, stop crying" (To be fair, Americans also have this mentality, but its more prevalent in China).
  LGBTQ? If you are transgender, oh my, you are gonna get so ridiculed by people. They say stuff like: "男人扮女人，成和体统" ("Men pretending to be women, wtf" actually idk how to translate "成和体统"), or they'll call you "变态" ("Perverted").
  As bad as the US is, if you're a white dude you can just easily move out of your maga infested shithole and go to a liberal city and improve their life by 70% (well, you can't fix the collapsing economy tho, but at leat the social aspects and "age-verification laws" aren't a thing (not yet at least)). In China? Good fucking luck. Aside from the very minority of people who have progressibe values, its a conservative-infested shithole, on par with magaland (republican states) in the US.
  The US is about average on the good/bad scale (at least when it comes to what happens inside the country,), considering how evil and cruel humans around the world can be.
  Of course EU is better than the US, but acting like the US is the worst place on the planet is really a privilaged mindset.
- Djibouti.
- Surely Chile isn't the worst one either.
- India
Sure, but that is a low bar to set for yourself.
Definitely, but a red state in 2025 is right up there with third world countries at war for the umpteenth time in terms of bad spawn locations if Trump continues doing his thing.

My original spawn was a dictatorship, I wasn't supposed to be born.

Guess what, I left that dictatorship, now I'm in a different dictatorship (I mean its better, but only slightly better, with unique challenges like having to deal with xenophobes). Isn't life just so wonderful? 🫠

Please don't be Earth, give me a Class 3 civilization with a post-scarcity civilization.

China, I guess ?
- Probably, but was it first or second their dictatorship?

When I was in the 8th grade I had a friend who had two kids already. TBF he should have been a high school senior but he had been held back four times (this was before school districts had really grasped the concept of passing kids to get rid of them).

His favorite song was "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" by Pink Floyd which was very popular at the time and featured the lyric "We don't need no education". Even at the time I remember thinking "Tracy, you might in fact need an education". I think it's under-appreciated how much that one line from that one song had to do with the success of that album.

Pink Floyd is probably the greatest rock band of all time in my opinion. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 is their worst song and so freaking unsatisfying to hear come on the radio. It's like when people's only reference to Fight Club is "We don't talk about Fight Club." Okay great, you missed not only the entire point of the movie, but you can't even wrap your head around what that one single line actually meant. But that's why Fight Club (and therefore Palahniuk and Fincher) and Pink Floyd made money and were able to continue making great art for the people who are capable of understanding and appreciating subtext, so I guess I can't be too mad. But I am.
- Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 is their worst song
  I mean, The Wall isn't even close to being their best album. It's not their worst, at least -- thanks to Syd Barrett and The Final Cut.

"I didn't do 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency to be called 'sir,' baby."

And since this is America.
"Take on 500k in student loan debt."
- Let's be real, 50% chance their life up to 40 was bankrolled by The First National Bank of Mommy and Daddy if they're a doctor in the US.
Eh, the nurses do most of the real work.

"And your birth just put them in crippling debt that they will never be able to recover from. Enjoy life!"

Just sell the baby

let's hope grandma is up to the challenge, after all, she's probably 28 by now.

The good news is the baby's parents already live together. Their mom could only afford a single wide two bedroom trailer.

I mean they're probably siblings, so yeah...
- That's the joke, yeah.
You telling me they come in other si es?

"Abort me now plz"

Uhh what age are middle schoolers?

The source of all wisdom and knowledge says 11—14. So perfectly fit for starting procreation in hunter—gatherer societies like — oh, wait...
- It's possible, we are talking about it so it's happening
- 😬
Up to 14/8th grade. There were definitely people fucking that were younger than that when I was in middle school though.
- 1.75 grade?
9-12 when I was there.

East midlands, your grandma is 32 years old.

Should have been more specific. How should god know if they meant Norway the country or any of the other Norways, such as Norway, Iowa/Nebraska/Kansas/Indiana?

On that note: Guess which is the largest of the four Norways in the U.S. mentioned above? Unlike mastodon it seems like lemmy doesn't support multiple choice questions, at least I don't know how.

Hopefully got a respawn waiting

ah, the lusekofte is a balancing patch. it makes sense now.

And a good covfefe to you sir!
lusekofte
luse meatball?
- i mean, if you spell it bad enough

Relevant sketch

That would suit in firstworldproblems community. People in the US don't get it how lucky most of them are.

And then there's Mississippi
spoken like a person who has never stepped foot in the US in the last 8 years.

Still born in a first world country though

Are we still clinging to that claim, at this stage?
- Yeah, the US have a crazy man at the helm but a very strong and resilient ship. Not the best in every regard but it's still a very good country to be born in.
Yes, USA is the #1 violent empire.
Inb4 someone informs you you're wrong
The US is a third world country with Prada bags.
Current conditions in the US aside, Mississippi is just soy beans, mosquitoes, and poverty. It's a shithole.
Only by the technical, cold war definition of "The First World," that being everywhere under the American political & economic umbrella.

I'd imagine generational wealth matters more than location. Also don't know if someone with more melanin than this child would want Norway lol. Urban US/Canada would be vastly superior in terms of high development index without being stared at like you just landed from Mars.

Norway has a sovereign wealth fund, everyone has generational wealth there.
- Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is currently valued at. ~$1.9 trillion USD.
  They have a population of ~5.6m people.
  They works out to be ~$340K USD for every man, woman and child in the nation. That’s a lot, but not anywhere generational levels of wealth.
  Mind you, the above numbers aren’t perfect as it doesn’t take into consideration non-citizens living in Norway (who may not be eligible), as well as ex-pats living abroad (who would).
Norway has a massive refugee and immigration rate. They have historically been (near or at) the highest per capita. Their refugee system actually puts people all throughout the country. It's surprisingly diverse, especially in cities.
Not to say there's no racism, it's just dead silent when compared to the seething hatred for melanin that permeates the fabric of US culture/structure.
Beyond that it's rather egalitarian in effect and you'd actually get similar quality of life and outcomes as white Norwegians.
- it’s just dead silent when compared to the seething hatred for melanin that permeates the fabric of US culture/
  OK, tell that to this guy....
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
  Beyond that it’s rather egalitarian in effect and you’d actually get similar quality of life and outcomes as white Norwegians.
  Cool story that unsurprisingly doesn't align with reality.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_statistics_by_ethnic_group

I rather be homeless in Mississippi than in Norway.

What do you have against Norway?
- It's a Potemkin village just like all the other "rich" and "social" European countries. They all claim to have defeated poverty. They all claim to have great welfare systems. But that's not reality. In reality, all you get is a brochure (at best) with some bullshit feel-good talk ("Crisis as a chance"). As if you could rent an apartment with that or get medical treatment or a job. Europeans in general are the biggest liars on Earth. I rather choose the honest evil of the US than the phoniness of Europe.