“Developed” Countries and “Developing” Countries are the terms I would use in this context.

AFIAK, there is no negative connotation with the term “Developing Country”, to me it just means they haven’t been given the opportunity to develop, possibly due to external factors like colonialism.

But as for Conversion therapy, even “Banned in most Developed Countries” would be inaccurate since South Korea and Japan hasn’t banned it, so perhaps “Western Democracies” would fit your conversation about the ban on Conversion therapy.

I don’t believe we have the tech yet, so I’m not gonna trust any such thing, its probabky snake oil.

But assuming that regulatory bodies around the world has already certified and approved it (meaning the “dethaw” “unfreezing” part has already been solved and is working), I would probably skip like 5 years at a time, watch all the TV shows and movies, then skip 5 years, repeat…

Otherwise, I wouldn’t touch that thing with a meter stick. Snake oil.

I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to live.

I just wanna be a ghost floating around, watching everything. Like watching a TV show with real characters, real emotions, deaths are real and no “Somehow, Palpatine Has Returned” shenanigans.

I focus better when listening to an audiobook.

If I read on my own, I just skim and miss stuff.

I think I might have like a 3 on that scale of 1 to 5 as depicted on the wikipedia.

I can imagine my story more vividly when I write my worldbuilding and storywriting hobby. But reading someone else’s work, I have a more diffucult time knowing what it is the scene is supppsed to look like.

You’re watching their interpretation of a story. Sometimes this can even be a good thing when they highlight something you may not have really noticed.

Oh yea. This reminds me. I see this in a recent thing I watched, 3 Body Problem.

There is 2 versions of it, there is a Netflix adaptation made in the west, there’s a Tencent version made in China.

In the book, there was a scene depicting the Cultural Revolution of PRC, but the Tencent version cut it out, while the Netflix version did not hold back.

So I get it, it can suck when things get cut out.

But when sometimes its great to be able to see the story, instead of just imagining it. I guess you really have to do both to experience the full story, well… different interpretations of a story.

Not sure if “Tik Tok” really represent’s “video media”.

That’s like saying “tweets” are “writings”.

Damn, this sounds so badass and yet so sad at the same time.

I don’t know how someone could abandon a cat.

Like I could never abandon a pet that I claimed. Once I made the claim, that’s mine forever.

Cant unsee it now.

Hail Kitler? (Don’t bite me pls, my führ-kitty)

I’m biased against Arch Linux users 👀

Fuck, how do these plebs keep finding out my scheme.