Gen Xers have always been pretty cool, as long as you don't expect them to care about much. I get the feeling that the close proximity to the Boomers really took it out of them.
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Skibidy toilet is just part of the modernist version of dada. I've (a millennial) always loved dadaism and absurdism as art and my zoomer kids make me so proud showing me their humor.
We have those problems here (the US) too but the greater problem is that corporations buying up homes is driving increases in housing prices. Greater housing prices leads to higher rent and higher mortgage payments, fucking over regular people every which way, unless of course you happened to buy your home 30 years ago, in which case everything's peachy and you can reverse mortgage yourself into a vacation home in Boca.
I ended up the same way. The heat pump washer/dryer combo I got happens to have wifi. I genuinely enjoy this machine even though I don't think I'm capable of fixing it outside of buying a whole new "heat pump unit" and installing it. It works well and it's way more efficient than the old electric unit that was here when we moved in.
There are dozens of us.
Things work really well here for you if you're amoral and wealthy. So like 99% of elected officials.
Who could have predicted bootloader drm wouldn't go well?