What are you starting to take off the rose-tinted glasses to?

My country's history.

It's glossed over on schools and disengaged with across almost all of society.

It's also an endless record of genocidal actions of our colonisers.

It's both depressing and enraging.

Collapse of what?

Sort of. My great grandmother watched wrestling matches in the 1950s in the south. Apparently it was the same stuff back then. My grandma always rolled her eyes when her mother would talk about it. Its just entertainment.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

Anyone who was into wrestling from that era needs to give the Behind the Bastards episodes about it and Vince an attentive listen

Yo momma's bed

Don’t besmirch Days like that, wrestling is Passions for manly men.

A friend won tickets to a local one and it was a lot of fun. It was like a huge group of LARPers and everyone got to participate in the spectacle in their own way. Definitely not a gender thing, either.

I guess it was like one of those themed restaurants with actors and events through the evening, where the whole point is everyone can get into it and have fun on a pirate ship or in Dracula's castle or whatever the theme is.

But, I struggle to see how it could go to the scale and detail of what's in the US. Watching it on TV seems more concerning than entertaining too. I had a housemate that played a White Mage in FFXI, and Pineapple Juice was how the class restored mana points. Dude started drinking nothing but pineapple juice IRL. That's probably the only way I can explain "Pro Wrestling" in the US. It must be targeted at that guy.

I knew pandas were savage but this is a new low for them

All of it.

Post Ww2 US has made sure supply lines for advanced products has been relatively safe and secure, but only barely. This war with Iran has shown that we no longer live under that security blanket.

Population decline across the world will decimate economies of several countries, the worst being China. Once China falls, and its already started, and they grasp out at then biggest corner they have that continues to export (Taiwan) we won’t have anyone that can make CPUs/gpus at scale.

It’s why the US has tried to get cpu manufacturing within the US. But they can’t because it’s very hard. It’s also still dependent on source materials that only exist in China and in other parts of the world.

The Ukraine and Iran wars have also shown that’s it’s very cheap to blow shit up. Autonomous drones are in the thousands of dollars to make each while the defensive measures are in the hundreds of thousands per shot.

Once china’s working population can’t support their retired population things are going to get ugly. Someone will make a move on Taiwan or some other upstream supply chain widget and suddenly people will be digging out their old computers from the garage.

It’s going to get very bad.

My momma's dead
Your momma sat on her head

Well that's just geopolitics and economic upheval. That stuff happens all the time. I thought it might be something important.