Second year in a row I do this lol. What can I say? I love the attention.

Turning 25 which is scary old :/

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      It was nice. We had these things called smartphones and for a while all you could use was Whatsapp to text but then the telegram dropped and we could suddenly send animated stickers and stuff. It was really popular in eastern Europe. The tesla was cool for a while but then the founder turned out to be a crazy nazi. Spoiler alert.

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    Firstly, I hope you have a nice birthday!

    Secondly, I’m asking you as a 25 year old, rather than a birthday-haver, if that’s okay?

    • Do you ever hold your telephone in front of you, like a butler carrying a silver platter, and shout at it from a distance, then when it’s the other person’s turn to speak, move the phone and hold it sideways, so it sticks out horizontally from your ear?

    • If so, why?

    • Why don’t you just hold it like a telephone, where the microphone is near your mouth and the speaker is near your ear and speak at a normal volume?

    • If you don’t do this yourself, do you know other people who do, and why they do it?

    I have seen some older people do this too, but it seems quite heavily skewed towards younger people, and of that, particularly iPhone users.

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      Sometimes I do yes

      I do it because speaker phone is more comfortable. When I hold it up to my ear for too long I start sweating and it’s sometimes too loud.

      Uhh I do that sometimes but only in short calls

      Also not an IPhone user.

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    Congratulations.

    What do you think will happen during the next 5 and during the next 25 years?

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      In my life? I have no idea. I’m not gonna lie I’m in a very uncertain time

      In the world?

      Hmm. China takes Taiwan. US goes through cycles of populist revolts and technocratic hand ringing with few incremental reforms, oligarchy gets worse probably, AI doesn’t change everything but it changes a lot. Life gets worse for average person. In Europe? Much of the same. Stagnation, getting left behind technologically, demographic problems make health care systems creek etc.

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      Depends on what it’s against. I can’t think of like a single ideology dominant everywhere around the globe besides the ones I don’t wanna start a revolution against.

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      My mom is probably fine. Idk. I’m currently in another continent.

      Not married, no kids, no interest in love or kids. I like making friends though