What is the best advice you can give to teenagers? (lemmy.zip)

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[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

        The worst thing you can do in life is to cause irreparably damage to your or someone else' body. It can diminish your or someone else's life for at least decades, cost a fortune to repair if it's repairable at all or worse, it causes you to damage yourself even further later in life because it made you more clumsy, leaving you or the other person with even more irreparable damage or even death.
If you suspect you might have a mental illness like autism, get it checked!

Without it you might not figure out what's holding you back, and reread point #1.
The second worst thing you can do is lose a lot of money. That's never going to come back.
The only thing you should be gambling your money on are investments that you think would improve the world or what everyone would consider an established safe bet. That way, you either can't blame yourself for being stupid or that you've at least put money into a good thing. For the former put in small and only add more when it grows. If the value of your investment went down last time you checked, then there's usually something very wrong with whatever you put money into. And you can be scammed even if they have a great product to show for.
For teen boys, when it comes to girls, if it seems like they're at an advantage somehow,

it's because they are.

Around 103 boys are born versus 100 girls.

This means that finding a relationship is first and foremost a game of musical chairs,

with slightly different rules, where the more permanent couples form,

the more likely the boys left out will have to deal with even more competition,

but where the same truths apply:

5.1 "The less chairs/'hetero opposite sex partners' there are in this game, the more difficult the game will be."

5.2 "If there's an abundance of chairs/'hetero opposite sex partners' in this game, your competition experience drops from an almost empty store retail riot to walking into a peddler convention."

This situation will last as long as no technology offers any alternatives.
Technology kills social norms.

What you thought was completely normal can go the way of the dodo tomorrow

and it's always due to some technology.

You'll be surprised how hardcore someone can rail against or for some issue

and then one year later... it's gone!
We are moving into an age of full automation.

All jobs will be lost and it's why it seems to get harder to find one every year.

Why your parents and grandparents might not understand this yet is beyond me.
Socialism is still winning and going to be right, front and center for decades to come.
For the rise and fall of great powers,

the abundance of energy and especially electrical power,

is more important than any ideology, including socialism.

The Soviet Union only lost because of a lack of coal, which was important in the 20th century.

It did have lots of oil and so for most of its existence it grew faster than capitalist nations,

but oil is too easily transportable and therefore too easy to sell instead of invest and too easy to steal.

The irony was that the US did not exploit the situation until their conventional oil production peaked in 1970,

causing their economy to spin out of control in debt.

In 1973 the US started to rope Middle East countries into its petrodollar scheme

and as a result of that by 1975 the Soviet Union's economy froze until it collapsed.

[-] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 4 days ago

The second worst thing you can do is lose a lot of money. That's never going to come back.

Disagree. Between time and money, you will get money back. It is the time you are thinking of, that you won't get back ever.

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025

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