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I dunno if most internet communities are that old yet.
No idea who our oldest forumites are (and I'm not about to ask), but I don't think they're quite at the retirement village+colostomy bag level just yet.

*shrugs* Maybe not here, but hell, my mid-80s grandmother spends a lot of time online. Only some of it doing what might be considered internet community stuff*, but it's not like there's not a fair few elderly that are active online. Still pretty rare, but that's definitely in the process of changing, and in the meantime places where they congregate are going to stay pretty static age wise, even as their population grows.

And sure they can, IT. Think most of the ones I've had just do that hellish beep of doom thing when the batteries are about dead.

*E:And, admittedly, she's pretty clumsy about it -- but in 30-40 years, that's probably going to by my mother, and she's been doing the internet thing since before the internet had pictures. Gonna' be a lot more old people online, active, and savvy in the coming years...

I was going to ironically shitpost about how Professor Utonium is my waifu due to his perfectly square jawline. But then it turns out there is a remarkable amount of fetish porn of him.
Why.

It's like you ask a question and then answer it in the same breath.

Nobody expects to be taught how to do other menial things like vacuuming and ironing, for example.

Nobody may expect to be taught that, but from everything I've seen a lot of people could stand it. Least where I'm at, it's not uncommon at all to run into an adult/young adult who has no idea how to do a lot of basic personal maintenance stuff, or have an understanding of it that's... not good.

Parents have been increasing unable to really spend the time needed to thoroughly teach their kids stuff like that, and, well, schools are generally the backup plan for incompetent or incapable parents. Internet helps a lot, but there's still a lot of people, young and otherwise, that don't really grok the concept of an internet search. Or just don't know what to search for.

To the more general conversation, yeah, it'd be nice if teachers and the folks that dictate curriculum to them were a bit more on the ball about providing rationalizations to the learners about why they're being taught stuff. That's been a problem for a long while, from everything I understand. You'd think it'd be pretty easy to do, but to be fair to a lot of teachers they're often under a lot of stress that makes stuff like that more difficult than it, by all rights, should be. If they had a better support network, or better training, that might alleviate things a bit, but, well. That would mostly take money, and even maintaining education funding is often like trying to draw blood from a stone, nevermind increasing it.

Secondly I would be absolutely horrified if certain corporations decided they weren't ever going to hire anyone from a list of equal gay rights supporters. The fact that the list even exists in the first place only exists to intimidate people who have different opinions, to crush dissent - to then act on it and ruin their lives. I won't even comment on how foolish it would be, giving that power to a corporation; that power belongs to no one.

That power already belongs to businesses; shit like that happens with an incredibly irritating amount of regularity in the states. Most of the country it's entirely possible you'll be dealing with a prospective employer that will straight up fire or deny hiring you because of sexual orientation, and people getting shit on because of political opinions in this country is downright common in some areas. Swaths of this bloody country where admitting you're pro-gay equality isn't just a potential career killer, it's a goddamn existential threat. There's a reason careful management of your online presence is becoming increasingly advocated for people looking for work -- because what they say can and does cause them to lose jobs. And it's not just because of drunkposting when you were a young adult.

Frankly, vilanat's proposition would in a lot of ways just even things out a bit -- help prospective workers have a better idea whether or not the bigoted fucks they previously wouldn't have realized they were approaching are going to fire or reject them after the significantly greater resources the business has digs up something they didn't like.

Would still rather not see it and businesses repeatedly kicked in the nethers until they stop that shit, but still. Sort of thing he's talking about is already more or less happening, it's just a tool almost entirely in the hands of government or big business.

Loot, MH. Loot. Potionslime would drop something interesting, probably.

Alternately, just make it so you couldn't survive without them. No healing magic-equivalent, perhaps. Or just make potions impossible to avoid or drop, and have the potionmob be some sort of set encounter instead of a random one.

Could also have it so your potion supplies degenerate in effectiveness over time, something that can only be countered by fighting the beast.

Well, the higher end probably stays pretty constant. Because they die instead of age more. Or turn entirely senile, I guess.

... religious leader incites violence contrary to the explicit teachings of the religion, news at... never, I think.

The history of buddhism isn't the most peaceful, though, no. That's what happens when believers start getting involved with governing powers, generally. The religion itself is about the most explicit anti-violence one among the larger groups. S'not really any nuance to (what's generally listed as) the first precept, unlike the big two's anti-killing stuff.