Because Medellin was not given as an example.

Their first years fell into relative wealth due to an economic boom in the 50s and 60s.

It was a side note giving a reason why the example you gave is not an option for me. Had you brought up a place in Russia, Saudi Arabia or the USA I’d have made a similar comment.

Plus again it is just a side note. You are the one who wants to focus on that topic now. You could have continued conversing on amy other part of my response.

Expressing disdain towards autocratic regimes in a short side note is perfectly normal.

I know about mountain climates. However, I grew up close to an ocean coast, I love the salty smell of the sea, mountains are nice for a vacation but bearing down in the long run. Also Kunming is in China (fuck the CCP) and due to me being pretty much not able to work I am still best where I am (for now at least. Too many rich asses working on dismantling welfare here).

I do agree partially to your line of thinking. When I as a young millenial was the age of today’s young to middle gen Z (~late teens to early twenties) peak humor were ten hour long loops of Nyan Cat, Epic Sax Guy/Gandalf or Cantina Band with a side of Cheezburger Cat memes. Weird shit from a 30-something year old perspective.
My siblings and I are telling Dad Jokes to my niece at every opportunity and I can imagine those are your dominant form of humor when you have your own kids taking over your whole life.

However, there is another component to it, displayed by an oversimplified, slightly sarcastic analysis:

Boomer humor: I hate my wife.
Millenial humor: I hate my life.
GenZ humor: E

Of course, GenX is forgotten in this but from my experience, there is some credence to and a reason behind this.
Over time, relationships not lasting forever, divorces and marrying later in life has become more accepted socially, so elder folks might more often be stuck in unhappy relationship than younger people.
Meanwhile Boomers (and GenX) lived through Wirtschaftswunder, were less exposed to news and mostly had an overall more hopeful and positive expectations for life where Millennials grew up with the emergence of social media, more information available generally, being more exposed to crisis news and an increasing awareness about climate change and other threats to society.

This is not universal, there obviously was the Cold War and the looming nuclear destruction and this is mostly a western, often privileged white perspective, but still an influence on pop culture, memes, satire and humor.

I suffer physically during summer and mentally during winter. I 'd love for a long, extended spring time (because I have no allergies ruining it for me), but anthropogenic climate change is 86ing spring and autumn atm.

“Old school joke” = edgy, 30-something years old teenager who never became an adult.

Where meme?

Yes.

Won’t happen here either. If you are sick, your employer has to pay your regular salary for six weeks. After that, your health insurance pays Krankengeld (usually 70% of your gross salary) for up to 72 more weeks. After that, unemployment insurance covers you.

Imagine having a set amount of days you’re allowed to be sick and are expected not to use them when you actually are sick.

The US is not failing. It has always been fucked up.

You make my current government look reasonable even when it’s making using healthcare as much of an annoyance and throwing as many obstacles in your way as possible.

Compared to the possibilities out there, they are all lokking pretty similar to each other.

That is all I’ll say about this, we are already too deep into objectification of women for my liking and I didn’t plan to throw up on self disgust today.

Oh, it’s you again. Fuck off, again.

Besides the apparent objectification of (mostly) women in this post, trying to make a point about possibilities and presenting seven almost identical examples is not making the point.

I won’t say we’re not fucked, bedause we are, royally even so. But there is a little caveat, at least for non-european parts of the world: Europe currently warms faster than any other area. We’re getting our Karma.

Okay, “foid” ist dann wirklich kritisch.

Wie gesagt, “-maxxing” hab ich mitbekommen, aber der Weg, den das (soweit ich das mitbekommen habe) in den Mainstream genommen hat, entschärft den Begriff bzw. nimmt den Incels die Möglichkeit, sich noch großartig darauf zu berufen, was ich wiederum eigentlich ganz cool finde.

I said something about that already: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/26760359

No, you implied a reaction like the one in the post isn’t weird since countries don’t often have similar names. I counter the reaction is weird because Bosnia and Herzegowina isn’t an obscure or never heard of country but the reaction is quite stereotypical US-american (as in “conforms to stereotypes”, not in "look, typical US-american).

Never heard of “Foid” (nor do I know what it means) but “-maxxing” has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term (“looksmaxxing”) wasn’t a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term “-maxxing” is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it’s not “their slang” anymore).

Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I’m from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.