u/Opposite_Average_717

Traveling abroad for about a month soon and I want to stay safe on public wifi, plus be able to get to some content from back home. I mostly live in chrome on both my laptop and iphone, so I'm after a vpn that runs well on chrome and doesn't tank my speed. Seen proton, urban vpn, and x vpn come up as free options. Anyone here got a chrome vpn that's actually stable and fast? TIA

Need some opinions because I genuinely don't know how to feel about this.

I was talking to this guy, and everything was fine until one day he just started replying less and less. Whenever I'd bring it up, he'd say he wasn't getting time and ask me to "give him a month" because he'd be back to his best. I did.

A month passed, nothing changed. Then it became, "I need a year."

At that point I was just tired and asked him, "Can you just be honest? If you've given up on me, just say that instead of making me wait."

He said, "Yeah, I have."

What gets me is... during all this, I'd literally see him going out with his friends. So how was there no time at all? I wasn't asking him to text me 24/7. Even a 2-minute message saying "I'm busy, talk later" would've been enough.

Then he said something like, "I don't care if people leave because I can't give them time. The people who stay are the real ones."

That honestly made me feel worse. Like... is expecting basic communication really asking for too much? Or is "I don't have time" just something people say when they've already lost interest but don't want to admit it?

I know people get busy, but if you have time to hang out with your friends, is sending one text really that impossible? Genuinely asking because maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way.

Pure hypothetical.

If humanity's survival depended on half the population dying, and there was genuinely no other way, would you think it's the right decision? Or would you rather refuse to make that choice, even if it meant eventual extinction?

I'm more interested in the reasoning than the answer.

Honestly, my reasons are: money, lifestyle, and legacy. Having a child is a massive responsibility financially and emotionally, and I don't think it's something to do just because it's expected. I also don't really feel the need to pass on my name or leave a biological legacy. I'd rather build a meaningful life in my own way.

I've been reading about accelerationism, and one question keeps coming to mind.

Does accelerationism implicitly assume that humans can continually adapt to accelerating technological and social change? If that assumption doesn't hold, does the philosophy lose some of its force?

I'm excited for Hyacinth's pairing especially. The show captures social life during the Regency epoch in early 19th-century London, beginning specifically in the year 1813. But, costumes are the show stopperrrs.