Kori

To be real here, I can totally understand the american sentiment here. "But what if someone tries to stab me? What if I dont have my gun? " Ect. But this sentiment can not be applied to Europe. Or at least where I live. Because extremely few people have any knives. You dont go around in schools training for atacks. You dont go around in cities at night fearfull that something is gonna happen. Wen you hear a loud bang, you dont search for cover but look across the street to see what kinda shit the construction workers are doing this time(Actiually happend, i was there). That’s the difference. Here, fear isnt baked into daily life. The culture doesn’t revolve around the expectation of violence, and because of that, we don’t live armed to the teeth “just in case.” It’s not courage or naivety, as ive seen it to be described, it’s simply a different reality.

so i posted this bbc article that said renewables have officially overtaken coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity (!!!) and i was like “yo this is actually kinda huge.”

and immediately (2 friends) z and c were like

“that’s not true” “there’s no global data” “if that were real everyone would talk about it”

like bro. i literally linked the source. it’s from Ember, a global energy think tank that uses government data, satellite data, peer-reviewed research, the whole deal.

i even gave them the actual report link, screenshots of graphs, everything. and they still went:

“hmm idk feels unrealistic :/” “this random 2024 google graph is more credible actually”

💀💀💀

so apparently “feels more realistic” now outranks “is based on verified 2025 data cited by 5 major news outlet.”

anyway, i hit them with

“do you really think BBC, DW, and Euronews all got it wrong at the same time?”

and they were like “yeah maybe” so i just went okay whatever and tapped out.