To be honest: If you don’t have the deeper technical knowledge to implement some secure form of forum / BBS or something like that and if you are dependent on the advice from strangers on the net and LLMs AND you are currently living in a nation where something like that may lead to an “accident”… just don’t. A warzone isn’t the right place to learn to fight.

The ENTIRE modern civilization? No. But the western world is surely in decline. If anything, i would place my bets on Asia if i would make a prediction which region will dominate the world in the next 100 - 200 years.

The funny thing is: The boomers, the silent generation and everyone before and after… they made mostly the same mistakes, but there was no internet around to chronicle their mishaps

Sitting at the beach of the Baltic sea in early spring or late fall when its too cold for the other beach folks, kept warm by my decades old leather biker gear and a bit of whiskey.