Those eyes! Blurriness was clearly about to take place!

The world can be a complicated place to a kid...

classy, well-behaved and quiet

Except when they decide not to be, of course. Or when they're in heat.

That if we didn't have enough money we could just go to the ATM and get more.

Also, when I was very young, I apparently spent too long in the toilet once and one of my parents (don't recall which) asked me if I'd fallen down the hole.
It took me shitting myself at school months later for them to find out that I'd been terrified of falling into the toilet (and avoiding using it as much and for as long as I could, or, in that particular occasion, longer) since that day.
(I was small but not that small, obviously, but kids can be surprisingly dumb for how surprisingly smart they are.)

Recently, some New York cops shot a couple bystanders (and another cop), one of them in the head (tragically not the cop) while trying to assassinate some guy who'd jumped a turnstile.

If any of the victims die, do you really believe the guy who just jumped a turnstile should be considered guilty of murder, while the attempted mass murderers go free because they've got a badge and can shoot whoever they want whenever they feel like it..?

I'm sorry, but the whole concept is indefensible, monstrous, inhumane, and profoundly revolting.

American standards of decency require genital mutilation.

They are still making games based on 15 year old standards

If only. Daggerfall was great for its time, Morrowind was and still remains a classic masterpiece.

The enshittification started with Oblivion, and only got worse from there.

Photocopy of a photocopy is my go-to metaphor for model collapse.

That doesn't prevent power hungry mods from modding hundreds of communities, or mods or admins from enshittifying the most popular communities (or whole instances) with absurd rules or misinformation bots, or any other of the abuses that were rampant on reddit and even more rampant here... sure, the users can migrate to some other community or instance, but most won't (and migrating instances is significantly more work than simply unsubscribing from one subreddit and subscribing to another).

It's Russia, after all. Their entire history has been often summarised as “... and then things got worse”.

No. The fediverse is just more of the same mindless gargling and regurgitation of mainstream media excrement that the internet has become, but federated.

It lacks the creativity, originality, experimentation, wonder, sheer life of the old internet.

It's just as dead, enshittified, and riddled with misinformation bots as everything else.