Yea, welcome to Outside a MMORPG with over 7 Billion players. Hopefully you got a good server with good admins, preferrably one where the players chose the admin and the admin doesn't the the powers to, without a council to oversee their administration, arbitraily start apply the "prison" status effect to players he/she doesn't like, or just straight up banning them and apply a "perma-death" status effect.

Off topic, but I remember my apartment in China had like metal bars protecting the windows in the apartmeny, but in the stairwell of the building, there was a sort of "window area" that isn't protected. As a kid, I had fear of heights, but also have intrusive thoughts about falling out the building.

Like, I'm gonna try to illustrate on my notes app:

So that little rectangle is the apartment and the smaller rectangle is the door. So the right side of the stairs goes down. Then ir turns 180 degrees around then goes down further, get it? On in the middle platform where it turns (in between floors, there is a "window" area. The window looked like this:

The part colored below is a concrete barrier. About like 3-4 feet in height (feet, because I've been acustomed to useing american measuremenys).

Above that is just nothing. Zero barrier. Outside is the air, and below is death.

So if you were an adult, you could just leap over the concrete barrier and fall to your death.

I lived like 5-6 floors high.

Every day I would fear I accidentally run down the stairs too fast and accidentally leap over and die.

I'm pretty sure that barrier is not gonna be legal in the US. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

(Sorry about the shitty illuatrarion, words are hard to describe)

Not the person you replied to, but:

My Options are:

1. Remain in US

2. Go back to China, an actual dictatorship. Hopefully Xi doesn't find all the anti-CCP stuff I said while in the US? China tends to label people who have moved oveeseas as "汉奸" (Han Traitor). I could potentially end up in prison. Also job market has like 10 times more people competing than the US. Also 户口 (Hukou) issues, my Hukou was in some rural village, very shitty place. If I go to a city (where the actual jobs are), I'm essentially treated as a foreigner in my own country. (Also, China revoked my Chinese citizenship already. So I'd technically be an actual foreigner lmao)

3. Become... stateless and get stuck in an airport?

The Internet or the power grid just shuts down one day when I wake up.

Like, yes I know there are the typical fear of nuclear war, or plague and stuff.

But those things, you typically just die.

But imagine you are alive, but have zero access to the internet. Zero entertainment.

I'll be so bored to death, while also not have the courage to end it (because of survival instincts would probably overrule my desire to die). Its just torture.

You really gonna make this a Apple vs Samsung thing when it's about the 1% rich vs the 99% of everyone else?

My safety is backed by nuclear weapons.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Japanese Animated Videos? Right?

We'll get Speaker of the House Elon Musk before GTA 6

So active that I always recognize the 100 or so usernames that are everywhere

There is no ~~war~~ murder in ~~Ba Sing Se~~ El Salvador

Okay this is probably bad advice, feel free to ignore:

Why not pretend you are interested and pretend you want to meet up

Then get a bunch of trusted friends to go and "confont" this person (with baseball bats).

okay yea this could go very wrong, but it is an option

But real advice, carry pepper spray, and if you are in a country that permits firearms, get a gun to carry with you (if you are comfortable with handling firearms, that is).

As for the messages, you can block anything not in your contacts.

Filter messages from unknown senders

With iMessage, you can prevent unknown senders from texting you directly. Their messages are filtered to another folder, and you don’t get notified about them.

Go to Settings > Apps > Messages.

Scroll down to Message Filtering, then turn on Filter Unknown Senders.

If this setting is on and you’re missing a message, check to see if it was filtered to Unknown Senders. Tap Filters in the top-left corner of the conversation list, then tap Unknown Senders.

Note: You canʼt open any links sent by an unknown sender until you make them a known sender—by adding them to your contacts or replying to the message.

From Apple website: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-filter-and-report-messages-iph203ab0be4/ios

For phone calls (in case the person tries to call):

Send unknown and spam callers to voicemail

Go to Settings > Apps > Phone, then tap any of the following:

Silence Unknown Callers: You get notifications for calls from people in your contacts, recent outgoing calls, and Siri Suggestions.

Call Blocking & Identification: Turn on Silence Junk Callers (available with certain carriers) to silence calls identified by your carrier as potential spam or fraud.

From Apple website: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/block-or-avoid-unwanted-calls-iphe4b3f7823/ios

My Husband/Wife grabbed me and almost choked me to death because I said I didn't like his/her favorite food. My friends are saying I'm an asshole. AITA?