Is this supposed to be a “the world has turned into shit” take, even though it’s been like this for ages (way before the 4chan poster, or anyone alive for that matter, was born)?

What do you mean by that? Go find a sport/hobby. Clubs aren’t expensive at all.

Yes of course it’s safe. I drink filtered water from our fridge, but tap is perfectly fine too. I’m from Europe btw.

macOS on my laptop, windows on my PC. Also got a few servers running linux though.

Is Arc still mac only?

Safari for everything. I’m deep in the apple ecosystem. Edge when I’m on my PC, once in a blue moon.

WoW by a long shot. I’m guessing around 10k hours in total. I’ve mostly quit by now due to time constraints, but I recognize that when I do play, I neglect lots of other things.