We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.
Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…
Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I’m in.
“if the Tamagotchi doesn’t grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don’t want to do nothing with it”
I recorded Mila Supastar from TV on cassette tape
I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites…
Go back just a bit further to the days of AltaVista and I’m good. When it was still possible to store an entire website’s markup and its images on one floppy disk. When people were running servers out of their basement and jumpstarting the early web.
Edit: The Fediverse certainly has that 1996 “wild west” feel to it though, I gotta say. We’re just missing webrings and ugly-ass tiled backgrounds.
I did a bunch of school works when google didn’t yet exist. It was a wild ride searching obscure sites and finding information in green webpages with lots of blinking texts and colors. Had to borrow the 5 cds encyclopaedia from a friend to get any historical information for some works. Wikipedia was barely starting and having info there for some things was amazing.
Damn days of downloading a random mp3 file 128kpbs quality of 3.4 MBs that took 1 or 2 days with computer turned on all night long.
I prefer mid 2000s internet
Each sub has a subscription counter. We need a permanent under construction community
Altavista existed atleast till the start of windows vista
That’s so true
Dude, I still have a slammer that’s solid copper. I’m going to win all your pogs. So yes, let’s play.
don’t forget smartwatches and the beggining of vr with the Nintendo virtual (word forgor)
Virtual Boy, it was a love-hate VR experience. Red wire-frames was very Cyberpunk.
Virtual boy
I’ll bring my talkboy.
I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.
I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.
Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.
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Lmao they did just get fucked by God every step of the way.
“Stay silent, bitch” - Fate
You could say, they took silent in Silent Generation literally.
You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.
There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.
They were ubiquitous, it just didn’t produce stalemates because armies didn’t rely solely on artillery and human waves to break through.
They were still used because they still worked against poorly supported infantry.
Still are used, look at Ukraine.
Obviously the comment was mostly referring to WW1 but there were many battlefields that would have looked very much like their WW1 counterparts until some tanks or air support showed up.
On the bright side they didn’t make any boomers.
Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.
I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.
I’ve gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn’t go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.
Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.
What’s your plan of action for the upcoming water wars?
Die
Same as my retirement plan.
As a Canadian: worry
Fr fr The resource paradox could fuck yall over baddddd…
Yeah bordering an underprepared but highly militarized country during a resource shortage is probably going to be a problem for them. Feels bad man
Don’t worry, we’ll let you become Americans. How does the state of North Montana sound?
No thank you 🤮
To not have children
birthrated will come back up right snd we won’t go extinct in like 2456 or something
That is surely one of many issues. Some localized like water, and some will be wider like food shortages. All avoidable, but somehow not.
Once water gets too scarce it will no longer be a “localized” problem. It’s necessary to survive and it traded as a commodity.
I don’t see it happening as we are entering a period of explosive progress with AI that surely will find ways to make water bountiful all over. Not a guarantee though and for sure the path to that future will have some bumps. Already has some.
Our AI overlords need that water to cool their serverbanks though, so guess we are shit out of luck on that one.
sea salt removal and making water molecules 1 by one should save us
remove sea salt from the sea
We’re aware. I propose we eat the boomers. Gen X is okay, though.
so what would that worst look like?
I suppose this. https://youtu.be/kQkyouPOrD4?si=usnYe3XhJDJhdhgs
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I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck
You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I’m disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain’t never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I’m 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.
$1800/month? That’s fucking insane. Look in to community living groups. I was turned on to it while I was in school (at 35 🤷🏻♂️) as a cheap option while I went back. I know we’ve all had room mate horror stories, but there are people out there who are willing to co-operate and work towards having a home.
Four years on and now I’m running the house (it’s just a rental with lots of rooms) and we have a great group of 5 that’s been together for over a year, including a 9 year old. (Most of us have been together 2 years now, we had a housemate leave amicably last summer).
I’ll admit the first two years were kinda rough. It took me a bit to recognize the red flags I needed to - and to build up the courage to be able to say “no, you wouldn’t be a good fit” to people I’ve known for years. I had some dramatic experiences trying to find the right people, but we’ve got a nice home now and we each pay around $600/month for a whole-ass home!
It does take work; physical, mental, and emotional, but saving $1200/month is worth it. You’ve gotta be able to communicate your needs respectfully and be able to look at yourself and acknowledge where you need to improve to be able to get along with people.
The rewards are worth it. We all work less now so we have weekly dinner and D&D and movie nights and it’s really quite nice. We still bump elbows from time to time, but we all know each other well enough now that it’s easy to solve conflict calmly.
The $1800 was an exaggeration of what I expect to happen. But I am in an apartment that isn’t cheap. I’m screwed either way
Oh that’s what I’m paying an inner city apartment that has a mice/mold/insect problem and like the doors don’t close cause the frame and walls are cracked and lopsided… LoL I hate that pretty much every apartment is a flop house at luxury prices.
1800 is cheap where I am.
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well calyx institute true unlimited data is quite cheap probably also if you want tv then get ota tv also mabye torrent if you use Netflix and stuff
Same but I’m self aware that I got a house thanks to society falling apart and couldn’t have done it otherwise.
2008 crisis + foreclosure + house needed tons of work.
I’ve made it nice with serious updates, but I couldn’t happily rebuy my own house and that’s scary
Not even a joke, I miss the time when a virus was our biggest concern. That may be insensitive to people who had friends or family die because of it or who live in a country with shitty access to vaccines or health care in general though.
It’s awful but I get it…
I’ve got CPTSD so I’m always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.
Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.
I watch someone on YouTube who deals with stress. They said they were… I think relieved (can’t recall exactly what word they used) because, for once, their stress and the actions resulting from it were now normal.
Oh cool you too?
I mean COVID still hit me harder than I was prepared for and kinda crushed me a little but I picked back up pretty ok but since then been sorta on the back foot and losing steam
Damn, this image really makes me feel sorry for Will Smith. He’s so pussy whipped, and it’s not even funny. His wife is in Scientology and basically uses the church and the threat of taking his kids away and hiding them within the church to get Will to toe into line, so much so that she cucked him with their son’s rapper friend (who she groomed after his mother died). This image is from her “red table” internet talk show where she had Will on and they both said they were ok with her sleeping around.
Still though, he gave me my wifi SSID, “KeepMyWiFisNameOutYourF-ingMouth”. It literally only just fits lol.
Feel sorry for people that actually deserve it. Don’t waste any emotional energy on this dipshit.
All people deserve empathy
Nah, some don’t. Wouldn’t say Will Smith is one of them, though.
That attitude is destructive and harmful to humanity.
Wait what’s he do?
Actually, we’re well on our way to a 4th economic crash.
Hooray!
potentially
Let’s see some more can-do attitude, mkay?
No, definitely
One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said “you’re moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe”
I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo holmes, smell ya later” I looked at my kingdom I was finally there
Only to realize that the crisis in Europe was just as bad as there.
Slightly better healthcare and job security. Don’t go to Australia. It’s horrible and full of homeless drop bears.
But wait, it gets worse!
You’d think that people who face a crisis every few years would be familiar enough with the word to know that the plural is “crises”.
As a French j’approuve
Ton pseudo est poétique
Merci c’est gentil
“crisipodes”
Too young to know who Mike Oldfield is.
Slides Tubular Bells LP out of its sleeve
laugh/sobs in living with parents
It’s definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property
We live in the most peaceful time in history and we carry the collective knowledge of humanity in our pockets. We have many problems to solve now and in the future but some perspective is useful.
Edit: this thread screams ignorance
Peaceful… I don’t know, more like everyone has lost hope for a better future.
Evil people in charge everywhere.
Collective knowledge of humanity in our pockets… But only interested in Facebook and tiktok and Instagram.
Study history. The chance of dying violently is the lowest in history. And evil people have always been in charge.
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We have many problems to solve now and in the future but some perspective is useful.
From my original comment ^
Don’t straw man. Obviously we have problems today. I’m not arguing that things are fine today. I arguing that from a historic perspective, today is a good day. Nostalgia for the past is such a bullshit privileged belief from non marginalized people. Study history so we don’t make the same stupid mistakes again.
Your original post sounds like you think millennials are the first generation to have problems when in reality, our generation’s problems are trivial in comparison to past generations.
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*thanos snaps * happy?
I think Greg is talking about how despite people mentioning how bad things are, if the current situation falls apart, they’ll look to the present era with nostalgia. Not that I say things are good as they currently are. It can be improved much more.
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I don’t know how to help you personally, but I’m sorry to learn you’re in your current situation. Thanks for sharing it, I have no way of knowing otherwise.
I’m sorry to hear about your situation. That’s really rough. I hope you can get the support you need and deserve.
The fact evil people have always been in charge is not a plus in the humanity is OK column.
To your 1st and 2nd point, those have always been true.
I love that your bar is: hey man at least no one’s randomly stabbing you.
Which he’s also wrong about. I’ve been randomly stabbed for being gay.
In the ass?
Is every Australian user here either an idiot or an asshole?
Our sense of humour is different than yours is all. If we couldn’t laugh at ourselves and our mates we would kill ourselves.
knifes or pencils
it’s starting to become in a watch
Ah yes, lost two jobs in three months, waiting for my rent to go up, and live in a tent while at uni for the next three years. There is no affordable housing where I live, and employers can fire us at any time. Makes total sense.
As an a vintage millennial I can say w confidence: there will be more and you should prepare yourself. Lol
I am hanging on by a thread as it is. Not being facetious or funny here in saying that I am not okay. Any more of this and I’m going to buckle.
World needs to slow down. Stop having 8 major crises a year. Fuck. Can we tone it back to like… 5?
i lol because it’s the only way i can find to keep myself sane through the insanity from the last 40+ years and it’s taught me to expect more because boomers and the silent generation (eg biden and trump) are still in control and will be for atleast another 35+ years so shit will continue to happen because they only give a rat’s ass about themselves and maybe their children/grandchildren.
unless you’re one of those children/grandchildren, more shit will happen and expect to have to vote for those children/grandchildren into office or, at least, expect to call them boss at your next job; assuming you can still get a job.
and don’t bother complaining about it; the last 40+ years have also taught me the hard way that doing so will only label you a malcontent and make it more difficult to find work in your future.
learn how to fake a convincing smile to your bosses and find something to lol at for yourself to keep your head above the water.
Yeah I’ve been doing that for a the last few years and still struggle with maintaining it and have given so much of my emotions up to keep that mask on that if I magically found a gun in my hand I might not think twice before it was in mouth.
That inability to do anything but take the beatings with a smile has worn be down to a husk of a person.
Just because history doesn’t remember it doesn’t mean it hasn’t always been this way. Just roll with the punches and adapt when it actually affects you.
As an early GenXer…they ain’t seen nothing yet.
Bbbb baby?
