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"Now" is relative, right?

I'm 60, and the list is long, but I read /r/Teachers and seriously don't get what's going on in public schools now. I can say that public school was CERTAINLY better when I was a kid. Grades mattered, kids got held back (and other kids shamed them for it), no eating in class, turn your assignments in on time, stay in your seat, pay attention, and shut up. Apparently, none of that applies now?

And, don't try to say "it's Covid". Yeah, it's gotten a little worse since then, but this shit has been increasing since long before five years ago. Also, yeah, "parents", but schools traditionally have been the place where kids got an education in spite of how dumb their parents were, that was the fucking point.

Now, if you'll excuse me, there's a cloud outside my window that needs a dressing down.

There's too much automation and it's not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.

My back hurts.

I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO

Nothing is EXTREME anymore. =(

https://personal-aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/90s_Extreme

I’ve turned into the work mom for the younger ones. Guess it’s all the tattoos and piercings that make me more approachable. I have a collection of young adults. I want scream “I’m not old enough to be your mother yet” except…well, 38. :/

When this happened.

Seeing fashion from the 90’s and early 2000’s come back into style.

These youngunns and their docker containers..

It's fine and all, but I prefer to run stuff without them

I don’t get TikTok or short form videos. They are mostly nonsense that just shortens the attention span of viewers. Or the trends and dumb challenges, like why does everyone just repeat the same thing as everyone else? Is it just to “be cool”? Because it’s not cool, it’s dumb, you just look like a stooge or a sheep. Or the ones where people mouth the words and put some movie line audio over it? Like wtf is that? It’s all so mind numbingly dumb!

Also, I don’t understand a lot of the music kids listen to these days. It started when I first heard dubstep, it’s progressed to a lot of the stuff that gets popular. Just give me some good old punk rock or 90s punk/pop-punk and I’ll be happy.

• Today's unregulated generative AI is exploitative and misanthropic bullshit that is toxic to human culture and society. They are ripping us all off, raising the cost of living, ruining the internet and media landscape, and destroying the planet, all in the name of replacing human workers for maximum profits.
• "Influencers" are just walking, talking billboards. Human advertisements. You might as well follow Ronald McDonald himself on X.com.
• Similarly, "content creator" is a boardroom buzzword created by some douchebag tech suit to describe the people who fill their "platform" with generic and valueless shit. If the thing you're making can best be desribed as "content" then it likely has little or no value to anyone. Make something that can be described specifically.
• "Six seven" isn't funny, will never be funny, and never was funny. It's not like there's something to it that I'm missing, because it's seemingly totally devoid of meaning in the first place. I guess this is what passes for comedy when you spend your formative years in a pandemic lockdown.

Soda and juice is too sweet for me.

A lot of music in public spaces is too loud.

No longer understanding slang is normal.

There's not enough hours (days) to decompress after a work day.

Any sport injuries or faceplant that would have been a mild 2 day annoyance in your 20 is now a permanent damage you can still feel after 3 months or more.

I notice more stupid kids nuances and realize it is not a cantankerous perspective, but rather the naïveté of adolescent minds with dichotomous scopes of self awareness regardless of age.

My knees randomly hurt for no reason!

"I used to be 'with it', then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me"
---Abe Simpson

I've always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.

EDIT:

I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.

67 did it for me. I tried to understand it and reflexivity said "well that's fucking dumb" before realizing that's literally the point. And we've all done anti-authority shit at some point. This random act of nothing is what a constantly surveilled generation does to elicit a reaction against a system that has proven it can ignore everyone.

I need to hold my phone further and further away for the letters to not be blurry

Some of them I have given up on 🤦

Easily get tired of dumb questions on Lemmy.

Me as a kid "Man, those grownups who don't like kids are evil people. I'll never become one of them."

Me 30 years later: "Goddammit."

My new love of a daily rant. Today it’s People broadcasting their inane lives on YouTube. Why the need? I don’t care and I find it self absorbed at best.

My kids watch that shit and I’m like why do you wanna sit around watching some guy making stupid noises and waffling about his protein intake. I am deffo old.

Making noises when sitting down or getting up, as if it was an effort to do it. :)

Im not doing it yet but it will probably come in a while.

It was around 2016, I was about 25, and I went camping with some friends for a few days.

Up until that point, I felt like I had managed to stay relatively "with-it"

But we had little to no Internet access for a few days, because that's how camping works.

I came back and dat boi was all over the internet.

I had no idea what was going on with that meme, it never quite clicked for me

And from there it was all downhill, more and more new memes just stopped making sense to me.

Woke up because I threw my shoulder out from rolling over wrong in the bed. Couldn't fall back asleep because I was in pain. Couldn't look at my phone easily because how how my shoulder hurt. Got up exactly with my alarm instead of sleeping in because I was bored and in pain.

Back when that South Park episode aired, where the kids are into rockband, but don't care about Randy's ability to play real guitar. Randy doesn't get it. This is then compared to Kyle's baby brother Ike who likes to watch Lets Play streamers but does not actually play the damn video games. Kyle doesn't get it. To me, that's when divergence between me and the next generation settled in. I do not understand the appeal of streamers. I do not want to watch people play games, I want to play games myself.

Since then, a number of other things have popped up, but that was basically the recognized turning point.

Hemorrhoids.

I live alone so no one is there to tell me when I have a 3 1/2 inch hair growing off my ear.

Also reminded periodically of the movie Roxanne, "Hay, who mows your nose hairs?"...

Technology is stupid, things where better in the old days