ITT:Lemmites being reminded that they an old now. And struggling to come to terms with it.
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People using their actual fucking name on the internet.
Nothing, who do you think taught them how to do it?
Economy.
"Create an account to continue" being considered normal for everything.
They're so certain they even dropped the "please" at this point.
I'm no longer friends with MySpace Tom.
I mean the question stings a little but ultimately times have changed quite a bit since the 90s. And I'm 30 so that's all my last century reference. Genuinely one I didn't expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today's teenagers. Also people used to be more considerate using public transport. Listening to music on speaker was almost unheard of and now it happens all the time around me. Oh and restaurants with qr code only menus can piss right off.
Genuinely one I didn't expect is so much stuff like fashion, music and whatnot from my childhood being this popular among today's teenagers.
The resurgence of the mullet is simply not acceptable. It was terrible then, it is terrible now. You look like a moron.
The thing about the music on transit is half the time it's people older than me (30s and up). Which means it's not a generational thing, these people were always out there.
As for QR codes, I think there are use cases, though they are often poorly implemented. QR code ONLY I agree is insanity
Trump elected a second time
Nothing. I'm thirty, not retarded.
Coal rollers. The active embrace of our collective demise.
Coal rollers are defenders of the sanity in this world. If not for them, I don't know how I could know the pure hate fuelling the masses for genocide and such?
The one and only time I encountered one was when I was in my WRX with my newborn in the back. Blew black smoke in front of me on the highway at highway speeds. Sped through the smoke because WRX, had a half empty frappucino bottle next to me and whipped it out the window at the laughing passenger, catching him in the forehead. WRX was too fast to know what happened after that.
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I expected Soylent Green by now.
Holding a mobile telephone horizontally in front of yourself and shouting at it, then moving it to the side of your head, holding it sticking out from your ear horizontally to listen to what the other person says... instead of just holding it in one place to do both, like a telephone.
Why... why would you do that?
I use speaker most of the time when I'm not around other people. Just more comfortable for me so I don't have to hold my arm up. I suppose someone who is also used to using speaker could just not notice when it would be better to use the earpiece.
But yeah the meta for phone answering nowadays seems to be speaker phone primarily.
Edit: to clarify I always switch to the appropriate mode given the situation and fuck you if you're on the phone being loud to people around you
plus using speaker let's me avoid touching my phone which is filthy most of the time
That the internet is not a good thing.
Twenty years ago, even some more, the internet was something that brought me hope for humanity: A democratic network of knowledge open to anyone for both participation and access. I truly expected this to improve the lifes of those in less fortunate countries and backgrounds, and help reduce conflicts between people by understanding each other.
Yeah, a bit too much "we are the world", but you read about the pioneers of the internet and this was a shared belief.
Turns out it was like Cyberpunk, but like boring.
How is the Internet not a network of knowledge open to anyone??
It's full of crap, yes. Back then it was just much smaller, but still very much crap-filled.
people eat shit and wonder why it tastes bad
for some reason they never seem to consider they can just...not eat the shit?
since the advent of the printing press, there has always been more media than any one person can consume in a lifetime...if your not filtering the content you consume your doing it wrong
I remember watching the Arab Spring unfold. Twitter being a guiding light through the darkness for so many people whos government tried to control available communication.
Such high hopes for people back then.
Occupy Wall Street and Me Too, also. I thought we were headed in the right direction. Fast forward... We got this.
All that has happened with the consolidation of social media into a propaganda arm for governments and corporations makes the fediverse decentralized network an important step forward in the right direction.
If there were another "??? Spring", could the fediverse be a tool for communication central to a movement still remains a question.
It's more of a billionaire nazi propaganda problem. Imagine if they bought up the newspapers and tv stations and there was literally no alternitive
...they have done that. like 5 ~~people~~ billionaires own the majority of media in the US, radio/news/3 letter networks
That's exactly what happened in Hungary, Slovakia, Russia... terrestrial news stations and papers all have people at the helm that have ties to their government.
I don't think it's much different in the US either.
Still currently in progress but most of the way complete. We’re gonna have a hard time un-fucking it at this stage.
All the dystopia, none of the mantis blades.
Social media made the internet not worth it. I had high hopes also but humanity sucks as seen when we are all interconnected with global squares.
Yet here we are, defiant in someone's server in a basement in Germany.
I think the Internet is still a good thing, it's just become so pervasive and ubiquitous that it's easy to ignore when it's not a bad thing. Humans are really good at noticing bad things, which makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. They stand out more starkly against a neutral background.
It is, and people are sharing all the knowledge in the world, in a way that was never possible before.
Just because an AI-driven botnet is flooding it with bogus articles, and mainstream entertainment is full of brain rot, it doesn't mean the internet isn't incredibly useful, to the point that many people would struggle with daily life without it.
Omfg, if you're over 25, that's when you start struggling to understand technology, because the alzheimers is starting to set in? Things are getting dumber, not smarter.
Idiocracy incarnate
Fascism.
Return of nicotine addiction of the youth.
Latest trend besides the god damned vapes: nicotine-infused toothpicks the kids in 7th grade are casually twirling around their mouths during class.
I remember a couple grades older than me in high school (I'm mid 30s) were getting in trouble for having cinnamon soaked tooth picks on them. What a world of change we live in.
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Funny enough, those have actually been around for a while, I remember seeing them as a "smoking alternative" sometime around 2013? But pretty sure they were around before that. Also aren't zyns or whatever still popular? Why not just stick with that?
Nicotine was bound to stick around though. It's basically a "legal" mini-high and doesn't have all the smell and cancer stigma (yet, pretty sure those things still ruin your lungs) that traditional burning cigs do. That industry wasn't gonna fold without a fight.
Tipping at kiosks.............
Nothing really, it’s just hard to care because everything is what we already had but with advertising and spying everywhere.
Answer's easy though. Signing up to advertisement delivery platforms, wether it be TikTok, or YouTube or even Amazon Prime with comemrcials.
Basically everything on the internet now we would have called “spyware” before 2000…
Right but they're mostly not too up in your face with the spyware. They're not hiding it either,but you could forgive a tech-illiterate for not seeing it.
The advertisements though, they're fucking all over the place. The "free internet" isn't even dead. These poor sods just choose to go with the advertisements instead.
Just put me on a fucking Iceberg already.
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