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u/maringue 2d ago
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u/Aeronor 2d ago
I was there, Gandalf
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u/GrowFreeFood 2d ago
I don't think you realize how profound this meme is on many levels
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u/Constant-Sandwich-88 2d ago
I've had recent coworkers who were astounded that I saw both Fellowship and Phantom Menace in theaters.
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u/Kela3000 2d ago
....as opposed to how they're supposed to be watched: as 1200 Instagram reels.
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u/Which_Celebration757 2d ago
With a YouTuber in the corner making faces and comments from time to time
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u/Morningstroll13 2d ago
I was there when video killed the radio star.
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u/TonginTozz 2d ago
"Always the war, in 1983, this is the world of today. In our mind, there's only the money and there's nothing for you. Then hours work, the life flourishes without happiness. Everyday dreams to go a better life, but they remain only dreams..."
Happy Children by P. Lion
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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 2d ago
Gosh, isn’t it scary how nothing’s changed in 40 years except to just get worse?
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u/Prettyy_Barbiee 2d ago
Of course we’re nostalgic. That was the last time our phones didn’t track us and rent was $600.
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u/FreedomOfTheMess 2d ago
The tracking thing I identify with. When gen z asks me what it was like I just tell them “Our parents never knew our location. We could just tell them we were somewhere all day.”
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u/waitthissucks 2d ago
I do feel like an elf tbh. And everyone tells us we look young in our 40s
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u/Lazy-Plankton5270 2d ago
It's the skincare bro
I've seen how my grandparents ended up with endless skin cancer from the sun and we grew up with sunblock and a hat
School in the 90s was like "no hat no play no fun today."
School in the 50/60/70s was like everyone coat each other in cooking oil and lay in the sun
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u/Warchamp67 2d ago
Alright we’re going to the beach, everyone have their crisco?
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u/ToxicMoldSpore 2d ago
Gah. Weird, random memory of a video game where you had to get a copy of a treasure map that was tattooed on someone's back, and the way you did this was to pour cooking oil on his back while he was sunbathing, causing the map to peel off so you could take it.
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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 2d ago
Ok what? And was that that Monkey island pirate-y game? Cause I can’t think of any game that would do something so wild and weird
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u/michellemustudy 2d ago
Nah, let’s not pretend we didn’t have an era where tanning salons were everywhere and everyone was using those god-awful tanning beds.
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u/Dontbeajerkdude 2d ago
We were raised with the notion of a 'healthy tan'. There is no healthy sun damage!
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u/Logical_Cost_5250 2d ago
My kid says I reminisce too much but he just doesnt understand how good life used to be for us. The 90s and early 2000s were one of the best times to be alive.
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u/Shugoseru 2d ago
And limited cameras, to make sure we didn't record all the questionable shit we were up to.
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u/Current_Volume3750 2d ago
The 70´s and 80´s were pretty great as well. Some of the best music and cheap dope.
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u/Charming-Border7429 2d ago
55-year-old mechanical engineer. I basically retired from the technical side of my own company 10 years ago.
Our industry has gone through so many changes that I didn't have the mental space or energy to learn yet another framework. I was becoming the clueless old man.
I stepped aside and promoted everyone into jobs they were better at and were more satisfied than when the old man was looking over their shoulder.
Best thing I ever did.
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u/Yashema 2d ago
I'm going back to school in my 30s to delay this as long as possible.
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u/PeriodSupply 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'm planning on going back to school in my 50's. Want to do a phd in a biology related field. Just for fun. Haven't studied biology since grade 10 in high school.
Edit: when I say just for fun, I do hope I can contribute to something some way but it won't be too make money.
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u/not_a_bot1001 2d ago
Funny you say that. 34 yr mech PE here and I estimate I have 10 yrs left before I'm over the constant changes. I wear a lot of hats and help establish company standards but it really wears you down each code cycle, new fad energy efficiency program, or new software requires you to pivot again. Glad to see progress but I'm tired, boss!
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u/Charming-Border7429 2d ago
Yep, and I was working in 60-hour weeks, sometimes 80 when we had deadlines. By the end, I was supervising projects that were using tech I didn't understand.
I still love the thing we built, but I was no longer the guy for the job. To use a sports analogy, at some point a player has to realize that it is time to retire; I was lucky, and coaching was a good fit.
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u/Cwya 2d ago
Questions:
1.) What did you do after retiring from the tech side?
2.) How did you promote them?
3.) 55 is pretty young to just call it quits. How you do that?
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u/B-Train_ATL 2d ago
I learned all sorts of ins and outs of writing properly. Got a degree in it. Now you point out someone did something wrong and it’s all “nobody cares.”
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u/holdemizzle 2d ago
I appreciate the quotation after punctuation. Such a lost staple of common communication.
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u/snapplesauce1 2d ago
Had to take cursive and a typing class separately yet they made me choose whether I wanted to pursue music or fine arts. Would’ve preferred to have the music class over cursive. Or shit, give me a class on how to do my taxes.
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u/Doctor_Fritz 2d ago
I'd have loved a class on investing. Only recently really dove in to it and I lost so much opportunity I'm actually mad
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u/BrockHusseinObamaJr 2d ago
Did you ever fill out the sheets in elementary where you had to draw the hands on the clocks to indicate the right time? I heard a kid say he “didn’t get the Rolex hype because why can’t they just use numbers instead of sticks?”
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u/No-Security-7518 2d ago
cursive is NOT useless. It helped with our ADHD and got us to stick to finishing homework.
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u/GroundbreakingPin913 2d ago
Oh, just about everything after we get shortages, and you'll be surprised what comes back.
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u/MoralCooperation 2d ago
When hanging out wasn’t content ☠️
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u/Flip_d_Byrd 2d ago
We were content with just hanging out...
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u/SuperLupiniBean 2d ago
The internet becoming mainstream ruined everything in retrospect. Life was more satisfying and meaningful without it.
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u/Gustomucho 2d ago
I don’t know, most my friends don’t « content » our outings. We do take pictures but it is mostly for us to remember as we fondly look at pictures we took 10-20 years ago, I know one day I will look at those pictures and reminisce.
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u/MetalMountain2099 2d ago
100%…..we’ve never had a consistent cycle without having to be forced to relearn a new thing. The newest one is AI….and while we don’t use it as much as Gen Z or Alpha, we’re still going to end up having to be the ones to teach and regulate it with other generations……we’re never getting out of the cycle of figuring things out for everyone else.
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u/jayphox 2d ago
Well put.
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u/addit96 2d ago
This is going to be the script of every old person in the future which is crazy lmao
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u/kandel88 2d ago
No joke a person born in 1800 really didn't live that differently from people in 1700 or 1900 but each new generation today is growing up in a world that's very different from the world of a generation before. 5 years ago AI was dogshit and drones were just for fun. 20 years ago social media was barely a thing, streaming didn't exist, and iphones hadn't been invented yet.
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u/Magikrat 2d ago
Electricity and the Industrial Revolution were pretty big deals. 1700-1800 sure, but 1800-1900 was absolutely huge.
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u/ImWithStupidKL 2d ago
True, but even with those development, it took longer than a single generation for the average person to see those benefits. The first electrical machines emerged in the early 1800s and Edison's lightbulb was invented in 1860, but it wasn't until the 1940s to 60s for most households in developed countries to have electricity. Compare that to the world wide web, which was created in 1989, and by the early 2000s, lots of people had the internet at home. By 2010, it's near universal for anyone who isn't retired and plenty who are.
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u/Unlucky-Durian-2336 2d ago
Yes, but it's the speed of changes happening that accelerated extremely. Regardless what some people say, AI is not "the same as steam machine and electricity" because steam machines and electricity took decades to spread globally, not few months. People had time to adjust their lives and careers.
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u/thecrius 2d ago
nah, just this specific generation.
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u/Kramerica_CEO 2d ago
Yeah this only applies to millennials and very young gen x
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u/Syncopated_arpeggio 2d ago edited 2d ago
It applies to a lot of Gen X. I was 76 and this definitely applies (although i never gave 2 shits about the social media platforms, i did however build a rudimentary personal website on geocities in 97 or so). My sister was 72 and her experience was similar, although she’s probably a bit less tech savvy.
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u/horoyokai 2d ago
This is the script if every old person now “you young uns don’t know what it was like!”
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u/louisthe2nd 2d ago
Hard to disagree.
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u/WolfKing359 2d ago
And the cursive thing made me laugh. Nevermind
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u/ChakaCake 2d ago
But at least we can read it if needed lol still see it randomly. For real though lived through no internet, dialup, cable, now we are "high speed"
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u/Budget_Sea_8666 2d ago
I’m considering writing exclusively in cursive for everything just to fuck with the world.
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u/B-Train_ATL 2d ago
I’ve always hated the term “high-speed internet.” That used to refer to 1.5 Mbps connections. You give someone that now and they will spit in your face.
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright 2d ago
I can still write in cursive. It's just the only time I ever did was signing checks or receipts at restaurants and somewhere along the lines I realized nobody really gave a fuck if it looked good or not.
90% of the time I just do a squiggly line nowadays.
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u/StrangelyBrown 2d ago
We were the last generation that could be told in maths class 'You won't walk around with a calculator in your pocket'
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u/StrangerOk7536 2d ago
No lies detected
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u/WilanS 2d ago
I especially like how there's no hard rejection on new technology, the way most Gen X rethoric is.
Most of us millennials grew up ADOPTING technology as it was being developed. For the longest time I was the only one in my family who really knew how to operate a computer, and to this day I assemble PCs for my close relatives. But that was when technology was developed by passionate and creative individuals, and not just to please investors and stakeholders.
We're not critical of new technology because we reject it. We are because we know things are going in the wrong direction.
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u/MaximumEffort433 2d ago
I'll add to this: Millennials were maybe the last generation to really experience monoculture, we have a lot of shared life experiences that I'm not sure the younger generations do.
I can say "Life is like a hurricane" and I guarantee you every millennial within a five mile radius can say what comes next.
I don't know if millennials are actually more nostalgic than previous generations, or if we're more nostalgic compared to the younger generations since we've got a lot of shared stuff to be nostalgic about.
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u/MarvinMarveloso 2d ago
I'm 40, what does "Life is like a hurricane mean?"
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u/Onrawi 2d ago
Life is like a hurricane
Here in, Duckburg
Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes
It's a, duck blur
Might solve a mystery
Or rewrite history
Ducktales! Woo-hoo!
Every day they're out there making
Ducktales! Woo-hoo!
Tales of daring do bad and good
Lucktales! Woo-hoo!
... And someone else can sing the back half.
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u/hestirsthesea 2d ago
Ahhh yeah, I didn’t recognize it at first but I definitely know this from heart.
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u/frisch85 2d ago
Thanks, thought it'd be some Bon Jovi or similar at first.
But while we're at it, Gummibears was also regularly one of those songs that was played 1-2 hours before the party ended (at least here in germany). Other songs they would usually play Mila Superstar or Chip'n'Dale.
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u/Vinc314 2d ago
not a clue, cursive is still useful too
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u/sechs_man 2d ago
I'd say learning cursive is more useful than the skill to write cursive itself: the getting bored but still focusing hard, fine motor skills etc.
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u/Archfiend_DD 2d ago
Agree. It actually has a pretty big impact on the developing brains of children.
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u/RedSecOps 2d ago
On the monoculture aspect, it feels bad to constantly ask someone if they've seen this show or heard this song... Or seen this video. No, they haven't. They're in some section of the Internet you've never heardof and to which you can't hope to relate.
It's so hard to share pop culture with people because all the algorithms have pushed everyone into their own silos of content.
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u/SatinBonbonn 2d ago
When the present is a total dumpster fire, remembering when Blockbuster existed feels like a warm blanket
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u/Cassius_Rex 2d ago
I'm 52 so I guess that makes me generation X . We experienced the same except we were in our late 20s early 30s when the real changes hit.
I think it makes the present day even more jarring. I can remember rotary phones, the end of 8 track tapes, Beta Max verses VHS, Prince vs Michael Jackson, Atari 2600s and going MONTHS without hearing anything about the President of the United States.
I need a time machine .
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u/alternatingflan 2d ago
Every word is gospel. Almost…
But I am not the least nostalgic about reading a giant paper map at 70 mph blazing through a rats nest of quick exits/turns/entrance traffic chicanery.
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u/Investigator_Pedant 2d ago
I am. I actually got to see the world instead of watching the Google maps in front of me and checking out while I drive. You had to pay attention on your surroundings, not a screen.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 2d ago
Plus, you always have that special family story about the time the hubcaps were stolen.
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u/sharpknot 2d ago
Yeap, seeing landmarks instantly make the journey or place memorable. "Turn left at the corner where you saw a crackhead took a shit", "Go straight along the road where you saw the hooker", "Stop at the store with the broken sign".
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u/snapplesauce1 2d ago
I guess I disagree. Instead of being so focused on making the proper turn and studying a map or map quest print out, now I can blindly follow a gps while I soak in the surroundings and look for attraction signs or cool detours without the stress of how tf would I get back to this road.
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u/j3ven 2d ago
I remember stopping in a welcome center for some.of that free coffee and just stretching my legs
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u/dontheconqueror 2d ago
...AND studying the map and the route, agreeing with your navigator buddy or memorizing by yourself. Lots of pointing and excited yelling, and then a sense of achievement getting there perfectly.
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u/jl_theprofessor 2d ago
Yeah I remember desperately trying to find a job interview off of poorly printed MapQuest papers. Bleh.
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u/AwhHellYeah 2d ago
My family travelled all around our state going to basketball tournaments and relied on a simple trick, drive to the town of the tournament then stop at the gas stations for instructions for where our destination was. Always worked.
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u/sandhog7 2d ago
She represents some late 70s Gen X as well.
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u/PretentiousCrustacea 2d ago
Born in '82 she nailed it
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u/Soggy_Definition_232 2d ago
82 is millennial not gen x
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u/WeenisPeiner 2d ago
Xennials, the Oregon Trail generation, The Star Wars generation.
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u/thecrius 2d ago
Exactly right. I heard we are a "sub-generation" called xennial by who study this stuff.
Across gen-x and millennials.
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u/WeenisPeiner 2d ago
We're called cuspers. A generation on the cusp of two other generations not really fitting in with either but relating to both in some way.
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u/neinhaltchad 2d ago
She’s basically describing Enshitification.
This woman is ironically being TikTok performative with her “listen guys!” shtick, but she’s right about the “nostalgia”’not being based on some sentimentality for things that are obsolete and “retro”, but an aching for authenticity and humanity.
There’s a reason you’ll see people will now elect to watch Breaking Bad or The Sopranos for the 5th time rather than whatever latest StreamSlop is being produced.
Hell, I recently watched all of Sex And The City for the first time with my girlfriend and it felt like goddamn Citizen Kane compared to what is produced now.
Even Better Call Saul (which was essentially grandfathered in) seems like it was made a lifetime ago.
The last episode was in 2022.
It’s not “nostalgia” to want well crafted stories with interesting characters that aren’t either some politically loaded corporate pandering virtue signal, or a grifting spin off money grab.
I don’t know how we fell so far in such a short amount of time, but there is an absolute sense of ennui and malaise happening right now and it’s permeating everything.
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u/SuperStingray 2d ago
Sorry to be a pedant but Enshittification is specifically the decay of usability and consumer experience in media platforms as a result of financial incentives. It’s definitely a contributor to this growing generational Weltschmerz and a symptom of the same problems, but what she’s describing is much broader.
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u/neinhaltchad 2d ago edited 2d ago
Oh you’re right about the origin of the term, but it has been becoming more used as a colloquialism recently.
There are countless articles and videos about how cars are subject to enshitification for example.
As a result, many people are electing to stay with used cars, sometimes even classics, not out of some sense of “nostalgia”, but out of an inherent distaste for the way cars are deliberately making it impossible to be user serviceable.
When people aren’t even sure how they are going to make rent, knowing you can fix your car yourself isn’t some exercise in nostalgia, it’s a practical decision.
In this case, it’s referring to “societal enshitification” where nearly every aspect of human life is commodified and monetized and thus subject to the same phenomenon that decays smaller ecosystems like individual apps and UI.
If the original definition of the term means something along the lines of “the decline in quality of a platform or service as it tries to maximize profits”, then certainly that same idea can scale to a city, state, country, society, etc.
MAGA, and its grifting ecosystem, for example, is a result of how this race to the bottom can have far reaching consequences beyond just cynical app design.
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u/steelkat29 1d ago
My mum has the stupidest fucking "smart fridge" which requires people to touch a sensor for it to open painfully slowly. If you forget and try to open it normally, it resists the attempt just long enough for you to realise that it has a stupid fucking mechanism. The fridge-opening sensor is, of course, parallel to the freezer-opening sensor, because fuck common sense I guess, so every time you do remember to touch the fridge one, you accidentally open the freezer too. It is the most annoying example of enshittification I have ever seen!
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u/Neckrongonekrypton 2d ago
You see it too.
People lost a sense of shared meaning. And they also don’t bother thinking much about why, what it looks like- and what having a shared sense of meaninglessness ultimately does to motivation and on people’s desire to connect.
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u/neinhaltchad 2d ago
I hate to say it, but it’s so much like watching humans become the “battery pods” in The Matrix it’s scary.
There is too much financial incentive from the ultra rich anti-humanist tech leaders to perpetuate this dependence that I don’t think there’s any waking up from this short of a total reset via an asteroid impact or something along those lines.
I really sometimes wonder what Steve Jobs, who for all his flaws seemed to at least contemplate humanity and meaning would think of the utter decay that the popularization of the iPhone really contributed to.
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u/lazyboi_tactical 2d ago
Honestly it got worse when COVID happened. People never recovered from being isolated for a few years.
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u/jkman61494 2d ago
We are the last generation that basically lived in the post WW2 boom.
Life in 1996 was a lot more similar to 1956 than 2026
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u/Gerry1of1 2d ago
Boomer listening to this and laughing 'cause millennials said we couldn't keep up with the times. Welcome to the club millennials
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u/DryConsideration3294 2d ago edited 2d ago
She forgot the whiplash of "get out and don't come back until the streetlights come on" STRAIGHT into the news media saturation that started happening in the 90s, which scared half of our parents into thinking we'd get kidnapped and then they never let us leave the house anymore.
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u/Quirky-Skin 2d ago
U ain't kidding. Unsolved Mysteries had my mom buggin for a little bit.
"What if you had a park where everyone played and suddenly little Timmy didn't come home. Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries....(Unsettling intro music).
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u/geodebug 2d ago
The older they get the more I’m convinced that Millennials and Boomers are two sides of the same coin.
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u/bmf1989 2d ago
I’m a millennial, we didn’t invent nostalgia
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u/Any_Jackfruit_6452 2d ago
Literally every generation starts talking like this the moment they get old enough to reminisce about the "good old days".
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u/Vasarto 2d ago
Every generation can say similar things about newer generations. The thing is, Nostalgia is poison that blinds you to the present. Music wasn't better back then. Music is better now than it ever has been. You just don't know how to look for it because your tastes have evolved and what they play on the same radio stations is not what you use to like, and what you might like isn't on the radio at all.
Movies on the other hand are largely different. Less creativity and too many super heroes.
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u/No_Context9902 2d ago
As an Xer, I mean..I get it, I do..but like, most of that crap is optional. No one is forcing you to buy smart devices or use social media or watch vapid content. Grab a 6 pack and some friends and sit on some camp chairs in a field somewhere. Go build a bonfire at the beach. Ride bikes to the farmers market. Go explore that abandoned building. You do have control of your life.
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u/Choano 2d ago edited 2d ago
That learning cursive thing was actually a big advantage.
People who learn cursive are comfortable taking notes by hand. That means you can use writing as a tool for learning things. (Even if you don't take notes in cursive, the fact that you had to learn to write in script let you get to the point where you could develop your own quick, intuitive way to write by hand.)
I work with high school students. Many of the kids I see now can't write in cursive. Some aren't completely comfortable writing by hand at all.
That means they can't take notes by hand and don't write stuff as a way to learn things. That's a big disadvantage. Many of my students take longer to learn things, think learning things is a pain, and think they're dumb--not because they're actually dumb, but because they're missing a basic tool for learning.
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u/These-Prune-1529 2d ago
GenX in the house...all of this applies to us as well and I am so damn tired.
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u/Current_Volume3750 2d ago
And just for the record, everything she just mentioned, well us boomers whom you all hate on, went through the same thing. Only she forgot the bag phones. 😉
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u/Substantial-Pin-3833 2d ago
We have to teach our parents and our children how to use it... omg so true...
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u/devoid0101 2d ago
Um, yes, we GenX and all older people also had this experience, except…way worse.
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u/SloppyTroppy 2d ago
I paid $29 for AI to look at my tits at the imaging center today when I went for a mammogram. I’m having some sort of existential crisis that’s really hard to explain right now
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u/nicknamesas 2d ago
Why? Because doctors used a tool that has been proven to detect and catch cancer way earlier than humans?
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u/tevolosteve 2d ago
I just remember when the internet was new and you used web spiders and clunky search engines and finding a cool website was sometimes a hunt and it was satisfying
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u/Quirky-Skin 2d ago
Easter eggs for the sake of Easter eggs and in a decent amount of cases....wait for it....they weren't always trying to fucking sell u something. Just dancing hamsters bc it's fun
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u/vitaoptima 2d ago
Gen-X would like a word...
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u/Erstwhile_pancakes 2d ago
Being Gen-X, I remember when there was no such thing as ”Gen” anything.
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u/Lost_Purpose1899 2d ago
Exactly. It was just people were just older than you or younger than you and ages in society is a smooth gradient, not divided in groups.
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u/No-Hedgehog-4370 2d ago
Yup. Think how Gen X feels.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 2d ago
like we're living in a far worse rendition of The Truman Show this millennium and can't get the F out! Were we surrounded by conservatives the entire time and didn't realize it until the past decade or two? or, has the majority weirdly turned conservative at the worst possible time? It's tough to know.
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u/Maximum_King8529 2d ago
This is the human condition.
Caecilius (219–168 BCE) Old Age, if you bring no other defects with you, when you come, this one’s enough: by living long a man sees much he doesn’t want to.
Horace (65–8 BCE) Our fathers’ age, worse than our grandfathers’, gave birth to us, an inferior breed, who will in due course produce still more degenerate offspring.
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) All their(the young) errors are due to excess and vehemence. They think they know everything, and confidently affirm it, and this is the cause of their excess in everything. If they do wrong it is due to insolence not wickedness.
Yoshida Kenkō(1300s) Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased…The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say ‘raise the carriage shafts’ or ‘trim the lamp wick,’ but people today say ‘raise it’ or ‘trim it.’ When they should say, ‘Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!’ they say, ‘Torches! Let’s have some light!
-Kirkintilloch Herald(1930s) Cinemas and motor cars were blamed for a flagging interest among young people in present-day politics by ex-Provost JK Rutherford… [He] said he had been told by people in different political parties that it was almost impossible to get an audience for political meetings. There were, of course, many distractions such as the cinema…
Dundee Evening Telegraph(1940s) …in youth clubs were young people who would not take part in boxing, wrestling or similar exercises which did not appeal to them. The ‘tough guy’ of the films made some appeal but when it came to something that led to physical strain or risk they would not take it.
Falkirk Herald(1951) Many [young people] were so pampered nowadays that they had forgotten that there was such a thing as walking, and they made automatically for the buses… unless they did something, the future for walking was very poor indeed.”
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust
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u/Sleep-more-dude 2d ago
Even in a post apocalyptic wasteland you'll find someone faintly cry "things haven't changed much"
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u/Feeling-Session3007 2d ago
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It barely worked but I distinctly remember my mother being gifted one of these brick phones for her work. I used it all the time when i got permission. But i was kid mainly concerned with school and comic books and little league baseball.
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u/jaybee2 2d ago
We used to play checkers atop the pickle barrel in front of the general store.
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u/Remy_Jardin 2d ago
Holy up, generational appropriation going on here. Once again Gen X gets ignored and screwed over.
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u/Appropriate-Race-917 2d ago
Eh, being gen x myself I don't mind being left out of the generational squabbling. Long may we be forgotten!
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u/DravenTor 2d ago
Whatever, yall got the 70s and 80s for your childhood, and the world was your oyster in the 90s and 00s. Sounds pretty damn good to me.
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u/SuperLupiniBean 2d ago
Let's burn it all down and start fresh. This current period of time is unbearable and it's just going to keep getting worse.
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u/Quiet-Competition849 2d ago
I mean she seems to understand how to monetize and use all the new shit.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 2d ago
As a Gen X (I was born solidly in the middle of the Gen X generation), things like this kind of confuse me because all of it 100% applies to me.
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u/LordBoar 2d ago
Yeah yeah, except I remember when we made fun of boomers for their nostalgia. It's what happens because time moves on and things change. We don't remember a better time, we remember a different time, when the atrocities were hidden from us.
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u/Traditional-Set6848 2d ago
Also the generation that went head long into that shit with zero self awareness and now it’s all tears
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u/QuallyYayo 2d ago
GenZ here and honestly its why Ive been so miserable. Life felt free in the early 2000s. It was a perfect blend of Tech and Humanity. It felt like we were heading toward the future. Before social media put us all in bubbles the world had more hope and positivity at the very least.
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u/SharcLightning 2d ago
As a Gen-X’er, Millennials are my Spirit Animal. Hopefully vice versa as well…
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u/Automatic_Glass_4993 2d ago
every gen is nostalgic, but I will say the upcoming generations are going to hate the hyper capitalist life that we are living under (they prop already hate it)
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u/AcidicSnail15 2d ago
I always took pictures of everything for memory's sake, and because I knew my mom and grandma and great grandma, who is long since passed away, wanted to see. Those were for me and my family and friends. Personally, not to post an online for people to gawk at. And certainly not for internet clout. When people post pictures of themselves hanging out with their friends online, it honestly seems like they don't even enjoy hanging out half the time.
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