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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 111 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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...

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I'm in.

[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"if the Tamagotchi doesn't grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don't want to do nothing with it"

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[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites...

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[–] Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What's your plan of action for the upcoming water wars?

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Zana@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Same as my retirement plan.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] rab@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That is surely one of many issues. Some localized like water, and some will be wider like food shortages. All avoidable, but somehow not.

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[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck

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[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said "you're moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe"

[–] Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 years ago

But wait, it gets worse!

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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 he 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.

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[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago

laugh/sobs in living with parents

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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".

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[–] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

It's definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property

[–] Weeby_Wabbit@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] davi@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As an a vintage millennial I can say w confidence: there will be more and you should prepare yourself. Lol

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least I don't have to worry about kids.

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My retirement plan is to go out in a blaze of glory fighting back the fascists in the Water Wars.

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