The reply is still OK boomer
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Ok millennial doesn’t have the same ring to it
My kid would have to be 36 for this to ring true, and I'm a millennial.
Better than being called a boomer or a boomer I suppose, we'd still roll out eyes at them regardless.
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All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.
I just worked through the entire thing. Woooo! /s
I'm essential! [Chuckles] I'm in danger!
Yeah I work for a flooring distributor. My company labeled us essential so I too work through the whole thing. So did my wife as a dog bather. Guess Petsmart figured they were essential too.
Yeah, we got labeled essential by general Mills even though we hadn't sold them any equipment in 4 years.
Yeah anything to keep us from getting that sweet time off.
Essentially fucked. Amirite?
Me too. That's why I am still salty about it. Just stay home and it can be fixed sooner.
I hear people bitching about not being allowed to go outside, even though where I live you were always to go outside
The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn't go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
Here people thought they can't go out to parks or nature even though that was never forbidden. I think American cultural wars played into that
The number of people who took their masks off indoors and put them on outside made my goddamn BRAIN melt, and led to one of my larger despair-induced mental health breakdowns.
I knew it was bad, I knew a lot of people were kind of ignorant... but I had no idea it was THAT bad, I even got alienated from some family groups because I tried to explain germ theory and they said I sounded too hyped up on politics or something to that effect.
The trick with being a shut-in is that its only really practical when other people still have to go out and do things on your behalf.
As soon as you can't get DoorDash or you A/C fails or the office fires you for clinging to "Work From Home" too long, shit gets real really quickly.
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Most people social life didn't really change during the pandemic, thus the pandemic.
I remember my neighbors, whose mother was a cancer patient, would still had family meetups for diner all weeks.
On the other hand, I see the lasting effects isolation did to social skills in kids and teenagers…
It may just be generational changes. I do not socialize same as my parents, and they do not socialize same as their parents.
I would guess most people socialize less as the get older. Having kids and constantly drowning in work and household obligations will kill your social life real quick.
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I definitely became less domesticated during the pandemic and I’m still not where I was beforehand, socially. I was even in my late twenties when the pandemic hit, so I should be less susceptible than teenagers/younger children were. It was worth it not to kill a bunch of people by spreading disease, but it wasn’t easy.
That said, I also lived alone and went over 8 months without seeing another person in the flesh, which is unlikely to be the case for younger people.
Yeah fucked up my kids senior year. Didn't even get to walk across the aisle or have prom. Fucked up. He had just finished a theater project when Covid took hold. Sucked he really enjoy it and had potential. All taken away.
How much of that is modern tech and social media? I'd argue the Gen Z xoome meeting blank stare can be blamed as much on tech as the pandemic. This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the "real world"
This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the “real world”
Idk about that. The internet was already heavily adopted by the mid-00s. Millennials are as online as any generation after them. Hell, the Boomers are the most terminally online. Facebook hit the Olds like crack hit the inner cities.
GenZ might be the first generation that's self-aware enough to notice how fucked it all is. They're the ones gagging on the excess of social media and AI slop, which older generations seem to be swallowing placidly.
I think, a lot. The shift during the pandemic of requesting uniquely online presence definitely sped up a trend that could already be detected. And because it was unprecedented, “adults” weren’t able to guide younger ones along the transition.
Most people social life didn’t really change during the pandemic
Honestly, I think I got more social during the pandemic. All the neighbors would meet out on the driveways, desperate for something to do other than staring at a screen all day. The parks were full from people who weren't constantly traveling for work or fun. Kids and parents alike were out and about because they didn't need to waste time commuting.
Everyone slathered themselves in hand sanitizer and do all the pro-forma things to not be a contagion risk. But at a certain point, when you're already out in the 'burbs... We've been "socially distanced" since White Flight in the 1980s.
"I can't believe I survived being stuck inside my house for several years!" Says person with no friends who typically never leaves their house anyway.
"yeah mom... who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend" ~ probably the response.
You're missing something about hanging out with my AI girlfriend while playing whatever takes the place of fortnite.
I am not terribly bullish on the state of video games in another ten or fifteen years. Seems like enshitification is turning that entire industry into a cesspool.
We'll have parents confused as to why their kids keep screaming and shoving away the Torment Nexus box, when they were so fond of playing Don't Invent The Torment Nexus at that age.
not sure people will want to go out that much, that oxygen flask is kind of heavy, the mask is annoying and then there's the heat...
Can't risk being captured and having my water extracted.
Buuuuuttttt mom! The global warming and radiation makes my bed hot!
No excuses missy, I bought you that geiger counter for Christmas you better use it.
The wind is strong enough to mitigate the radioactives dust but not enough to thorn the suit
The local militia was bombed and we are not expecting raids for a few days
There is a less contaminated water source a few miles north and I want to check the community there
WHEN I WAS YUR AGE I WAS STAYIN AT HOME
I love you mom but I should have sold you to the slave trader
I suppose this makes sense if we all lived in Fallout 1.
Which, by the way, I hope to Holy hell nobody ever, ever, ever has to live in Fallout 1.
So does the apostrophe. That wasn't it.
When I finally had job and money to go out and finally enjoy my life, pandemic happened. But I had saved even MORE money because I stayed home with my parents during those times. However, I'm now too old to go out lol.
I know its a meme, but, don't you still technically have to go outside? I mean, your packages aren't gonna go inside your house because most delivery people arent gonna actually step inside your house so you still need to touch the outside for the few seconds to grab your things.
Factorio can teach us to automate this. Package conveyor belt.
get pneumatic tubes back in fashion.
Technically only your hands need to pass the threshold. You don't need to touch anything outside, bar the package itself.
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