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[–] [email protected] 150 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm over 40 and struggling not to conclude life on this planet peaked 30 years ago

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The 90s were seriously such a bop.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

At this point we can only hope the Matrix is real and they reset this simulation soon because what we're seeing are the side effects from the uprising outside.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

9/11 was suppose to be the reset point, but the simulation kept running for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

You might even call it an Mmmbop.

[–] merc 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If you were a kid in the 90s, sure. Your parents shielded you from all the chaos.

The 90s also had terrorism (IRA, WTC bombing, German and French hijackings, Israeli settler massacre, sarin gas attack in Japan, Oklahoma City bombing, bombings of US service members in Saudi Arabia, PKK suicide bombers in Turkey, Dagestan bombing in Russia (possibly a Putin-orchestrated false flag)). It had the ongoing AIDS epidemic, which was terrifying. It had the first Gulf war. It had the LA riots of 1992. It had the columbine shooting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's much worse today

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

That was 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland.

Put a bird on it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, at least you got to enjoy humanity's peak as a teenager. I was a kid, so I never got the chance to fully appreciate the 90s. My memory of almost anything pre-1993 is incredibly hazy. My strongest childhood memories didn't take hold until the decade was almost over.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Lucky you. I got at best the earliest of the 2010s...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. It peaked right around Ronnie Reagan's sell-out to the wealthy. If folks want a better quality of life they will have to take it back from the rich.