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[–] PurpleTentacle 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

[–] PurpleTentacle 13 points 10 months ago

There is a theory which states thatΒ if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Good thing you skipped over the age of the Roman Empire because they certainly never said that older times were better.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

It's funny how some things never change. I was reading a collection of letters by Seneca, and in one of those, he goes on a several pages long rant about how thing use to be better. It just felt so familiar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Depends. Culturally they seemed to vicariously reminisce of the days of Alexander.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I remember of one Sandman's comics opened with a shot of a medieval tavern, and an old geezer complaining that chimneys was the reason "kids these days" were weak, since they no longer breathed the fresh air of burnt wood inside their homes.

[–] Lucidlethargy 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The boomers had it better. The end.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Straight White boomers.

It can't be understated how much life sucked for visible minorities up until a couple decades ago if not a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

So dont be a minority duh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In 1960, minimum wage in the US was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average home was $11,000.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

in 1960 the boomers were sucking their thumbs and playing with crayons

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

If they were born during the baby boom of WWII soldiers returning home then they would be 14 or 15. Probably about 3 years from getting married and buying their house.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay but being a dinosaur is 10/10 you can chew on people you don't like

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Except for the people not existing part.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Don't fall for Big Mammal's lies, dinosaurs were real and intelligent.

[–] vaultdweller013 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This was written by a raptor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Clever girl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

herbivorous dinosaurs: visible confusion

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

We are permanently out of touch, from the moment we are born. The world moves faster than we can adapt to it, so it is a known fact that we cling to whatever memories or notions that provide comfort. Some try to keep in motion, others actively detract on whatever may be changing, even if for the better.

The best moment to be born is right now, regardless the shit hole we are going through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Depending on the context they might be right. Like, the internet of the mid and late 2010's was pretty much better than today and we'll never go back to that peak.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's funny you say that, cause many people my age feel the same way about the internet of the early-mid 2000s, the wild west days of the internet. We always remember the things of our youth more fondly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Youth? I'm in my 40's. The internet being on a downward quality trend isn't to do with age of the perceiver.

We're on Lemmy. 90% of this place's users are hee because of objectively factual enshitification of one service. I can list many, many more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Eh, certainly a lot of big sites are shitting their pants right now, but I don't think the internet as a whole is doing that bad. It's really the consolidation of internet communities in the 2010s that lead us to this point, now we've learned a hard lesson. Even as things fall apart, FOSS thrives in their wake. We're in a pretty sucky transition period, but I think the internet will be fine in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I Redd what you had to say, and I can Digg it.

[–] funkless_eck 7 points 10 months ago

ah yes the halcyon years of "the late 2010s", wherein, in 2019, nothing bad happened.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There was a video on youtube about field surgery during the Napoleonic era (basically amputations without anesthetic) and I recall a funny comment someone said about forwarding the video to his friend who keeps saying he was born in the wrong era; the comment ended up annoying someone into posting about how 'born in the wrong era' refers to missing out on the cultural zeitgeist or whatever other nonsense.

Problem is, being born in the so called right era comes with all the baggage of inferior medicine and living standards; it's a package deal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. Except for a few niche diseases and conditions, 40 years ago is probably a better time than now. Every era goes through peaks and dips in happiness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where is also extremely relevant as to whether things were better or not. I'd argue most South American countries weren't exactly at their peak during the 80s

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's cool that the future kid has a scanner to see power levels

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It shows how much power your parents were rich enough to get implemented in your DNA, so you can determine if the other guy is of a high enough energy class to be talking to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

l don't wanna sound like an old man but I'm gonna say it, old times were better because you were young and free.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

At some point though, isn't it likely that it's going to be a correct statement?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Older times probably were better... for some people. But if you're used to being on top, equality feels like oppression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It’s not that black and white, the universe is multidimensional

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[–] aspire2493 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Stop confusing future archeologist with memes of things that didn't happen(talking about that first square)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

You don't use a Nintendo Poweglove with your VR goggles?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I DO NOT WANT THE WORLD TO BECOME LIKE THE FIRST ONE ITS ALREADY BAD ENOUGH

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

people reluctant of change out of their comfort generation timeline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bloody beaker folk, coming over here, with their beakers!

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