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...
I miss the old days of intenet when youtube didnt exist. When gmail was still beta and giving away invites...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.
What's your plan of action for the upcoming water wars?
Die
Same as my retirement plan.
That is surely one of many issues. Some localized like water, and some will be wider like food shortages. All avoidable, but somehow not.
I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck
You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I'm disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain't never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I'm 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.
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.
It's awful but I get it...
I've got CPTSD so I'm always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.
Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.
One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said "you're moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe"
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.
But wait, it gets worse!
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 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.
laugh/sobs in living with parents
It's definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property
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".
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.
As an a vintage millennial I can say w confidence: there will be more and you should prepare yourself. Lol
I am hanging on by a thread as it is. Not being facetious or funny here in saying that I am not okay. Any more of this and I'm going to buckle.
World needs to slow down. Stop having 8 major crises a year. Fuck. Can we tone it back to like... 5?
My retirement plan is to go out in a blaze of glory fighting back the fascists in the Water Wars.