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In the Los Angeles Mexican community no one is fucking aware. In the Chicago black community no one is fucking aware. I’m sick of the people in this shit hole. They are happy as long as they have their bread and circus, no matter what.
Lol you just reminded me of what my grams said to me about why the boomers suck…
me: grams why are your kids so messed up? grams: they were raised during the US’s peak golden age. they have no basis for actual reality.
May she rest in peace. Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.
No arguments from me on China. They’re excellent at playing the long game. My elders are boomers and the greatest generation.
You’ve been downvoted but this is pretty much what my elders told me.
I love it for what I use it for which is research, speeding up scripting and code writing, resume building, paraphrashing stupidly long news articles, teaching me Spanish and Japanese, bypassing the bullshit that are what passes as search engines these days, and talking my anxiety down. They cut through the noise and boost my productivity.
I guess a lot of music and movies from a pirate site. I’d spend more time at the library listening to my music.
It got me in my way to learning about decentralization and now I’m all over the small web stuff.
I just wish there was a way to delete my reddit profile comments easily. I log in every three months or so by accident usually.
Ohhh! Another good suggestion. I really appreciate it. Thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Yea… and I realize how harsh it sounds but like, I put “lazy” in quotes because I don’t think it’s really laziness. Maybe more boredom? The environments’ just been designed to not invite exploration. Everything is just automatic and instant now. Innovation is driven by need. The need has been engineered away, for the most part.
People are “lazy” and only social, today. They want to log in, info dump, and not think.
Before the nadir of social media, when reddit and twitter were coming up, the people online were predominantly young millennials and new tech was exciting. That was a time where netizens were more curious and accepting of online platform learning challenges. In fact, if it was beta or even just more hands on and generally nerdy, that often made the platform more appealing. Then everything became standardized. Mega social media squashed innovative smaller fun projects. Competition got absorbed. And with the mass standardization of the internet came the younger generations who came up just expecting shit to work as they’ve always seen. Streamlined and with an inclusion of 15 minutes of fame. But, in honesty the biggest snooze is the lack of innovation that drove the old internet drives today’s general malaise.
Times are different. People are bored with internet tech and are therefore less curious. My younget gen z and y co-workers glaze over if I even so much as mention irc or playing around with your own web server. Gen y understands but doesn’t care because Twitter and IG governed their highschool experience. Gen z doesn’t understand and are kinda boomer-esque in terms of any software comprehension. I’ve had to teach my interns what Excel even is.
Times are different. Everything has being standardized, monontonized, monitized, predictable, and generally boring. I think the fediverse would have to become mainstream to appeal to the mainstream. And today’s mainstream aren’t interested in new platform learning curves unless there’s something fun, compelling, and of entertainment value to them.
Just my old millennial lady take.
I am shocked I had to scroll down this far for this one.
Those still exist at this time.
It’s more like they will miss fully having to rely on the library and their family owning a collection of encyclopedia because no internet.
tiktok? ffffff
I sleep, a lot. Not the best answer but that’s what I do. I just sleep.
Oh… Oh nooooo.
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Lol. Fair enough.
My gay friends are all like “Oh boy I can’t wait to eat at Chic Fil E”, my Latina friends are all like… “I have a last mine Quince coming up… I have to get a dress. Gonna shop Amazon”, and my black friends are like “I’ve boycotted long enough. Going to shop at Target.”
We definitely deserve what we get, here. We realllly do.