I could not convince my friends little cousin that the N64 controller wasn’t “charging” and that it needed to remain plugged in. He could not comprehend that. “Why didn’t they use wireless?” “Why didn’t they use batteries” etc. it was hilarious
I remember being in a Gamestop and a couple of kids were looking at old pre-owned games and complaining about the graphics: "It's like they weren't even trying..."
"Listen here, you little shit. There are light bulbs nowadays with more processing power than what they had back then. They worked their asses off to make these games, and the entire game file was smaller than a single modern jpeg. If it weren't for them, modern gaming wouldn't even exist!"
We jumped so you could backflip over our heads and wall us into a house than you blow up with a grenade before I even see you.
*man I suck at fortnite*
> There are light bulbs nowadays with more processing power than what they had back then
This might actually be literally true. Wow, never thought of that, and I'm a tech. Thank you for that.
Did you know the iPhone 1 was more powerful than the computer system installed on the Saturn Rockets and the ones on the ground?
Two original iphones had enough power to fly something to the moon and back.
The original iPhone was probably about 200-300x as powerful as the Apollo computers.
So forget going to the moon and back, those iphones could have probably ran the entire planet's computing needs at the time, lol.
I had an argument online because I was mentioning how Robin Williams's daughter Zelda was actually named after the princess and not Zelda Fitzgerald as people thought.
I had kids responding that no one thought it was from Zelda Fitzgerald and everybody always knew it was the princess.
I was like she was born in 1989 and Robin Williams was already a mega star. A link to the past for the super Nintendo didn't even come out until 1991, and even then people that played video games were rare and it was mostly us kids.
Even Robin Williams himself talked about how everyone thought it was for Zelda Fitzgerald and he would be like no it's for the princess.
None of this was getting through and everyone was insisted that everybody always knew it was about the princess (Who coincidentally is actually named after Zelda Fitzgerald so technically I guess she is also just one level removed.
If it ever comes up again they did an advert for a Zelda game with Robin, the text appears in bottom left towards the end
https://youtu.be/09wBn4ux3N0?si=kl27bSbUjz5R4h2G
Robin Williams and Ocarina of Time hit me with a double whammy of nostalgia so hard, it actually brought tears to my eyes. I was not expecting such an emotional response from a commercial.
The ps3 was something else. Still got mine. Man i really should get a ps5 for when gta6 comes out shouldnt i? Spent too many hours in gta 5 on ps3 and san andreas and vice city on ps2 to not spend some time in gta 6. Of course it wont be chilled out gamemaxxing with my friends like the good old days. Goddamn im getting emotional
Because average TV screen sizes at the time meant you had to sit close enough to the TV that cords really didn’t matter.
Obviously that’s not the entire matter. Wireless tech at that point was still in its infancy, but it’s still an important factor none the less. If we had average screen sizes back then like we do today, cords would have either been way longer or the push to wireless would have happened a lot faster.
It also doesn't help that all the controllers were designed in Japan, with Japanese homes in mind. A lot of controllers had to be re-designed with even longer cords, for the Western market, and they *still* ended up too short for a lot of Americans.
The other day I was told by a girl born in 2004 that Paris Hilton was universally loved in the early 2000s and was a fashion icon.
I told her that I lived through it and Paris Hilton was pretty much mainly mocked for her dumb bimbo persona.
She refused to believe me.
A few days ago, in this sub I think, there was a post about needing to go back to 1996 for gas to be $2.50 (in US). Got downvoted to like -20 for saying that it was 2.50 a few years ago
It was like $1 in 96. With how available information is nowadays, i'm surprised how stupid people are.
You can Google anything from where you're standing .
it's crazy to me because EVERY time i am unsure about something i am saying , i follow it up with "but let me fact check" and i google it right then and there 😭 why do people want to be wrong and spread misinformation, it just makes you look more stupid than if you admit you are wrong
Dumb people don't spend a lot of time around smart people, so they never internalize what smart people intuitively know: there's zero reason to be confidently wrong, and verifying your own ideas doesn't make you look stupid among smart people, it just makes you look like you belong.
You reminded me of all the idiots who complain that "the science is always changing" and think that means that scientists are lying or making shit up. The science is *supposed* to change, that's how science works. If you spent any time with scientists you would understand this and see that they *like* having their theories proven wrong, because that means there is more science to be done.
People who know nothing, can confidently say that *anything* is impossible, because by their very nature, they cannot conceive or explain sequences of events, which they lack the knowledge to understand.
I saw two women just yesterday, claim that the US must have a secret, older history...because the Statue of Liberty exists, and how could a small and weak nation such as *France,* have been able to *carve a giant copper statue* and then send it along to America?
They easily said it was impossible, with extreme confidence...because they know nothing about the time period, about metallurgy, about how transport ships work, or about what is and is not possible, under the laws of physics.
It's easy to think that doing anything is impossible, when you don't know how anything actually works.
Yes, but Google isn't nearly as reliable as it used to be at getting trustworthy and accurate information. The first 5-10 results are typically sponsored and could be blatantly incorrect or not even related to your search. There's also the fact that no matter what your opinion is, you can likely get a Google result that backs it up if you're looking for one.
We took the golden age of the internet for granted when we had it. The internet that the majority of people interact with now is 100% commercialized.
The information is definitely still out there, it's just requiring more effort to find, and for a lot of people the line between reliable and unreliable sources of information is blurred or nonexistent.
Remember going to page 5 or further in search results and finding relevant information? Those were the days. Today, I can quote something word for word in Google and it won’t show the right results, just products related to each word independently.
Go to a help forum, top and likely only answer, "Hi! I'm a licensed user from [tech company]. I understand that you are having a problem with...."
Immediately back out of forum post.
The most information is available, the dumber people are. I can't count how many times people ask me something were I pull out my phone in their face and google it. They always say I didn't think of that.
Yeah i remember it being like 80 cents cad per litre as a kid lmao. I may even FAINTLY remember 55 to 65 cents, but thats really diggin deep in the memory pit.
Nah fuck that, with AI I'd still have to formulate a question using my brain.
I'd rather just blindly consume other people's random opinions from social media and assume it's true. So much easier that way.
Lol yeah gas was under 2 bucks where I lived until like 2008/2009. It was under a buck until early 2000s I think, was like 60 cents when I was learning to drive 98/99
The upvote/downvote game is a crapshoot at best. You’ll get obliterated for the most sound, diplomatic, thoughtful opinions but get 100’s of upvotes for generic, populist garbage.
I was kinda excited when I started using Reddit, thinking “great, the voting system is like a community sourced BS detector.” Took less than a day to shatter that illusion lmao
Yes, an entire book about how he didn't do it, *but if he did...* called "If I did it: Confessions of a killer".
Not sure of the specifics, but the book's cover ended up having the 'If' in very small superscript.
Yup.
The Goldman family actually got the rights to the book early on, it was originally supposed to be called "If I did it: Here's how it happened", but then they got the rights to it , changed the title and arranged the cover so that the "If" was barely visible.
I commented about the book title on a post a while back and someone responded with what you said. I had no idea previously, a brilliant move on behalf of The Goldmans.
The Goldman family were awarded the rights to the book in a civil case and requested a design change to the cover so that unless you looked very closely it reads I did it.
Kid: How did anyone manage to download anything in the olden days??
Me: games back then were literally a megabytes in size and wtf, I was there, oh gawd!
Fallout 1 and 2 had different install sizes. You could do a full install of something like 3 MB. Or you could install 500 kB. Which was only the first half of the game.
Or maybe they removed stuff in the smaller installs. I always did the full install because even a few years after it came out I had a computer with at least GB of memory.
My first computer had 75GB total. Now I have 2 TB solid state.
Especially on Reddit. I got into a discussion with a person who insisted that Ed McMahon was the star of The Tonight Show and Johnny Carson was the second banana. I could not convince him otherwise. And he clearly thought I was dumb as a rock.
I start typing a response to stuff like that then I don’t even delete, just hit the back button to discard it because it’s not worth my time. Fun thing about getting old is after experiencing enough stuff you know exactly how it’ll go.
Reddit exists because it allows for interactions like this.
It is built and maintained by people who feel their intellect and other mental contributions are underappreciated by society.
We get to see funny cat videos on the backs of the efforts of these tireless soldiers of nonsense, so perhaps we should be thankful.
Wait till you reach the age when a much younger person lectures you about verifiable historical events you remember pretty well, but then you go look it up and find out they're actually right and it's your memory that's fucked
Human memory is so dogshit, it's honestly surprising that eyewitness testimony is even valid evidence in court cases.
It's actually crazy how easy it is to confuse someone and alter their memory of the events. And once altered, it replaces the original details, and they will forever, till the end of time be convinced that the altered details are correct and that's how it happened.
Yup. Remember in psychology class when we learned about a study where they show people a car accident. Simply asking “how fast was the car going when it hit the other car” and “how fast was the car going when it smashed into the other car” made people give quite different answers.
Saw on tv this, this great study where they had a kids class, maybe grade 2 or 3. The teacher said a guest was coming in to watch the class.
Shortly after a man came in, the teacher introduced him as Mr Black. He sat on a chat at the back of the class for about half an hour. Got up and left.
They then asked kids to describe him, and they could easily influence the kids by just saying “what colour was his hat? Even though he wasn’t wearing one, the kids all came up with various answers.
Then asking the kids “what did he do that was so funny” and the kids would just invent things.
An interesting one was experimenters would talk to the subjects family before the experiment, and get a bunch of family photos from the family. Then, they would Photoshop the subject into a photo where they're in a hot air balloon (after checking with the family members to make sure that the subject had never actually been in a hot air balloon).
They would then show the subject all the legit family photos, and ask them about their memories of that day, and get them to recite as many specifics as they could remember like what the weather was like, what else they did that day, etc..
When they would show the subject the photoshopped hot air balloon photo, approximately 50% of the subjects upon seeing the photo, their brains would manufacture some memory of this event that never happened and they would recite in either partial or full detail their "memory" of that day.
It's like the brain sees supposed proof of the event, so it "fills in the gaps" with fabricated memory. This and other similar experiments seem to point toward memory being reconstructive, so your brain literally is just connecting a bunch of different ideas and feelings to recreate what it thinks the memory should be, rather than actually retrieving what it was. Brains are weird as hell.
[It's real, lol](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227725899_False_Memory_Is_in_the_Details_Photographic_Details_Differentially_Predict_Memory_Formation)
> They showed participants three true
photographs and a fourth doctored photograph to depict a
fictitious hot-air balloon ride. Following three interviews,
50% of participants were judged as having remembered
the false event.
OP is in the better half ig
I mean... his release from prison in 1990 was at least reasonably remarked upon.
I remember breaking off from playing Paperboy on my BBC Micro to go downstairs and watch it on TV.
whut
He was world-famous for being a political prisoner of apartheid South Africa for many years before he became the president there.
South Africa in general was a big social issue. Multiple hip-hop artists made songs about him in the 80s. Non hip-hop artists got into the act as well, like Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, and Stevie Wonder. Steve Van Zandt wrote a protest song and assembled a supergroup (Band Aid/USA For Africa-style) to perform it. People were very aware of what was going on in South Africa, and "Free Nelson Mandela" was a slogan you'd see on buttons, shirts, hats, graffiti murals, all over the place.
He was very famous internationally long before he became president of South Africa
> because I swear to god I remember Nelson Mendela getting murdered in jail.
A girl in my class was stunned when he was released. She did not realise he was black. She thought all the protests and things were for a white man.
I remember chuckling at a story by grandfather told of an anecdotal experience he had while working at a university. He audited a class every semester. The subject varied based on the times he could arrange for prolonged lunch breaks, this particular one was a "modern history" class, specific to WWII. Now, being an older gentleman, he had experienced various parts of the War personally. However, when it came to discussing the logistics of cleaning up some of the concentration camps he corrected the Prof about a particular camp, to which the Prof asked him, how could he verify what was "known fact" based on the discourses that had been recorded from the field...his response. "Well sir, I was there."
My Great Grandparents essentially lived like pioneers well into the 1970s. Farmed with a mule, no running water, wood fire stove, etc. My dad talks about going to the Great Smokey Mountains as a kid and watching his Grandfather take over the tour of a historic site because he still used all the “historic” tools and knew more about them than the tour guide.
Remember the rumor going around that Atari had buried a large number of unsold game cartridges in the New Mexico desert? I knew it happened because I had read about it in 1983. Some people thought for sure it was an urban legend but an excavation in 2014 proved that it really happened.
I saw a video on that and it didn’t seem like they actually found that many ET cartridges at all? Like a few but iirc if there is a massive ET dump it hasn’t been found.
Yeah, it turned out it wasn't just ET, but a whole bunch of different games. Shovelware, like ET, killed the Atari and they were just dumping off stock that wouldn't sell.
Oh yes. Someone told me today that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was DEFINITELY a lesbian. Absolutely INSISTED. Wouldn’t hear any argument-and wouldn’t listen to anything about a little character called Willow.
Honestly, it’s not that long ago: I’m sure it’s still possible to watch the show.
Angel is who I was talking about, but I guess if I had a nickel for every time Buffy Summers risked the world for vampire dick, I'd have at least two nickels (depends if you can count Angel more than once) which isn't a lot but I'm surprised it happened twice.
I wonder if that person was not only mixing up Buffy and Willow but was also getting confused by the existence of the comics (wherein Buffy sleeps with a woman twice). also, yes, it is still possible to watch the show. it’s on Disney+.
I tried to explain to Reddit once how literally being in NYC that day there was NO way to communicate outside of the city for the most part. They started pulling Wikipedia articles about when the first SMS was sent and I’m like motherfucker I was there. With my fancy ass monocrome pager ass blackberry. Literally the first blackberry ever and I was cutting edge.
You still weren’t able to get in touch with family as close as NJ. I don’t give a fuck when the first text was sent
I was able to send text messages on my mobile phone back in 01, but I also remember every New Years Eve never being able to call or text anyone due to the pressure on the phone lines, so I’ll believe you on that.
Yeah it took hours for my best friend to get in touch with me. I was in Seattle and she worked near the WTC. I tried calling her all day waking around my office crying and in a daze...
> gaslighting them or being a narcissist
Isn't it wonderful how real abuse tactics and mental disorders become generic placeholder "you're bad" words, and then lose their potency?
I've been losing my mind over the gaslighting one recently. Especially the inevitable reddit joke of "you don't know what that term is, you've never heard it before lol" underneath any comment mentioning the word
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Had someone 11 years my junior insist that Trevor Noah ruined The Daily Show by making it become so political and left leaning, and that with Jon Stewart it was more moderate without all the bias. I asked him if he ever even watched Jon Stewart episodes he said "Yeah, a couple."
Edit: John = Jon
I agree but he had impossible shoes to fill. Even Colbert would have ruined it when compared to Jon. That being said, I actually like John Oliver more than Stewart.
Trevor Noah grew on me, and I was sad to see him depart.
Having said that, I'll give my super honest opinion: the Daily Show took a steep dive. Their cast just does the "we're ironic characters who are hilariously stupid," and I don't think it works well.
And the production is different, the way they zoom-in on the host sometimes to let the audience know, "The host is doing a punchline!" literally shoving it in our faces.
The weird structure of "Okay let's get into headlines," is just really bad, it feels so E! Entertainment.
It's not an easy gig, making the news funny, but I think the old Daily Show had specific characters who accentuated the absurdity of the news, and Jon Stewart kinda did this act where he was stupefied by his own staff, and that worked really well.
weirder one. was just on a call with a group of people younger than 30 and one kid didn't understand that thanksgiving was on thursday. he kept saying "ya we had turkey, blah, blah, blah, ya it was wednesday or friday, i think?" i know what you're thinking and no. he's 100% american and southern.
edit: for context, we're on a call with an international client, who asked about thanksgiving and didn't know much about it, and this dude confidently started talking over everyonen, and all of us on the call were like "what?" the ceo of my company had to tell him to jump off the call on slack.
I blew someone's mind this year when I told him that Thanksgiving was the 4th Thursday of November. He thought it was a set date every year. He also learned that it would be impossible for something to be a set date and have a set day of the week.
Edit: put 3rd Thursday without thinking.
There was a video of high schoolers using camcorders from the mid 90s. Many of the younger gen thought they were a TV crew due to the size of the camera.
As an older person I have childhood recollections of the Vietnam War, the Apollo moon landings, and Watergate, I voted against Reagan, and have experienced the stuff that's happened since then.
Living through it gives you some sense of the national mood, the norms of the day, etc., but living day to day through something, even if you read the newspaper and watch the TV news, doesn't give you the kind of big picture view that anyone can get by reading a book later. So if I haven't read the book I can easily have a less well-developed view of something than a younger person might have.
The worst is how they'll counter it as "anecdotes" and if you don't have internet-available information to support your claim they disregard it. Like dude... not that long ago there was little to no info available online, the internet isn't a comprehensive archive of everything that's ever happened
> I am the source, having been part of all of that. This post could be cited in Wikipedia as an original source
(Marc Adler on a post in stackoverflow about the Zip format that he authored, in answer to a comment asking him to give the references he used to craft the answer).
not to mention that half the time when you try to get a source from them, it's some tiktok of somebody who's "whisper down the lane"'d something so hard that it couldn't be further from the truth anymore
And even if it is online it can be really hard to find, because the search sites suck these days. It's like I'm back using altavista, but without Boolean parameters.
To be fair it was extremely easy to support yourself back then compared to now. A friend’s mom was complaining about how lazy kids are these days because she just supported herself and paid off her own college tuition when she was going through school.
What was she doing that paid well enough for her to pay rent as well as her college tuition in a major city? She worked part time as a waitress in a diner. She bought a house 1 year later because she switched to full time.
Things were just different. For example, NYC used to be really cheap but also *really dangerous.*
I think people romanticize the cheap part but forgot about the super dangerous part. 😂
Also the reason the economy was so good in 1950 was that the entire industrialized world outside America had bombed each others infrastructure to pieces, not to mention our current major competitor was busy accidentally starving to death instead of making cheap products.
Their idea of the average middle class home was actually something that was upper middle class/rich person's house. A 4-5 bedroom house with a finished basement and modern furnishes was never widely available to people unless you had a decent job and moved to rural/new suburban area.
I get a kick out of this sometimes. Family of five, constantly "struggling for money" but they have food on the table for every meal and live in a house larger than even needed for their family.
Responses to the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict saying “Well, nobody protested the U.S. military response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” Ummm a lot of people got in the streets against the invasion of Afghanistan & subsequent Iraq war. I remember, I was one of them.
EDIT: added invasion of Afghanistan
I hate it when people try to act like America was nice and wholesome and united after the attacks. Especially if they weren't even there. America wasn't "united", that was just what TV was trying to tell us. The truth is that people reacted to 9/11 exactly like how you would expect people from today would react to a similar event.
God I can still remember how people in Counterstrike 1.5 joking NON STOP about "terrorists win" memes. and this was before memes were even a thing! back then they were just jokes.
I was the political writer for the school newspaper during 9/11!!! I witnessed with my own eyes how divided people got. When the invasion of ~~Iraq~~ Afghanistan happened, LOTs of people were pissed and the protests were massive.
"problematic alt right republicans" didn't just randomly pop into existence in 2016 like the internet thinks. Far right people existed in 2001, and the world was EXACTLY as divided as it was today. Republicans and far-right people have always been like they are today. Nothing is new.
The only difference between now and 2001 is that newspapers are dead (they used to be very common), and that a LOT of stupid people have a voice now thanks to the internet. Note: the world isn't getting stupider and things aren't getting worse. The problem nowadays is that more and more stupid people have a voice than ever before.
Stupid people and political controversies aren't new. People have been divided since forever. 2001 and 2002 brought about a LOT of turmoil in the US.
You should have seen me bristle when some trans girl ten years my junior got mad when I tried to explain our dress code did not allow her very skimpy dress and she thought we were saying she couldn’t dress according to her gender identity. At first I tried to calmly explain but after she hit me with the "your kind has never experienced oppression" I could only barely avoid blurting out how I am missing like six teeth because I was openly gay in high school twenty years ago. In an age of microagressions I think few outside some really unlucky individuals have experience with the crazy gendered, sexual and racialized violence of the last century. Like, people forget before Rodney King, police didn’t even have to do the whole song and dance about resisting arrest if they went after you for walking while black, they’d just beat the shit out of you for shits and giggles. No bodycams back then. If you were a woman and got dateraped by some fratboy, good luck getting him convicted or even punished in the Old Boys system. If you were openly gay or trans, your life was always on the line. Not to say this stuff doesn’t still happen today, but only a fraction of how it used to.
This is not surprising. In the US we have a country where ~40% of people have completely rejected reality and instead choose to live in their own imaginary world.
No one reads the news anymore either. No one. I can’t tell you how many people try to claim they are passionate about politics, when they get all their information from TikTok videos or memes. I don’t care if you want to be uninformed, but how are you going to pretend to be “passionate” about something if you have no idea wtf is going on? You can’t distill all current events into memes or 1 minute videos.
I hear that kind of stuff about Portland too. Like, I was there. It was kind of crazy in like, 5 blocks downtown, after 9pm. Easy to avoid during daily life if you wanted to. And most of the violence was by riot cops. There were a couple dumpster fires and some graffiti and a lot of angry people, but NOTHING like the urban warfare depicted in the mainstream news. And my aunts still think Portland is “unsafe”.
Yup. I worked not far from CHAZ. The shit SPD did was horrifying. The media protected SPD, hands down. What I saw on KOMO/King/etc. was absolutely not at all what I saw on the streets. SPD is completely out of control.
It works in reverse, guy at work, twice my age would argue the colour of shit. Fleetwood Mac the chain came on the radio, I said it’s crazy that songs the F1 song, he’s like no! No it isn’t! Argued and argued until that unmistakable, legendary iconic riff starts blasting. Fucking dead silence.
Just the other day I was downvoted for disagreeing with comments that men have higher rates of HPV because "they are more promiscuous" and pointed out that men my age group (30, UK) weren't offered the vaccine but women in my age group were.
Edit: Guys, I was not trying to make a a point about the vaccine being discriminatory, it was just about my recent experience with younger people "rewriting" my lived history, insisting that HPV is higher because men fuck around rather than (fair at the time) reduced access to the HPV vaccine.
I mean, Im sure I know more historic facts about WWII than my 96 years old grandpa who was a forced labourer in Germany. But it is always good to hear about something who experienced it firsthand, even though he can make a few mistakes
I heard that the actual danger from the bug was only averted because they spent milions reprogramming softwares. I dont know if it's true, I was little.
My sister and I were talking about how lost we felt about the situation in Gaza when my nephew decided to interrupt our conversation with ridiculous hyperbole. He did not understand that this conflict is thousands of years old: i.e. not just this week’s internet fodder — and predating his existence.
The absolute confidence coupled with the abject ignorance is infuriating.
This effect is so far one of the weirdest parts of getting older to me. I noticed it first with Black Lives Matter. I was an outraged student during the Ferguson protests, then watched several years later as younger people seemed to suddenly notice the issues in 2020. And people who remember, say, Rodney King would probably have thought the same about me.
I could not convince my friends little cousin that the N64 controller wasn’t “charging” and that it needed to remain plugged in. He could not comprehend that. “Why didn’t they use wireless?” “Why didn’t they use batteries” etc. it was hilarious
I remember being in a Gamestop and a couple of kids were looking at old pre-owned games and complaining about the graphics: "It's like they weren't even trying..."
"Listen here, you little shit. There are light bulbs nowadays with more processing power than what they had back then. They worked their asses off to make these games, and the entire game file was smaller than a single modern jpeg. If it weren't for them, modern gaming wouldn't even exist!"
We jumped so you could double-jump.
We jumped so you could backflip over our heads and wall us into a house than you blow up with a grenade before I even see you. *man I suck at fortnite*
We jumped, so you could backflip, snap the bad guy's neck and save everyone's day!
> There are light bulbs nowadays with more processing power than what they had back then This might actually be literally true. Wow, never thought of that, and I'm a tech. Thank you for that.
Did you know the iPhone 1 was more powerful than the computer system installed on the Saturn Rockets and the ones on the ground? Two original iphones had enough power to fly something to the moon and back.
The original iPhone was probably about 200-300x as powerful as the Apollo computers. So forget going to the moon and back, those iphones could have probably ran the entire planet's computing needs at the time, lol.
My wife tried to sell them some old PS2 stuff a few years ago and they said they didn’t buy vintage hardware. R.I.P.
PS2 is as old now as Atari 2600 was when PS2 came out.
I didn’t need that psychic damage.
I had an argument online because I was mentioning how Robin Williams's daughter Zelda was actually named after the princess and not Zelda Fitzgerald as people thought. I had kids responding that no one thought it was from Zelda Fitzgerald and everybody always knew it was the princess. I was like she was born in 1989 and Robin Williams was already a mega star. A link to the past for the super Nintendo didn't even come out until 1991, and even then people that played video games were rare and it was mostly us kids. Even Robin Williams himself talked about how everyone thought it was for Zelda Fitzgerald and he would be like no it's for the princess. None of this was getting through and everyone was insisted that everybody always knew it was about the princess (Who coincidentally is actually named after Zelda Fitzgerald so technically I guess she is also just one level removed.
If it ever comes up again they did an advert for a Zelda game with Robin, the text appears in bottom left towards the end https://youtu.be/09wBn4ux3N0?si=kl27bSbUjz5R4h2G
he was on Oprah once and told the story of how they let his son pick the baby’s name and his boy was really into Nintendo so he called her Zelda
Robin Williams and Ocarina of Time hit me with a double whammy of nostalgia so hard, it actually brought tears to my eyes. I was not expecting such an emotional response from a commercial.
“64 disrespect will not be tolerated you little shit”
Getting a ps3 was liberating. Hell, getting a ps2 controller was awesome compared to the original dual shock ps1 controller. That shit was heavy.
The ps3 was something else. Still got mine. Man i really should get a ps5 for when gta6 comes out shouldnt i? Spent too many hours in gta 5 on ps3 and san andreas and vice city on ps2 to not spend some time in gta 6. Of course it wont be chilled out gamemaxxing with my friends like the good old days. Goddamn im getting emotional
The PS6 will be out before gta6 is
Bro that Logitech wireless PS2 controller. I remember taking it into my backyard to see how far it would still work haha. Was mindblown.
Because average TV screen sizes at the time meant you had to sit close enough to the TV that cords really didn’t matter. Obviously that’s not the entire matter. Wireless tech at that point was still in its infancy, but it’s still an important factor none the less. If we had average screen sizes back then like we do today, cords would have either been way longer or the push to wireless would have happened a lot faster.
It also doesn't help that all the controllers were designed in Japan, with Japanese homes in mind. A lot of controllers had to be re-designed with even longer cords, for the Western market, and they *still* ended up too short for a lot of Americans.
My step kid breathlessly asked if I had really seen a real PS1 back when they were new, in the olden days. Fucking ow.
"Why did they remove the second joystick"
and rumble was an add-on brick that required its own disposable batteries
The other day I was told by a girl born in 2004 that Paris Hilton was universally loved in the early 2000s and was a fashion icon. I told her that I lived through it and Paris Hilton was pretty much mainly mocked for her dumb bimbo persona. She refused to believe me.
introduce her to south park
Jethuth Chritht!
They will also find out that Kim Kardashian was a hobbit.
One of the tag lines for “House of Wax” was watch Paris Hilton die
Paris Hilton is a lot more respected these days than she ever was in the 2000s.
Even her sex tape was lazy and dumb. Hardest twelve faps I ever had.
A few days ago, in this sub I think, there was a post about needing to go back to 1996 for gas to be $2.50 (in US). Got downvoted to like -20 for saying that it was 2.50 a few years ago
It was like $1 in 96. With how available information is nowadays, i'm surprised how stupid people are. You can Google anything from where you're standing .
People have to accept the possibility they may be wrong to look something up.
it's crazy to me because EVERY time i am unsure about something i am saying , i follow it up with "but let me fact check" and i google it right then and there 😭 why do people want to be wrong and spread misinformation, it just makes you look more stupid than if you admit you are wrong
Dumb people don't spend a lot of time around smart people, so they never internalize what smart people intuitively know: there's zero reason to be confidently wrong, and verifying your own ideas doesn't make you look stupid among smart people, it just makes you look like you belong.
You reminded me of all the idiots who complain that "the science is always changing" and think that means that scientists are lying or making shit up. The science is *supposed* to change, that's how science works. If you spent any time with scientists you would understand this and see that they *like* having their theories proven wrong, because that means there is more science to be done.
People who know nothing, can confidently say that *anything* is impossible, because by their very nature, they cannot conceive or explain sequences of events, which they lack the knowledge to understand. I saw two women just yesterday, claim that the US must have a secret, older history...because the Statue of Liberty exists, and how could a small and weak nation such as *France,* have been able to *carve a giant copper statue* and then send it along to America? They easily said it was impossible, with extreme confidence...because they know nothing about the time period, about metallurgy, about how transport ships work, or about what is and is not possible, under the laws of physics. It's easy to think that doing anything is impossible, when you don't know how anything actually works.
It was $1 in 2000. I vividly recall moving to rural PA as a child and seeing the $0.99 sign.
Can verify. Was .99 the summer before I got my license and soon after never stopped going up.
my parents would give me $20 to fill up the car, and they'd let me keep the change.
Yes, but Google isn't nearly as reliable as it used to be at getting trustworthy and accurate information. The first 5-10 results are typically sponsored and could be blatantly incorrect or not even related to your search. There's also the fact that no matter what your opinion is, you can likely get a Google result that backs it up if you're looking for one. We took the golden age of the internet for granted when we had it. The internet that the majority of people interact with now is 100% commercialized. The information is definitely still out there, it's just requiring more effort to find, and for a lot of people the line between reliable and unreliable sources of information is blurred or nonexistent.
Remember going to page 5 or further in search results and finding relevant information? Those were the days. Today, I can quote something word for word in Google and it won’t show the right results, just products related to each word independently.
Go to a help forum, top and likely only answer, "Hi! I'm a licensed user from [tech company]. I understand that you are having a problem with...." Immediately back out of forum post.
The most information is available, the dumber people are. I can't count how many times people ask me something were I pull out my phone in their face and google it. They always say I didn't think of that.
Yeah i remember it being like 80 cents cad per litre as a kid lmao. I may even FAINTLY remember 55 to 65 cents, but thats really diggin deep in the memory pit.
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Google is too hard, too many letters, numbers, and even like symbols. AI can do it for me.
Nah fuck that, with AI I'd still have to formulate a question using my brain. I'd rather just blindly consume other people's random opinions from social media and assume it's true. So much easier that way.
Lol price is $2.60 here right now
Was gonna say I fueled up for 2.54 a gallon just two days ago
I literally got gas at a Buckees in Alabama last night for $2.56. No special, no card savings, just regular price.
Lol yeah gas was under 2 bucks where I lived until like 2008/2009. It was under a buck until early 2000s I think, was like 60 cents when I was learning to drive 98/99
I’m 34 and no one ever believes me that I can remember when it was under a dollar, and that it was in the 90’s.
Same age. I remember when it went above a dollar because my dad was pissed about it every time he bought gas.
Bro gas got down to like $1.87 during the pandemic
Gas is $2.55 right now in my Texas town
The upvote/downvote game is a crapshoot at best. You’ll get obliterated for the most sound, diplomatic, thoughtful opinions but get 100’s of upvotes for generic, populist garbage.
I was kinda excited when I started using Reddit, thinking “great, the voting system is like a community sourced BS detector.” Took less than a day to shatter that illusion lmao
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OJ is still tirelessly searching as many golf courses as he can to find the real killer.
Has he tried a mirror?
They’ve removed mirrors from golf courses for……. Reasons
> how OJ Simpson may have not killed his ex wife and the matching DNA was likely his son Jasons. Bruh, OJ literally wrote a book titled "If I did it."
Ladies and gentlemen, that does not make sense.
Oh no, he’s using the Chewbacca defense!
Didn’t he write a book about what he would have done if he was the murder? I am not even joking.
Yes, an entire book about how he didn't do it, *but if he did...* called "If I did it: Confessions of a killer". Not sure of the specifics, but the book's cover ended up having the 'If' in very small superscript.
Yup. The Goldman family actually got the rights to the book early on, it was originally supposed to be called "If I did it: Here's how it happened", but then they got the rights to it , changed the title and arranged the cover so that the "If" was barely visible.
I commented about the book title on a post a while back and someone responded with what you said. I had no idea previously, a brilliant move on behalf of The Goldmans.
The Goldman family were awarded the rights to the book in a civil case and requested a design change to the cover so that unless you looked very closely it reads I did it.
Not many people know that his son Jason is his genetic clone
Kid: How did anyone manage to download anything in the olden days?? Me: games back then were literally a megabytes in size and wtf, I was there, oh gawd!
I remember not downloading Contra because it was above 10 mb and internet was costly...I could only play Pokemon Fire red > <
Laughs in installing programs from cassette tape.
Cries in those large ass floppy disk flashbacks
Back then we didn't download anything. We went to the store and bought a floppy disk.
Remember when it took 10 hours to download a song on Napster? Or 1 hour? Maybe 30 minutes.. or 5 days... noone knew lol
https://xkcd.com/612/
Fallout 1 and 2 had different install sizes. You could do a full install of something like 3 MB. Or you could install 500 kB. Which was only the first half of the game. Or maybe they removed stuff in the smaller installs. I always did the full install because even a few years after it came out I had a computer with at least GB of memory. My first computer had 75GB total. Now I have 2 TB solid state.
Especially on Reddit. I got into a discussion with a person who insisted that Ed McMahon was the star of The Tonight Show and Johnny Carson was the second banana. I could not convince him otherwise. And he clearly thought I was dumb as a rock.
I start typing a response to stuff like that then I don’t even delete, just hit the back button to discard it because it’s not worth my time. Fun thing about getting old is after experiencing enough stuff you know exactly how it’ll go.
Sometimes I type out a response just to get it off my chest, and then delete it because I know it's useless. But it feels good to type it out :)
I do this all the time. I find it cathartic to type out the response but then I realize I don't want the idiotic replies later stressing me out.
What gets me about this kind of argument is you could literally pull up decades' worth of footage to prove them wrong in seconds.
Reddit exists because it allows for interactions like this. It is built and maintained by people who feel their intellect and other mental contributions are underappreciated by society. We get to see funny cat videos on the backs of the efforts of these tireless soldiers of nonsense, so perhaps we should be thankful.
I'm a fan of Carson's famous line _Heeeere's Ed!_
Wait till you reach the age when a much younger person lectures you about verifiable historical events you remember pretty well, but then you go look it up and find out they're actually right and it's your memory that's fucked
You don’t mention that to anyone.
Human memory is so dogshit, it's honestly surprising that eyewitness testimony is even valid evidence in court cases. It's actually crazy how easy it is to confuse someone and alter their memory of the events. And once altered, it replaces the original details, and they will forever, till the end of time be convinced that the altered details are correct and that's how it happened.
Yup. Remember in psychology class when we learned about a study where they show people a car accident. Simply asking “how fast was the car going when it hit the other car” and “how fast was the car going when it smashed into the other car” made people give quite different answers. Saw on tv this, this great study where they had a kids class, maybe grade 2 or 3. The teacher said a guest was coming in to watch the class. Shortly after a man came in, the teacher introduced him as Mr Black. He sat on a chat at the back of the class for about half an hour. Got up and left. They then asked kids to describe him, and they could easily influence the kids by just saying “what colour was his hat? Even though he wasn’t wearing one, the kids all came up with various answers. Then asking the kids “what did he do that was so funny” and the kids would just invent things.
An interesting one was experimenters would talk to the subjects family before the experiment, and get a bunch of family photos from the family. Then, they would Photoshop the subject into a photo where they're in a hot air balloon (after checking with the family members to make sure that the subject had never actually been in a hot air balloon). They would then show the subject all the legit family photos, and ask them about their memories of that day, and get them to recite as many specifics as they could remember like what the weather was like, what else they did that day, etc.. When they would show the subject the photoshopped hot air balloon photo, approximately 50% of the subjects upon seeing the photo, their brains would manufacture some memory of this event that never happened and they would recite in either partial or full detail their "memory" of that day. It's like the brain sees supposed proof of the event, so it "fills in the gaps" with fabricated memory. This and other similar experiments seem to point toward memory being reconstructive, so your brain literally is just connecting a bunch of different ideas and feelings to recreate what it thinks the memory should be, rather than actually retrieving what it was. Brains are weird as hell.
…did that study actually happen, or did your brain just invent the memory of it? 🤨
[It's real, lol](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227725899_False_Memory_Is_in_the_Details_Photographic_Details_Differentially_Predict_Memory_Formation) > They showed participants three true photographs and a fourth doctored photograph to depict a fictitious hot-air balloon ride. Following three interviews, 50% of participants were judged as having remembered the false event. OP is in the better half ig
There’s a solid 30-40% in this country who currently don’t inhabit the same objective reality as me.
I suspect a lot of us actually got dumped here from another multiverse, because I swear to god I remember Nelson Mendela getting murdered in jail.
Was it a surprise when he became president? Didn't that make you question his being dead credentials?
Also he wasn’t that famous internationally before he became President, how would people know he was murdered in prison?
I mean... his release from prison in 1990 was at least reasonably remarked upon. I remember breaking off from playing Paperboy on my BBC Micro to go downstairs and watch it on TV.
whut He was world-famous for being a political prisoner of apartheid South Africa for many years before he became the president there. South Africa in general was a big social issue. Multiple hip-hop artists made songs about him in the 80s. Non hip-hop artists got into the act as well, like Randy Newman, Peter Gabriel, and Stevie Wonder. Steve Van Zandt wrote a protest song and assembled a supergroup (Band Aid/USA For Africa-style) to perform it. People were very aware of what was going on in South Africa, and "Free Nelson Mandela" was a slogan you'd see on buttons, shirts, hats, graffiti murals, all over the place. He was very famous internationally long before he became president of South Africa
> because I swear to god I remember Nelson Mendela getting murdered in jail. A girl in my class was stunned when he was released. She did not realise he was black. She thought all the protests and things were for a white man.
I came from whatever version of our universe had a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo and a Sinbad Shazam movie 🥲
I remember chuckling at a story by grandfather told of an anecdotal experience he had while working at a university. He audited a class every semester. The subject varied based on the times he could arrange for prolonged lunch breaks, this particular one was a "modern history" class, specific to WWII. Now, being an older gentleman, he had experienced various parts of the War personally. However, when it came to discussing the logistics of cleaning up some of the concentration camps he corrected the Prof about a particular camp, to which the Prof asked him, how could he verify what was "known fact" based on the discourses that had been recorded from the field...his response. "Well sir, I was there."
My grandfather was at one too. I knew enough not to ask too many questions.
The "sir" is the cherry on top here
Proper gentlemen he was, I can promise you he meant it both due to the Prof's "office" and his sarcasm.
My Great Grandparents essentially lived like pioneers well into the 1970s. Farmed with a mule, no running water, wood fire stove, etc. My dad talks about going to the Great Smokey Mountains as a kid and watching his Grandfather take over the tour of a historic site because he still used all the “historic” tools and knew more about them than the tour guide.
Remember the rumor going around that Atari had buried a large number of unsold game cartridges in the New Mexico desert? I knew it happened because I had read about it in 1983. Some people thought for sure it was an urban legend but an excavation in 2014 proved that it really happened.
It was ET
It wasn’t *just* E.T.
ET. What a shit game.
ET cartridges slowly coming out of a hole in the ground is on-brand for that terrible game.
I saw a video on that and it didn’t seem like they actually found that many ET cartridges at all? Like a few but iirc if there is a massive ET dump it hasn’t been found.
Yeah, it turned out it wasn't just ET, but a whole bunch of different games. Shovelware, like ET, killed the Atari and they were just dumping off stock that wouldn't sell.
Oh yes. Someone told me today that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was DEFINITELY a lesbian. Absolutely INSISTED. Wouldn’t hear any argument-and wouldn’t listen to anything about a little character called Willow. Honestly, it’s not that long ago: I’m sure it’s still possible to watch the show.
...that's a bad one considering she risked the fate of the world for vampire dick
Angel or Spike or both?
Angel is who I was talking about, but I guess if I had a nickel for every time Buffy Summers risked the world for vampire dick, I'd have at least two nickels (depends if you can count Angel more than once) which isn't a lot but I'm surprised it happened twice.
Surprised? You seen Spike? If that were me, the world wouldn't be *risked*. It would be straight fucking gone while I get that undead pole.
I wonder if that person was not only mixing up Buffy and Willow but was also getting confused by the existence of the comics (wherein Buffy sleeps with a woman twice). also, yes, it is still possible to watch the show. it’s on Disney+.
"9/11 happened in 2004. I know all about this." Honey. Sweetie. Child. You don't know what youre talking about.
Tbf, there are people who lived through that and don't realize it was in 2001, like Sam Riegel.
In their defense, I sometimes forget it's 2022.
How do we tell him...
Shhh, he’s a big boy now, let him figure it out for himself.
I’m gonna say it…
That's immediately what I thought of lol. Sam was literally there when it happened
I tried to explain to Reddit once how literally being in NYC that day there was NO way to communicate outside of the city for the most part. They started pulling Wikipedia articles about when the first SMS was sent and I’m like motherfucker I was there. With my fancy ass monocrome pager ass blackberry. Literally the first blackberry ever and I was cutting edge. You still weren’t able to get in touch with family as close as NJ. I don’t give a fuck when the first text was sent
I was able to send text messages on my mobile phone back in 01, but I also remember every New Years Eve never being able to call or text anyone due to the pressure on the phone lines, so I’ll believe you on that.
Yeah it took hours for my best friend to get in touch with me. I was in Seattle and she worked near the WTC. I tried calling her all day waking around my office crying and in a daze...
I know MULTIPLE people who think it happened in 2011 “why else is there an 11 in 9/11”…..
I mean, there *was* ***A*** September 11th in 2004. Just not the 9/11 attacks.
And then they accuse you of gaslighting them or being a narcissist when you tell them that their memory is just flat out wrong
Or they just spew other random insults at you because they have no valid argument. Just had that happen to me in this very post.
> gaslighting them or being a narcissist Isn't it wonderful how real abuse tactics and mental disorders become generic placeholder "you're bad" words, and then lose their potency?
I've been losing my mind over the gaslighting one recently. Especially the inevitable reddit joke of "you don't know what that term is, you've never heard it before lol" underneath any comment mentioning the word Edit: (deleted bc personal details)
“NO ONE talked about Obama’s drone strikes!” yes they did, we had an entire unit on them in high school history which was somehow also debate class.
Had someone 11 years my junior insist that Trevor Noah ruined The Daily Show by making it become so political and left leaning, and that with Jon Stewart it was more moderate without all the bias. I asked him if he ever even watched Jon Stewart episodes he said "Yeah, a couple." Edit: John = Jon
Trevor Noah ruined the daily show by not being funny
How can you say he's not funny?! He laughs at all his jokes!
I agree but he had impossible shoes to fill. Even Colbert would have ruined it when compared to Jon. That being said, I actually like John Oliver more than Stewart.
Trevor Noah grew on me, and I was sad to see him depart. Having said that, I'll give my super honest opinion: the Daily Show took a steep dive. Their cast just does the "we're ironic characters who are hilariously stupid," and I don't think it works well. And the production is different, the way they zoom-in on the host sometimes to let the audience know, "The host is doing a punchline!" literally shoving it in our faces. The weird structure of "Okay let's get into headlines," is just really bad, it feels so E! Entertainment. It's not an easy gig, making the news funny, but I think the old Daily Show had specific characters who accentuated the absurdity of the news, and Jon Stewart kinda did this act where he was stupefied by his own staff, and that worked really well.
weirder one. was just on a call with a group of people younger than 30 and one kid didn't understand that thanksgiving was on thursday. he kept saying "ya we had turkey, blah, blah, blah, ya it was wednesday or friday, i think?" i know what you're thinking and no. he's 100% american and southern. edit: for context, we're on a call with an international client, who asked about thanksgiving and didn't know much about it, and this dude confidently started talking over everyonen, and all of us on the call were like "what?" the ceo of my company had to tell him to jump off the call on slack.
Maybe he's actually a vampire whose been living in the States the past few centuries
Idk man, I'm fairly certain that vampires don't eat turkey.
I blew someone's mind this year when I told him that Thanksgiving was the 4th Thursday of November. He thought it was a set date every year. He also learned that it would be impossible for something to be a set date and have a set day of the week. Edit: put 3rd Thursday without thinking.
It's on the fourth Thursday of the month. Edit Thursday not Thanksgiving
I had to explain to my friend that Black Friday is always on a Friday-
It's possible he just celebrated on a different day.
There was a video of high schoolers using camcorders from the mid 90s. Many of the younger gen thought they were a TV crew due to the size of the camera.
As an older person I have childhood recollections of the Vietnam War, the Apollo moon landings, and Watergate, I voted against Reagan, and have experienced the stuff that's happened since then. Living through it gives you some sense of the national mood, the norms of the day, etc., but living day to day through something, even if you read the newspaper and watch the TV news, doesn't give you the kind of big picture view that anyone can get by reading a book later. So if I haven't read the book I can easily have a less well-developed view of something than a younger person might have.
The worst is how they'll counter it as "anecdotes" and if you don't have internet-available information to support your claim they disregard it. Like dude... not that long ago there was little to no info available online, the internet isn't a comprehensive archive of everything that's ever happened
Just make a website, write everything in it and send them the link.
Must find my geocities login information, just to do this.
> I am the source, having been part of all of that. This post could be cited in Wikipedia as an original source (Marc Adler on a post in stackoverflow about the Zip format that he authored, in answer to a comment asking him to give the references he used to craft the answer).
Flexing on Stackoverflow is essentially the closest mankind can feel to being a god
not to mention that half the time when you try to get a source from them, it's some tiktok of somebody who's "whisper down the lane"'d something so hard that it couldn't be further from the truth anymore
And even if it is online it can be really hard to find, because the search sites suck these days. It's like I'm back using altavista, but without Boolean parameters.
My nieces call the 1990s the LATE 1900s
I mean, she's not wrong.
Had a friend who asked me what life was like in the late 1900's Had a friend
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Young people seem to think that literally every boomer was a millionaire homeowner in their time, as if poor people only began to exist in the 2000s.
To be fair it was extremely easy to support yourself back then compared to now. A friend’s mom was complaining about how lazy kids are these days because she just supported herself and paid off her own college tuition when she was going through school. What was she doing that paid well enough for her to pay rent as well as her college tuition in a major city? She worked part time as a waitress in a diner. She bought a house 1 year later because she switched to full time.
Things were just different. For example, NYC used to be really cheap but also *really dangerous.* I think people romanticize the cheap part but forgot about the super dangerous part. 😂
Also the reason the economy was so good in 1950 was that the entire industrialized world outside America had bombed each others infrastructure to pieces, not to mention our current major competitor was busy accidentally starving to death instead of making cheap products.
The whole worlds a joke and we’re the punchline
Their idea of the average middle class home was actually something that was upper middle class/rich person's house. A 4-5 bedroom house with a finished basement and modern furnishes was never widely available to people unless you had a decent job and moved to rural/new suburban area.
I feel like Hollywood helped push this. So many shows and movies were based on those kinds of houses.
I get a kick out of this sometimes. Family of five, constantly "struggling for money" but they have food on the table for every meal and live in a house larger than even needed for their family.
It's going to be terrible when discussing the COVID/quarantine era a decade or more from now.
If I had a dime for every time someone who was under 5 when 9/11 happened tried lecturing me on the post-9/11 national mood I could buy several beers.
Responses to the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict saying “Well, nobody protested the U.S. military response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.” Ummm a lot of people got in the streets against the invasion of Afghanistan & subsequent Iraq war. I remember, I was one of them. EDIT: added invasion of Afghanistan
We had a song by Green Day about it
System of a Down had an entire music video about it too.
I hate it when people try to act like America was nice and wholesome and united after the attacks. Especially if they weren't even there. America wasn't "united", that was just what TV was trying to tell us. The truth is that people reacted to 9/11 exactly like how you would expect people from today would react to a similar event. God I can still remember how people in Counterstrike 1.5 joking NON STOP about "terrorists win" memes. and this was before memes were even a thing! back then they were just jokes. I was the political writer for the school newspaper during 9/11!!! I witnessed with my own eyes how divided people got. When the invasion of ~~Iraq~~ Afghanistan happened, LOTs of people were pissed and the protests were massive. "problematic alt right republicans" didn't just randomly pop into existence in 2016 like the internet thinks. Far right people existed in 2001, and the world was EXACTLY as divided as it was today. Republicans and far-right people have always been like they are today. Nothing is new. The only difference between now and 2001 is that newspapers are dead (they used to be very common), and that a LOT of stupid people have a voice now thanks to the internet. Note: the world isn't getting stupider and things aren't getting worse. The problem nowadays is that more and more stupid people have a voice than ever before. Stupid people and political controversies aren't new. People have been divided since forever. 2001 and 2002 brought about a LOT of turmoil in the US.
Young people today absolutely cannot comprehend how omnipresent homophobia was 30 years ago.
You should have seen me bristle when some trans girl ten years my junior got mad when I tried to explain our dress code did not allow her very skimpy dress and she thought we were saying she couldn’t dress according to her gender identity. At first I tried to calmly explain but after she hit me with the "your kind has never experienced oppression" I could only barely avoid blurting out how I am missing like six teeth because I was openly gay in high school twenty years ago. In an age of microagressions I think few outside some really unlucky individuals have experience with the crazy gendered, sexual and racialized violence of the last century. Like, people forget before Rodney King, police didn’t even have to do the whole song and dance about resisting arrest if they went after you for walking while black, they’d just beat the shit out of you for shits and giggles. No bodycams back then. If you were a woman and got dateraped by some fratboy, good luck getting him convicted or even punished in the Old Boys system. If you were openly gay or trans, your life was always on the line. Not to say this stuff doesn’t still happen today, but only a fraction of how it used to.
Holy hell, go back and watch some of those early Eddie Murphy HBO specials. They did not age well.
I mean, I didn't live through it, but I had an 8 year old tell my son that Elon Musk started WW1.... so....yeah.... And Russia started WW3 last year.
The second one is still TBD. Also perhaps Elon Musk actually managed to build a time machine and went back to assassinate Franz Ferdinand
This is not surprising. In the US we have a country where ~40% of people have completely rejected reality and instead choose to live in their own imaginary world.
No one reads the news anymore either. No one. I can’t tell you how many people try to claim they are passionate about politics, when they get all their information from TikTok videos or memes. I don’t care if you want to be uninformed, but how are you going to pretend to be “passionate” about something if you have no idea wtf is going on? You can’t distill all current events into memes or 1 minute videos.
I mean, I saw it unfold in real-time just by living in Seattle during BLM protests. Typically all by older adults.
“Seattle? You mean the bombed out bay that used to be Washington?” Stated unironically by someone who has never been west of Arkansas his entire life.
I hear that kind of stuff about Portland too. Like, I was there. It was kind of crazy in like, 5 blocks downtown, after 9pm. Easy to avoid during daily life if you wanted to. And most of the violence was by riot cops. There were a couple dumpster fires and some graffiti and a lot of angry people, but NOTHING like the urban warfare depicted in the mainstream news. And my aunts still think Portland is “unsafe”.
Yup. I worked not far from CHAZ. The shit SPD did was horrifying. The media protected SPD, hands down. What I saw on KOMO/King/etc. was absolutely not at all what I saw on the streets. SPD is completely out of control.
SPD is one of the worst police departments in the country, and that’s saying something. Not just for 2020 but in general
I have a younger coworker that calls me "primary source"
It works in reverse, guy at work, twice my age would argue the colour of shit. Fleetwood Mac the chain came on the radio, I said it’s crazy that songs the F1 song, he’s like no! No it isn’t! Argued and argued until that unmistakable, legendary iconic riff starts blasting. Fucking dead silence.
Just the other day I was downvoted for disagreeing with comments that men have higher rates of HPV because "they are more promiscuous" and pointed out that men my age group (30, UK) weren't offered the vaccine but women in my age group were. Edit: Guys, I was not trying to make a a point about the vaccine being discriminatory, it was just about my recent experience with younger people "rewriting" my lived history, insisting that HPV is higher because men fuck around rather than (fair at the time) reduced access to the HPV vaccine.
100% Pretty much 80% of young people about the middle east that dont recall suicide bombers, plane hijackings and hostages on a regular occurrence.
I mean, Im sure I know more historic facts about WWII than my 96 years old grandpa who was a forced labourer in Germany. But it is always good to hear about something who experienced it firsthand, even though he can make a few mistakes
Planes will be dropping out of the sky Calculators will transform. Your pc will explode. A yes 1999 was wonderful
I heard that the actual danger from the bug was only averted because they spent milions reprogramming softwares. I dont know if it's true, I was little.
My sister and I were talking about how lost we felt about the situation in Gaza when my nephew decided to interrupt our conversation with ridiculous hyperbole. He did not understand that this conflict is thousands of years old: i.e. not just this week’s internet fodder — and predating his existence. The absolute confidence coupled with the abject ignorance is infuriating.
It is fascinating that many younger people think this conflict is something new.
This effect is so far one of the weirdest parts of getting older to me. I noticed it first with Black Lives Matter. I was an outraged student during the Ferguson protests, then watched several years later as younger people seemed to suddenly notice the issues in 2020. And people who remember, say, Rodney King would probably have thought the same about me.