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Oh shit.

Nordic

Person born in the late 70’s here

Although birth of social media took a gigant shit on peoples general mindset and world feels more divided, right wing and missing “street level” empathy, world is still better.

For example in the 80’s autistic people were just mentally retarded, dyslexic people were just stupid, bullying in schools was normal behaviour and part of being young, violence among teenagers was more commonplace, attitude that animals were just biological machines with instinctual reactions and just appearance of some cognition was more commonplace. 80’s yuppie culture made it fashionable to be a wealthy asshole.

In the 90’s home computers became common. Recession had bankrupted many high rolling yuppies. Nerds were no longer beaten for knowing how tech works. Gamer culture was no longer niche phenomenon. Cold war was over and nuclear armageddon was distant thing. Youth culture still had this doom and gloom attitude. Everyone was a flannel wearing tortured skater boy/girl. 90’s was the “tomboy era”, where girls were allowed to dress and act like boys without being socially ostracised. More attention was focused on mental health and colorful spectrum of human mind.

Late 90s and early 00 internet really started rolling, smarphones started to appear, social media was born. World became very small and everyone who wanted was a content creator. Suddenly large portion of population communicated with people outside their country on a daily basis.

This was the best time in the Internet. Search engines started to actually work and new webpages were sometimes an actual joy. Algorithms weren’t corrupting things and polarizing everything. Autogenerated content was yet to come. Internet and social media was infused as essential part of our lives.

2010’s the enshittification started and commercialization was on full gear. 2020 has become the era of stupid. AI, autogenerated content, polarization and dead internet.

But even with all this, I still think it’s now better for the average person than the cold war paranoia world of the 70-80’s.

We are however on a downward spiral and I’m hoping for a counter reaction in coming decades. Hoping that ignorances of past world are just making noise and attracting attention before they vanish for good.

Harambre was a Human-gorilla hybrid thought to be impossible. He could speak and was planning to “spill the beans” about his origin.

Calea Zacatechichi

Do you also have a dry skin?

Got rid of my dandruff problem when I realised that I was sensitive to SLS compounds. Try to use non-sulfate products for a while.

… and I no longer need to use skin lotions on a daily basis.

People tend to change when facing true hunger and scarcity. Hard to tell. It can go really quickly into shoot first ask questions later, but really depends on the depth of desperation.

I usually sleep so deep that after I wake up I’m still semi-conscious for some time and i’m afraid that if i stand up i might land on my face. All gears are definitely not working right away.

The other ten minutes is just existential dread.

Salmon

Trump has a stroke and tells stories about his pp and republicans still pretend all is honky dory.

Juusto

Get yourself a meshtastic node and start talking to locals what’s is up right now and what curiosities can be found nearby.

What if he’s inserting that batteries are now better because user-hostile decisions.

My parents were wealthy, but stingy as fuck. Batteries of that time were just fine.

Telling them that man is the image of god and they are inferior beings created for man to subjugate.

Too highbrow, gtfo smarty smart man.

Not being social.

I realized in my 40’s that my parents were wrong. You don’t actually have to be social butterfly to be happy.

I’m missing the need for social interaction. World didn’t end. I’m completely happy without it and there are plenty of jobs that don’t extensively need it.

So liberating. No amount of therapy really helped on the inside. It was all just pretending.

It’s not corporations function to be ethical. Their function is to make the biggest profit possible and they will be evil as fuck, if there are no repercussions.

Corporations need to be constrained by law and oversight. Current trend is the opposite and we will be creating monsters to lead our future AI powered oligarchies.

Don’t get old. I’ve noticed that now that I’m approaching 50, I’m getting lazy and having a stronger “too old to stress about performance” attitude.

But there is also a generational culture thing. I’ve noticed that people 10 years older than me have some cultural attitudes that they picked up from boomers. I’m guessing that television culture and appearance of Internet had a mental influence and generations after that are bit more homogenous.

I’d also get that asperges checked at. It’ll make your life easier.

Dying from a decease.