Regular police officers not wearing full body armor and tactical gear.
I think that’s pretty dependent on the country
This reminded me of visiting London nearly two decades ago. People went “It’s so safe, the police officers don’t even have guns!”
I get there and maybe saw two cops that weren’t armed, most of the rest were suited for urban combat down to the MP5 and half dozen mags slung around them.
I think London is its own special place. The Met police have a reputation in the UK for being rougher.
I agree with that, some countries don’t have the money to oppress all fancy like that.
Just let some years pass, when the control of the water reserves come in full swing they will have their chance.
Maybe even before if trump do run for this next elections, i expect nothing less than another capitol riot.
Clean bodies of freshwater.
Or rivers so polluted the catch on fire.
I feel personally attacked by this comment.
Fidget Spinners
Home ownership
Oooof
Living off the grid. A world where AI and data collection wasn’t so massive that even not participating in anything they will have a full profile of you. Data will become compromised until everything leaks out everywhere. When abusive powers will mathematically make future decisions for you, e. g. a. negative personality-health profile which makes a college dropout almost certain and therefore deny you the choice. People think in absolutes and not even partial success is viable. Just like now big corporations have such narrow application profiles that every human not built in a genetic factory is not worth it. I think the world becomes rapidly more hostile to neurodivergence. And all will suffer from it, because thinking diversity is key.
Life before computers and internet.
Dial-up internet (and I’m only in my 20s!)
Hang up the phone, I’m downloading a song and I have 15 minutes left!
┬┴┬┴┤ω・) be honest
I’m, uh… only in my thirties !
I used to like hearing the modem scream into the void
That feeling of logging on to limewire or thepiratebay or some random sketchy hacker BBS or irc chat.
And being asked your asl
how annoying it was calling your friend that had the phone number with lots of zeros in it.
At least you only needed to dial 7 digits.
I mean, I’m an 80s kid and even I barely know that.
The good side of an album.
This is a thing few people under 40 will understand. CDs were pretty standard everywhere by the early 90’s.
Standard, but expensive. I still had to rely on cassettes till the late 90s
Ahh, but were you buying cassettes or making your own mix tapes with blanks and then taking them on the go with your walkman?
Mix tapes all the way! Sometimes even recording straight from radio shows praying the host wouldn’t speak during my recording.
The only album I bought in an original cassette was “August and everything after” by the Counting Crows. I played that tape every single morning gppig to school for like a year.
And therefore, no boring side.
I would say albums as an art form overall. Yes of course some bands and musicians will still write an album in this way, but music has been playlist-ified to the point where most people won’t listen to it like that. You take a song or two from it and forget the rest exist. My perception is that it’s been a dying thing for some time now.
I also pick off my favourite songs from most albums, to be fair. But there are some albums that are best viewed as a single piece of art and I feel like that understanding from both listeners and artists is dying. If you just listen to Money and Breathe (In the Air) when they show up in your shuffle, are you really listening to Dark Side of the Moon?
And discussing with your friends which side is better. I listened to dark side of the moon and Sgt pepper and aerosmith greatest hits and a dozen other cassettes so many times!! Then when you hear a song on the radio you expect to hear the next song follow it.
I’ve been listening to the 1001 albums you have to listen to before you die list. (There’s a website that randomizes it and gives you an album a day).
I’m about 100 albums in. The grand majority are trash, that includes stuff by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Janis Joplin, etc. Just absolute garbage. One of two songs worth listening to and the rest is straight trash.
Albums as an art form died because it was never really a good art form to begin with.
the feeling of not being spied on 24-7
Someone recently told me this anecdote:
I overheard on the train home two middle aged ladies talking about their kids mobilephones.
One was saying how they dragged their teen and their mobile phone to the iphone store so they could setup the location tracker and “quiet mode” (parent phone can completly disable the teens phone), and how their child was upset but they are glad it was done.
The other lady was asking how she to can do the same.
My question is: are 2020’s kids even gonna be upset?
They dont know any different
My previous answer to this question was about buying a phone instead of renting from the phone company. I realized that something today’s children may never experience is the government actually enforcing antitrust law, and in the bigger picture, the feeling of trust that the government is there to look out for us and will do the right thing.
(Yeah, that trust was sometimes misplaced, but it existed. We also used to believe that the violators of that trust would be held accountable.)
Bugs hitting the front windshield in extraordinary numbers.
This is a sad one once you notice it. The outdoors feel emptier
Fireflies/Lightning bugs. I remember there were so many in backyards in the summer, even in the suburbs.
Then they just kinda went away. Feel like I’m lucky if I even see a few a year.
Car design change? I’d assume that more aerodynamic cars airflow that sweeps more bugs away rather than smacking them into the glass. I can assure you that they still hit motorcycle visors.
what happened to the bugs?
We managed to kill off a third of the entire bug population during the last 25 years or so.
Huh, I think they all flew to Mexico, I did a road trip from Mexico to Austin TX recently and I do recall having not many bugs in my windshield in the USA… But back home to Mexico they all started to appear LMAO.
More of a the natural habitat of insects are still thriving in Mexico and the habitat being wiped elsewhere.
It’s two things, one personal vehicles are designed to bend air around them rather than slice through or just brute force through air resistance. This means that more bugs are pushed out of the way with newer vehicles now, compared to older vehicles which just had the bug hit the windshield. The second and much more impactful reason is because the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.
fluid dynamics simulated on computers helped air-bending, that’s cool. i knew about the bees disappearing, but bugs in general too?
Bees are just cute. Its insects in general, and all are important. I mean insecticides, fungicides and herbicides are there for a reason.
Our soil is completely dead often, without animals, fungi and herbs. And so is the ecosystem
Unfortunately yes. This story by NPR isn’t an academic source but it’s definitely worth listening to. On average bug populations have declined by 2% a year for decades or more in some areas, less in others. It’s an average.
Now truthfully, whether or not a declining bug population is the main cause of fewer bugs on our windshields or if it’s better aerodynamics I don’t know. What I do know is a more aerodynamic vehicle isn’t something I need to worry about, a declining bug population is.
the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.
Why has that happened?
Pesticides
Pesticides
Climate change
Less flowers
Accelerating climate change and an increase in consumer car culture (more cars on road to kill bugs = less bugs)
Finding a nudie mag in the woods
Grew up near the town dump. My buddy and I had boxes of Playboy’s and penthouses it was awesome!
Not me. An Army brat told me that the kids would know when ‘snap inspections’ were coming up. They’d tell the GIs when it was time to clean out the contraband. Then the kids would hide and watch where the soldiers hide their beer and porn. You can do the math
Not contacting a person until you meet them again at a location you planned the day before.
Not knowing where you are, locating using literal maps.
It boggles my mind how much safety we have today.
