Working in coal mines. Well, actually, nevermind…
"Minecraft is proof that banning child labor was wrong. The children yearn for the mines "
Good thing Roblox exists nowadays. It’s not a coal mine, but there’s lots of exploitative child labor there!
A time when AI wasn’t involved with everything.
Remember that time when humans had to do everything, and if there weren’t enough people around to do it, then nobody do it.
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.
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Rushing to it? Nah, just sitting next to it for hours with finger on “Pause”.
Rushing? You mean you didn’t spend whole evenings with your finger in the record button, just in case it came up?
Wow, am I a geezer already?
And rage at the dj when they would talk over the song intro.
Which they did on purpose, so you can’t use the recorded song commercially.
The modern day equivalent of this is including sound effects or a break in the music in the official youtube music video to prevent people from using yt-dlp to rip the audio directly to their playlist.
Haha but I make music so I can just use my DAW to cut out the break! Checkmate YouTube!
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.
I mean, I’m an 80s kid and even I barely know that.
At least you only needed to dial 7 digits.
The good side of an album.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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Privacy.
Ownership. (not quasi ownership like ‘buying’ a HP inkjet printer)
Bugs hitting the front windshield in extraordinary numbers.
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.
This is a sad one once you notice it. The outdoors feel emptier
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?
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.
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
the insect population has dropped significantly in the last 25 years.
Why has that happened?
Pesticides
Climate change
Less flowers
Accelerating climate change and an increase in consumer car culture (more cars on road to kill bugs = less bugs)
Pesticides
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
MapQuest printouts.
