We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.
Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…
Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I’m in.
“if the Tamagotchi doesn’t grew into adult in 5 minutes, i don’t want to do nothing with it”
I recorded Mila Supastar from TV on cassette tape
That’s so true
Dude, I still have a slammer that’s solid copper. I’m going to win all your pogs. So yes, let’s play.
don’t forget smartwatches and the beggining of vr with the Nintendo virtual (word forgor)
Virtual Boy, it was a love-hate VR experience. Red wire-frames was very Cyberpunk.
Virtual boy
I’ll bring my talkboy.
Hate to break it to them, but the worst is likely yet to come.
What’s your plan of action for the upcoming water wars?
Die
Same as my retirement plan.
As a Canadian: worry
Fr fr The resource paradox could fuck yall over baddddd…
Yeah bordering an underprepared but highly militarized country during a resource shortage is probably going to be a problem for them. Feels bad man
Don’t worry, we’ll let you become Americans. How does the state of North Montana sound?
To not have children
birthrated will come back up right snd we won’t go extinct in like 2456 or something
That is surely one of many issues. Some localized like water, and some will be wider like food shortages. All avoidable, but somehow not.
Once water gets too scarce it will no longer be a “localized” problem. It’s necessary to survive and it traded as a commodity.
I don’t see it happening as we are entering a period of explosive progress with AI that surely will find ways to make water bountiful all over. Not a guarantee though and for sure the path to that future will have some bumps. Already has some.
Our AI overlords need that water to cool their serverbanks though, so guess we are shit out of luck on that one.
sea salt removal and making water molecules 1 by one should save us
remove sea salt from the sea
We’re aware. I propose we eat the boomers. Gen X is okay, though.
so what would that worst look like?
I suppose this. https://youtu.be/kQkyouPOrD4?si=usnYe3XhJDJhdhgs
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I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.
I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.
Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.
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Lmao they did just get fucked by God every step of the way.
“Stay silent, bitch” - Fate
You could say, they took silent in Silent Generation literally.
You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.
There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.
They were ubiquitous, it just didn’t produce stalemates because armies didn’t rely solely on artillery and human waves to break through.
They were still used because they still worked against poorly supported infantry.
Still are used, look at Ukraine.
Obviously the comment was mostly referring to WW1 but there many battlefields that would have looked very much like their WW1 counterparts until some tanks or air support showed up.
On the bright side they didn’t make any boomers.
Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.
I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.
I’ve gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn’t go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.
Not even a joke, I miss the time when a virus was our biggest concern. That may be insensitive to people who had friends or family die because of it or who live in a country with shitty access to vaccines or health care in general though.
It’s awful but I get it…
I’ve got CPTSD so I’m always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.
Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.
I watch someone on YouTube who deals with stress. They said they were… I think relieved (can’t recall exactly what word they used) because, for once, their stress and the actions resulting from it were now normal.
Oh cool you too?
I mean COVID still hit me harder than I was prepared for and kinda crushed me a little but I picked back up pretty ok but since then been sorta on the back foot and losing steam
Actually, we’re well on our way to a 4th economic crash.
Hooray!
potentially
Let’s see some more can-do attitude, mkay?
No, definitely
One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said “you’re moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe”
I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo holmes, smell ya later” I looked at my kingdom I was finally there
Only to realize that the crisis in Europe was just as bad as there.
Slightly better healthcare and job security. Don’t go to Australia. It’s horrible and full of homeless drop bears.
But wait, it gets worse!
Damn, this image really makes me feel sorry for Will Smith. He’s so pussy whipped, and it’s not even funny. His wife is in Scientology and basically uses the church and the threat of taking his kids away and hiding them within the church to get Will to toe into line, so much so that she cucked him with their son’s rapper friend (who she groomed after his mother died). This image is from her “red table” internet talk show where she had Will on and they both said they were ok with her sleeping around.
Still though, he gave me my wifi SSID, “KeepMyWiFisNameOutYourF-ingMouth”. It literally only just fits lol.
Feel sorry for people that actually deserve it. Don’t waste any emotional energy on this dipshit.
All people deserve empathy
Nah, some don’t. Wouldn’t say Will Smith is one of them, though.
That attitude is destructive and harmful to humanity.
Wait what’s he do?
laugh/sobs in living with parents
It’s definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property
You’d think that people who face a crisis every few years would be familiar enough with the word to know that the plural is “crises”.
As a French j’approuve
Ton pseudo est poétique
Merci c’est gentil
“crisipodes”
Too young to know who Mike Oldfield is.
Slides Tubular Bells LP out of its sleeve
Ah yes, lost two jobs in three months, waiting for my rent to go up, and live in a tent while at uni for the next three years. There is no affordable housing where I live, and employers can fire us at any time. Makes total sense.
At least I don’t have to worry about kids.
Or having a house
We can have avocado toasts which are basically the only high end thing we can afford and enjoy.
As an a vintage millennial I can say w confidence: there will be more and you should prepare yourself. Lol
I am hanging on by a thread as it is. Not being facetious or funny here in saying that I am not okay. Any more of this and I’m going to buckle.
World needs to slow down. Stop having 8 major crises a year. Fuck. Can we tone it back to like… 5?
i lol because it’s the only way i can find to keep myself sane through the insanity from the last 40+ years and it’s taught me to expect more because boomers and the silent generation (eg biden and trump) are still in control and will be for atleast another 35+ years so shit will continue to happen because they only give a rat’s ass about themselves and maybe their children/grandchildren.
unless you’re one of those children/grandchildren, more shit will happen and expect to have to vote for those children/grandchildren into office or, at least, expect to call them boss at your next job; assuming you can still get a job.
and don’t bother complaining about it; the last 40+ years have also taught me the hard way that doing so will only label you a malcontent and make it more difficult to find work in your future.
learn how to fake a convincing smile to your bosses and find something to lol at for yourself to keep your head above the water.
Yeah I’ve been doing that for a the last few years and still struggle with maintaining it and have given so much of my emotions up to keep that mask on that if I magically found a gun in my hand I might not think twice before it was in mouth.
That inability to do anything but take the beatings with a smile has worn be down to a husk of a person.
Just because history doesn’t remember it doesn’t mean it hasn’t always been this way. Just roll with the punches and adapt when it actually affects you.
As an early GenXer…they ain’t seen nothing yet.
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My retirement plan is to go out in a blaze of glory fighting back the fascists in the Water Wars.
Mad Max would at least be the most metal way to dystopia lol
