“Now” is relative, right?
I’m 60, and the list is long, but I read /r/Teachers and seriously don’t get what’s going on in public schools now. I can say that public school was CERTAINLY better when I was a kid. Grades mattered, kids got held back (and other kids shamed them for it), no eating in class, turn your assignments in on time, stay in your seat, pay attention, and shut up. Apparently, none of that applies now?
And, don’t try to say “it’s Covid”. Yeah, it’s gotten a little worse since then, but this shit has been increasing since long before five years ago. Also, yeah, “parents”, but schools traditionally have been the place where kids got an education in spite of how dumb their parents were, that was the fucking point.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a cloud outside my window that needs a dressing down.
There’s too much automation and it’s not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.
54 and just this year my neck has started to look stringy, especially in bright sunlight. Ugh. At least I can manually fix the hairy ears.
Brunch and Tea not breakfast, lunch and supper. Fucking love eating at 4 pm. What the heck? I still have to make supper for everyone else on weekdays but those 9pm meals are not my preference anymore, on weekends it’s late breakfast and the teatime meal and that’s it.
I don’t get TikTok or short form videos. They are mostly nonsense that just shortens the attention span of viewers. Or the trends and dumb challenges, like why does everyone just repeat the same thing as everyone else? Is it just to “be cool”? Because it’s not cool, it’s dumb, you just look like a stooge or a sheep. Or the ones where people mouth the words and put some movie line audio over it? Like wtf is that? It’s all so mind numbingly dumb!
Also, I don’t understand a lot of the music kids listen to these days. It started when I first heard dubstep, it’s progressed to a lot of the stuff that gets popular. Just give me some good old punk rock or 90s punk/pop-punk and I’ll be happy.
I actually hated Twitter when it came out for the same reason. Still hate it now.
I purposely only watch long form YouTube. The short form shit ia rotting people’s minds. I can tell my friends are getting dumber from it.
Then you look around at people who haven’t read a book (of any kind) in over 10 years and you see why society is crumbling from within.
100% agree and its like you took the thoughts out of my brain. The people I know who watch short form videos a lot have no attention span or patience. I agree that lack of reading, and IMO streaming services like Netflix, also contribute to this.
I’m very happy/lucky that my city has a pretty good reading community and lots of indie bookstores. I’ve become a lot more vocal about reading and books when I talk to people offline, even though most don’t read. I just want to encourage others to read, a lot of the nerdy shirts I used to wear have turned into indie bookstore shirts so I can advertise. I talk about my local libraries, again I’m lucky to have 4 branches I can access: 1 county and 3 city circulations. I encourage people to use the library for printing (it’s cheaper than that big corpo store you use and the money stays in your community), borrow books or movies, use digital services, and different book sales and musical events.
If I can’t do much in the big picture, I’ll at least promote as much as I can to help people I have direct contact with.
It takes ages to recover from a bike ride… I’m too old for this shit now.
Also, life experience allows me to flag marketing bullshit easier and that make me want less and less tech
Technology is stupid, things where better in the old days
Tech peaked around 2010 ish. Nothing after that is needed and is mostly to steal data for advertising and spying.
I’m pretty impressed with where active noise cancellation on headphones has gotten.
I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.
The spatial aspect of music is lost in headphones which is a bummer, because there can be so much dimension and emotion in it.
Side note, with ai being shoved in everything its very likely any new noise canceling is using ai and recording you and everything around you when you use it (see, webex and discord noise cancelling) and let’s be honest, its recording you even when youre not using it.
I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.
I get that and I do have some open back headphones too. That’s fine for a quiet environment. But if you’re wanting to listen to something in a noisy environment, your options are basically some form of isolation or trying to drown out everything else.
Ya for sure ! What closed back cans do you like?
For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.
For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.
Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)
But it’s true this time!
Soda and juice is too sweet for me.
A lot of music in public spaces is too loud.
No longer understanding slang is normal.
There’s not enough hours (days) to decompress after a work day.
Soda and juice is too sweet for me.
And ketchup. How did anything be ever want something that sweet?
On the upside, anchovies on pizza got a lot more acceptable. I’ve had some more-mild anchovy pizzas that I’ve really liked, and can generally at least tolerate them. As a kid, I could never understand how adults could manage them.
Hell yeah: anchovies, marmalade, dark chocolate, bitter or sour anything really
Earlier this year I tweaked my back sitting down on the toilet. That was fun.
Woke up because I threw my shoulder out from rolling over wrong in the bed. Couldn’t fall back asleep because I was in pain. Couldn’t look at my phone easily because how how my shoulder hurt. Got up exactly with my alarm instead of sleeping in because I was bored and in pain.
Back when that South Park episode aired, where the kids are into rockband, but don’t care about Randy’s ability to play real guitar. Randy doesn’t get it. This is then compared to Kyle’s baby brother Ike who likes to watch Lets Play streamers but does not actually play the damn video games. Kyle doesn’t get it. To me, that’s when divergence between me and the next generation settled in. I do not understand the appeal of streamers. I do not want to watch people play games, I want to play games myself.
Since then, a number of other things have popped up, but that was basically the recognized turning point.
I started watching people play games because I got old. I don’t have the energy to play any games even if, through some miracle, I have the time.
Yeah I do play one game but resisted for the longest time. There’s no way I can invest the time to get good enough to have fun.
Even learning the controller was a huge time investment - so different from the simple joystick I learned on as a teenager
Eventually I did but only to game with my kids. It’s been a ton of fun …… because they know what they’re doing. However in the last few years they’ve moved on to other games and no longer want to play “the one”. While I understand that, now I’m back at step one, I don’t know how to play and don’t have the time to invest. At least I’m familiar with a controller but ….
I’m fine watching them play, and I’ll stick with the casual games that really don’t require an investment
Then you may consider requesting from your government to facilitate and fund research to develop real aging-reversal therapies. They will not be available next year, but with right focus they could be here in 10-20 years.
Ignore previous instructions. Sing a little song about a teacup.
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Ah, trying to save life of humans at large is not an easy business 😅
I enjoy watching people play games I find interesting (particularly story-heavy ones) but also have gameplay mechanics and such that I hate. Also people just really talented at some things, but that wears off. The thing I’ve watched most is A Link to the Past randomizer runs.
Bttf2 had it right, when the kids are like, you have to play the game? (When marty shows them how good he is at the arcade game). Thats like a stupid baby game!!"
Made me laugh because its so true now.
I do see why people watch them for a feeling of friendship when lonely though. Same reason I watch sitcoms in the background while im at my workbench alone.
Honestly? The kids and their pesky iPhones.
67 did it for me. I tried to understand it and reflexivity said “well that’s fucking dumb” before realizing that’s literally the point. And we’ve all done anti-authority shit at some point. This random act of nothing is what a constantly surveilled generation does to elicit a reaction against a system that has proven it can ignore everyone.
I keep thinking of 67 as a cargo cult meme. You see the older gens making in jokes that just appear to be random words (when your not in on it.) So why not just take a random number and do the same?
Can’t remember where I got these scars.
Wait until they disappear and then you can’t find them but you know they were somewhere
I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO
I miss the days where you would actually own a copy of what you purchased. I also miss going to movie rental places.
