Oof, felt this right in the geriatric millennials.

Mfer I was doing assignments where I had to scroll through index cards to find the encyclopaedia, then hand write out the essay.

It’s weird when you go from being the disruptor demographic to realising that when your 5 yo kid jokes about the 80s it’s as far away in time to him as the 1940s we’re to me - for him it’s a 2d, pre-Alexa, analog dystopia.

And I’m only 42.

They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo

I wonder if the internet, possibly the worlds best accomplishment in cooperation, can survive a post-globalist world?

Perhaps it’s the purist expression of the wave in optimism for liberalised trade before it crested and rolled back out to sea.

Bonus, looks like the reddit I joined

Me too. Has more of a small town feel. Usually, because I’m in Australia, my comments are buried and never get replied to because the US is sleeping. Here, people are actually engaging. Loving it so far.

Wish the sorting worked a little better in wefwef so I’m not scrolling past the same posts each time, but otherwise feels like the reddit I joined 16 years ago (or slightly thereafter when comments were added)

I have enough trouble finding all the bicycles in the photos, they wouldn’t need to change much

I’m sorry you feel that way, but I get where you’re coming from.

Zoom out a little though and it’s consequences are war, famine, and desecration.

If not the human suffering, consider eons long chains of biology that’ll be wiped off the face of the earth as climates shift quicker than their ability to adapt

We really just sleepwalking into a Cyberpunk dystopia huh?

That was fantastic- sums up the stages pretty well

Welcome to life after 40 - I’ve been an early adopter all my life, but my network hasn’t moved with me.

As a result joining Snapchat has no value for me.

So I tend to use apps that are friend-agnostic like this and TIkTok.

Side note: my fave messaging app is Confide, it only reveals redacted words as you run your finger over them, and then deletes. So it’s impossible to screenshot.

Can confirm, upvoted and feel better immediately

I think there are times when your values dictate your opinion rather than the facts.

There’s a reason logic isn’t what sells cars, skin care and fashion.

We’re emotional creatures.

A strong opposition should help reign in excesses of either side, and we should crave it.

There are ideas that originate on the right and are embraced in the left - universal basic income comes to mind.

Same boat - Apollo to wefwef

Been a bad week for CEOs. On the upside, now I have hope that the 1% earth-escaping vehicle will be so slapdash with cheap over-the-counter additions, and unpaid labour, that it’ll combust on takeoff

Tfw Mr Burns's vision is normalised

I remember watching a clip from “The Network” where Jeff Daniel’s is interviewing an expert on climate change. It was when it was too late - and the expert lore or less said so.

It struck me as prescient - that despite all the warnings we’d be shocked when it came and it was irreversible.

Tbh it came sooner than I expected.

If you work it out lemme know, the “bookmark”, it does nothing!”

He’s a shitposting Warhol - a genius, and a fool

Big centralised tech < novel decentralised tech

No pressure, but get it wrong and you’ve got the blood of that young rider on your hands