“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.
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.
There’s too much automation and it’s not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.
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!
My back hurts.
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
Earlier this year I tweaked my back sitting down on the toilet. That was fun.
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.
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.
Not a complain about age, but a thing to remove a lot of complains about age. Let’s just create a real rejuvenation / aging-reversal therapies. Then our bodies and partly even minds will stay in youthful, healthy state for much longer. Ultimately even without diseases of old age.
If you agree, please sign 👇 https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/
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.
I remember renting Surf Ninjas on VHS back in the day. I would prefer not to think about how long ago that must be now.
I don’t like today’s extremism, take us back to your version! 😭
As an old person, I miss the old “radical”.
Cant even find a good snow boarding game =(
I mean… There was 1080 & SSX. Can’t think of any others
Snowboarding Kids on the N64 was basically snowboarding meets Mario Kart. Was pretty fun. But SSX Tricky on Gamecube will always have a special place in my heart
When this happened.
I’ve turned into the work mom for the younger ones. Guess it’s all the tattoos and piercings that make me more approachable. I have a collection of young adults. I want scream “I’m not old enough to be your mother yet” except…well, 38. :/
thanks for being there for them
Seeing fashion from the 90’s and early 2000’s come back into style.
I noticed this when I was out for a walk one day and a couple of high schoolers passed by. I had to do a double take because they legit dressed like me and my friends back in high school…almost 25 years ago 😑
The classics never go out of style. When Grunge came along, everybody got excited about jeans, t shirts, flannel shirts, and Chucks, but that’s what we wore to school every day in the 60s and 70s. Young people just didn’t know about it during the New Wave 80s, although it actually continued in most places with the kids who didn’t buy into the New Wave styles. But since Grunge, it’s just gone back to being the standard male teen slacker style.
Popcorn dresses are back! (Ugh)
Are people wearing denim overalls again? If it’s for work I get it but I hated that style last time it came around. They just look bad on everyone.
I have been noticing an uptick in overalls lately. It happens periodically, then people realize what a pain in the ass they are, and stop wearing them. This too shall pass. Until 15-20 years from now.
Have seen it a couple times in a school building, yeah.
(Again)
Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.
Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.
