Pandemic certainly has it's uses
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"I can't believe I survived being stuck inside my house for several years!" Says person with no friends who typically never leaves their house anyway.
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I hear people bitching about not being allowed to go outside, even though where I live you were always to go outside
wrote last edited by [email protected]The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn't go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
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I know its a meme, but, don't you still technically have to go outside? I mean, your packages aren't gonna go inside your house because most delivery people arent gonna actually step inside your house so you still need to touch the outside for the few seconds to grab your things.
Technically only your hands need to pass the threshold. You don't need to touch anything outside, bar the package itself.
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Technically only your hands need to pass the threshold. You don't need to touch anything outside, bar the package itself.
But the air is on the outside. It goes by international airspace rules, I didn't make them rules
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So does the apostrophe. That wasn't it.
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The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn't go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
Here people thought they can't go out to parks or nature even though that was never forbidden. I think American cultural wars played into that
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Ok Zoomer
They also be waxing poetic about having to look at screens to watch videos instead of just closing their eyes.
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But the air is on the outside. It goes by international airspace rules, I didn't make them rules
Anything inside my house is mine. I donate lots of air as well.
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Anything inside my house is mine. I donate lots of air as well.
wrote last edited by [email protected]But also, consider: Sometimes they leave the package like a few steps from your door and you would have to step foot onto the ground outside to retrieve it, especially if its a heavy item or if there's a few steps of stairs and you can't just pull a broom stick to flick it closer to your house.
So conclusion, ths score is:
Outside -- 1 ; You -- 0
Outside always wins xD
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"yeah mom... who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend" ~ probably the response.
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"yeah mom... who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend" ~ probably the response.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I am not terribly bullish on the state of video games in another ten or fifteen years. Seems like enshitification is turning that entire industry into a cesspool.
We'll have parents confused as to why their kids keep screaming and shoving away the Torment Nexus box, when they were so fond of playing Don't Invent The Torment Nexus at that age.
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All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.
The trick with being a shut-in is that its only really practical when other people still have to go out and do things on your behalf.
As soon as you can't get DoorDash or you A/C fails or the office fires you for clinging to "Work From Home" too long, shit gets real really quickly.
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I am not terribly bullish on the state of video games in another ten or fifteen years. Seems like enshitification is turning that entire industry into a cesspool.
We'll have parents confused as to why their kids keep screaming and shoving away the Torment Nexus box, when they were so fond of playing Don't Invent The Torment Nexus at that age.
15 years more Rimworld expansions is a future I want to see.
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Most people social life didn't really change during the pandemic, thus the pandemic.
I remember my neighbors, whose mother was a cancer patient, would still had family meetups for diner all weeks.
Most people social life didnât really change during the pandemic
Honestly, I think I got more social during the pandemic. All the neighbors would meet out on the driveways, desperate for something to do other than staring at a screen all day. The parks were full from people who weren't constantly traveling for work or fun. Kids and parents alike were out and about because they didn't need to waste time commuting.
Everyone slathered themselves in hand sanitizer and do all the pro-forma things to not be a contagion risk. But at a certain point, when you're already out in the 'burbs... We've been "socially distanced" since White Flight in the 1980s.
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I know its a meme, but, don't you still technically have to go outside? I mean, your packages aren't gonna go inside your house because most delivery people arent gonna actually step inside your house so you still need to touch the outside for the few seconds to grab your things.
Factorio can teach us to automate this. Package conveyor belt.
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All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I went out more during covid than I did before it
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How much of that is modern tech and social media? I'd argue the Gen Z xoome meeting blank stare can be blamed as much on tech as the pandemic. This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the "real world"
This is the first generation that grew up living as much online as they do in the âreal worldâ
Idk about that. The internet was already heavily adopted by the mid-00s. Millennials are as online as any generation after them. Hell, the Boomers are the most terminally online. Facebook hit the Olds like crack hit the inner cities.
GenZ might be the first generation that's self-aware enough to notice how fucked it all is. They're the ones gagging on the excess of social media and AI slop, which older generations seem to be swallowing placidly.
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Yeah, we got labeled essential by general Mills even though we hadn't sold them any equipment in 4 years.
Yeah anything to keep us from getting that sweet time off.
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Here people thought they can't go out to parks or nature even though that was never forbidden. I think American cultural wars played into that
The number of people who took their masks off indoors and put them on outside made my goddamn BRAIN melt, and led to one of my larger despair-induced mental health breakdowns.
I knew it was bad, I knew a lot of people were kind of ignorant... but I had no idea it was THAT bad, I even got alienated from some family groups because I tried to explain germ theory and they said I sounded too hyped up on politics or something to that effect.
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"yeah mom... who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend" ~ probably the response.
You're missing something about hanging out with my AI girlfriend while playing whatever takes the place of fortnite.
