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As a trans person, I'm very glad I live today and not the 1990s
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I'm not old enough to remember that time. What was it like?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]to sum up in one word "hopeful". Things were getting good. it was still the fairly early days of the internet and while speeds for the majority of people weren't great honestly unless you were in college on a T1 line you didn't know any better. you had IRC, ICQ, AOL IM, Forums, etc so you met and talked to interesting people and friends from the world over. you expressed yourself and found people with similar interests via geocities, livejournal and/or myspace.
Technology was progressing rapidly and new opportunities were opening up. Suddenly you could make a living building said Geocities sites or designing things on your computer. It was a fun time, a lot of cool and interesting things were happening and it felt like things could only go up from there. So yeah, we were hopeful for the future.
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As a trans person, I'm very glad I live today and not the 1990s
wrote on last edited by [email protected]That's good. I remember doing the scene in the 90s there were fuck all trans people
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Mid-2000s were also kinda nice. We got relatively capable pocket computing devices. Proper 3D games. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Music was not yet so... algorithmic.
Kinda downhill from there, though, ngl.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Avatar: The Last Airbender
lol finally somebody appreciates the absolute masterpiece that this show is. i've seen it soo many times, it basically defines my childhood.
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James Cameron directed it. Went in a very unique direction from the source material.
The earth king has invited you to lake laogai
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Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.
I've heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
lol finally somebody appreciates the absolute masterpiece that this show is. i've seen it soo many times, it basically defines my childhood.
Finally? Everybody appreciates it.
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Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.
9/11 was a pretext for doing what they wanted to do anyway. Kind of like how the Olympics in LA was the pretext they needed to militarize the police there.
Finding a pretext isn't hard, but sometimes events outside of your control just kinda hand one to you.
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Can't wait for Y2K38!
And everybody trying to get AI to fix the issue
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I dunno. I kinda consider 9/11 to be the shifting point. That’s when racism came roaring back and also the introduction of the Patriot Act. The 2008 crash was just the solidification of the shit show to come.
Guys, guys. We all know the true inflection point. Harambe.
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Guys, guys. We all know the true inflection point. Harambe.
I'm starting to think having my dick out this whole time hasn't been working.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
lol finally somebody appreciates the absolute masterpiece that this show is. i've seen it soo many times, it basically defines my childhood.
I've got good news for you, it's in top 5 best animated TV shows of all time, pretty much on every website that has rankings, and sits at 9.3/10 rating on IMDB with 410k votes. A lot of people appreciate it very much.
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I'm not old enough to remember that time. What was it like?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Okay so the fascism was still thoroughly deniable if you were straight cis and white.
The internet was this like magical cool thing that was going to change everything.
The illusion of ownership was a lot more substantial, because while we were connected, we weren't all always connected to everything
There was more space for privacy, interiority.
Houses were basically free (it was a scam but most people didn't want to know that)
'Conservative' old dudes with nazi memorabilia usually got it the right way.
Even the literal nazis regularly shot at the cops. The cops even shot other nazis sometimes!
There were rarely more than 4 genocides going at once, none of them as bad or directly by major powers.
The cold war had just ended, so the libs were like 80% less insufferable (i know) and everyone was haopy the world couldnt suddenly end in nuclear fire with like two hours notice
A buncha annoying hippies and nerds were whining about 'global warming' but nobody really had to listen.
None of your tech had the juice to do what it said on the box and spy on you. Everything was unsecured. You could get into any computer anyone who mattered used by just deleting the password.
That last part sounds like some hyperbole i made up for a joke. It is not hyperbole and i did not make it up. It was, arguably, a joke.
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Peak was 2011 change my mind.
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Mid-2000s were also kinda nice. We got relatively capable pocket computing devices. Proper 3D games. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Music was not yet so... algorithmic.
Kinda downhill from there, though, ngl.
Someone hasn't heard of late nineties, early two thousands boy bands if they think music wasn't formulaic...
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I dunno. I kinda consider 9/11 to be the shifting point. That’s when racism came roaring back and also the introduction of the Patriot Act. The 2008 crash was just the solidification of the shit show to come.
The 2008 crash was also the result of Greenspan and Bush’s 0% interest rate bullshit that prevented savings and ruined the housing market while starting wars to avoid smaller correctional recessions. 9/11 was the excuse, so I kinda caused all this, in a way.
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During updates the unit goes into swamp mode.
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It was already around the peak of the US empire, yeah. You may be biased.
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It honestly still felt like a “sky’s the limit” mentality like it probably was in the 50s. The internet and computers were just really starting to catch on and everyone was talking about how great they would make our lives and people were doing what they could to deliver on that promise.
Terror was something that wasn’t really on peoples radars. You could still go directly to the gate to meet your loved ones when they travelled, people were endeavoring to be inclusive as you could see from TV and other media, and racists we’re very much immediately dismissed without much of a platform.
It wasn’t the best for LGBTQ people, especially with Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, but it was generally just considered a matter of time before it would be accepted.
And finally the climate wasn’t trying to actively kill you and people were talking about things we could do around renewables and other energy initiatives.
I’ll take off the rose colored glasses as I know there are some bad things, but it’s hard not to say that objectively it was a good time.
I always think of the song from Portlandia whenever someone brings up the 90s: https://youtu.be/U4hShMEk1Ew
Although, from what I've heard, tech bros migrated from the Bay Area to Portland and have radically changed its culture for the worse.
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Someone hasn't heard of late nineties, early two thousands boy bands if they think music wasn't formulaic...
I didn't say it wasn't formulaic, I said it wasn't AS "formulaic". Back then popular music still had much more variety, nowadays whatever flows to the top is much more same-y, and you gotta dig deeper for the interesting stuff.
