• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    1131·
    10 months ago

    We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.

    Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…

  • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
    896·
    9 months ago

    I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.

    I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.

    Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
        141·
        9 months ago

        Lmao they did just get fucked by God every step of the way.

        “Stay silent, bitch” - Fate

      • wabafee
        6·
        9 months ago

        You could say, they took silent in Silent Generation literally.

    • MrSilkworm@lemmy.world
      171·
      9 months ago

      You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.

    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world
      13·
      9 months ago

      There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
        15·
        9 months ago

        They were ubiquitous, it just didn’t produce stalemates because armies didn’t rely solely on artillery and human waves to break through.

        They were still used because they still worked against poorly supported infantry.

        Still are used, look at Ukraine.

        Obviously the comment was mostly referring to WW1 but there were many battlefields that would have looked very much like their WW1 counterparts until some tanks or air support showed up.

    • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world
      13·
      9 months ago

      Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.

      • Crismus@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.

        I’ve gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn’t go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
    591·
    10 months ago

    I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck

    • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
      67·
      10 months ago

      You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I’m disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain’t never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I’m 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.

      • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
        112·
        9 months ago

        $1800/month? That’s fucking insane. Look in to community living groups. I was turned on to it while I was in school (at 35 🤷🏻‍♂️) as a cheap option while I went back. I know we’ve all had room mate horror stories, but there are people out there who are willing to co-operate and work towards having a home.

        Four years on and now I’m running the house (it’s just a rental with lots of rooms) and we have a great group of 5 that’s been together for over a year, including a 9 year old. (Most of us have been together 2 years now, we had a housemate leave amicably last summer).

        I’ll admit the first two years were kinda rough. It took me a bit to recognize the red flags I needed to - and to build up the courage to be able to say “no, you wouldn’t be a good fit” to people I’ve known for years. I had some dramatic experiences trying to find the right people, but we’ve got a nice home now and we each pay around $600/month for a whole-ass home!

        It does take work; physical, mental, and emotional, but saving $1200/month is worth it. You’ve gotta be able to communicate your needs respectfully and be able to look at yourself and acknowledge where you need to improve to be able to get along with people.

        The rewards are worth it. We all work less now so we have weekly dinner and D&D and movie nights and it’s really quite nice. We still bump elbows from time to time, but we all know each other well enough now that it’s easy to solve conflict calmly.

        • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
          4·
          9 months ago

          The $1800 was an exaggeration of what I expect to happen. But I am in an apartment that isn’t cheap. I’m screwed either way

          • Krauerking@lemy.lol
            2·
            9 months ago

            Oh that’s what I’m paying an inner city apartment that has a mice/mold/insect problem and like the doors don’t close cause the frame and walls are cracked and lopsided… LoL I hate that pretty much every apartment is a flop house at luxury prices.

    • GBU_28English
      5·
      9 months ago

      Same but I’m self aware that I got a house thanks to society falling apart and couldn’t have done it otherwise.

      2008 crisis + foreclosure + house needed tons of work.

      I’ve made it nice with serious updates, but I couldn’t happily rebuy my own house and that’s scary

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
    41·
    9 months ago

    Not even a joke, I miss the time when a virus was our biggest concern. That may be insensitive to people who had friends or family die because of it or who live in a country with shitty access to vaccines or health care in general though.

    • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
      27·
      9 months ago

      It’s awful but I get it…

      I’ve got CPTSD so I’m always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.

      Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.

      • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I watch someone on YouTube who deals with stress. They said they were… I think relieved (can’t recall exactly what word they used) because, for once, their stress and the actions resulting from it were now normal.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        3·
        9 months ago

        Oh cool you too?

        I mean COVID still hit me harder than I was prepared for and kinda crushed me a little but I picked back up pretty ok but since then been sorta on the back foot and losing steam

  • Sagrotan@lemmy.world
    37·
    9 months ago

    One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said “you’re moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe”

    • Iliveonsaturdays@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      9 months ago

      I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo holmes, smell ya later” I looked at my kingdom I was finally there

      Only to realize that the crisis in Europe was just as bad as there.

      • Getawombatupya@aussie.zone
        1·
        9 months ago

        Slightly better healthcare and job security. Don’t go to Australia. It’s horrible and full of homeless drop bears.

  • TWeaKEnglish
    3910·
    10 months ago

    Damn, this image really makes me feel sorry for Will Smith. He’s so pussy whipped, and it’s not even funny. His wife is in Scientology and basically uses the church and the threat of taking his kids away and hiding them within the church to get Will to toe into line, so much so that she cucked him with their son’s rapper friend (who she groomed after his mother died). This image is from her “red table” internet talk show where she had Will on and they both said they were ok with her sleeping around.

    Still though, he gave me my wifi SSID, “KeepMyWiFisNameOutYourF-ingMouth”. It literally only just fits lol.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    292·
    9 months ago

    You’d think that people who face a crisis every few years would be familiar enough with the word to know that the plural is “crises”.

  • Blapoo@lemmy.ml
    271·
    10 months ago

    It’s definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property

  • Weeby_Wabbit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    9 months ago

    Ah yes, lost two jobs in three months, waiting for my rent to go up, and live in a tent while at uni for the next three years. There is no affordable housing where I live, and employers can fire us at any time. Makes total sense.

  • davi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    231·
    10 months ago

    As an a vintage millennial I can say w confidence: there will be more and you should prepare yourself. Lol

    • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
      17·
      10 months ago

      I am hanging on by a thread as it is. Not being facetious or funny here in saying that I am not okay. Any more of this and I’m going to buckle.

      World needs to slow down. Stop having 8 major crises a year. Fuck. Can we tone it back to like… 5?

      • davi [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        92·
        10 months ago

        i lol because it’s the only way i can find to keep myself sane through the insanity from the last 40+ years and it’s taught me to expect more because boomers and the silent generation (eg biden and trump) are still in control and will be for atleast another 35+ years so shit will continue to happen because they only give a rat’s ass about themselves and maybe their children/grandchildren.

        unless you’re one of those children/grandchildren, more shit will happen and expect to have to vote for those children/grandchildren into office or, at least, expect to call them boss at your next job; assuming you can still get a job.

        and don’t bother complaining about it; the last 40+ years have also taught me the hard way that doing so will only label you a malcontent and make it more difficult to find work in your future.

        learn how to fake a convincing smile to your bosses and find something to lol at for yourself to keep your head above the water.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I’ve been doing that for a the last few years and still struggle with maintaining it and have given so much of my emotions up to keep that mask on that if I magically found a gun in my hand I might not think twice before it was in mouth.

          That inability to do anything but take the beatings with a smile has worn be down to a husk of a person.

      • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works
        28·
        10 months ago

        Just because history doesn’t remember it doesn’t mean it hasn’t always been this way. Just roll with the punches and adapt when it actually affects you.