• @[email protected]
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    -42 months ago

    It still was a better time. No climate collapse, no mass surveillance, no Trump, no AI, pretty much nothing of this shit existed.

    • @rottingleaf
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      52 months ago

      Dunno, my cousins’ dad was a 17yo soldier. One can say it was a better time cause he was on the winning side, and now that has become the losing side.

      Mass surveillance was more old-school, but governments were still pretty harsh.

      They had Trump. He just was younger, Democrat and apparently popular.

      They had AI in your spam mail.

      Climate collapse … again, where half my family is from, war broke logistics in the 90s, so to have heat at winter people would cut down trees. A lot of forest lost. But one can say it was a better time because “the world” cared more about civilians suffering than about forests. I suspect now climate activists would act differently.

      • @[email protected]
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        -52 months ago

        Again, no climate crisis + no mass surveillance + cheaper housing = do not give a shit. Were it for me, 70s, 80s and 90s on a loop forever. You lose something from the loop? Tough shit, your problem, not mine.

        • @rottingleaf
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          52 months ago

          You lose something … ? Tough shit, your problem, not mine.

          • @[email protected]
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            -52 months ago

            Yuuup. Sorry, whenever I complained about climate change on Reddit I was just shrugged with “oh well, too late, you’ll die”, “muh China/India/feedback loops”, “just move North”. So, they give me back the climate, the economy and the freedom of the 80s and then I’ll care again.

              • @[email protected]
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                -22 months ago

                Fair answer. My point is that my frustration with the modern world is absolute and shit like this doesn’t help, and I see whatever problems there might have been back then as irrelevant in comparison.