Dollar Tree being only a single dollar on everything.
I didn’t know Dollar Tree existed further back in the years like the 80s. But, I didn’t discover the store until like late 2000s. That store was a godsend for my then mostly broke ass. Sure the quality of products could’ve been better and the food selection could’ve been better, but they were there for me and others who’re strapped on budgets.
And it was a good 16 years while that lasted. It is a little annoying at times to shop there and know it is no different than Dollar General and Family Dollar. But it could’ve been worse.
The internet.
Early internet, before everything became monetized, had an authenticity to it that we will never see again.
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Beat me to it.
Public health and the general belief that vaccines work.
StumbleUpon was what I personally cite as the peak of the internet.
It was a website where you made an account and selected what categories of things you were interested in. Then click the button and it would take you to a random piece of content on the internet related to that. I remember thinking at the time it was like Pandora, but for the whole internet rather than just music. Eventually it got bought and shut down.
Mint would be another one. A free, ad-deiven website with optional premoun features that allowed you to easily link all of your financial accounts. It would automatically categorize transactions, but you could manually change them and change the categories themselves. It worked great back in the early 2010’s. Then Intuit bought it and it slowly got shittier. They reduced the visualization options. Eventually a few years ago they shut it down to try to get people to move to a different, paid product. Personally I moved to HomeBank, an open-source self-hosted solution. But it means I need to manually import everything.
For someone with ADHD, StumbleUpon was like a button that injects dopamine into your brain.
Really fucking addictiveI was so pissed off when that company bought stumbleupon and trashed it. I hunted and searched for an alternative and nothing was ever the same. It was a huge death blow to the internet I loved. 😭😭😭
We have so so many human AM’s out there, trying to destroy every single bit of joy that we have.
The internet without megacorps. Ok, the world without megacorps.
Having hope for the future. Believing it would be better than the present.
So much this. Please let politics be boring again.
Instead of trying to make idiocracy happen faster than previously believed to be possible.
I really miss having the delusion that MOST people were good, just more susceptible to media influence and bullshit.
Fuck, I really miss that. What a good response, thx!
There’s a reason “may you live in interesting times” is a curse.
Though I’m not sure the current times are really that interesting. More like terminally stupid.
Wow I hadn’t actually realised this had changed, but of course it has.
I remember watching “beyond 2000” as an 80s kid. A TV show about the inventions and stuff, what life would be like, it was so amazing.
Now we all know the future will just be more oppressive than it is now.
I remember Beyond 2000, it was great.
Reality was quite a disappointment after that, I must say.
Democracy
Human rights
Rule of law• The Rule of Law is a myth, and as a result…
• Human Rights is a lie, and as a result…
• Democracy never existed.They’re philosophy: realizing them is up to the people.
To you, markdown is a lie.
Americans downvoting you because human rights to them is only what happens in America, not what America does to the world.
It’s either that, or I have a little buthurt fan following me around. It happens here a lot.
Season cliffhangers.
Young people will never understand me in 1990, banished up to my parent’s bedroom to use their TV because they had a movie on downstairs, watching William Riker calmly say “Fire” on a borg cube containing HIS CAPTAIN, and then the music du-du-du-du-duuuuu and the words “to be continued”
And then having to wait an entire goddamn 3 months to find out the outcome.
Ending seasons on cliffhangers was magical. It’s still attempted sometimes today, but in the age of binge-watching and in some cases years between seasons, most shows just wrap up one season arc and start a new one. Kind of sucks.
A lot of good shows also end up canceled with cliffhangers so it’s a double-edged sword. I’m still pissed about Alphas not having a proper ending.
I hate cliffhangers. Especially since new seasons aren’t guaranteed.
Hanging out and house parties after high school let out, with no cell phones
Fuck yes! I miss this. And bonfires! I just miss having a reason to be outside late at night. Now it’s just…. Weird.
There was a brief moment when broadcast television networks just put their shit on the internet for free. Like you just had to go to their website, and then like the whole catalog of Scrubs or something was just there to watch.
I heard about that in the 2000s when they did that.
And that was a solution to the piracy ordeal they were fluffing about. But then they got rid of the shows being put online, just so they can bitch about piracy years later.
Windows XP and 7. Before all the “AI”, bloatware and unnecessary features. Oh and that pinball game that was on xp.
that pinball game that was on xp
This one? Someone made an ad free port of it for android but it unsurprisingly got pulled off google. You can play it here and there’s a link to the git where you can prob get it for android still
I don’t want to play it! I want to fondly remember having fun playing it…
Yeah that nostalgia will get shattered real quick if you try to play it now. I tried it on Android, and it’s even harder because the input isn’t responsive enough sometimes.
Installing CachyOS hasn’t quite given nostalgia, but it got me away from the feeling of Windows’ bloatware.
the transparent electronics vibe, the whole y2k was a fast and awsome era
Turn of the millennium aesthetics were awesome. I’d love a translucent neon orange smartphone so durable it cracks the tile when you drop it.
Democracy
I’m back in the 70s and 80s we had but we called the dime store. Where a lot of the products were only a dime and then they raise the price to quarter and then raise the price again to 50 cents. And then eventually we ended up with dollar stores. But I mean overall they’re all the same junk some good some really really not. But I know when I was younger and poor the dollar store was always fantastic for whatever I needed. Hell even now for things that I can use I still go there and pick it up even though some stuff is $1.25 or more. It’s still less expensive than a lot of other places.
hrm. times change. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z-aVQtN1eBA
Amateur porn.
Now it’s all OnlyFans and Christians doing hate campaigns to shut it all down.
PH AND ITS AFFILIATES sanatized the shit ouf thier sites. of and some old ph material can be found on non-ph sites, at least some of them.
Digg, reddit
The chive
