Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in ‘the west’ it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular ‘party’ scenes today.
Well damn.
1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960, though, so we got that going for us as far as the 35yo past is concerned.
Listened to Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn” today for the first time to a very similar effect. Can’t say I listened to the whole thing, though, considering it’s a 22 minute piece …
I really don’t understand how so many people just put up with it. I actually helped an older relative with it a couple of months ago, he isn’t even the tech-illiterate type. Mere weeks after that, he’s back to using YouTube with ads.
Consider how advertising on any of those platforms looks compared to five or ten years ago.
How does it look? I haven’t braved the web without an adblocker in years.
They’re definitely lying about the reach of their ads, this already came up a couple of times during elections. Though in the case of elections, it’s more about the precision of their targeting - apparently, a lot of the time they weren’t even able to precisely target the population of specific election districts. Or maybe just unwilling, who knows.
I’m also pretty sure that a lot of advertising clients are not happy that they’re sharing ad space with porn ads and scam ads.
That’s definitely part of it, but I think the main issue is that a lot of the new tech in the last 20 years was used to further the far right (e.g. Facebook, Google) and erode civil rights in general (e.g. privacy, right to repair), on top of constant enshittification and ever-shrinking longevity of devices.
New technology kind of stopped being exciting for me. Too much abuse, and even stuff that’s hard to abuse (like new medical treatments) typically takes several decades before it’s available for end users and even then is usually out of reach financially for most people.
I can teach you about homo things, too ; )
Maybe they got in trouble too many times for not doing it exactly as instructed, even if the instruction is obviously bullshit in some ways?
Making constructive, non-adhominem critique, and accepting such critique. Maybe calm debate/discussion in general.
I found that most gift ideas that are somewhat good suffer from being over budget for the kind of relationship I have with the person. Same would be true for most people who might ask me what I want - if it’s that cheap, I probably already bought it myself.
LA also just doesn’t seem like a particularly safe place in general (though IDK how much that spills out from the real ‘problem’ districts into the kinds of places that OP would be at).
Which city in which country? TBH I’d be wary about being openly GNC anywhere in the USA right now, but even there there are degrees to this.
I hate any insect that’s making noise around me, and with flies you also know that they’re very unhygienic (as opposed to certain beetles that are just kind of loud and annoying, but completely harmless).
Are bicycles cool? They’re not bad like a loud motorcycle, but “cool”?
At that point you probably shouldn’t drive a motorcycle. If you’re only doing it because of money (fuel efficiency + vehicle price), there are quite a few cheap, small cars nowadays and even the flimsiest of those are still safer than a motorcycle. If you’re just doing it because driving a motorcycle is fun, you’re the problem.
The general issue is that it’s actually pretty hard to drive a motorcycle quietly, because the motor kind of has to be small (necessitating high rpm to get to speed)(unless you’re going for something expensive and impractical) and there’s not an entire chassis around it to dampen the sound like in a car. If you don’t insist on driving quietly and using one of the quieter types of motorcycles, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be loud enough to be annoying.
Around here it’s the boomers who are smoking cigarettes!
Part of it is that propaganda works. A lot of people are trying to make fascism happen and this type of content fits right in.
But also, there’s a growing issue of men not knowing how to act around women, and there isn’t much non-misogynist competition for Tate. It seems like for a lot of people (both men and women) it’s harder to make personal connections these days than it used to be, and apps like Tinder exarcerbate the issue.
Last time I enjoyed myself doing exercise, I probably played table tennis with a tennis ball and hands as paddles. The hard part is finding people who have time when you do, and who are on a similar skill+fitness level as you (picking silly games like the one I described helps).
So yeah, I’m not getting much exercise, either.