• Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    6 hours ago

    I seem to be the only person that hated the 90s. Ugh. Now at least I got fast internet and hentai is not just sailor moon x dbz.

    • underisk [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      24 minutes ago

      Fast internet is nice, but what if it wasn’t a corporatized nightmare overrun with money-chasing investor-backed start-ups and giant monocorps trying to monetize and exploit every single inch of it?

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        13 minutes ago

        Anything change on the last bit? before it was dial up and mom kept complaining about its cost.

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    11 hours ago

    Not for everyone. Even in the best of times people fell through the cracks. Homophobia, racism. Just human things

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    12 hours ago

    It was the mid ’70s. ’79 was the Volker shock; ’82 was Allentown; and by the late ’90s the US was already bipartisanly neoliberalized, WTO’d, and de-industrialized.