• REgon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    17 minutes ago

    Movies in the 90’s: oooph oooh ahhh ohhh ugh I gotta go to my well-paying and secure office job in a world without fear for nuclear annihilation and we don’t give a shit about the climate yet uhhh if only I was feeling bad instead, wish I didn’t have such a stable life oh nooo I live in a house that I own

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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    12 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.

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      6 hours 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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          6 hours ago

          I mean, I’m not saying 90s internet didn’t have any of that, but I wouldn’t have described it as “overrun”. Seemed to me, as a child, like most of it was just companies getting an online presence for their existing business to try and be part of wave.

          ISPs have always sucked, though.

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            4 hours ago

            Ah it’s like when a new Game is out and there is no Meta so it’s random fun until the try hards are min maxing and now I have to min max to compete sucking the fun.

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              4 hours ago

              Yeah, that’s a pretty decent analogy. It was a wild time, and my fondness is probably tainted by nostalgia, but I’d trade our current internet for it in a second.

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    17 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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    18 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.