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RememberTheApollo_

@ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • No shit. The question was “what was life like?” Not “what changed everything?”

    I’m well aware of the things I mentioned because they’re different than today which is what the question asked for.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Everyone’s saying what was better.

    Bullshit, lol.

    We were still people, and we still had all the people problems. Misogyny was worse, racism was worse, homophobia was really bad still, and “trans” was just a guy who liked wearing women’s clothes. Not that any man would ever admit that. Schools were super clique-ish, bullying was public and not prevented. Rapes were swept under the rug even worse than today. Pollution was really bad. I don’t think anyone born after 1990 has a clue how shitty the air quality was in cities back in the ‘80s and earlier. I can personally vouch for how amazing the environmental laws are and have improved air quality. Want to buy something that wasn’t available at a local store? Plan on waiting a month or more for it to arrive on order. Cars were more unsafe, often only had lap belts, and wtf is an airbag, lol. Car seats for kids were all but nonexistent. Air travel was crazy expensive, too.

    All that said, yeah, there were some good things. We weren’t tied to screens all day. If someone stayed in and watched TV all day all the time you thought something might be wrong with them. We weren’t “on-call” 24-7 with cell phones. Basic jobs were easy to get. All my first jobs were walk in and ask if they needed anyone or just word of mouth, show up, and start working. Mass shootings weren’t the thing they are today. You actually owned the music or games you bought. Local stores had a huge variety of stuff and hadn't been crushed by walmart and big box stores (I actually remember when big box stores were new and touted as sources of better variety for consumers. Lol, that worked out great). Concert tickets to top bands were less than $10. Local radio was great, your DJ told you about local events, and we had Dr Demento and Casey Kasem on weekends. Nobody was forcing you to pay subscriptions for everything, homes and cars were more affordable, so was education, and health care hadn’t gone nuts yet. You could actually talk to your political opponents, you wanted the same things mostly, it was just how you wanted it to happen was different. Crazy wingnuts were just that. Crazy wingnuts and not mainstream. Nobody gave them platforms unless it was “The National Enquirer.”

    So yeah. We had plenty of problems. But there was a lot of good shit too.

  • Mike Pence says the Trump administration has ‘departed’ from conservative principles

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  • Lol, these clowns. They pushed for this. This monster was inevitable in their quest for populist control. The problem was it got away from them, so they all ran away and then acted like they had nothing to do with summoning it.

  • PSA: Please specify a reason when making a report

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  • Explanation invites argument.

    A mod who is an ass is generally obvious, as is a commenter who gets banned/deleted.

  • If you are formerly religious, how did you leave your religion and what made you do it?

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  • Raised in religious schools from an early age until early teens. Decided it wasn’t for me for multiple reasons, though the idea of the surety offered by religion is still something I miss despite the negatives of that same surety.

    Nothing happened after I left. I just stopped associating with people that used religion when I could, and simply just nod and “uh huh” with those that have to talk about it. Me disagreeing with them isn’t going to change their mind. Yes, things are fine with the family, they weren’t fanatically religious to begin with. Nobody tried to drag me back.

  • Southern California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as agent for Chinese government | CNN

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  • I’m not talking about demographers. Just regular people and businesses.

  • Southern California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as agent for Chinese government | CNN

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  • Nobody can see past the next 3-4 months. That’s a problem for then, not now.

  • Have you ever met an actual dumb person?

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  • Yes.

    Ran into a person in a random discussion about hand sanitizer. This was well before covid. They completely believed that having clean looking hands was better than having dirty hands. IOW if you’re a mechanic and can’t quite get all the crud out from under your nails but had scrubbed you hands with cleaners and soap as best you could that this was far worse than not washing your hands all day.

    No amount of reason would penetrate this stance.

  • Southern California mayor resigns, will plead guilty to acting as agent for Chinese government | CNN

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  • The Chinese want the US to disintegrate so they can be the primary world power. They’re well on their way to getting their wish.

  • Lindsey Graham branded ‘pathetic’ for saying Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed Trump Prize

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  • Toadie.

  • Trump voter: Somebody asked him ‘To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?' Trump didn't care. I was angry. I voted for you, and you don't care about me?

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  • Exactly. They still want a piece of shit to be president, they just want him to be a piece of shit to everyone they disagree with.

  • Trump voter: Somebody asked him ‘To what extent are Americans' financial situations motivating you to make a deal?' Trump didn't care. I was angry. I voted for you, and you don't care about me?

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  • How could they not know he didn’t care?

    He essentially said so on numerous occasions, but I guess that went through the same “He means what he says but everything he says requires interpretation” mind machine.

    But as usual:

    “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Crystal Minton told The New York Timesin an article published Monday. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” (2019)

    They only care when it hurts themselves. They’re fine with hurting everyone else.

  • Road rage

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  • Equal rights means you are given equal access to the tools that will allow you to learn to drive. If you’re too stupid to drive that’s an entirely different matter.

  • Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

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  • Told to them by AI.

  • Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees

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  • Maybe AI will finally negatively impact some CEO jobs.

  • 'I was dumb as a rock': Hardcore MAGA couple ditches Trump after getting 'kick in teeth'

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  • Disillusioned by the subprime crisis?

    That shit was driven by republican action and deliberate inaction.

    Republican regulators prevented states from trying to crack down on predatory lenders and congress refused to impose oversight and pushed deregulation. The Bush administration allowed banks to begin “super leveraging”, iow they could lend even more than before yet have less in reserve, so when the crash happened there was no cushion. The repeal of the Glass-Stegall act got the ball rolling on creating these mega-banks that doubled down on bad lending, bought and sold bad loans, and then they all needed bailouts.

    Republican deregulation and refusal to engage in oversight by both dems and repubs caused the crash.

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  • Anything they didn’t actually do themselves, riding on someone’s coattails.

    For example,

    Memorial day just passed here, so people trying to attach some sort of personal worth to their grandfather’s service in WW2 or whatever war as if they’re owed something for it - or the “y’all would be speaking German if if weren’t for (the US, my grandpa)!” Stolen valor of a different kind.

  • The Democrats Are Determined Not to Learn From Their Failure

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  • Democrats win by failing. For their corporate bankrollers.

  • More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

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  • Disgusting? Lol. You completely disregarded the fact that these were knowing and willing tax dodgers deliberately and fraudulently attending schools they were not allowed to. They‘re not poor, they can afford to maintain separate residences in two states. Get your reading comprehension in gear.

    Completely missed the point to white knight some unneeded righteousness. I have Zero problem with people unable to pay for education getting an education, but that‘s not what's happening here, and I‘m well aware of how school funding works.