Millenial.

I know recognize the 2000s being the decade of trade-offs.

2000s were awful in my view.
Slow technological progress compared to the fast-paced changes during the 1990s.
I was constantly frustrated by subpar technologies that took one leap upwards and five steps back.
CD-Rs that could not be rewritten,
LCD screens that you could not view from the side and had these washed-out colors,
and people actually complained when those colors improved in the 2010s with LED
because “we don’t like those candy colors”
Slow internet that kept being slow as webpages got larger faster.
The whole decade should have been condensed to a year.

The only good thing about it was that computer parts were cheap.
And anime.

The 2010s picked up the pace and the 2020s are just crazy,
maybe even faster paced than the 1990s.

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I see people disagreeing, so I’ll double down on why the 2000s were awful.

The 2000s had Ugly 3D replacing beautiful 2D.
The 2000s had ppl tlkng l1k3 d1s.
The 2000s had Fred being #1 on youtube.

During the 2000s gross-out movies were popular.
The 2000s had the movie Idiocracy which was not a prediction, but a reflection of its time.
Because it was a painfully stupid time.
Same goes for Wall-E, who envisioned a far-future where everyone is painfully fat,
because they couldn’t imagine anti-obesity drugs being invented,
despite the precursor of semaglutide having already been invented at that time.

It’s also a time where ‘gamer’ stopped meaning having fun playing various types of games
at the arcades or Commodore 64, and instead started to exclusively mean
having the fastest rig possible in order to play a foot soldier in war games,
especially FPS shooters like Counterstrike, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty, etc…
and to a lesser extend strategy war games like starcraft and MMORPGs like WoW.

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Perhaps advancement wasn’t necessarily slow, but every advancement was a trade-off in the 2000s.

Beautiful 2D -> Ugly 3D
Bulky CRTs -> Bad-angle badly colored flatscreens
Curated TV -> Poor-quality internet videos
low-storage sturdy floppy disks -> Read-only fragile CDs
A whole new world of communication -> A whole decade wh3r3 ppl tlkd l1k3 d1s

The only exception, again, was anime.

What are the odds?

There would always be loyal followers, plus oligarchs with lots of drones who all want to maintain power.

Sounds like a good start.

Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I’m looking at you /r/china.

How can they be indigenous when they didn’t live there before 1947?

Their ancestors lived there way before 1947. That’s the whole point.
And thus all other questions can be answered the other way around.

They should get jailtime for shooting though.
And pay up for the damage, relocation, etcetera.

Great!
Than we probably see the same green as green.
Yellow looks a lot more than green to me than red.

Could you imagine someone else lumping it with either of the two colors?
And if so, which color would you consider more likely that person lumping it in with?

Yellow as the most in-between color?

I checked out Miner 2049er, because I never had an Atari.
I see ladders, the ability to kill the creatures, no keys and no exit.

And the whole fun of manic miner was finding out
whatever was going to try and kill you next,
penguins, ball-balancing seals, toilet seats, kangaroos, steaming balls, fluff balls,
bunnies, rotary phones, a flying eye, a credit card,
and then you end up in the intro screen as the last level.

You’re getting one upvote from me.
I also fully agree with everything said in brentalfloss’ song
and I played it when it came out.

Worst thing about the game was the owl that kept the game from being an open world.

It was a step back from Mario64 and it came out something like 2 years later.
Majora’s mask was the expectation. Ocarina of Time was what I got.

2009 January 8, going to my own apartment and bringing a modern server and USB stick to myself.
The next day I’d put some files on the USB stick and give it to my younger self and give him instructions to only sell 5% per year and don’t invest in any other coins.

Also younger self, you don’t have just a little social ineptitude, you have full-blown autism.
Also younger self, invest in Novo Nordisk and get some Ozempic the moment you have the chance.
Also younger self, congratulations on being mostly right about what the future of world politics and technology would hold, including the US becoming fascist, but here’s an updated version of it.

Why not bring a metal storm gun and 8 million rounds of ammunition?

Why didn’t nazi Germany have universal healthcare?

What kept people from demanding it?

When I went to the hospital for a broken bone, I thought this tech was already there since tech was advancing so quickly, going from Pac-Man to Super Mario 64 in 16 years.

My vision:
‘At the very least I’ll get to see a 3D image of my broken bone and maybe there’ll be ‘dentist chair tools’ that can straighten and fill up the bone like a dentist does with your teeth. I mean, we advanced a lot in computer technology right?’

The reality:
‘Here’s your 1950s X-ray picture. You see that Rorschach test blotch? That’s where it’s broken. We’ve done our job, have a good day!.. Your visit is over!.. You can leave now!..’

That was 30 years ago.

Got banned from Lemmygrad
because I’m not a US progressive,
as I’m not pro-US unless the country is given back the land to the indigenous people.

Is anyone familiar here with Times of India and can explain to me its history?

I only recently found it on youtube and dismissed it as a fake AI channel similar to Money over History.

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I read some wikipedia, this paper seems like even more of a sensationalist rag than the average Usonian newspaper, but not as bad as their worst.

Oh, just the regular $11.50 or so.

That’s a guess though.
I saw 2,30 € per liter at my local gas station
and I just multiply by five for all the Usonians out there.

It’ll likely hit somewhere between $25 to $100 by July.

“You are right to be worried, the Trump administration has no plan in Iran,” Warren said

Ah, so it’s much better than I thought on one side.
Question is, how much of a plan does Iran have?