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40 Spot-On Millennial Complaints About The State Of The World Right Now
Interview With Expert
Each and every generation from the start of history has had something to grumble and groan about. And that’s likely never going to change. Even the renowned Greek philosopher Socrates was complaining about how young people had no manners or respect for their elders—and that was 2,400 years ago! Meanwhile, Roman statesman Cicero moaned about how children no longer obey their parents and “everyone is writing a book” just over 2,000 years ago.
Fast forward to today. Bored Panda has collected some of the best millennial complaints about technology, society, and the world from all over the internet to share with you. Scroll down to check the posts out. They’re amusing. They’re often accurate. And they might make you realize you’re getting older (hi)!
Bored Panda got in touch with personal finance expert Sam Dogen for his thoughts on how we can all embrace technological change instead of complaining about it, plus how much money we should all be saving for retirement. Dogen is the founder of Financial Samurai and the author of Millionaire Milestones: Easy Steps to Seven Figures, which comes out in May 2025. You'll find our full interview with him below.
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Rich Black 9 months ago
how about downloading our app instead then? we promise not to steal your name, email, credit card, and date of birth.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 9 months ago
And just because you force me to enter my email address does not mean I have signed up for your stupid newsletter!
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I was trying to book a room at a hotel in Maryland, and the web site asked me repeatedly if I wanted to join their rewards program. There was no button for saying that the only reason I wanted a room there was because it was the only place in the town fit to stay at. I got so mad, I gave it up, and booked at a hotel 20 minutes' drive away, instead. I DO NOT, NOT want to join you.
Raddhi Mutiara 9 months ago
Literally everything, even trying to eat at McDonalds, they will ask first: "Do you have McD's account on out apps?" Seriously... I just want a damn burger and fries, nothing else...
"Change is never easy, but resisting it only puts you further behind. Instead of complaining about technological shifts, millennials should focus on adapting and taking advantage of new opportunities," Dogen told Bored Panda in an email.
"One of the best ways to do this is by continuously learning and staying curious—whether it’s picking up new skills, leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity, or even exploring alternative income streams that didn’t exist a decade ago," the personal finance expert said.
"I wrote about AI’s impact on personal finance, where I discuss how embracing technology can help people optimize their money management and investments rather than fearing job displacement. The key is to use technology as a tool for financial empowerment rather than as a scapegoat for stagnation. The most adaptable people are the ones who stay proactive, experiment, and evolve with the times."
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#2
Firstname Lastname 9 months ago
And I don't want the mobile version of the website to be garbage to try to coerce me into downloading the app.
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 9 months ago
and i don't wanna pay for an app i'll only use once
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
GenX here. This isn't millennial, it's just common sense.
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Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
I reached my old guy rage point when I discovered that there are rides at Disneyworld that you can't get on without an app.
AnSi Bae 9 months ago
I tried to help an old couple that couldn’t pay for parking without an app. It's ridiculous.
James016 9 months ago
This one. UK councils have removed the ability to pay with cash for parking. Some council car parks let you use card but most are app only which adds a service charge on top. I have 6 or 7 parking apps on my phone for different parts on the country.
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BM Khalid Hasan 9 months ago
The way app usage is going on; one person should have 300 to 400 apps on the phone to operate everything!
Ozymandias73 9 months ago
If a restaurant doesn't have a physical menu, time to go somewhere else.
Kate Jones 9 months ago
If I could hit the like button harder i would. I'm so tired of everything requiring a phone to access. More than that, I don't want to download your app in exchange for the service as if the information/service is being held hostage until i give in to the terrorists demands.
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
Especially when the app runs on a tablet but only in portrait mode. Looking at you, Facebook.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago (edited)
But make sure the menu is online too so I can decide what I want before I get there.
DeShotz 9 months ago
But don't make me create an order just to look at the menu online. And if it is a chain, allow me to view the generic chain-wide menu without having to give my location.
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Ece Cenker 9 months ago
I hate the self-order menuboards that are taking over the restaurants now. I have started walking away from those with only screens.
Ace 9 months ago
Point of order - anywhere with screens to order stuff is not a restaurant, just a take-away that may have some seats.
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The Scout 9 months ago
Been there, failed at that. While I am in IT and call myself kind of tec savy, this angers me any time. Once a restaurant I wanted to have a quick bite only had QR codes- which were corrupted due to being printed directly on "stylish" tables and thus unreadable. The waitress aknowledged that that was a common problem before bringing me - no, not a menu, but the QR code printed on paper. Which would probably have worked, had not may phone chosen that exact moment to go flat. So the waitress told me the menu, and, as it simply was not possible to order other than by phone, even lent me her phone to order my burger. Why, just why?
Rich Black 9 months ago
QR codes have become an epidemic of phishing/theft/malware. thanks for not using.
Therese Clarke 9 months ago
I refuse to do them after my credit card was hacked using one. I tell the server the reason and they find me a menu or I walk
Robin Roper 9 months ago
I am a boomer and have left restaurants when they do not have paper menus.
robert copher 9 months ago
Also the online menus are never updated, at least paper ones have lines threw items they don't have anymore.
Meanwhile, Dogen was kind enough to shed some light on how much everyone should be saving and investing for retirement.
"My general advice is to take full advantage of your tax-advantaged retirement accounts, such as your 401(k), IRA, and Roth IRA, by contributing every month. After maxing out your contributions, aim to save at least an additional 20% or more of your after-tax, after-retirement contribution income. If you stick to this plan for at least 10 years—ideally 20—you’ll be financially set for life," he said.
"For a more detailed roadmap, you can follow my net worth target guide based on age or work experience. For example, I recommend having a net worth of 2X your gross income by 30, 5X by 35, and 10X by 40. These are ideal benchmarks, but even if you fall short, my guide will help keep you on track," Dogen shared.
"Ultimately, reaching a net worth of 20X your annual gross income means financial freedom. Using income as a benchmark, rather than expenses, prevents the illusion of financial independence through extreme cost-cutting."
#4
Rick Murray 9 months ago
GenX agrees. Having actual buttons and knobs for the ventilation is non-negotiable. I will turn down a car if I can't finger-fumble over to the right k**b to adjust the air to demist the windscreen on a chilly black winter morning (or evening). Given that I live rural and that's the time wild boars and bambis are around, no way in hell I'm taking my eyes off the road.
《¤Pookie¤》 9 months ago
Omg why the fụck is kņöb censored?! It's a part of a car not something inappropriate!
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AnSi Bae 9 months ago
Not having buttons and dials are a stupid modern idea. Diverting your eyes from the road to do basic things is dangerous.
Disgruntled Pelican 9 months ago
And then they have the audacity to put warnings on the touchscreens saying "taking your eyes off the road could cause and accident or death"...then give me my freaking buttons back!
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Joanne Earle 9 months ago
I love how we're not supposed to use the phone and drive but new cars have touch screens and c**p you have to look at to figure out. That's just as dangerous as texting! Go back to the dials. I can't stand these new spaceship cars.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
I'm surprised that touch screens haven't been identified as a driving distraction: safety hazard.
martin734 9 months ago (edited)
They have in Europe. Euro NCAP, the people who do safety tests on new cars, will give vehicles that do not have physical controls for common and important functions, lower safety marks.
Load More Replies... Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
I like buttons and dials for two reasons... first, you can manipulate them without looking at them. Keep those eyes on the road! Second, distraction issues. HUDs and screens tend to creep into the zone of giving you too much to look at, when you should be looking at, oh I don't know, THE ROAD. ;D
Learner Panda 9 months ago
Safety says: don't use your mobile whilst driving. Car manufacturer says: here's a screen for you to use whilst driving.
Robert T 9 months ago
For any controls that the driver may need whilst driving, they should be analogue (or very simple buttons) and placed within easy reach of the steering wheel. That includes heating, aircon, entertainment system, etc. Satnav is easier on a touchscreen whilst stationary, but needs button (or voice) controls whilst driving to change route etc. The only touchscreen I have in any of my cars is a portable satnav!
#5
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Biden did not cause the inflation. Big greedy corporations that have reported the highest profits in history created inflation. Now we have a dictator who will make sure that greed never has any government limiting it. The first thing he did was stop all of Biden's anti inflation programs.
Mariotevez 9 months ago (edited)
Can we stop the political whining on BP? we're all here to get a dopamine shot looking at cats or crafts, leave politics on X or Bluesky...
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Breadcrumb. 9 months ago
Let me see in my area today, It'd be...$40 Chinese food, 1,800 apartments and 100 full tank, on a small car.
Lew k 9 months ago
The rents and mortgages are insane. My friend at work just grabbed a job out in the Midwest and is stoked that his rent will only be 1300$ (compared with like 2k here). My first house i left my 600$ utilities included apartment to move to a 750$ mortgage. Just hearing what people pay just to live these days makes me wonder how are they getting by? Boomers need to look at the home prices and ask themselves if they could even afford their current home if they were starting out today. Its a legitimate crisis.
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Lew k 9 months ago
He'll yeah. I was just talking about this. In my 20s if i had 20$ in my pocket I could still have a hang with the boys. 20$ would get me enough gas to make it for the weekend a six pack of beer and a pack of smokes. Now if all I've got is 20$ I'm broke as a joke. Sad thing is that pay really hasn't gone up by much in the time between my 20s and now.
Valeria Muckitt 9 months ago
That was 25 short years ago and still unattainable for those making under $10- an hour.
Roland Nijveld 9 months ago
It getting more expensive isn't the issue, it's just that it goes faster than salaries rise. There is no balance anymore
Happy Onion 9 months ago
George Carlin was right: Germany lost the second world war, fascism won it
nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
We can't all live in the land of 1980s prices.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 9 months ago
My parents completed a course in building computers when they were in their 70s. I’d call them, they’d diagnose the issue over the phone and they’d visit with the replacement part and install it the next day.
Danielle 9 months ago
What a delight! I had to explain to my dad what I meant when I said 'right click' recently.
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BM Khalid Hasan 9 months ago
I observed it many times. Kids these days have access to phones and everything after the day they born, yet they have zero idea about how things work. But in our childhood, we used to break and know how electric toys and devices worked.
Science Nerd 9 months ago
We had a project about 10 years ago that we did not have the internal hours to manage. We brought in a few computer science graduate students. The project went belly-up quickly after we realized the students had never seen the inside of a computer, did not know how to replace a failing disk drive of memory DIMM, how a network actually worked, etc. If it could not be done from their laptop, these graduate students were completely lost.
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Science Nerd 9 months ago
Before you dismiss the older generation, you might think about who designed the computers you grew up with.
TotallyNOTAFox 9 months ago
We were the generation that learned how to use "raw" systems and our kids have the luxury to grow up with user friendly technology that does most of the job
Lew k 9 months ago
This is wild to me too. Current generation grew up with very reliable computers. Back when I was younger you had to have some basic skills just to keep the dang thing going. I always assume younger people are going to be tech savvy and am shocked at how many are clueless.
Roland Nijveld 9 months ago
Yup. And you would goof around with it more. I had to reinstall windows a few times
Load More Replies... The Scout 9 months ago
That is actually right. As everything during the last decade has been simplified touch interfaces and styled one-click-apps, noone outside the IT business had any reason to know HOW some of this works. I am working IT, and even there I have some collegues who scream "ANCIENT MAGIC"!" as soon as I open a command line.
Anna Drever 9 months ago
My late 60’s hubby has worked in IT for decades (now retired) and he’s the go-to person in our neighbourhood and for my elderly parents.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are Americans who were born between 1981 and 1996.
After them came Generation Z (also colloquially known as Zoomers), who were born between 1997 and 2012. And after Gen Z came Generation Alpha, aka Gen A, kids who were born roughly between 2010 and 2025.
Meanwhile, the generations preceding millennials include Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980), Baby Boomers (aka Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964), and the Silent Generation (born between 19280 and 1945).
#7
superfluous 9 months ago (edited)
Boomer. And here I was thinking it was millennials who supported this model! I have always preferred to own rather than subscribe. I watch FAST (free ad supported streaming tv).
Sandella 9 months ago
We do not support. We have just had it thrust upon us with fewer and fewer alternatives.
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Rich Black 9 months ago
how much of those legacy programs were kept up to date, and you still use them?
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
I use OpenOffice Calc for very basic record keeping, but what has been added to Excel that would make it worthwhile for me to upgrade? Until MS broke it (with Win7, maybe?) I had a copy of Office XP that let me do everything I've ever wanted to do with a spreadsheet or a word processor.
Load More Replies... Lew k 9 months ago
This is why the investor class is buying up all of the homes. Subscription based housing is more profitable than people owning their homes and passing on that generational wealth. Buy buying up all the homes and making them rentals they are also driving up rent and home costs. Investors bought 70% of the homes sold in my state last year. The housing crisis is manufactured.
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
Ahh, another cross-generational gripe. If I am paying for something every goddamned month, there better be new quality content every goddamned month.
Marian Spanik 9 months ago
My subscriptions: mortgage and internet. Nothing else. Even for phone I pay only for what I spend calling, and it's only about 10% compared to lowest possible subscription.
joseph legatt 9 months ago
Unfortunately as long as sufficient numbers of people support the subscription model it's only going to get worse.
Sue User 9 months ago
Kindle is doing awsy with the download feature. Even if you bought it, it will be online only, like games.
General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
This is not true. The "Download & Transfer via USB” option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the “Deliver or Remove from Device” option. "Important things to note about these changes as people have been getting very confused: If you buy books on the Kindle Store and download them to your Kindle device via Wi-Fi or a cellular network, you are not affected. If you buy or otherwise obtain books from outside of the Kindle Store and transfer them to your Kindle device via USB (sideloading) or the Send To Kindle feature, you are not affected. If you use a Kindle app on Windows, macOS, iOS, or Android, you are not affected."
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Seadog 9 months ago
This has Norton written all over it. They had the best AV software there was and then they got greedy. I paid a healthy sum for licenses on 20 machines and every time it found an issue, I was supposed to pay more to fix it. Nope. Goodbye Norton. And every business I've spoken to in the last 2-3 years has also dropped Norton. Great plan Symantec.
Donna Peluda 9 months ago
The problem here is that as operating systems evolve the programs need to adapt and that takes work. The app you bought in 2000 probably won't run on win11.. even security updates cost money to fix.
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
In theory the subscription model can make sense if a program gets useful and regular updates. In practice it's forced update whether you need it or not.
#8
keyboardtek 9 months ago
Wait until you have age related hearing loss. Then at restaurants all you hear is the music and background noise. You cannot hear the person right in front of you.
Kat Alison 9 months ago
This. I should not need a flashlight to see my food.
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Sue 9 months ago
And the ones like Fridays & the new "industrial" look for breweries & restaurants - it so freaking loud!
Glen Ellyn 9 months ago
Yes! They're very poorly designed when you can't hear the person across the table from you.
Load More Replies... Lea S. 9 months ago
I agree, and that's a lot of business places. I walked into Walmart the other day. It was freezing a*s cold, I had an emergency reason I had to go there, I was overstimulated and tired, and the music is just BLASTING out in the parking lot. Like - wtf.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 9 months ago
slightly related - Walmart and Target do like quiet hours in the morning, at least near me! It's from like 8-10 when they open, they don't play music and it's all quiet. It's not over stimulating at all, it's my favorite time to go there :D
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Šimon Špaček 9 months ago
I heard that in clubs it plays so loud to prevent you from having conversation. When you don't talk, you drink more. So, in case the DJ from our office party will see this, people want to talk, turn the volume down a bit, will you?
Robin Roper 9 months ago
As a person with Cochlear Implants which have the capacity to be turned lower, I can say, it's not enough -- restaurants are too loud and I get no pleasure in visiting them.
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Danielle 9 months ago
I always feel very disappointed in people when I see them being rude on BP. That is not what we do here!
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Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
Even LinkedIn has jumped the shark at this point. I got my last three jobs through there. Now I dread logging on to see yet another parable from some influencer recruiter trying to talk people into working harder not smarter.
Sue 9 months ago
I just stopped using Facebook, between thinking Zuckerburg is a jerk & now they are spamming me with ads & other groups. I see about 2 of my friends' pages per 10 of "suggestions." I just want to keep in touch with friends & family, use marketplace & get reminders about events. Can someone please invent that? I'm too old to do it myself.
Pyla 9 months ago
yup, I ended it a month ago. I noticed as I left groups, suddenly I am getting massive amounts of suggestions
Load More Replies... Jason Kennith 9 months ago
THIS! I honestly wish people would stop putting political posts and comments on non-political websites. It only causes anger and frustration.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
Facebook sucks. I stay on it for the friend/family connections but get ads for things I clearly don't want or need and friend suggestions for people I don't have any connection to.
JSMart26 9 months ago
I've found a way to make FB tolerable (though I may yet leave it over their corporate BS) -- when I log on, I DON'T scroll at all. I go to memories first, then notifications, then I pick a few friends and go to their pages to see what they've posted in the last year or so. After a handful of friends, I'm done for the day. I'll catch up with others tomorrow, or maybe they'll like something I've posted and we'll chat in the comments. This practice shows me ZERO ads and "suggestioins", and denies them as much data about me. They can only see that I like my friends, not proucts or political content or whatever else I used to linger over when scrolling. Feels much cleaner and better. Plus, I'm also switching over to BlueSky gradually! :~]
However, as the Pew Research Center notes, “generational cutoff points aren’t an exact science” and there’s no “agreed upon formula” for how long generational spans should be.
Thresholds between different generations, thus, are defined by meaningful shifts in political, economic, and social factors.
Investopedia explains that millennials were the first generation that was born into a digital world. Many consider members of Gen Y to be ‘digital natives’ for whom technology has always been a part of their everyday lives.
Though millennials are considered by many researchers to be people born between 1981 and 1996, some argue that Gen Y could refer to individuals born as early as 1980 and as late as 2004 as well.
#10
Mike F 9 months ago
I bought a countertop dishwasher a year or so ago. It has an available app, why? It already gives audible signals when it progresses through it's cycles so what's the point?
K. LNU 9 months ago
My washer and dryer have an app... still haven't figured out why.
Load More Replies... Learner Panda 9 months ago
I will not have my appliances linked to the internet. I see only risks, no benefits.
Rick Murray 9 months ago
Because "proprietary". Same reason you need some stupid app to connect to €12 body scales. It wouldn't be hard to have a Bluetooth serial device that simply connects and sends the weight information (or meet temperature, whatever) but doing it like that may mean you choose to use somebody else's app which means they lose out on the telemetry that they're not admitting to. So all of this stuff is obfuscated in order that you must use this one specific app. 😡
Virgil Blue 9 months ago
Data and planned obsolescence. A non app device will work until it actually breaks or wear out. One slaved to an app will be useless as soon as the app is mo longer supported/available.
Kat Alison 9 months ago
My fridge has one job: keeping my food cold. I do not want or need a “smart” fridge.
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
What I'd much much rather have is a season that is whole and complete. It sucks to have "season one sets everything up" and/or "season one ends on a cliffhanger" and then Netflix, Prime, Netflix, Disney, Netflix, Hulu, or Netflix go and cancel the thing leaving everything unresolved and unfinished.
iBlank 9 months ago
they should be contractually obligated to provide at least 1 "emergency" episode, to wrap things up in case it doesn't work out
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BrunoVI 9 months ago
Heh. Back in my day, they were 26 episodes. And 25 minutes of content with 5 minutes of ads, not 21 and 9.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
I'm watching home improvement and they're 25 episodes per season!
Load More Replies... Cammy Mack 9 months ago
It really says something when in ten episodes per season, something like Star Trek Discovery completely sucks compared to the 26 episode seasons of old where the majority of episodes are bangers.
Rick Murray 9 months ago
I think it depends upon the episode length and what the story is. Some can be told quite nicely in six to eight episodes. Korean dramas, on the other hand, are frequently twenty-something episodes each over an hour long and while it can be some impressive world building, it can also be quite a slog getting to the end. Again, it depends upon the story.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
So much space between seasons I never remember what has been happening.
Michal Pifko 9 months ago
Ah, yes. Quantity over quality, that's what we want, right? The best shows I've seen had only a few episodes per season. People are just nostalgic for the episodic c**p from decades ago where you could skip half the episodes without missing anything. Also, 20 episodes each year, 5+ years in a row (gee, I wonder why the quality is going down). This is one complaint in this list I can't accept. I want the creators to take all the time they need. I will gladly wait 3 years for season 2 with just 6 episodes if it means it's going to be good.
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
In the UK a series (the word we use instead of 'season') was usually six episodes. What I've learnt that when 'bingeing box sets' became how people watched programmes then US series became shorter because people were searching streaming platforms for something they could binge watch over a couple of days.
Jason Kennith 9 months ago
I've always thought the word "series" was a collection of seasons.
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
It seems HP have just bought an AI outfit in order to include AI in their printers. What? How? Come on, my computer/phone/banana creates a bitmap. That bitmap gets sent to the printer. The printer's *only* job is to try as best it can to arrange ink splatter so that the piece of paper that passes through at least sort of resembles that bitmap. Not eating the paper or belching cyan ink all over the place is also desirable, though it seems not all printers got that memo. I cannot imagine any reasonable use case for AI in a printer that isn't simply down to marketing buzzwords.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 9 months ago
Swap your browser to Startpage - they do not use AI in search results & they protect your privacy. AI is energy hungry and not needed 99.99% of the time when we're facing global environmental breakdown due to our obsession with energy!
Blue Flower 9 months ago
Boomer here, could you explain how to do this?!? Please, please, please, 🙏
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 9 months ago
My work email automatically completes sentences and it's almost never what I meant to type
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
AI is a marketing gimmick that is now in the “need to justify itself” phase. It still doesn’t do anything outside of using huge amounts of power and helping people cheat on term papers.
BM Khalid Hasan 9 months ago
AI is the biggest scam. It collects information from other data. So you cannot find the proper answer if there is no entry about it on the internet. Also, it does not understand sarcastic comment on Reddit. More importantly, you are thinking AI as reliable companion, but it is not human. They just designed it to help you like a fake decent friend you did not get in your life!
Suby 9 months ago
Suddenly, some stupid AI feature keeps popping up in Word, and I can't figure out how to turn it off. I'm ready to switch to a different word processor.
nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
People say that, but they almost never do it.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 9 months ago
AI summaries are consolidations of what the system found. not necesarily what's true. "there is a 99% chance the earth is round."
Robert Trebor 9 months ago
I uninstalled Copilot, but it won't let go. Its tendrils are everywhere.
As per Investopedia, millennials in the United States tend to be progressive politically and less religiously observant than the generations that came before them.
Furthermore, Generation Y is the biggest generation in US history, faces record amounts of student loan debt, and wants to follow their ambitions, focus on their hobbies, and travel while young instead of putting things off.
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KittyGaming 9 months ago
Once I had a friend over and we played video games for a while but then we got bored and she just watched me play a one player game, I kept asking if she wanted to do something else and she said no, as long as you love each other anything you do together is fun (platonically of course, not just couples)
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
Some of us still do that! But again, we are retired boomers. We just can't talk politics bc trump makes us too furious. We all hate him.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
I wasn't aware it was lost? I prefer hanging out when there isn't a rigid schedule.
Corvus 9 months ago
Perhaps they mean hanging out *without* phones. Just talking, face to face.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 9 months ago
I think us boomers still do that. I was with some friends last nigh just catching up and chatting..
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Upstaged75 9 months ago
I have a silent letter on the end of my name and there are 2 different ways you can spell it. But there's no excuse when it's right there in my email. I had a coworker who spelled it wrong for several years. So any time I responded to her I spelled her name wrong as well. She never got the message. :(
Roland Nijveld 9 months ago
This. If I had €1 for every time someone called me Ronald, in writing or verbally, I would be able to buy a very nice car
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
And if you are up for an award, even a longevity one, the CEO should at least take the time to learn how to pronounce your name when they read it as part of the latest all-hands.
Lazy Panda 2 9 months ago
The worst I saw was someone presenting a diversity and inclusion award. Not only did he muddle the surname of the recipient, he then tried to joke about it. Of all the awards not to check how to pronounce the four person shortlist!
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Manana Man 9 months ago
Get over yourself please. Anyway since everyone started naming their kids with weirdly spelled names what did they expect?
Mark Hastings 9 months ago
The last letter of my last name is an S. At least half a dozen times a year my last name is spelled without the S. In 1989 I opened an account with a local cable TV company. They spelled my last name without the S. The only way they would fix it was close that account and make a new account but wanted me to pay $50 to do so. I said screw it. That cable company has changed names a couple times and is now part of a really big cable company. My monthly bill still comes with my last name misspelled. My email from that company comes with my last name mispelled.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
I have an unusual last name. Despite being their child's teacher so many parents could not bother to spell my name correctly.
Kallen Kneeland 9 months ago
Actual convo I had recently with a cashier at a restaurant:. Her (F 60ish?) Reading my credit card): "How was your meal, garbled-version-of-my-uncommon-name? Me (F 70ish): Great, but my name's corrected-to-my-phonetic-name. Her (rolling her eyes): Whatever. Me (reading her name tag "Kelly"): Well, have a nice day, Kiley. HER (angrily): That's KElly! Me: Oh, so now pronunciation matters?
The Queen Of France 9 months ago
…and if I make a mistake spelling someone’s name, I immediately send an email apologizing.
#15
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
I miss the days where you could actually do a reverse-lookup on a phone number without 8 million sites giving you a partial result and trying to sell you a membership. The information is all still out there, it's just buried in 8 tons of b******t.
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
I actually don't want a site to predict for me what I might want. I don't want 'my' experience to be utterly different to 'your' experience. I just want to know what's there. It's like walking into a shop and half of what is for sale being hidden away from me and instead loads of what I've bought before or what people who buy what I buy also buy being shown to me. NO. I want to browse everything and make my mind for myself. I want to be surprised that no I've never felt interested in a certain thing before this time it looks appealing to me. I want my mind broadened not narrowed.
Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
I miss the smell of the library index cards when you first open the long drawer.
Pyla 9 months ago
not really. I may look at a reel or a short or whatever of one thing, the algorithm suddenly thinks I need more. ....Youtube is the worst, they will suggest more and more junk content. ....They make money on junk content.
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Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago
We can avoid algorithms to a point, but it's still true that most of the internet today is data driven.
Load More Replies...Though millennials are still quite young and energetic by all accounts (even if we don’t always feel like it!), it’s never too early to think about retirement. Investopedia warns that not enough members of Gen Y may be thinking about retiring, as just over a fifth of millennials don’t have a job that provides employer-sponsored retirement plans.
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Montanavanna 9 months ago
And that fathers aren't capable with their children unless a woman is present. I hate that.
Load More Replies... BrunoVI 9 months ago
The "my marriage sucks" jokes were a product of when people necessarily got married young, and divorce was not an option. But even then, the ones people liked were usually laughed at with the attitude of "I'm glad I'm not that poor sap," not "Ha, yeah! My wife sucks, too!" Rodney Dangerfield LOOKED like a loser. Andy Capp and Leroy Lockhorns (cartoons) were miserable drunks. Dangerfield and Joan Rivers were also self-deprecating as hell. What was far more troubling was Hollywood's completely alien-to-the-real-world's obsession with spousal murder. (Unmarried partners were 10 times more likely to be murdered.) But I don't mean to whitewash the past, either: men like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sean Connery were looked up to despite being violent a******s because they wore women like human trophies hanging off their arms. And our "greatest generation" would f**k anything they could get their d***s on when overseas and the social constraints of nosy Christian neighbors were gone.
OSA 9 months ago
Depends on the relationship....... We 'insult' one another as a way of having a laugh and keeping the mind sharp to come up with a retort immediately. Do it in private, Do it with friends...... No malice and everyone accepts it as a joke. But maybe it's just a variation on the Aussie sense of humour. Insult your friends..... Be extremely polite to your enemies
My O My 9 months ago
You can only banter when you respect someone deeply. (We're here the same)
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Boomers: "I hate my wife" - Millenials:"I hate my life" - Gen Z:"Haha E" - Gen Alpha:" Skibidi Toilet"
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Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
Xer riposte... does that include MJ smoke? I know a lot of people who are down on cigarettes but will defend loco-weed till their last breath. ;D
Novadoe (She/They) 9 months ago (edited)
My grandma got lung cancer by being around people who smoked, if I remember right. She never smoked herself, as far as I know. She passed when I was three because of it, years ago at this point, but I agree completely with this post either way.
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 9 months ago
okay literally why was this down voted? I brought you up to 0. This is called second hand smoke y'all. Very real. It's when you inhale too much smoke for too long for years just like you would be if you were smoking. Educate yourselves.
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 9 months ago
I agree. I'll take cigarette smoke over flavoured vape clouds too - that stuff is so pervasive and anti-social.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 9 months ago
there are no innocent bystanders. everyone is pulling something. didn't you see "Lost"?
Manana Man 9 months ago
I wonder where OP lives. This problem is a thing of the past in the US.
My O My 9 months ago
It' a new thing in germany. They decided to legalise weed last year 🙄
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Gozer LeGozerian 9 months ago
You do know that smoke isn't aware it should stay close to the person smoking, right?
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Firstname Lastname 9 months ago
Finally had to upgrade phone and no headphone jack. Still not happy over it.
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago (edited)
I ditched replacing my iPhone with another because this was the last straw for me, and I changed to Android. For me, this was as much a philosophical decision as a practical one. It showed that Apple would determine what consumers wanted, not the other way around.
Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
I get the idea behind it, that it'd make everything simpler. Unfortunately it backfired, as I now have a bunch of adapters...
Bob Brooce 9 months ago
I haven't used headphones with anytype of MP3 player for a long time so I've pretty much come to terms with not having a headphone jack. What I'm still annoyed about is losing the SD card.
70% of millennials think that they’ll be able to survive on $36k per year once they retire, even though in 2022 the average annual expenses for Americans aged 65 to 74 were $60.8k per year. Furthermore, inflation is likely to erode the purchasing power of the money you’ve already saved.
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CP 9 months ago (edited)
I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I must be lucky. I have never had a tv stop working for me in my life. The only appliance that broke early was a microwave. It was easy to fix but easily broke again, the switch that indicates the door is closed kept shorting. The design was faulty.
The Scout 9 months ago
Even worse: Some devices (e.g. printers) really are designed for a specific time of use, say 120.000 pages for a printer or so, and are bricked by the software if this is reached. This should be illegal. Although in some countries it already is.
Lew k 9 months ago
Tvs actually have an estimated number of hours they will last in the manual. The my tv lasted forever and the mine lasted 5 years crowd are often just separated by frequency of use.
Load More Replies... Jason Kennith 9 months ago
Lightbulbs are made to break after a few years. Some of the original lightbulbs ever made are still working today.
Robert T 9 months ago
Depends very much what you buy. With the exception of the washing machine, all the appliances in my kitchen are at least 18 years old. My TV is at least 15 years old. My tablet is 10 years old. My car is 26 years old. My 27 year old stereo system now needs a replacement backup battery - it still works, but it default to zero volume and balance entirely to the right speaker - easy reset, but have to do it every time I use it.
Little Bit 9 months ago
Don't get me started on this. I hate that nothing lasts these days and it is now cheaper to replace an appliance or gadget than it is to repair it.
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Owen 9 months ago
I think other players often ruin the game experience. I don't need to be insulted by a 13yr old little s**t while I'm trying to have fun.
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
"I don't always play COD, but when I do, all of my opponents are 12, yet have had exotic sexual congress with my mother."
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Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
I have been playing Skyrim for almost 15 years. It is single player and I prefer it that way. In fact, you could say I prefer playing with myself. Wa-Hey.
Roland Nijveld 9 months ago
I'm impressed you can keep yourself entertained in 1 game. Now I know that Skyrim has alot of mods and such but damn... Respect.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 9 months ago
Same here. I have no interest in multiplayer online gaming. Give me a great story and a great single player mode, that's it.
Lost Panda 9 months ago
I think I'm the older millennial, but this. Don't get me wrong online play can be fun, but not everything needs to be PVP...
Danielle 9 months ago
Fellow older Millennial. Playing on the Atari is one of my oldest memories, I now have an embarrassing number of hours racked up across Steam. The ONLY time I will play co-op is when my nephew gets stuck in Terraria and gets me to join his server and help him.
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 9 months ago
Also, full disclosure, I suck at PvP. I play because I want to enjoy myself. PvE is fine, I like figuring out mechanics and tactics. But getting bested again and again in PvP? No thanks. Even if I win the occasional game, I know I‘ll just lose the next one again. I‘d rather try the same boss multiple times and then be proud of myself when I finally beat it.
Orange Panda 9 months ago
"My beef is with The Computer and The Computer only." Hahaha! I really did hate that about the fb games. I like the idea that it's social, but I don't want to have to rely on others who may or may not play regularly to advance my game.
Jason Kennith 9 months ago
This is why I prefer PVE instead of PVP. Overwatch 2 is a rare exception for me, and it still has a few PVE modes. I'll fight a computer any day, as long as I don't have to fight people online.
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iBlank 9 months ago
i'm tired of people not proofreading their posts anymore.... it hurts my brain when I have to read things like "and I'm tried original gangster everything needing"
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
Everything seems to have dropped down to the lowest common denominator.
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Robert T 9 months ago
Yes, wonderful, and then you have to remember to take it with you. I have a docking station for my laptop, which gives me several more USB ports, but just one more port would be useful when I'm out and about - machine has only 2.
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zak 9 months ago
We just need a new USB port that works no matter which way you plug in the USB cord/device. Such an awful design, when you can never tell which side is up and which is down 👎
Jason Kennith 9 months ago
There are a few automatically reversible USB ports, but I see what you mean. I wish everything was universally compatible.
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Rich Black 9 months ago
we are at "peak USB port now". Not too long ago we were at "peak hard drive".
Seadog 9 months ago
Amen. And the last PC they bought me at work didn't even have a CD drive. How do they expect me to load software/updates which ALL comes on cd? Didn't much matter though, it was an HP and it didn't last 2 years, which is the norm for HP. And 1/2 of the insufficient USB ports were on top. You know, where all the dust accumulates. What idiot designed that?
Dias Wealth LLC founder and managing partner Carlos Dias Jr. noted that “based on an inflation rate of 3%, the value of $36,000 today will be reduced to $14,831.52 in 30 years.”
On the flip side, millennials investing in the stock market are likely to fare much better, as they can expect return rates of around 10% in the long run. It’s never too late to start planning for your retirement or investing. The best time to have started doing that would have been when you were young(er), sure, but the second best time is now.
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quentariel 9 months ago
I also like mobile tickets, so I don't have to carry a phisical one with me, but you are right that there should be an option.
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iBlank 9 months ago
yeah, I kinda wish they would ban phones from concerts. Maybe provide a service where you can pick it up afterward, like a coat-check
Little Bit 9 months ago
OK so here's typical 21st century mentality; I went to a concert in a stadium in the UK last year. There were signs everywhere saying that mobile phones were not allowed. Yet you had to show your digital ticket on your phone to get in.
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keyboardtek 9 months ago
My friend visited Chicago and wanted to go to a pro baseball game. It took him hours to find where he could buy a paper ticket as he does not have a smart phone. When he showed up to the game, everyone laughed at him as he was the only person with a paper ticket.
Happy Onion 9 months ago
Currently experiencing this. Paid a lot of money for concert tickets and they're on my phone. As an RF signal? Hopefully?!
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Jane Hower 8 months ago
I got a birthday card from a funeral home. I wasn't impressed. They only want me for my body.
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john doe 9 months ago
The only kids I see play outside are the somali immigrants children in my town, it makes my heart smile cuz they play just like we did. I feel so bad for all the kids that are trapped indoors and given the I pad opiate to quiet them.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
iPad Opiate is the new word I will be using to describe computers.
Load More Replies... Mariotevez 9 months ago
I'm going to gladly contradict you. My area pumped lots of money into parks and sidewalks and lo and behold... The kids are out, running yelling, riding bikes, playing sports and fishing in the creeks. Safe spaces and basic accessories. When government stopped catering to adults in parks and focused on children, both the children and the adults returned.
Jane Alexander 9 months ago
I loved the sign in the kid park in Grass Valley CA; 'Adults must be accompanied by a child'
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 9 months ago
Maybe where you are. Kids play outside here. My kids (aged 7 and 2) go to the play park together on their own after school/kindergarten and play with the neighbours' kids. They have races on their bikes and scooters. I leave the kitchen window open and tell them if anything's wrong to yell in English (we live in Germany so I would know it was them) and I'll come and get them if they can't come home themselves. I love it when they come home muddy, or having made a new friend. Or when the little one has learned something from one of the bigger ones (usually something that makes my husband have kittens, like climbing really high). I can't imagine a childhood without freedom to explore; it would be like cutting off their wee legs before they've even learned to walk.
Julia Ford 9 months ago
My kids were always outside (park, pool) when they were younger.
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Montanavanna 9 months ago
And parents. We must create the opportunities for our children to engage outside of technology. Kids are always playing outside where I live I understand that isn't the norm. We also live in the part of the country where adults from everywhere come to play so the intention in that culture is strong.
Load More Replies... Fire Singer 9 months ago
I live next to an elementary school with two large fields and lots of playground equipment and all that good stuff. During good weather days I see people bring their dogs. But rarely see kids. Makes me sad. :(
cerinamroth 9 months ago
If there are dogs, there probably won't be kids. There will be dog s**t, which discourages parents from letting the kids explore, and potentially nervous children. My kids wouldn't go out and play if there were dogs that we didn't know running around either, and I wouldn't let them.
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Regina Holt 9 months ago
There was a kid out in front of his house, with an adult on the front steps. They were right next to the community mail boxes. The kid was making some noise, and I addressed the adult and told him that I love the sound of a kid having fun. I just wanted to let him know that I don't mind kids outside making noise.
cerinamroth 9 months ago
My grandma of blessed memory always used to say the same thing. Nothing like hearing children having fun. She lived through some dark, dark times, and it made me smile that such a small thing would bring her such joy every morning.
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Different generations will complain about slightly different things because their cultural, social, and technological context isn’t the same. In other words, they have different issues at the forefront of their minds.
But broadly speaking, every generation tends to think that older generations are out of touch while younger generations are supposedly irresponsible, reckless, lack respect, and have poor(er) work ethics.
These sorts of generational divides and tensions are a tale as old as time. It’s a very human response to believe that the way that you live and what you value is how everyone else should live. We tend to approach life from the perspective of our own experiences, after all.
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Victoria 9 months ago
World changed when 50 percent of the population of the west got smartphones. Say around 2012. After that we've been controlled by apps and algos. Now we're in the beginning of AI age.
Little Bit 9 months ago
Unfortunately we've allowed ourselves to be shoehorned into a world that can no longer function without the Internet. What was once awe-inspiring technology is a PITA now it governs our entire lives.
Rich Black 9 months ago
"nobody goes there anymore. it's too crowded" (Yogi Berra, when asked about his favorite bar)
Roxy222uk 9 months ago
I know this comes across as snobby, but it was better before smart phones became common and basically everyone suddenly had access to everything without having built up the etiquette that went with it. Yes, there were always s.h.i.t.s. but they stood out amongst the experience much more. Now it's all a bit muddy.
Kat Alison 9 months ago
The internet was a lot better when only smart people were interested in it. Once Business™️ figured out they could make money with it, it was doomed. Business people ruin everything they touch.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
Back in the early 90s, I used to tell people that the internet will have infinitely more content, but that we were living in what would be known as the Golden Age of the internet. I was right: no ads; communities which were international, but you could still get to know people; and it was about stimulating the brain not the eyes.
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
Heh. I joined the internet back in the late 80's when it was just the military and a handful of colleges. When the world wide web came on the scene several years later, I said exactly the same thing. "Goddamn riffraff are ruining everything." And, honestly, I wasn't wrong.
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Lexekon 9 months ago
I am 56. Thanks to Aspergers, I developed maturity later than typical, by about ten years. I honestly feel like a ten year old with 45 years experience fooling everyone into thinking I am a fully functioning adult.
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Orange Panda 9 months ago
I'm in my late 40's and it's already happening.
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Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
Gen-X here. I'm 54, and I am still expecting to get called out as an impostor any day. Also, all the people I went to school with are OLD. Eww.
The Queen Of France 9 months ago
It’s not restricted to millennials. I’m Gen X and felt exactly the same way when my first close friend told me she was pregnant. I was like “WHAT?!? But you’re only…27. Oh. Okay. “
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Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
I get it, I really do. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of options out there. People aren't going to give you three hots and a cot for free unless you commit a major felony. To my mind the worst is actually property tax... you keep paying for the land you own, forever. It makes it a lot harder to retire quietly on a little patch and live simply, because you have to scrape up some dollars for the tax.
Sue 9 months ago
I pay $1,000 a year in Florida. Property taxes keep the schools going, at least for now.
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Which of these millennial complaints do you agree with, dear Pandas? What are some other complaints that you’d add to the pile that weren’t mentioned in this list? Would you like to go back to the Good Old Days (whenever they were) or do you think we should all embrace the future no matter how it looks?
Let us know what you think in the comments! And if you want to share what generation you are, feel free to do so, too.
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murmelinpaiva 9 months ago
My ringtone is the theme from "The Exorcist" because I think that cellphones are the work of the devil.
quentariel 9 months ago
Mine is from the Moomin series. Friends have that happy little tune when sun shines on a green grass and everyone is happy, parents have that urgent tune when a character is running, and work numbers have a that eerie tone when the Groke is coming.
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
I don't have a ringtone. Well, technically I do I think it's the default, but the phone is always on silent mode. Better yet, it's set up so that calls from people who aren't in my address book will go straight to voicemail.
Kat Alison 9 months ago
Back when you could set a different ringtone for different people, I set my boss’s number to an air raid siren. She thought it was funny!
Richard Graham 9 months ago (edited)
My ringtone is the complete Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" opera cycle, which is about 15 hours long. I have it set up so I can only answer the phone within five seconds of the ringtone ending, or the cycle with start again.
Mark Hastings 9 months ago
Many years ago I wanted the guitar solo from my favorite song as my ringtone. I couldn't find it anywhere and other snippets of the song were being sold for $10. A bit later I stumbled across something. You can use the Windows video editor to make .AV files that could be used as ringtones. I made a one minute .AV file of the guitar solo and it has been my ringtone since.
Rich Black 9 months ago
My ringtone is the theme song from "The Andy Griffith Show" (whistling). Someone on my team said it was racist . . .
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Ace 9 months ago
I was already saying this 20 years ago, about software that was much less 'usable' than 20 years earlier. Problem is that as we grow older we have got used to, and are satisfied by, the set of capabilities of the older product and don't see any need to add new ones. The older functionality is then harder to find among the new stuff and sometimes may be removed/replace completely.
Sue 9 months ago (edited)
Every new database or program I have seen in the last 10 years is awful. They're never user-friendly. It seems the programmers just worry about getting it done, and not doing it to make it user friendly. I've been involved with programmers on 3 big projects & we tested for months & made sure we could use the fewest keystrokes as possible, since they were being created for a production environment. I think at least some of the problem is that are so many programs that make it easier for to create apps, which means less trained or just "stupider" people can create them. My daughter's company went from the good old "green screen" a year ago, where it took seconds to enter information. Now they use an Excel-based program that takes them hours longer! They they get in trouble if they don't produce, but they get in trouble if they work overtime. And it's ALL of the staff.
Rich Black 9 months ago
Microsoft was never "useable". "Jeeves" died because Google is infinitely better.
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Sandella 9 months ago
Nevermind cursive, people can't even get standard grammar and spelling right anymore!
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Learner Panda 9 months ago
This dates back many years. It started when teachers were told not to correct spelling and grammar and "focus on the story." As for using a red pen? Wow - you're inflicting mental harm on the poor little souls. So they never learned how to write correctly, or even hold a pen properly.
Donna Peluda 9 months ago
True, but some teachers put the fear of god into you. Denigrating children in front of their peers is not good teaching. I'm a boomer, (m56) and you'd be surprised how many adults in my day couldn't spell or read properly. I worked for several when I was young. Now I know I'm dislexic. Ironically predictive text helps me.
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Shelby Moonheart 9 months ago
My 30+ year-old neice can't do basic math during a game. It made me sad.
Theo Blackwood 9 months ago
An associate director I worked with could never spell ‘perfect’. Every single time, they spelled it ‘prefect’. Every. Time.
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BrunoVI 9 months ago
Ah, back in the glory days of Disney and the later glory days of Pixar, the kiddie movies could still be romantic and funny for adults.
Load More Replies... R1MV4Superleggera 9 months ago
*sigh* God almighty! I miss those days..the silly bickering with (back then g/f now Wife) about which movie should we watch and at the end, we watched together 2 movies that night! 😊
Rich Black 9 months ago
but you can cook in the kitchen, and argue back and forth with someone in the living room over what to watch on Netflix.
Lavern Defazio 9 months ago (edited)
But, the movie "Friday" wasn't really a romance movie either.
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Ace 9 months ago
Because you haven't worked out how to effectively screen them out so you don't see them. That's why.
Roland Nijveld 9 months ago
Only time i look in the spam folder is when i expect a mail and isn't in my inbox. For the rest I think I'm lucky as I only very rarely get a spam text. Never a call
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Sue User 9 months ago
Sci-fi is either dystopian future, angsty monsters or games of thrones knockoff.
Rafael 9 months ago
I hate dystopian future Sci fi with a passion, because we already live at a dystopian Sci fi present. I don't need a reminder of how much worse things will get!
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 9 months ago
Comedians are just stupid annoying people these days. The concept of intelligent wit is lost on them and the screenwriters.
Miriam Insidecor 9 months ago
Comedy films are too long now too. They should stick to being under 100min. In fact j miss films that only lasted 90min.
Bartlet for world domination 9 months ago
Animated series on the other hand can still be hilarious.
Richard Graham 9 months ago
Comedy films aren't nearly as funny as during the 1930s. W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Wheeler and Woolsey, Charlie Chaplin. I could go on.
Val 9 months ago
Mel Brooks- as in "Blazin' Saddles?" Am I seeing this right?
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Orange Panda 9 months ago
Or at least warn us! I don't know if I would have gone to see Wicked if I had known it was going to end with To Be Continued. That was some bull honkity.
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
Oh. My. God. Yes. I watched that... Rebel Moon or something? So many lovingly crafted slow motion shots of GRAIN. So many discussions about GRAIN. The movie went on for hours, and that was only part one. Part two also went on about GRAIN for hours upon hours. So when they released the "added violence" version I noped right out. Not because I'm a prude (I probably would have picked that edit if I had been given a choice in the beginning) but because I'm simply not going to take six and a half hours watching GRAIN, even if it's blood soaked GRAIN.
Susan 9 months ago
That movie was terrible anyway, I couldn't make it more than halfway through without turning it off. It it looked like it was going to be exactly the type of movie that it like but it was just awful.
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Paulina 9 months ago
Yes! Movies are too long and songs are too short! Nearly every movie now is 2h and that's just ridiculous, especially for casual home viewing that we do most of the time with streaming. Also, when did we decide that songs should be 3 minutes long and mostly repeated chorus? I miss the times when even pop songs has interesting lyrics and told a story - that was worth listening to for 6 or even 10 minutes.
BrunoVI 9 months ago
OTOH: The Lord of the Ring series. Gandhi. The Right Stuff. Dances With Wolves. Ben Hur. The Sound of Music. Terminator 2. Schindler's List. Hamlet. Braveheart. Oppenheimer. Not my personal favorites, but still make my case: Gone With the Wind. Titanic. Lawrence of Arabia. The Longest Day. The Godfather series.
Šimon Špaček 9 months ago
That depends on the movie. If you still remember reading books, you may remember that some books are full of action, one explosion after another, jumping from roofs, chasing people,... and some are more about the emotions, overcoming problems or finding cleaver solutions and some are just comedy, witty answers and unexpected things (and some are combination of all). The first one would be Marve movie, the second is David Attenborough (anything) and the last one is Monty Python.
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Owen 9 months ago
Just stop using it then? You'll be amazed to find out that no one will really notice or care.
Mike F 9 months ago
That's not always true. I have a friend who will go radio silent for months and then resurrects and starts a flurry of activity. If you don't reply right away, it's "are you mad, man?". Nope, I have a life and things to do.
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MotherofGuineaPigs 9 months ago
when i managed a factory I had to be reachable 24hs because we ran 3 shifts. One time my boss called me - I was picking up my dd from daycare. I didn't answer, he called about 7 times in the 15 minutes i was there. Called him back and he was screaming about me not answering. Was it an emergency? No, it could have waited until morning. I responded 'My phone doesn't go 2 places, the bathroom and my dd's school. Unless there are ambulances called or the building is on fire, you can wait 15 minute'
Lea S. 9 months ago
I've had an online account since the early 2000s and never was told that it meant I was reachable at all times. Having an online account doesn't mean you are online 24 hours a day. I feel for this people that think there is no escape but for pete's sake, THERE IS. TURN IT OFF.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
Absolutely not true. Just don't read emails, just ignore the calls and texts. Just bc they can reach you doesn't mean they should.
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Joe Swanson 9 months ago
I wonder if Matthew knows you can simply unplug your modem or router. Then voila, internets off!
Ron Man 9 months ago
Yeah, but no. The internet just doesn't come through your modem anymore, which is what they're saying. A lot of us are unable to turn off a phone due to work or family obligations.
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Nice Beast Ludo 9 months ago
My phone literally exploded last year and now I'm a bit phobic to have it around me. I have disconnected completely from it for 15 months now and only go online sometimes. I watch my DVD collection and listen to CDs and read books. I feel so free and don't care what I'm missing online. It sucks there. BP is the only social media I like to use
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
Uh, you can still do that.Put the phone away and don't turn on your computer.
The Queen Of France 9 months ago
I do it regularly. I go camping. I don’t even wear a watch because mostly it doesn’t matter what time it is. If I need to know the time I can check in my car or ask someone else.
Lavern Defazio 9 months ago
I did just that for a week. This is my first day back in any device. Even my phone. It was needed.
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R1MV4Superleggera 9 months ago
Second that! Especially when me and my Wife friends, here in the UK KNOW that I'll be preparing some delicious Mexican dish that I learned by traveling to Mexico and also there'll be plenty of Mexican beer like there's no tomorrow! Hell, my brother and his Wife (Australian) also will be here, particularly because my SIL wants to learn, really bad, how to make some Mexican and if my parents are here in the UK and not somewhere traveling around the world, they'll be here as well!
Load More Replies... Pyla 9 months ago
That's why it's hard to be a riding instructor or horse trainer. Kids are overbooked and forget that a one hour lesson includes grooming and tacking up (they are learning that, too), and afterwards a horse needs to be cooled down, untacked, and groomed. Not only that, but cancelling lessons, blowing off training and skipping shows and acting like goals aren't an issue.
TiNaBoNiNa 9 months ago
I've given up trying to get my family together for one evening a year. Even booking a date months in advance will fall through with multiple people. I figure I must not be important enough to them to keep the family ties together.
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keyboardtek 9 months ago
The first computer I bought was an Apple Powermac 8500. It is now 30 years old and I still use it. Their product quality has gone downhill since then. They don't even make a desktop that one can install more internal hard drives.
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Patrick H 9 months ago
Why does it need to come with a charger? Chargers are available to purchase right next to the phones or in every other store, too. I don't want the extra shìt in the box because I already have a ton of it, so it's either gonna clutter up a drawer or get thrown away. Besides, providing chargers made more sense when every brand of phone had a different charger. Now, you only need either USB-C or Lightning, and even Apple is slowly heading towards using only USB-C. If you don't already have that, you're probably gonna need more than just one and a much longer cord than they provide.
Orange Panda 9 months ago
Does it not come with a charger anymore? How do you charge it? I have an android.
Cydney Golden 9 months ago
You don't have to buy the latest. You can get an older never used model.
Seadog 9 months ago
And what's wrong with ALL phones using the same charger? To make matters worse, my phone came with a charger which worked fine for several years and then an update was made to the OS in the phone. Now, the original charger doesn't have enough output. I had to go buy a high powered charger. Absolutely no excuse for that.
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john doe 9 months ago
I think of they officially pull it people will finally start throwing flaming bottles, it might need to happens so we can build a better system. Probably gonna have to pay with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
A retired Marine said if Trump cuts social security, the subsequent attack on the Capital will make January 6th look like a kids birthday party.
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April Pickett 9 months ago
I thank you because I am using it, and it's about 45% of my income.
Jane Hower 8 months ago
When Elon gets the fraud, waste and corruption out of SS it will be save for all of us. GET IT!!?? If not, you are one of the brain dead stupid a*s lib/tard commie democrats.
Graham_Illegal 9 months ago
There's no need for population growth. Look at the productivity rates and do the math again 😉
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Mariotevez 9 months ago
And the NIMBY crowd... Also flipping did not help.
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Schmebulock 9 months ago (edited)
Easy. Supply & Demand (less housing available and increased population).
Rich Black 9 months ago
people didn't use doordash, starbucks, and online gaming so much back then.
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Firstname Lastname 9 months ago
If I'm paying this much for cereal, I want my gosh danged color changing spoon. Or at least a toy that isn't a three step cardboard cutout process.
Sue User 9 months ago
This. $5 for a box of ceral? Oh look, it's on sale but you have to buy 4 boxes. Its just me and the cat and no matter how healthy it is, she is not into Cherrios.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 9 months ago
Cereal is the number on rip off by the food industry. Just eat scrambled eggs with spinach, cheese and whole grain toast for breakfast, or oatmeal.
Wintermute 9 months ago
No, it's way better now. They get scannable QR codes to enter a bunch of personal information so they can download some boring a*s proprietary digital ad content. YAY!
Orange Panda 9 months ago
Wait, is this true? Why would we do that? Haven't we taken enough from the kids?
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Trillian 9 months ago
They absolutely should. I was at a work function recently and every single woman was wearing (very nice) sneakers. Yay! If I have to be on my feet all day AND have to socialize and network I want comfortable shoes ffs!
keyboardtek 9 months ago
I am retired. All I wear is sneakers. Hokas are the widest softest ones on the planet.
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Orange Panda 9 months ago
That's not a boomer complaint. Most boomers are pro-voicemail, Erika.
Tabitha 9 months ago
Wrong. Before cellphones and voicemail, there were answering machines attached to your landline. Hell, before that, there were answering services—-real humans connected to your number who would answer your phone for you when you were out and take messages. You’d call their direct line to check in and ask them to read back all the messages that came in. Oh yeah, and pre-cellphones there were car phones, but only rich people with chauffeurs could afford them.
Load More Replies... Sue User 9 months ago
My voicemail is full. I cant remember the password. Okay, need to login to phone account. Cant remember that pasword. Okay, reset it ( get the obligatory to close to last password ) . Oh, now they need the PIN because everything is MFA. Online chat support tells me I should have set it up wgen I got the phone. I got this account almst 15 years ago. Forget it.
Orange Panda 9 months ago
I'm sort of in a war with my new phone. One of the only good things about it, though, is that 75% of the time won't let me see who's calling or answer the phone. I also can't always get to the voicemail function. My message says as much and tells you to text me.
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Cosmos in your eyes 9 months ago
LOL, they used to say that about us Millennials when we were younger. Congratulations, crapping on the next generation is proof you are now OLD.
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Sue 9 months ago
Can't upvote enough! And we have Teams work phones! And they just gave it to us with no training. I still can't get my voicemail set up correctly. And it seems to not be very secure - I need Teams on my phone, but there's a lot of private information involved in my job, and they're TRUSTING MY PHONE TO KEEP IT SAFE???
Sue User 9 months ago
The volumn on my teams is so low and i cant seem to find the setting. Almost have to max out speakers to hear.
Trillian 9 months ago
I have three different places to set volume (in teams, on my notebook and on my headset). Drives me crazy.
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Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
Another thing you can do if you're not time-constrained is go chat up your local librarian. They are trained researchers, and can find anything!
Rick Murray 9 months ago
Edit the Google URL to have &udm=14 at the end and it should turn off all of that AI nonsense.
Owen 9 months ago
You don't. That's just a way you found that works. There are many many other ways.
Orange Panda 9 months ago
To be fair, I've been told to google it quite a bit, when the other person could have just said the answer or said I don't know. Those that grew up with the internet don't understand how information used to be passed or that a lot of people didn't use the internet until part way through college.
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
How old are you? I'm half a century and I have written stuff in assembler for both 6502 machines and the ARM processor; back in a time when you needed to understand your machine well enough to be able to tell exactly how many clock cycles your code will take (and in the case of the 6502, how many bus accesses and where). I despair at the bloated inefficient dross that passes for software these days. [and people older than me used to write their code on stuff like punch cards, and they'd got one shot at having it executed on the mainframe so it had to be correct]
Mike F 9 months ago
I'm 68 and when I was in college we had a photocopy of a punchcard that we had to read, then show the position of each hole in CORE STORAGE.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 9 months ago (edited)
Someone sounds like a bit of a self satisfied duck-head (Satisfied BP?)
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Shaggy 9 months ago
Um No... GenX was the last.. You had cellphones computers and video games to keep you busy. We had a stick...
Little Bit 9 months ago
Gen X here.., You had a stick? I had to use my imagination.
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keyboardtek 9 months ago
All generations today: the last Americans to see any semblance of democracy left.
Sue 9 months ago
Boomers ruined it. Got theirs & screw everyone else. They undid every safety net for people because they didn't want to pay the taxes for it. If the rest of us lose our medicare & social security, they sure as heck better take theirs away too.
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Theo Blackwood 9 months ago
Just show movie trailers. I don’t want ads that I see on the television
Featherytoad 9 months ago
Now they are going to list the start time of the movie itself, so you can walk into the theater and skip all the c**p.
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General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
Artificial intelligence is authentic ignorance. And shareholder value.
Sue User 9 months ago
At work we have an app that will record mettings. It has AI notes. But half the time it gets it wrong. No, I did not tell Bob that date is good.
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john doe 9 months ago
The house I grew up in cost 220k it just sold for 1.4 million, the county is totally fu cke d
Mike F 9 months ago
The house I grew up in was $11,200 in around 1958, it's now $127k. It is just about the same rate as, gasoline, milk etc. Wages, however...
Sue 9 months ago
When my dad died & we were looking through his stuff, he made $6000 a year as a teacher & bought a house for $13,000. Less than half his salary. Even if you make $100,000 now, it's hard to find a $200,000 house.
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CP 9 months ago
There is something magical about finding a tv show or movie like that. Could just be nostalgia though.
Sue User 9 months ago
It was an event. Okay, at 8pm Friday, i am going to watch xxx. Let me make sure i start snack prep at 7:45. We lost the anticipation of an experience.
Load More Replies... Orange Panda 9 months ago
I love channel surfing during commercials. I can watch 3 shows at once that way.
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john doe 9 months ago
Not for the Internet, my college educated mother thinks giants are real because a guy she knows and thinks is really smart posted some BS on Facebook about giant skeletons and the government cover up of their existence. She cannot be talked down from it and I can't believe it. She believes in giants because the Internet said so, that's as media illiterate you can be.
Load More Replies... Orange Panda 9 months ago
Uh, what's this? I was in high school during the Beavis & Butthead "fire, fire!" thing, where a kid set his brother on fire. They told us don't be dumb. In the young years they said cartoons aren't real. Not everything you see on tv is real. Was there more education then that?
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keyboardtek 9 months ago
If one were to expand one's musical horizons beyond pop music drivel and maybe explore progressive rock, jazz, and classical music, that limitation does not exist.
Rick Murray 9 months ago
Might I suggest symphonic metal? Plenty of songs in the 6-10 minute bracket, and you won't have much trouble finding ones over twenty minutes long (complete with intermission!) if you really want to exercise the lugholes. Throw in some prog rock too, then you can play "guess the time signature". The Dream Theater song "Dance of Eternity" changes time signature something like a hundred times in six minutes. Good luck tapping along to that...
James016 9 months ago
If you want some fun, the Drumeo YouTube channel has a video of Mike Portnoy tying to learn Pneuma by Tool. At the end he challenges Danny Carey to learn Dance of Eternity.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 9 months ago
My complaint would be about autotune allowing people who couldn’t hold a tune if it had a handle sound like they can sing, as well as denying us the pleasure of hearing a genuinely great voice by correcting the slight imperfections that make it unique and great, I don’t want to hear voices corrected to perfection, and homogenized to the point where they all—-the great voices and the s****y ones— all end up sounding exactly the same.
Peter Bergmans 9 months ago
Because the two and a half minutes unfortunately is already way beyond people's attention span nowadays... :(
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Featherytoad 9 months ago
I have one that I got from Verizon. When you flip it open, it's as big as a smartphone and it's ridiculous. Previously, I had a great small one with an excellent battery life, and they don't make it anymore. I don't think they put in as much thought for the flip phones anymore as they do with smartphones. Not everyone wants or needs a smartphone.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
I have a flip phone. They are still sold. My fingers for some reason cannot be sensed accurately by touch screens.
john doe 9 months ago
They make em for the olds still, they actually look pretty good, like if they came out back in the day they would be the best flip phone you could get.
Deborah 9 months ago
They still make flip phones for anyone of any age who wants one.
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Orange Panda 9 months ago
I get this at work. It started in September, I think. I started tracking the numbers and they're always different. There's never anyone there, but it sucks when you're busy. Such a waste of time.
Mike F 9 months ago
That looks great on paper, but they have evolved to the random Google number thing. I had to put my phone on dnd so I wasn't woken by the damned spam calls.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 9 months ago
We had a bot that changes numbers but had the 984 area code calling our phone twice a day for the last year. We simply called our cellphone company and got a new number assigned to the phone.
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Sue User 9 months ago
I saw Nightmare on Elm Street as a preview ( new to theatre and no trsilers/ online reviews/etc ). It was one of the last movies I watched where it was completely unknown.
winterwidow87 9 months ago
You can still watch movies like that, just don't watch trailers/don't read online reviews before going to the theater.
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General Anaesthesia 9 months ago
Emoticons are OK but I don't waste any time trying to decode emojis. KISS - keep it simple, stupid.
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Richard Graham 9 months ago
I've gotten into a whole lot of trouble for wearing my pajamas to the store. People are so JUDGEMENTAL just because I sleep nude.
Colleen Glim 9 months ago
Why does this matter? As long as all your bits are covered, who cares
Hippopotamuses 9 months ago
So pleased that pretty much all of the shops where I live will not allow people in PJs into their stores. I think it is to do with health and safety regulations, as well as the reaction of other customers.
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Richard Graham 9 months ago
True. Things WERE better in the 90s. Even though the Panic of 1893 brought about a depression, the Klondike Gold Rush of 1986 brought prosperity. Of course, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 broke up the monopiles. However, the U.S.S. Maine exploding in Havana Harbor in 1898 brought the U.S. and Spain to war.
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She who must not be named 9 months ago
What makes me laugh now is that clothes and shoes that are fashionable now were the targets of bullying and ridicule back when I was a kid. Long socks over trousers/leggings, massive chunky Fila trainers, 'grandma' cardigans? Yeah, you'd be teased for that 15-20 years ago.
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Sue User 9 months ago
They are all trying so hard to be relevant/ edgy. It reeks of desparation.
Tabitha 9 months ago
Desperation and lack of wit, imagination, and creative talent.
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She who must not be named 9 months ago
I used to love websites like Stardoll, Whatsherface and MyScene dolls. I'm 31 and I'd jump at the chance to use these again 😭
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robert copher 9 months ago
I mish YAHOO games. Playing cards or chess with complete strangers and almost no one was a @sshole.
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Hoi-Polloi 9 months ago
I'm thinking we should keep the best slang from all time periods and mesh them together, by Jove, no cap.
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Sue User 9 months ago
There is actually a reason. I dont remember the whole story but sometthing about when it became super popular, they had to switch pepper suppliers.
Orange Panda 9 months ago
It had always been a handshake deal with the original farm family. When the popularity went up, Sriracha wanted to screw the farmers and keep more money to themselves. The farmers said no and stopped selling to them. They now sell their peppers to someone else, I don't remember who.
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John Ambrose-Hemmingway 9 months ago (edited)
If by stuff, you mean drūgs, then they are still doing stuff.
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Tiny Fox 9 months ago
Gen X here. I cracked last week. NVIDIA popped up to let me know I had a driver update ready to go, awesome, download and install please. Noooooo, first you have to login to an account, do the MFA dance, then you can have the update we just told you was ready to go!!!!!! You already had enough access to my PC to tell me it was needed, and there. Eat bag of d*cks please.
Patrick H 9 months ago
MFA is a excellent, but it's really only necessary when it's safeguarding sensitive information. I don't need MFA for most things. If a service needs an account but doesn't need to store sensitive information, MFA should not be mandatory.
Load More Replies... Jason Kennith 9 months ago
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
My complaint as a GenX? Why is that MrBeast guy *everywhere*, with that fake smile, dead eyes, and vocal delivery like somebody who's just slugged a dozen Red Bull and is dangerously close to exploding. Come on internet, give me kittens not... that.
Tiny Fox 9 months ago
Those eyes are creepy, is he just stoned all the time?
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Sandy Jones 9 months ago
With tons of great music out there, radio stations only play 30 songs over & over again. I don't want to hear "The boys are back in town" everyday at 3pm .
Lost Panda 9 months ago
Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney actually had a lineup and didn't run one show into the ground. I've been out of the states for awhile, but my children had so little choices compared to what we had in the 90s and 00s
Linnoff 9 months ago
I don't know if it's a millenial complaint exactly, but "convenience fees" and the like on buying tickets. I was interested in a concert and there were an extra $40 in fees on top of the $60 ticket. Or there was a play I wanted to see at a local theater, buying online came with a $7 per ticket fee, but if I go to the box office and buy in person, there isn't any. Shouldn't it cost more to employ the box office person than buy on your website?
Child of the Stars 9 months ago
Most of these are just whining that change happened. But here's a little perspective: 50 years ago--just a decade before I was born--I would've been considered disabled because the technology for glasses lenses to be made for my heavy prescription didn't exist. I can only function in modern society because of advancements in technology. The world isn't perfect by a long shot. There are legitimate concerns to have about the world right now. But let's be honest: none of it is new to human society; the only thing that changed is that we're more aware of the problems.
Sky Render 9 months ago
I miss when the advice "don't discuss politics or religion if you want a peaceful life" was actually respected and followed.
Tiny Fox 9 months ago
Gen X here. I cracked last week. NVIDIA popped up to let me know I had a driver update ready to go, awesome, download and install please. Noooooo, first you have to login to an account, do the MFA dance, then you can have the update we just told you was ready to go!!!!!! You already had enough access to my PC to tell me it was needed, and there. Eat bag of d*cks please.
Patrick H 9 months ago
MFA is a excellent, but it's really only necessary when it's safeguarding sensitive information. I don't need MFA for most things. If a service needs an account but doesn't need to store sensitive information, MFA should not be mandatory.
Load More Replies... Jason Kennith 9 months ago
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Rick Murray 9 months ago
My complaint as a GenX? Why is that MrBeast guy *everywhere*, with that fake smile, dead eyes, and vocal delivery like somebody who's just slugged a dozen Red Bull and is dangerously close to exploding. Come on internet, give me kittens not... that.
Tiny Fox 9 months ago
Those eyes are creepy, is he just stoned all the time?
Load More Replies... Sandy Jones 9 months ago
With tons of great music out there, radio stations only play 30 songs over & over again. I don't want to hear "The boys are back in town" everyday at 3pm .
Lost Panda 9 months ago
Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney actually had a lineup and didn't run one show into the ground. I've been out of the states for awhile, but my children had so little choices compared to what we had in the 90s and 00s
Linnoff 9 months ago
I don't know if it's a millenial complaint exactly, but "convenience fees" and the like on buying tickets. I was interested in a concert and there were an extra $40 in fees on top of the $60 ticket. Or there was a play I wanted to see at a local theater, buying online came with a $7 per ticket fee, but if I go to the box office and buy in person, there isn't any. Shouldn't it cost more to employ the box office person than buy on your website?
Child of the Stars 9 months ago
Most of these are just whining that change happened. But here's a little perspective: 50 years ago--just a decade before I was born--I would've been considered disabled because the technology for glasses lenses to be made for my heavy prescription didn't exist. I can only function in modern society because of advancements in technology. The world isn't perfect by a long shot. There are legitimate concerns to have about the world right now. But let's be honest: none of it is new to human society; the only thing that changed is that we're more aware of the problems.
Sky Render 9 months ago
I miss when the advice "don't discuss politics or religion if you want a peaceful life" was actually respected and followed.
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