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The rate of change in the world has accelerated to the point where some people find it hard to cope. Preparing ourselves to deal with these rapid advancements is in our best interest, and we can start doing that by trying to pinpoint how tomorrow might be different from yesterday.
Such reflection allows us to paint a clearer image of reality, empowering us to make informed decisions and navigate the evolving landscape with greater understanding.
To get started, Reddit user Staclear made a post on the platform last month, asking everyone on it: "What slowly went away in the past decade that no one noticed?" Here are the answers that people related to the most.
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#1
Finding a recipe online that doesn’t involve the author’s life story, author’s pet’s life story, and the author’s pet’s squeaky toy’s life story. 😂
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Basically any youtube video on diy fixes. Hate to see a 5min video for a 10 sec fix.
Zephyr343 2 years ago
Don't forget to like and subscribe. And let me take 3 minutes to talk to you about the sponsor of this video
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TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Yes and the infinite scrolling past the novel and you reach the bottom of the page, wait where was the recipe??
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Indian videos. They either don't mess around or they're so good you'll WANT to listen to every little bit.
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Those 'stories' are there for a reason. Short version, you can not copyright a single recipe, only a 'literary work'. Without that story, there is nothing stopping someone from taking the recipe, putting it into a cookbook and selling it.
Betty Boom 2 years ago
The only way someone can get paid for an online recipe is if they personalize it (look up ad rules) hence the stories.
Connie Wade 2 years ago
Yes, a pet peeve of mine, too. I will not scroll a recipe if there is not a "skip to recipe" option. I don't need a photo of each step of the prep for the dish.
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#2
Here's a good one: HIV/AIDS deaths have fallen through the floor, partly due to improvements in medication, but also thanks to a herculean effort by the international community in concert with major drug manufacturers, largely coordinated by PEPFAR.
Temporary Dork 2 years ago (edited)
In Europe and North America, and there were still 13,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2021. Global total in the same year was 650,000.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
Worldwide more deaths from AIDS than from COVID over the same time period of three years. 2020 to 2022. Deaths from AIDS are dropping, but slowly. Also worryingly, deaths from AIDS in my country are not being reported to the WHO so current worldwide statistics are incomplete.
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Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Very good. My cousin is living with HIV just fine. He's had it for five years. He's fathered two kids since then and Mom and kids haven't contracted it. It was a devastating blow for him when he found out about the tainted transfusion. Then he met a girl who loved him so much. He's now a happy and healthy dad and husband. His HIV is undetectable.
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Please don't take this as an invitation to take risks. Be safe, my friends.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Unfortunately, other STDs are on the rise in my country, like threefold or fourfold in the last years. That means that the number of new cases of AIDS will eventually rise, too.
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Cute Panther 2 years ago (edited)
Just like this we need a Increasing awareness about organ donation, particularly for kidneys from deceased donors, is crucial. Living on dialysis presents significant challenges, impacting daily life and restricting basic activities like eating and traveling. Urgent efforts are needed to address the plight of individuals on dialysis and enhance support for organ donation to improve their quality of life. I'm telling this as a person living on dialysis myself and it's horrible.
Nea 2 years ago
I hope you get a donor soon and you feel better. Sending prayers.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
We were so afraid. No one knew for sure how it spread. Did it have to be blood? What about saliva? People were dying horrible deaths in weeks. Children with it weren't welcome in school. Families with a sick member were shunned. Yes, this is good. It went from an immediate death sentence to a condition. Now, many people can be kept non-dectectable (and therefore non-contiguous) for years. I will never forget the universal fear, though.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
And yet conservatives, not all Republicans but ultra right nutjobs, demand funding cuts.
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
Why do Americans always have to try to take all the credit for everything? Pepfar is largely unknown outside of the us. The fight against aids is global, coordinated by the UN, not by the Americans. Stop, please stop.
Scotty B 2 years ago
Put your tits away. Most of us know we aren't the only country fighting it and it was UN and WHO that coordinated efforts to fight it. Maybe you're the one who needs to brush up on your facts. We aren't stupid.
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Inés Olabarria Smith 2 years ago
Just yesterday I heard on the radio that there’s a promising research right now. There’s a couple persons who actually are cured!
#3
Actually owning items without a subscription
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Speak for yourself! I generally refuse subscriptions. I still buy movies as Bluray/UHD disk and music on CD. I buy kindle books, but I refuse to subscribe for them. About the only subscription I have is Prime since it pays for itself with free shipping so the video streaming it provides is basically a bonus (and I rarely use it).
BrownTabby 2 years ago
Same. I was never totally satisfied with these streaming platforms but this year I got fully tired of them and went back to buying media or getting it out the library.
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Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
I still usually buy physical copies of my favorite stuff if I'm sure I'll want to watch/listen more than a couple times. But I'm 50, so what do I know?
Molly Whuppie 2 years ago
Sometimes even if you buy them you don't own them. Example: Discovery recently merged with Warner Bros which has resulted in Playstation sending out messages to let everyone know that if they purchased Discovery content via the platform, that content will no longer be watchable and will be removed from their playstation libraries due to content licensing arrangements.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
This is partially why I don't sell my vast collection of Blu Ray and DVDs. Someday, subscription services are gonna roll back around into one giant 'bundle' and it'll be as bad as cable was. My physical media is for when I don't want to pay $300 a month for all the services I need just to watch every single Star Trek.
Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
I don't know why people are including things like internet, electric, water and bills of that kind. Those are not things you choose to subscribe to, they are basic necessities. Netflix, Hulu, etc etc are subscriptions, there is a difference.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Not just MS, Adobe was a groundbreaker in this area. There are countless others as well.
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Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
The only subscriptions I have are to the electric, water, sewer and garbage company.
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
The only subscription, so to say, I use now is my internet, landline, hydro, rent and cellphone. That's enough for me. I refuse to pay monthly to anything if I can find a way to own it.
#4
Consequences for blatant lies
D. Pitbull 2 years ago
Orangutans are beautiful, intelligent creatures... please don't insult them by associating... them with... *that*.
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Alecto76 2 years ago
Well Santos was expelled - that's a start. Now they need to expel the rest of the lunatics and idiots (Taylor-Greene and the Floridians). Then we are back to the usual creeps and crooks.
Jeff White 2 years ago
And Bob Menendez. Also I prefer Cheeto Jesus for tRUMP (stole tRUMP from a previous comment)
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He was indicted, but we will see if the cheeto has actual consequences...
Karen Fischbach 2 years ago
He's been found guilty of fraud in New York: The trial is just to see HOW guilty he is....if he loses only a few hundred thousand or the entire wad....With his tirades against the judge, who decides his sentence, I'm betting on him losing the whole wad then crying to the Supreme Court about how unfair New York judges are!
Load More Replies... Donteatme666 2 years ago
To be fair I didn't want to associate him with Cheetos either cuz I like Cheetos so I'll call him a orange turd seems safe
Will Cable 2 years ago
Politician take note..........We the people of sick of your lies and double standards
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Sadly, the double standards of many voters keeps these politicians in office.
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robin aldrich 2 years ago
Well, of course, they hide behind the First Amendment, not realizing. There are caveats to that amendment.
#5
Decent quality clothes at affordable prices.
Alecto76 2 years ago
Decent quality clothes period. I'm not buying suoer expensive stuff like millionaires do, but the regular expensive stuff - like my Calvin Klein work dress from Macy's - I've bought 2. The hems of both completely fell out in a month.
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
Two tips: if you are fashion minded; second hand vintage stores, if you just want a shirt and some pants; workware stores. Both options will give you long lasting clothes that don't compete on the same market as wear and tear clothing.
Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
I've been wearing men's t-shirts and souvenir t-shirts for decades. I got a feminine t-shirt from a department store this week and am not impressed, but I need something for an event.
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Mint Sauce 2 years ago
This is wrong.....They are available. Just avoid designer labels. It also depends on what you call affordable. Something that costs £100 that lasts ages is more affordable than a designer branded item that costs the same but falls apart after a few washes.
sturmwesen 2 years ago
Even brands that were good quality produce thinner and badly seamed clothes. Lands End had great hoodies but now they are thin and badly sewn. I buy my shirts on Grundstoff.net which is pretty good and more fairtrade and ecofriendly. But jeans and other clothes are a hassle.
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Libstak 2 years ago
I don't do brands, I choose clothing that looks well made and fits right. I've never lost a hem or seam... I can spend Max $120 for good quality pants and jumpers but mostly I spend $20 to $60 for the type I like and that lasts. Brand is just an EGO stamp that can see a cash cow coming from a mile away.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Bought a bunch or the Saks 5th Ave brand items and they all fell apart or quit being ok after one use. Is there something I missed.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
I buy clothes that are affordable and good quality online at Cotton Traders UK. I don't follow fashion or care about prestige brands...
#6
The ability to buy a house as a young adult
Skid Marks 2 years ago
My wife and I have accepted the fact that we will never be able to buy a house again.
sturmwesen 2 years ago
Who downvotes a real concern? I will never own a house (same as my siblings) all my slightly older relatives are homeowners (partly as a multigenerationaly house with different flats).
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Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Thank you for putting my name only on your will to your house, dead grandpa. You didn't think grandma would still be alive, though. I love her and it's great having that big house. Just hard to bring friends over when you're taking care of a 95 year old lady. She's far more important than friends, though. I'd rather have her for another year than friends for life. Don't leave me, granny. I would be so lost.
Kare Deter 2 years ago
I love your post - beyond what words can express. So often in today's world I see self centered people who only care about themselves and would oust their Gran in a heartbeat because she's an 'inconvenience'. It truly makes my heart happy to see not everyone is like that.
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Karen Fischbach 2 years ago
Less than half of all Black Americans of any age own real estate. And only 2% of all real estate is owned by Native Americans. White men whine that they can't buy a home right out of high school when single women of any color have historically been barred from owning real estate until very recently.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
We bought our first house (condo) in 2022. He's 65, I'm 60 - and we're bleeding money every month.
Shadow Ridge 2 years ago
Since when was it typical for young adults to be able to buy a house? I was 40 before I could afford to buy my first home. Be patient, save your money. The housing market will be a totally different entity in 5+ years.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
My parents bought their first house when they were around 32. I couldn't afford my first house until I was 46 and even then it ended up being more than I could afford, so I had to sell it (bought at a time when they would give a loan to a shaggy cat). Now I own an acre of land that I bought at the age of 63 and I could only afford that because of the back pay I got from the government taking so long to decide my disability. And I can't afford to put a house on it, just a trailer.
SparkleFarts 2 years ago
Baffling to me that my first husband and I were able to buy a 2000 square foot house for 160k back in 01. We were 26.We made roughly $60k combined. I feel for millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha they don't have much of a chance of ever being able to afford their own place. The good Ole American dream😢
#7
Insects. My car used to get covered with dead insects during the summer. Now, it’s just one or two every so often. Lightning bugs, butterflies, moths flying around my porch light. They’re all gone.
Fora Nakit 2 years ago
It has been more than 10 years since I've seen a firefly, and when I was kid, it used to be a light show in my granddad's garden.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Maybe where you live. I'd be happy to send you all the bugs I got. It's f*****g december and mosquitos are still out. Ya'll want more bugs take mine please I'm begging.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
And aggressive poison/monoculture "farming" techniques.
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Mark Boelte 2 years ago
This is at least as dangerous, if not more, than global warming. Insects are critical to the environment. If you don't think so, look at what happened when China tried to eliminate mosquitos. A famine that killed MILLIONS. Without insects, we cannot survive.
Rivers of Belief 2 years ago
Lighting bugs have dropped off substantially the last 5 to 10 years
TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
We can thank Monsanto for this! Why bother with ecologically safe farming practices when you can just buy the genetically engineered Roundup(watered down version of Agent Orange) resistant seeds from Monsanto(now owned by Bayer) and then simply spray the living 💩 out of your crops??? Oh sure you're destroying the local environment, but we gotta get this capitalist machine going!!!
#8
A sense of shame. I'm looking at you obnoxious tik tokkers dancing in traffic.
Boootifull Unicorn 2 years ago
meh, I'm cool with people dancing as long as they are not obstructing anything. People who yell at kids in public, watch video's on loud volume without headphones or leave their rubbish everywhere, well, shame on them.
neytjie 2 years ago
They are dancing in TRAFFIC. Where cars drive. And if you end up hitting them with your car, in the end you suffer for it.
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Phil Vaive 2 years ago
Ugh, or the ones "singing" (read: shrieking) in parkades incredibly loudly and repetitively. Once, just once, I want to see one of them get hit in the head with a slurpee.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Spotlight effect. No one actually cares about what you are doing. You are just always thinking about you, so you assume everyone else is also thinking about you.
robin aldrich 2 years ago
Not only shame, they're not even slightly embarrassed about anything.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
People getting out and being active, I'm all for it. Just don't do stupid stunts that put others at risk.
Gavin Winchester 2 years ago
You’ve not seen what really happened at Woodstock and it’s reboot then
Breadcrumb. 2 years ago
Shame can f**k off for the most part, older generations didn't mix races at the pool and hated it when two men kissed each other. Tik tok can die though
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
I agree with the "for the most part", but when people's lack of shame leads to them making other people's lives worse, then they need to f**k off
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The intelligence of the average American. There's an awful lot of stupid people walking around these days.
BlindAres 2 years ago
Stupid people have existed since the dawn of time. With the connectivity of the internet and social media, you are just seeing more of them.
Helena R 2 years ago
Also I think the amount of information available to us is now huge. What was once 'common knowledge' is just lost in the abyss of the internet. Which if you choose to get your info from there you are tasked with vetting out untruths and biased opinions
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
On average, we're doing fine, social media and mainstream media have amplified the hell out of the crazy. See for example the rise of the Flat Earth movement. There aren't really that many of them but my god are they loud.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
As Mark Twain said, more or less: "The wise man remains silent and risks being thought a fool; the fool opens his mouth and removes all doubt"
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PhaseWitFact 2 years ago
There's always been stupid people but thanks to computers being ready to use now and social media, they have a platform whereas in the past, we ignored them.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
Are there really more idiots or does the constant use of social media simply display them better?
Allen Lavine 2 years ago
I don't think people are more stupid. We are not design to know stuff we don't need to know unless you take a interest in it so being that a smart phone can spell any word for you can solve any math problem our brain see this as unless thinks so it don't remember them think about it before cell phones we had no problem remembering numbers but now we don't have to remember them our brain will use that space for other information it's crazy because our brain doses this on it's on we have no control over it
#10
voicemail. Nobody bothers leaving one. I get about 1/10th the phone traffic I did a decade ago anyway, and people would rather text why they called now in lieu of a vm. "text/don't call" is one of Millennials' greatest contributions to society.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Whoever invented a way for voicemail to be automatically turned into text is a genius. I haven't checked my voicemail in YEARS.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 2 years ago
This is s thing?? I've never heard of this. Maybe it's just the carriers here don't offer it or else I've been living in oblivion!!!
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Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I don't get this one, if I feel it's important enough to call and talk in the first place I'll leave a voicemail. If it's easily explainable in a text then I'd just text in the first place. I think the majority of the missed calls + no voicemail I *receive* are from scammers. If it's a friend or family calling they'll always leave a VM even if it's just "hey call me back".
digitalin 2 years ago
I guess it's just per person. If someone left me a voicemail saying "hey, call me back" I probably wouldn't get it for a week. They could just text me the same thing and I'd get it faster
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Zedrapazia 2 years ago
It's practical for anything business related, but if I want to call a friend to talk to them a bit, this "I am afraid of phone calls" behavior is a nuisance. However, I don't have any friends with this particular issue so it doesn't directly affect me, it's just the idea that annoys me.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Although, I do know there are people who genuinely have a tough time with phone calls, because they can't see the person's face expressions and mistake some tones as being negative when it may not be the case. My daughter is like that, but I've been getting her to take phone calls to get more comfortable with them and having discussions when she feels distressed about it after. However, I agree and have little understanding with those who just have a bad, snappy attitude about someone calling because to them it's "too outdated". Usually I prefer just dialing a number and speaking to someone instead of trying to navigate a tiny keyboard on my phone and dealing with mistypes, nonsensical autocorrections and misunderstood tones. Reading texts also feels disconnected from the other person, and eventually you feel you're just interacting with your device.
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
I am a baby boomer. I think I rather text than leave a voicemail. Seems like when I leave voicemail the person I leave it with don't notice it and don't respond to it.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Yes but it can take a lot longer to get answers. I have asked three questions in one email and only had one answered then have to send two others to get them answered. I don’t have all day wait for emails. Give me a phone call and email info if needed.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My sister was famous for never leaving a message and then would get pissed at me for not calling her back. I was like "did you leave a message? No, well then why would I call you back". Well, you can see I called. Caller ID is NOT my answering machine.
#11
Affordable cost of living
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
My family wonders why I asked to work on Christmas. Aside from how stressful and annoying my family is, might have something to do with the fact that my budget could really benefit from a day of my paycheck where I'm double paid, thank you.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
I'm 52, news for you all there's always been a cost of living crisis for as long as I can remember in one form or another...it mostly exists because we're told it does by various outlets.... words of advice from my grandfather was "always cut your cloth accordingly" and "don't keep up with the Joneses bring down to your level it's cheaper"...I don't own a house or anything like that,hell I don't even drive (never been interested in learning either)....I've learnt to live with what I've got instead of trying to buy what i cannot afford or want
Mint Sauce 2 years ago (edited)
.....Don't buy designer brands that aren't worth the money, or lease nice cars just for their prestige, or those expensive coffees at lunchtime. All you're doing is converting your hard work into yachts for a select few.
Gavin Winchester 2 years ago
FFS can the people who were too cool to pay attention in class stop commenting on the financial affairs of the world
TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
40+ years of being pissed on by the capitalists is sure working swell!
Load More Replies... BlindAres 2 years ago
This won't be popular. However, rent is based on supply and demand. Rent was going up in my area until new condensed type housing was built. Now it has come down about 7%. Rent has always been a thing. It will continue to stay that way. While there are *awful* examples of slumlords charging insane rent, the rental market will continue to be based on supply & demand.
#12
Color in public spaces. Everything is minimalist and grey now.
Clown fish 2 years ago (edited)
Were I live there are colours and street art
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
Also in interior design... The makeover shows often end up creating mono-colour palettes that are minimalist and without colour. Colour can be very effective in creating different moods in spaces: I'm pro feature walls of colour, whether painted or wall papered/stencilled.
Astrophile 2 years ago
Also in vehicle design! Most new vehicles today seem to come in white, black, silver, or some kind of grey. With the occasional red or blue.
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Vivian McBride 2 years ago
And cars. Wherever you go, you see gray, silver, white and black. You are never far from a white Tesla.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago
I just bought a yellow - yes a yellow! - microwave and it's so neat to come into the kitchen every morning and see it. It just brightens the whole room up and makes me feel good. When I can afford it, I'm going to have the kitchen painted in blue and yellow.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
Renton, WA is going the opposite and I'm sick and tired of stupid flowers, etc on utility boxes, etc. They are gaudy and take attention away from the surrounding plants or buildings and advertisements that businesses need.
Angeldust McQuade 2 years ago
I hate modern architecture. Gray, simple, bleak, boring. Cost effectiveness over any style.
#13
Objective journalism. We used to know that some outlets were biased (Fox, NYT) but now for literally any story you have to: read between the lines of a conservative source, read between the lines of a liberal source to balance, read an independent Substack to see what both of them omitted... and its too much work to just find the basic facts of a story.
Eric Schultz Saindon 2 years ago
This is such a garbage summary of how journalism works. Objectivity doesn't mean taking sides or not taking slides, it means, seeking and citing your sources and changing your viewpoint if the evidence points that way. The New York Times is a fantastic newspaper. There are consequences for their journalists if they write stories that are full of lies. They would write a correction or retraction if they make one little mistake. Things like Fox News are an entirely different animal. They don't fact check the vast majority of anything they say, and many of their opinion shows are labeled as news. This false equivalency stuff of "the right and the left are equally bad" is part of the problem. To insinuate that a fascist friendly American nationalist group is the same as an imperfect center left party makes no sense.
Stew C 2 years ago
What planet did you just drop in from. Your statement about objectivity is correct, but it is definitely not associated with the the NY Times newspaper. 90% of the stories in the New York Times, have a definitive, political slant and their reputation for being objective or accurate even went away years ago. There are a few exceptions if you get beyond the first three or four pages. Myself and others read it at least once a week just to see how far out they really are. No intent to insult you, but just to factually remind you how the New York Times is really perceived.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
I was called a terrorist by a guy I've known for most of my life who ingests a steady diet of Fox, when I suggested he vary his sources. "Not CNN or anything, but PBS/NPR, even Al Jazeera (it was on sat tv for a bit) for balance". Whooo boy! I prefer reporting of facts, not being told WHAT to think. While there is certainly bias in NPR/PBS personalities, they at LEAST present both sides.
LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
Somewhere along the line, newspeople stopped preceding opinions with "I think" or "I feel" and instead report their opinions as facts. PBS/NPR still seem to know the difference.
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This happens in all countries today. It's not just one country's
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Mr. Nurse Man 2 years ago
Not sponsored, but I like Ground News. Let’s you read articles across the political spectrum so it at least gives you the choice to read from different sources and how they choose to cover the topic.
Tamra 2 years ago
I came here to say the same! Ground News will show you if the news source is left, right, or centrist. You can also compare the same story as it is written by different sources, to see how each spins it.
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CF 2 years ago
I'm in the US and mostly get my US news from the BBC. While not always the most in depth coverage about smaller news items, it feels less biased (about US topics). Though it does lump us in with Canada. Poor Canada...
Boris Long-Johnson 2 years ago
Just don’t trust them for internal uk news!
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L. Murphy 2 years ago
I learned in 5th grade that every complete news story gives the who, what, where, when, why and how without opinion. That's for the opinion section. Half the news stories I read are so vague, incomplete, or inflammatory that I don't know how they are being paid to write them.
#14
In general, "third spaces" esp. for like teens, i feel bad for them. Not too many indoor places you can just hang out without paying for something
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
We used to hang out in diners and drink free coffee refills until the sun came up when I was a teen. #GothVibes
Nolgoth 2 years ago
Every arcade and skating rink we had in my town has been shut down. Many citing that it was due to underage gang activity.
Featherytoad 2 years ago
They turned ours into an alcohol distribution center.
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DeeDee M 2 years ago
No more dumping your a*****e teenager who can’t drive yet at the mall for the afternoon. Those days are gone 😭
Judes 2 years ago
Has this changed? My kids go to the mall with their friends quite often.
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Julie Blaylock 2 years ago
Teens hang out at the library I work at. Unfortunately some of them are so rude and obnoxious that we have to ask them to leave. We feel bad because there isn’t anywhere else in our small town for them to go, but the total disrespect of some them show is horrible.
Tomato Froggo 2 years ago
I was always super excited to go to the mall with friends after hearing my parents talk about it, but one of the malls near us closed and the other has super frequent shootings/robberies. We do go to the library sometimes, but having to sit and whisper talk just isn’t the same
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago (edited)
Hell we used to ride our bikes anywhere and everywhere. A whole group of us just chillin', cruising around town. I'm not that old but those were the good ol' days...
kathoco 2 years ago
Sorry, but when I was a teenager there were no hangout places. We went to a café or the arcade or some similar place and had to buy something. The OP must be from a very different place.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Billions of people are from a very different place. When I was aged 6 to 12, I lived where everything was corn or apples. From 12 to 18 I lived in the suburbs, next to the capital of the 4th most populous state in the US. Then I went to college in central Alaska,, then moved to a rural part of the most densely populated state in the US. Then downtown in a depressed, rust belt city. I've also lived in Boston and New York, trained briefly in Paris, and done work in Kabul, Afghanistan and Havana, Cuba. Strange as it seems, each of these places had its own thing going on, and that leads me to suspect that other places may, too
Load More Replies... LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
Mostly, it was my house. Because I was the only one with my own TV.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
I don't understand this one. Free parks, beaches, malls, football/soccer/baseball fields, tennis courts, dog parks, skate parks, libraries, museums, fishing piers, etc. are everywhere! What went away? I'm 40 for a timeline reference on what I might be missing.
Stephen Butler 2 years ago
have you heard of libraries? They are still open and free the last time I checked.
#15
Being able to see the stars at night. I live in a small college town. I have to drive several miles to get far enough away from the light pollution to see anything.
Jason 2 years ago
I am very thankful here we have one of the best places in the world for star gazing.
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
80% of North Americans cannot see the Milky Way, due to light pollution. 60% of Europeans can't see it, either. worlds-lig...2c0a0f.jpg 
FaceTime Audio 2 years ago
First time I went to summer camp as a kid was so shocking. I’m from a huge city, I had never seen so many stars. I didn’t know it could be like that.
Lou Cam 2 years ago
My daughter went camping with school in the Highlands and was overawed by the natural night sky. I had told her about it about before hand but she just couldn't imagine how brilliant the stars shine and how many of them there are. Living in a city we may see a handful at best.
Kelly Scott 2 years ago (edited)
I live in a fairly rural area so the stars are pretty bright, but I've been noticing for a couple years now, the huge bright white spotlights that businesses are putting on the outsides of their stores. They're horrible and if you catch them in the eye, it's like looking into someone's brights. And now an actual homeowner has THREE of them up in front of her house. Like, lady, seriously? Are you expecting helicopters to land in your front yard or on your roof or something?
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
I too live in a small northern town, yet can't see the stars. I work on a boat and every time I get the late shift, once I'm done I bundle up and go outside and just stare at how beautiful it all is.
Angeldust McQuade 2 years ago (edited)
I remember the first time seeing the Milky Way. I was like, “ um, what is that?”
Chris Landrum 2 years ago
I just dont understand why so many buildings keep all their lights on all night
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
I still remember the first time I got far enough out into the countryside to really see the Milky Way. And it's absolutely stunning. To think that's how our long ago ancestors saw the sky every night and now most people who live in built-up areas will never have the opportunity.
#16
The middle class. You are now either rich, or poor
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
The falsely named Citizens United, which has nothing to do with citizens, needs to be thrown in the toilet and flushed until it is permanently gone. Same goes for the also falsely named Right to Work c**p, which is really right to be fired. Republicans have managed to ram through so much s****y and patently unfair c**p legislation that only hurts the 99% and makes the 1% wealthy.
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Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
This is true for the US and some other places in the world, but India for example has the fastest growing middle class. So depends on where you live!
michael Chock 2 years ago
Closer to ruling class or working class. We have regressed to middle ages.
Tamra 2 years ago
I'm baffled you don't have more upvotes. Quite a few economists have said the same...that rather than the three typical classes, we have very much a two class system: the ruling and working classes.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
There are some misconceptions about the middle class, then. The middle class have always been careful with money, but they lived within their means and managed to save some money. Some may have the room for luxuries and proper vacations. They live comfortably but still cautiously. If that's you, you are middle class. To be poor, the basic essentials are tough to afford and you are at higher risk to become in debt and homeless. If you are living in poverty, there is a high chance you are already homeless or nearing homelessness, and cannot afford the bare essentials for survival and rely heavily on donations and social programs.
Gavin Winchester 2 years ago
Jesus , why is this entire thread so pathetic. There are more middle class and less poor people statistically now than ever
Julia Ford 2 years ago
I kind of agree but what do you consider a family making $250,000 a year but not much saved. Isn’t that the new middle class?
Zephyr343 2 years ago
Middle class is between $55,000 and $89,000. Upper class is $149,000 and above.
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#17
Attention spans
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
I mean there was that comment about how TVs would never catch on because Americans didn't have long enough attention spans. So I'm not sure this is a new thing.
Eric Sandoval 2 years ago
Studies have clearly indicated that our attention spans have been vastly shortened in the past few decades. Information and stimulus overload. Mass consumption of short clips like TikTok and YouTube Shorts damage our attention spans in measurably profound ways.
Load More Replies... Phil Vaive 2 years ago
People out here acting like learning disabilities are something to be mocked
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
I'm not sure how or when it happened, but I cannot do & focus on just one thing at a time. Right now, I'm reading this on my phone... I'm also am watching YouTube videos, and playing HayDay on my iPad. I used to be a voracious reader, able to sit & read a book for hours at a time, finishing huge books in 1-3 days. I haven't read a book in years, because I can't sit still & concentrate on one thing at a time.
#18
Politeness. Not being d***s to random strangers.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Are we talking in person or on the internet? Because anonymity seems to trigger the "I'm an a*****e" gene in most people. But for some reason if you talk to them in person they're much more subdued.
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago (edited)
Yep...Plain MANNERS. Doesn't cost anything to give or receive good manners. It's all in context. It's a balance of survivor skills, situational awareness and good etiquette, because predators do count on good manners to trap people, but on the other hand, good manners go a long way to keeping us civil and humane to one another. Speak to people like you've been taught to be kind - unless the person doesn't deserve it by their actions or words to you. I'm NOT saying if someone tries to carjack you (Goddess Forbid) you say: "Good Sir, how can I help you today?" Drench the SOB with bear spray and get out! But if you're in a store and someone says "Good morning", you say "Good morning" and be on your way. Someone in a van asks for directions in a deserted area - NOPE, I CAN'T HELP YOU (actually happened to me) ; someone stranded by the roadside in a lonely spot - I will dial 911 for you, from a distance, in case it's a setup. In a very public area, I will make a call for you on speaker (NOT GIVING YOU MY PHONE) and/or I will also give you $$$$ to help, depending. It's all in context. But yes, GOOD MANNERS in ordinary day life. If you're a worker at a business and I ask for help, I will ask you nicely; you respond in kind, like a decent, bloody human being. I've noticed some people lack this basic understanding lately, and it's odd. Wolves are raised better. Didn't mean to run on; I've given this a lot of thought.
Load More Replies... Phil Vaive 2 years ago
I worked in customer service for 20 of the past 25 years, and I can honestly say that people have been d***s to random strangers for a lot more than the past ten years
Phil Vaive 2 years ago
In fact, I generally find that younger customers tend to be a lot kinder and more understanding than people in their 50s and up.
Load More Replies... Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
So, we just going to pretend people in the past weren't a bunch of horrible bigots?
BlindAres 2 years ago
As it always has been, depends on the area of country in the USA. The east coast think NJ and above) is infamous for their lack of politeness. Midwest charm is a thing. And I've experienced extreme kindness in the Rocky mountain areas when I was stationed out there. Anywhere in the US, in a highly packed tourist area, and you'll find less than polite locals. The reason: those locals are being pushed out of their comfort areas by the tourist influx. Many times, those locals are having a hard time even affording to stay in their hometown because of tourism that's pushing prices of absolutely everything up.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
The anonymity of the internet has brought out worst in a lot of people.
Jeevesssssss 2 years ago
Depends on the area of the country. I'm in the UK but still applies. When I was at the train station where my parents live (wealthier area, mostly white demographic) I became unwell on the platform. I'm clearly physically vulnerable as I'm extremely underweight. I actually passed out on the platform and not a single person came up to ask if they could help (it was mid-level busy). Someone DID call station management, at least, who were great. In contrast, in a similar situation in my home town (poorer, extremely ethnodiverse) whenever I've started to look significantly 'off' (bending over to increase blood flow to brain etc) I've ALWAYS had someone ask if I was OK and if I needed assistance. (I don't travel when I know I'm not well enough, but frequently I will get bitten in the @ss by my conditions and there's no way of predicting that.)
StrangeOne 2 years ago
People are so damn rude these days, for no reason. People only think about themselves, then think it's rude for others to expect them to consider other people.
BarkingSquirell 2 years ago
This is true of cities but smaller places tend to be kinder and more polite because everyone knows everybody.
#19
Magazine shops. The ones that sold obscure magazines that you can’t get at Walmart or the grocery store or even the big box bookstore.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Our local newsagent closed down in the last six months. Too few people buying newspapers and magazines. And the other stuff like pens and stationary were dying too because kids (and adults) are using computers/tablets/phones more and more. I've also seen quite a few magazines now offer digital subscriptions so why even buy a paper copy anymore?
Ammyshine Kim 2 years ago
Seems a lot of there are really US biased. There are plenty of decent magazine stores in London, Leeds, Manchester etc.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/hey you) 2 years ago
Rich’s Cigar Store in Portland, Oregon has been open for 125 years. They used to have an astonishing selection of magazines, but digital publishing and the pandemic killed it. Now they’re just a cigar store.
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
I suppose you could get those in the shops where they sell "obscure" things too ;) But these shops too, will probably be scarce
Alfred Jarry 2 years ago
Where i live there are no more book stores or record stores Poof! Gone.😐
Momo Skarsgård 2 years ago
I miss Heavy Metal magazine so much!!! Because not just the stands but also many great magazines.
CaptainSlapNTickle 2 years ago
Like Scoreland and Gent? It's cheaper to produce digitally. Obviously.
#20
Free articles! Almost everything is behind a paywall nowadays
arthbach 2 years ago
I don't think we have ever has access to as much free information as we do now.
MadMonkey 2 years ago
I am so in agreement with this. Once I left academia, the doors to university libraries were closed to me. (Stanford is the worst of these. My sister WORKS there and they wouldn't let her in.) There are two (I think, maybe three) companies that publish almost all the science journals of any worth out there. I have to pay $35 PER ARTICLE to do research. Normally my research entails literally hundreds of articles. I don't have the money. Research Gate has helped some, PLOS articles are helpful but PLOS is going under. I won't mention the number of magazines and newspapers I can not access without a subscription. It is infuriating.
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago
If I click on an article and discover a paywall, I didn't need to read it. If a giant corp cannot find a better way to pay their expenses than to nickle and dime me on the internet - they're not credible, in my view.
Javelina Poppers 2 years ago
There was a website called 12 Foot Ladder that got you past most of the paywalls. The website's name is based on the phrase "show me a 10 foot wall and I'll show you a 12 foot ladder." It bypasses paywalls by pretending to be a search engine crawler when requesting a webpage. Websites with paywalls often allow access to search engine crawlers to ensure their pages appear in search engines.
Nicholas Barrett 2 years ago
this is why Wikipedia is effectively the holy grail of information. it should be loved like the wonder it is.
#21
product reviews that is not an affiliate link
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
They do exist. They just don't get the same hits. So you have to search harder to find them. Forums or discords are the best way to get genuine reviews. eg: Don't go to 4wdcampingdotcom, go to 4WDcampinngforumdotcom and look for comments from real people not influencers or professional reviewers. They may not be as well written but they're going to be more honest.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
I'm even struggling to understand the whole »discord« thing...
Load More Replies... Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
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#22
Public pay telephones. Sucks for those in trouble that don't have a cell phone (with battery life).
Edit: Also sucks for Superman when he wants to make a quick clothing change.
Edit 2: It's cool that Australia turned theirs into free public phones.
And yes, I missed/ignored the "past decade" part of the question.
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
I n Australia, we still have them. The law requires that there must be a public phone network. A little while back, the operator (Telstra) decided that the money they took in and the effort of collecting it was not worth it, so now all public phones are free. Cost nothing to use.
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago
Amazing. Why not in USA? Cellular lobbyists or too many crimes committed using payphones (although, doesn't seem likely. They're easier to tap into and stationary. Maybe vandalism? I have ?????)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Still have them at every rail and transit station here for 911 purposes.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Most hospitals in the US still have pay phones. You just have to find them.
Iron Penguin 2 years ago
Yeah, there was a great editorial about that exact same topic a while back in the Daily Planet. I think the byline was something Kent?
Stephen Butler 2 years ago
even the phone company removed pay phones from its office buildings.
Moonchild Creations 2 years ago
Not about a pay phone but last month I was admitted to the hospital. I didn't have my cellphone with me, I found it amusing the room didn't have a phone readily available.
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
Although, I've notice some are disappearing. Before I got my first cellphone in 2019, I relied on payphones to check my bank balance, report issues with my bank card or checked the bus times. 1-800 numbers were free to dial. But they were gross to use and, for some reason, there was always that one inconsiderate person who would interrupt your important call to tell you you're somehow in the way of them or they want something from you. I still see some payphones. I don't think Winnipeg will eradicate them all due to the high rate of homeless people who still rely on them.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 2 years ago
In Lisbon I saw some being used as public and free library. I got so many nice books.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
You know, Superman is faster than the Flash. He should be able to change so quickly that you could be liking straight at him and not know what's happening. But then an award winning reporter should be able to tell her coworker is Superman in glasses
#23
Privacy
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
It's going to get worse. Imagine being able to snap a pic and reverse image search the person across the bar. Within minutes you're in their social media posts. You've got the name of their kid/pet/whatever. This technology exists today and it's creepy as hell.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
And that's before you even get to the corporate, government or military uses...
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hearditontheX 2 years ago
Double edged sword. Definitely helps with solving crimes but still very intrusive
Temporary Dork 2 years ago
So keep the connection between your face and your real name off of the internet. The government will still know who you are, but strangers in the streets will not.
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
This along with AI and global over-population, are the three biggest dangers to society.
Chason Taile 2 years ago
I'll trade safety and culpability for privacy any day. I remember seeing a video of an attack where a guy randomly knock out punched someone at a bus stop and walked away. Through CCTV they were able to trace where he came from back a few streets across several cameras all the way to his front door. Police caught up with him pretty much immediately.
#24
Privacy. Workers’ rights. Consumer rights. Americans’ sanity.
Sonja 2 years ago
Yeah, but once they were more like the odd uncle you still like because he's still doing lots of interesting things and now that uncle got batshit crazy and pees in his underwear and wears it on its head. I'm not saying Americans are generally bad, but somehow in the last decade they turned around and their country is walking backwards.
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TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
Both the USA and the UK made a turn for the worst when Ronald met Margaret and decided to let the economy "trickledown" on us...
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Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Maybe so! Sadly those that were Crafty crazy and Peaceful are long gone!
lawrence Andrew 2 years ago
We forget about all the improvements, thing have gotten better but still need Improvement.
Gerald Ogden 2 years ago
"I'm not crazy/INSTITUTION/you're the one who's crazy/INSTITUTION..."
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
We've got plenty of consumer rights and worker's rights here in Australia. They can always ben stronger, and need reinforcement from time to time, but they've never gone away.
#25
Left over money after paying bills
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago (edited)
You will have money if you stop buying the newest version of garbage. My last car made it to 20 years, and my tv is 18 years old and still works just fine.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
What is this left over money thing? I have never had enough money and I don't know anyone who has.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I refuse to pay for cable and refuse to use more electricity than I need. One thing I did notice. One December I put up some incandescent Christmas lights around my window. One apartment size window. I didn't have the lights on all the time, just for the evening. Perhaps it was a glitch or some sloppy meter reading, but my energy bill shot up to space for that month. This is a comparison chart from my account. You can see my usage doesn't really change too much any other time. I can't think of any other reason than those Christmas lights. Screenshot...13-png.jpg 
#26
Lightning bugs.
Mike Loux 2 years ago (edited)
Can confirm. Lived in an Austin TX suburb for 9 years. Didn't see a single firefly. Moved out to the middle of the Virginia woods a year ago. So. Many. Fireflies. It's magical. Didn't realize I missed it so much until I saw it again.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Those mf'ers must have left your house and came to mine. It sounds like rocks hitting my windows in the summer...
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Valerie Valenta 2 years ago
Lightning bugs are less populous now because light pollution has decreased their ability to mate. Just read an article a couple months ago about that
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
back in the 80s they sprayed pesticides to control the mosquito population in southern areas. Then realized they were removing a lot more bugs, including lightning bugs. :-( They're still around, but there's a lot fewer of them.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
once again I got lightning bugs for days. It's december and they are still out where I am.
#27
good Google search results
Charlotte Incog 2 years ago
If you get bad Google search results, you need to learn how to Google better.
ValdaDeDieu 2 years ago
Nope. Google has changed, and with that, good results untainted by their "sponsored" ads. You now have to dig deeper - and even then, some good sites are gone.
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Zephyr343 2 years ago
Has anyone ever been past page 3 of a Google search? I have heard of it....but what exists on those pages??
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
If you need to go past page three you usually need to refine your search terms. Add a date range, or some more words that will filter the results. So if I find I'm gone past page two or three (and there are a lot more hits) I stop and rethink my search.
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Will Cable 2 years ago
Google USED to be good but these days it is the shittiest of the s**t pile
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
OFFS. Use DuckDuckGo. They don’t farm your data, so no ads, either. If you want privacy on the net, FIND IT. It’s out there! (And NEVER give out your phone number! Get one of the many, MANY free phone numbers and route it to your phone!)
Sam Lombardo 2 years ago
That's not true at all. Compared with the early 2000s the quality of request and matching results has improven a lot. Problem is way more generic and not enough diverse content. Google is already working on that part and implementing AI to its algorithm, which should show more specific results for a user's request in the near future.
#28
Over 10 000 unique species and several hundred unique natural habitats. And that's probably a very conservative estimate...
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago (edited)
"Fun" fact: We're in the middle of a mass extinction event. The holocene mass extinction. And the current consensus is that it is largely anthropogenic. Though the exact amount is debated.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
LOL that is a massive underestimate. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity-wiped-out-animals-since-1970-major-report-finds From The Guardian so legit source.
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
only about 75% of those are our fault. Life does indeed move on even if we aren't here to do it.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
Everything that has ever lived on this planet has gone extinct, we are next.
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
If it "helps", we're hurtling towards our own destruction, currently in the middle of a mass extinction event. And while unfortunately we will take a lot of other species with us, many will thrive. However, we've used up many of this planets resources already. Should by some miracle,humans rise again, they won't get much farther than the farming period, there's not much left for us to use at this point.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Yet, scientists keep discovering new species of one thing or another.
#29
Good screenwriting
Analyn Lahr 2 years ago
Right? In some of the digital books I've read, while the plot is interesting, there are so many typos and continuity errors, it's not funny. It's like they don't believe in proofreaders and/or their beta readers don't pay attention.
Load More Replies... Jac Sp 2 years ago
I can't comment about films but there's been some amazing TV in the last few years. I don't keep majorly up to date but off the top of my head: Stranger Things, Sex Education, Shetland, Vigil, Good Omens, Heart Stopper..
the quickening 2 years ago
Yeah, there's genuinely good writing and amazing entertainment and art nowadays. There's just also a lot of c**p in both categories.
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Virgin Panda 2 years ago
Ikr! A lot of movies etc are just remakes now. There must be lots of people out there who have great ideas but the bigwigs would rather spend money on people they know rather than giving someone a chance
Will Cable 2 years ago
I don't think I've seen a movie in recent years where the 'cure' to the situation involves a nuclear device, the same old pap put out time after time.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Does it seem like only copies of copies can be made, How about something Original?
#30
Recording horizontally on your phone instead of vertically.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
I would add watching a concert with your eyes and not through your phone.
Lauren S 2 years ago
Ooh I like this. My husband will always comment about my not taking photos or videos at our son’s events. I try to take a bit but what I really want to do is watch him. Actually experience watching him with my own eyeballs in real life! I want him to see my face in the crowd, not my phone.
Load More Replies... Will Cable 2 years ago (edited)
VVS is a pain, when you try and watch a video of something and they are constantly moving the camera left and right to get it all in..........turn the phone you frigging idiots
Kira Okah 2 years ago
That would be based on where you regularly watch videos. The only times that I see it is when a video has been specifically recorded for tiktok, otherwise they are recorded horizontally.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Depends on the content. If you're recording a person talking it makes sense to be vertical (portrait mode) since it captures more information about the focus of the video. Similarly, if you're taking a video of scenery or a large event (like a concert) then it makes sense to film horizontally (landscape) since you're capturing the overall event not a focused point. I think people are finally getting used to the idea of rotating their phones depending on what they're shooting.
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Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
I saw a humor video with a catchy song telling people to turn their phones on the side to take photos.... was years ago, can't find it anymore sadly. There's a reason it's called PORTRAIT, folks!
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
I still do it sometimes. But then the picture/video still gets shown as if it was taken vertically. In the case of a picture, often with big black parts above and below, if its a video, it often shows turned 90° (in any case on the pc)
James Tuttle 2 years ago
As a creator, I get annoyed by this. Vertical might work best sometimes, but horizontal is often better.
#31
Land lines…products with quality…wood instead of particle board, leather, linen, cotton…what is that….food without fillers or preservatives…non cookie cutter bodies and faces…
Sonja 2 years ago
I rarely ever buy cake. But there was 8ne brand I always enjoyed so I bought one as a guilty pleasure lately. At first I thought it was just me getting older, but they have changed the packaging too so I started googling and lo and behold, their chocolate cake barely contains chocolate anymore. It's mostly replaced with sugar and food colouring. That's why they changed the flavour from chocolate to cocoa. Because where I live the chocolate content must surpass a certain level before something can be advertised as chocolate something and it must contain real chocolate not compound chocolate.
michael Chock 2 years ago
Everything tastes like garbage now. Milk Duds (candy) has a coating now that is bitter. Peanut butter is mixed with vegetable shortening. Rye bread has less than 10% rye and is colored with cocoa. Tomatoes taste like sand. It's not just me, you can get these from Farmers markets and it's AMAZING.
Featherytoad 2 years ago
Agree. I stopped buying tomatoes in the store because there is no flavor to them. Ho Ho's don't taste the same anymore either, lol.
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FYI, cellulose is sawdust. Most bread in stores is made with sawdust (wood dust)
Featherytoad 2 years ago
I started buying brick cheese because the pre-shredded stuff is full of that. It's to prevent clumping but, it still clumps.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Actually the non-cookie cutter bodies and faces abound in the real world. It's just that the social media apps filter the images so they all look the same.
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
Food without sugar. They take the sugar out of the things that SHOULD be sweet, but still put it in anything it should NOT be, without people knowing or noticing. That's where you get too much sugar from
Featherytoad 2 years ago
I regret not bringing my parent's hand me down bedroom furniture when we moved. It you can't afford a lot, it's particle board.
Erik Biesemeier 2 years ago
Quality products still exist, but most people aren't willing to pay for them. Those vintage clothes everybody lauds the quality of weren't cheap; people forget that when they're buying them 2nd or 3rd hand for a fraction of what they would cost to make today. Greedflation is certainly a problem, but if consumers only buy cheap c**p, that's what companies are going to make.
#32
Having actual physical copies of music and movies. People are so used to just watching YT, or using streaming services. Not saying some people don’t, but it’s more for a “collection” than actually that being the only way to have the material. I hadn’t bought a CD since at least 2008, and the only reason I bought DVD’s at P**n Shops cheap AF was to build a collection.
Charlie grace 2 years ago
I use CDs in my car everyday. I keep them in one of those zip cd wallets :)
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I buy CDs but I rip them to MP3 then burn an MP3 CD that contains roughly 10 regular CDs on it. Then I play that in the car. With a six stacker it means I effectively have about 60 CDs worth of music in it. At home I usually listen to MP3 on the PC or sometimes CDs through the stereo. But MP3 tends to be better because I don't risk scratching my "master CD".
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Tabitha 2 years ago
BTW, OP is going to p a w n shops to purchase music, not p o r n shops. BP’s OTT censorship is making the site really f*****k I n g difficult to read.
BoredPossum 2 years ago
I was wondering that myself. Pa-wn isn't even close to p-orn.
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Sonja 2 years ago
It's coming back though. And pirating movies too. All just because of company greed. When streaming started, it was great. Pay a reasonable amount and watch movies. There was Netflix, lots of stuff on Amazon Prime and sooner or later everything was running somewhere. But now, with needing so many different and expensive streaming services just to be able to actually see recent movies, that's no longer a reasonable option. So the people dist their pirate hats and go back to second hand shops for cheap DVDs
Kira Okah 2 years ago
Companies don't actually sell physical copies any more to drive people to streaming or itunes or whatnot. It's not driven by consumers.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It's absolutely driven by consumers. The companies like Sony, Warner, BMG, etc hate streaming. And the companies that run music shops hate it too because it's killing their business model and they're scrambling to find other stuff to sell or closing up shops.
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Waiting for things and being “bored” waiting.
Every minute we are multi tasking everything because everything is always available. We used to have time to get bored because there wasn’t enough to do at all times. Now we are inundated with on demand stuff and I no longer get time to daydream or be bored. I used to love having time with my thoughts.
arthbach 2 years ago
If you loved it, then choose to make the time for it. Go to bed 10 minutes early, and just sit. You have the choice.
BrownTabby 2 years ago (edited)
TBH yeah. I still do it regularly. (And everyone who says there was NOTHING to do before smartphones has either forgotten about books or just wasn’t into reading, which is their prerogative but was by no means universal.)
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Funnily enough the kids seem to think the opposite. They have a phone, a tablet, a PS4 hooked to a 65" TV, a laptop, assorted toys, books, sporting gear, bikes, hoverboards, scooters, etc. But apparently they're still bored and there is nothing to do.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago (edited)
I never get bored... It's a matter of choice to make time for just "being". A lot of people think that they need to be occupied 24/7, or at least while awake. I strongly recommend listening to meditation apps or guided meditations for free on YouTube. Sometimes it can be a struggle to stop thinking...
Elizabeth Brown 2 years ago
If I am not doing something I don't get bored, I get self reflective and panicky
Load More Replies... Momica98 1 year ago (edited)
Thought about this the other day while waiting for blood work. Tried to pass the time with work stuff so time wasn't wasted. Finally left when I heard it was a 1.5 hour wait. How the heck are working people supposed to get this kind of stuff done? I wish I could make an appointment. I was the youngest person by decades, surrounded by elderly people with more free time.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I'll never put too much on my plate. I can't even cook more than 2 things at once. I love daydreaming and having time to be with myself. Just can't take something like that away.
Deleila Charlie 2 years ago
I've never been bored. Even before smart phones, I always had a book with me or drawing supplies. I always have something to do
v 2 years ago
If you have no time to daydream or be bored it's your own fault. There is absolutely nothing in this world that creates any kind of demand for people to be doing something every waking minute. If people would make themselves take time and actually disconnect we'd probably see a significant reduction in mental health issues.
#34
Actual newspapers and coupons on Sundays.
MarieTDr 2 years ago
I still subscribe to the newspapers. But then, I'm an Oldster. The most relaxing part of the day is early in the morning with the papers and a hot cup of coffee.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
My parents get an actual hardcopy of The Washington Post 7 days a week. That used to be normal, but I think they're now the only people in the neighborhood who still do it.
Must Be Bored Again 2 years ago
I used to love reading a newspaper basically cover to cover. Educational, entertaining and relaxing, cup of favorite drink in hand, spending time relaxing.
Stephen Butler 2 years ago
actual newspapers with local connections. With no local papers one doesn't get proper local news about local politics and other important local information. My local paper is a mere shadow because it can't get advertising.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Years ago, my downstairs flat neighbor worked for the newspaper. He'd bring one home on Sunday mornings to share, and I'd make the coffee. We sat out on the stoop and shared the coffee and newspaper.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
You can still get papers with coupons...but the coupons are largely unusable... a waste of paper and resources.
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
We still get newspapers here in Oz, but they're not worth it. Out of 14 papers in my state, 13 are owned by Murdoch. the 14th is a CCP propaganda rag.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 2 years ago
This depends on where you are. I admit I haven't bought one in maybe 10 years but my parents do and also relatives amd friends abroad still do and it's quite normal still.
#35
Regular TVs. 90% of the ones you can buy from big-box or online retailers are smart TVs. I just want a cheaper "dumb" TV that I can plug a Roku into.
HurlWurk 2 years ago
Get a sound bar. No internal speakers can come close.
Load More Replies... Jared Robinson 2 years ago
lol I want a dumb tv I can plug a roku into to make it smart. That is silly
michael Chock 2 years ago
I got a smart TV and just never registered it or hooked it up to the internet. It acts just like a dumb TV
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Plugging a roku into a dumb tv turns it into a smart tv, lol! I love my Roku, and its remote is the only one I use for everything - in fact I have no idea where my tv's remote is.
Rachel DaPron 2 years ago
This would be great marketing. “Cost effective, perfectly functional, dumb TV! Not everything in your house needs to be a genius!”
David Paterson 2 years ago
Regular microwaves have vanished, too. Just give me one with a dial for time and a dial for power, not pre-programmed veal recipes.
Lunamorte Louise 2 years ago
I have been seeing smart TVs that are less expensive than groceries.
Rosie 2 years ago
Making a dumb TV smart is not a dumb move. 1) Streaming gadgets need regular reboots, plus updates. It's a pain when you use the TV for DVDs &/or cable (yes, some of us still use that) & not just streaming. I don't mind the reboots if I'm streaming, it comes w/the territory. But having to do that just to get my TV to turn on sucks. 2) There's also the problem of 2 gadgets w/different lifespans. The TV is likely to last a lot longer than the streaming portion, although it depends on the brand. 3) Finally, you may like (or only be able to afford) a brand of TV, but prefer a different one for the streaming gadget. While it's possible to add, let's say a Roku to a Fire TV, it's extra expense, cables, etc. There's a reason why monitors w/built-in computers are no longer a thing (beyond laptops of course).
#36
Why don't cars today come with spare wheels? What the f?!
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Nope...car shopping... the Jeep we looked at had a can of Fix-A-Flat in lieu of spare.
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
If you have a flat tyre on a major road here in The UK, it is advised not to attempt to swap tyres yourself for health & safety reasons. I blew a rear tyre last year and waited 45 mins in a lay-by to have the RAC guy swap it out for the dummy wheel that came with my car. I then drove a few miles to where I was doing a job and got a part worn tyre put on until I could get a new set put on at my local garage.
Gary Geracci 1 year ago
Why not make Run Flat tires available to buy publilcy,That curb hitters would not stop traffic so many times with a darned flat tyre!
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Budget cars these days come with compressors and maybe a plug kit standard (you can option a spare), medium priced cars still usually come with at least a donut standard, trucks usually still have a full sized spare standard, expensive cars usually have run-flats. (10+ years in rental at a location with a 10k vehicle fleet, I've seen a lot of cars)
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
My last car, bought new in 2008, didn't have a spare tire, just a repair kit. I was really shocked at the time, but it's not that new a thing!
#37
Anything happening without a f*****g algorithm
michael Chock 2 years ago
Algorithms destroy humanity. They plot the most likely course for every aspect of our lives and then refuse to allow us outside their box. It makes us easy to exploit. It started with grocery stores, now it's even in applying for jobs. Your life has been predetermined to make the most profits for those at the top. Its not a big conspiracy, just small steps by the greedy that eventually led us into this distopian present.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Just think of all the amazing talent that’s being shut out of jobs because they don’t match the algorithm’s programming. Bring back human hiring managers, ffs. People who have a knack for finding good people. And let’s shitcan that stupid assed idea of “work culture”, ffs. You’re there to work, not socialize. Also, ageism needs to go out the window. I don’t care if you’re 75 years old, if your mind is still sharp and you have education, experience, and wisdom, I want you on the team. I hate companies that get rid of their experienced employees and are always training. It one person there knows what the f**k they’re doing. Also, jobs should have work-life balance baked in. 40 hours, period. If it can’t be done in 40, it can wait til Monday. Also, managers must consult with their teams for realistic timelines to get work done—-in the 40 hour week. Also, instead of having people doing multiple people’s jobs, f*****g hire enough staff! Pay decent wages, give good benefits, and bonuses at the end of a profitable year! If you have hired the best people, then management needs to do their job and manage people—-meaning managers should be chosen for their people skills, not their nastiness or who they’re related to or f*****g on the side. Be ethical, damn it! Anyway, I’ll stop venting now.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
Don't get me wrong, I think How To Cook That is a great channel, but Ann Reardon is always concerning us with YouTube's algorithm. I don't care about algorithms. I'll upload whatever I want to upload, regardless how much attention my videos receive or there lack of. I won't just like and subscribe to a video if I don't feel like it. I'll die on that hill.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
Agree. My nephew got put in Facebook jail for 30 days for using the word "t r a n n y". He was replacing the transmission in his truck.
Steve Hall 2 years ago
I love screwing with algorithms, I will search stupid phrases to confuse them.
M T Sharp 2 years ago
An algorithm is merely a step-by-step procedure to solve a problem or accomplish a particular end result. They can be written and followed manually. What you are griping about are computerized algorithms ... programs. After being written and tested human managers decide companies will use them and not deviate. This can be good or bad, but algorithmic problems are just human problems enshrined by organizations and running at the speed of light. Blame humans.
Solidhog 2 years ago
Have said this before. ALGORITHMS ARE DESTROYING THE JOB MARKET AND ROBBING COMPANIES OF POTENTIAL AMAZING EMPLOYEES! I got my first job because my boss "had a feeling" about me and I went on to become one of their top engineers and then getting head hunted by another company based on my reputation. Later I changed career and moved into a job with computers repairs, networking, coding, digital graphics and animation and now CAD and 3D printing. Skills that I have no qualifications for or would appear in an online job recruitment site. But my employer found out about them because an algorithms did not dismiss me automatically from an interview. And the amount of times I have met people are amazing at a job but have no real qualifications for it or meet people with a long list of qualifications but are totally useless at a job.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Even my life choices are subject to an algorithm. Some days, the entire universe seems to be conspiring against me. Who else has happened to experience this?
#38
Hope for the future
Tabitha 2 years ago
I used to feel relatively safe and secure living in the US. Even if we were sending troops to a conflict somewhere, I still didn’t feel threatened. It was business as usual and everything normal. But since 2016, I have lost that feeling, and just feel like we’re on the road to ruin. I don’t like feeling that way. I want to feel that way again. I’m 63 now, and do not want to spend my old age in a dystopia.
Michael Danhauer 2 years ago
Math doesn't lie... Hard to be hopeful when you see the statistics and the way they are trending
Steve Hall 2 years ago
THE future is an abstract thought, YOUR future will always have hope if YOU want it to.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Never had any. Did you ever bother to read the "club of Rome" report from 1972, we're all dead by now.
Sandor M 2 years ago
Uhm,no. Rome club 1972 predicted collapse by the end of 21st century
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#39
House phones.
BlindAres 2 years ago
To be honest, why pay a utility/phone company the any amount of money per month if it's just a redundancy? I got rid of my in home phone in 2015. It cost $25/month. That won't make or break me but it'll add $25 of fun to my life during the month or $25 in the savings account.
Barbara Kayton 2 years ago
Hard line telephones are far more reliable than voice over internet/mobile phones. If we could still get regular landlines (not internet phone) where we live, I would. Relying on the internet is terrible.
Load More Replies... James016 2 years ago
We have a landline as it is part of the internet package and the way my ISP do their pricing it is cheaper to have it. However we do not have any handsets plugged into it. We used to as the master phone socket is in our front room but they changed it as the primary phone we had would have to be plugged into the router which I didn’t want to do.
Lou Cam 2 years ago
I think the internet providers are well aware most people do this but see it as free money for themselves to make people buy it.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
Still have mine. It's handy for when we need it and our cellphones are dead, and for access to the buzz box at the front entrance. Number prompts don't work for cellphones. If I'm told to press a number while on a call on my cellphone, nothing happens. But it will work on my house phone. What is a real shame is landlines used to be separate from the internet, with it's own wire network. When there would be a blackout for internet or electricity the landline was still working. Now it's called something like "digital home line", or something, and it's attached to the internet. Whenever the internet or the power goes out, so does the landline. We got candles and have to be careful not to rely on our cellphone flashlights because it drains the battery very quickly. If our batteries are drained there goes all access to contacting emergency responders.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
We actually still have 2 land lines in the house. (One is my office phone) But it's because our area doesn't always get very good cell reception and sometimes cells won't work inside the house. Rather than stand out in the driveway to speak with clients I decided a land line was a better option. :)
Lou Cam 2 years ago
Never had a housephone since I moved out of my parents place 20 odd years ago. If you have a mobile why would you need one?
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
If you have a cordless house phone, why would you ever need a mobile? Get a computer instead. Mobile costs are now of order 100 times what a house phone used to cost. And I've never known anyone to drop a house phone down the toilet.
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#40
Having major sports games on even the most basic TV setup, instead of having to be subscribed to anything.
I'm not even a sports person and find this to be incredibly absurd. I'm fairly certain back in the day (maybe even longer than a decade ago) you can watch most of the major things even when you just had antenna.
Even when you're subscribed to MLB they block things out by region now. That's just stingy as heck.
Although I guess this isn't something nobody noticed, as an afterthought. But the fact it's so normalized...nobody should be okay with that.
J. Hendersin 2 years ago
How about the insane amount of money the owners of the teams make?
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
That's the joy of cable companies (and now streaming companies) with deep pockets outbidding the FTA tv channels for broadcast rights. In Australia we still have a fair bit of sport available on FTA, but it's mostly limited to Aussie sports. If I wanted to watch NFL or Euro Soccer I'd have to pay.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My dad was annoyed he had to get kayo in order to watch all of the AFL games, not just some
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Brobro McDuderson 2 years ago
Still available on digital OTA channels (with commercials, which someone will complain about). Go buy a digital antenna, you’ll be surprised you can still get these.
Craig S. (EvilSausage) 2 years ago (edited)
It's because we tolerate it. See I'm old. I grew up watching Muhammad Ali defend the heavyweight title on ABC with my dad. And he never paid a dime for one of those fights. The very idea of paying to watch a title fight in his own living room would have sounded insane to him. But now mostly every major sporting event is behind a pay wall. Why? Because we tolerate it. If we all stopped buying pay per view sports events, the free channels would end up with them.
Snakebite Mcghee 2 years ago
What about television that you don't have to pay for, you like back before cable took over?
Foxglove🇮🇪 2 years ago
8n Europe there are a certain number/type of sporting fixtures that must be available live and free to air, with others being recorded then transmitted free to air. You can subscribe to choose what match you want to watch but there will always be something on FtA.
Frank Heidsick 2 years ago
If you’re really into soccer and you want to be able to watch all the games with german teams / clubs, you need four different subscriptions for almost 100,- $ a month. Bloody ridiculous.
Kevin B 2 years ago
I feel like Pay Per View and HBO killed boxing. I remember when I was a kid boxing was a big deal, fighters were household names, big fights were on TV and people watched them. Then HBO bought the rights to some fights, others went to Pay Per View. Now, you could throw out a boxers name from the last 10 years, I probably haven't heard of them.
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
And yet there is (at least here in NL) just as much sports as there was before these canals existed, especially being broadcasted instead of the normal programs in times of championships. Not being into sports, this is very irritating
#41
3D logo designs have pretty much vanished. I don’t know the exact timeframe, but basically every single major company’s logo has become minimalist over a very short period of time.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Not only that but they're all kinda blending together. Take the google app icons (not quite the same thing but close enough). The used to be easy to tell apart, now they're all a similar generic Red, Green, Yellow, Blue design and you need to look closely. Sure you can say "it's a google app" at a glance but you need to look close to determine if it's Mail, Maps or Meet.
Jason 2 years ago
It's cohesive branding though. No need to actually tell what app you are using as long as you know it's from Google. /s it doesn't matter anyways by the time you find it they will have cancelled the product
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago
I can't tell cars apart any more. If you took off the name badge and covered the front grille there is no way to know who the manufacturer is.
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
design concepts change... we went from ornate wood-cut type logos to more stylized... then 3D... then flat design... now we're reduced down to copyrighted colors and minimalist design that makes a mockery of the whole concept of a logo.
PhaseWitFact 2 years ago
I get the little logo icons mixed up all the time now. Oops clicked on the wrong blue circle. Great ... I have to use a lot of apps for work
#42
Frozen yogurt. Where the f**k is all the frozen yogurt?
neytjie 2 years ago
Well actually, it became to expensive to make. You can't just freeze yogurt. It needs heaps of added cream etc or it just makes ice crystals. No one was gonna pay 25$ for fro-yo
Sonja 2 years ago
They started selling yoghurt as a fresh and healthy alternative to ice cream but in time they 'enhanced' the recipes until they became worse sugar bombs than a full ice cream cup. So people went back to ice cream that still tasted better than that sludge. Don't get me wrong, I like good frozen yogurts with fresh fruit, but only the real stuff, not the sugar and syrup bombs.
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
it went away... it was just slightly sour soft-serve ice cream anyway.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
Look in the freezer compartment at your grocery store. It's next to the ice cream.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Chapman's still makes frozen yogurt. I think it was a trendy thing for a while.
PlatinumThe8-BitCat 2 years ago
I still get frozen yogurt, I don’t know if all have it but some of the nearby gas stations where I live have frozen yogurt (and ice cream) dispensers
#43
Car antennas. You know what I mean.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I don't miss having to unscrew my antenna when I send the car through the car wash! My current car has a permanent shark fin one.
Featherytoad 2 years ago
Yeah, I lost mine back in the late 80's or early 90's to a car wash. It didn't make a difference. I still had good reception.
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago
Believe it or not, a lot of things associated with cars is driven by the federal CAFE (gas mileage) standards. Automakers are scraping for increasingly small gains in MPG to meet them. Round cross section wires have surprisingly high drag coefficients. That's one of the reasons early bi-planes with all those external bracing wires were so inefficient. (Aero Engineer, here) Getting another micro-fractional increase in MPG is why modern cars turn off at stop lights. It's only going to get worse. Getty Lee was right.
Nolgoth 2 years ago
The motor/pin that raised and lowered my antenna stopped working. Left it in the up position. Went thru a carwash and it snapped the antenna. Its fine. My radio always had poor reception (i have a 96 caprice)
#44
Developing film from disposable cameras. I'm sure pretty much no one uses them anymore but my fiance put a few around at a baby shower and is having a helluva time getting them developed. No CVS no Walgreens. She had to go somewhere special and was charged $85 for 3.
Sonja 2 years ago
I don't miss it. I prefer to shoot as many as I want and then sitting at home and selecting the best ones for a photo book I can order online. It's fun to choose the designs and combine the pictures to tell a story. I also like thumbing through my photo books and relive the experience.
Puter Prsn 1 year ago
Digital is not as detailed as film, just as electronically played music isn't a detailed as vinyl. There's a difference in quality that I sorely miss.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Why would you even do the disposable camera thing at a wedding these days? 90% of people have a far better camera on their phone and they can just text or email you the pics.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Try taking an underwater photo with a mobile phone. There are disposable cameras that will. My wife was still using disposable cameras up to five years ago.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
Does Walmart even have a photo developing centre anymore? It used to be in the front entrance. But good riddance. The kids there seemed to mix up orders and not know how to develop anything. You paid for what you got, regardless if the whole roll was bleached out. What I don't like now is when you want to print out pictures off your phone you have a computer telling you if you're photos are up to standard to print or not. I don't care if they're a bit blurry or too small too big of a file. I managed to bypass some "warnings" and got some relatively decent prints that reminded me of the very quality we used to get from developed photos.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
You can still buy them in Australia. We bought them for my sister's Y2K themed 21st birthday. You get them developed at the stores you buy them from.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I have an amazing film camera that I would love to use, but the film alone, especially for black and white, is SO expensive. And the only place I knew of that developed it closed down.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
I think Walmart still does it, although they can't do it in-house, they have to send it to a lab.
#45
i suppose people have noticed, but no one has their phone with a ringtone anymore. It's mostly silent or for some poeple still on vibrate
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Speak for yourself (again). Everyone I know, even the kids have ringtones. The volume level and obnoxiousness of the ringtone is the only thing that varies. No point having a silent/vibrate ring or notification if your phone is not in your pocket.
Anne Reid 2 years ago
I work in a bar where the clientele are mostly boomers. And they keep their ringers on full volume. That way they can sit and stare at it until it stops. They never answer it for some reason.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
I still hear ringtones and have an assigned ringtone for every contact in my phone. My default ringtone is the old Unsolved Mysteries theme song. Makes scam calls sound terrifying XD.
Sera 2 years ago
I just commented to someone yesterday that I can't enjoy the song I use as a ringtone anymore as music because I've been answering my phone to it for almost 20 years.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
my BF has his favoirite song as a ringtone and everytime its on the radio i think his phone is ringing
Load More Replies... sturmwesen 2 years ago
I still have "white trash beautiful" and " what's new pussycat" as a ringtone.
MarieTDr 2 years ago
I use the old, old original TV Avengers theme. No one recognizes it anymore. To be honest, not many of my friends really calls, they text. It's only telemarketers and politicians that call.
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Richard Wareham 2 years ago
Maybe in America, but everyone I know still has ring tones on their phones, me included.
Nizumi 2 years ago
Uh, there are still ring tones, my dude. And worse, people playing their music or videos out loud in public is a thing again. What happened to headphones? Some guy was playing a video so loud on the metro the other day, it sounded like the accordion player was in the metro with us. People were annoyed. When the video ended, someone started clapping and shouting "Bravo! bravo! No seriously - Dude, fùck, don't play your phone out loud. This isn't a Paris café."
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I have my phone on "vibrate," but the default ringtone is "silent." Numbers in my contact list I have blessed with an actual ringtone. If I happen to hear it vibrate only, I know it's a spam call and I just ignore it.
#46
Sobe. They're only available in specific places...I miss Pina Colada Sobe.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
Then cheat with your wife who was trying to cheat on you?
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Jester Man 2 years ago
Arizona chocolate covered cherry cola, Planter P. B. Crisps, Kelloggs Cinnabon cereal (this one came back in a watered down, less tasty version)
Rayne OfSalt 2 years ago
Never had those in Australia. We did have weird clear pepsi for a little while that was either cherry, strawberry or raspberry flavoured and you wouldn't find out what you got til you tried it tho.
Astrophile 2 years ago
Aw I hate cherry, but I love strawbs and raspberries. I probably would have hated that promotion lol
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 2 years ago
It's the margarita-flavored Ben and Jerry's ice cream I miss. That was delicious and I've haven't seen it in years now.
#47
my hair
Lou Cam 2 years ago
Men with no hair is a look though. I like it. Best when it gets sparse or patchy to shave it completely.
Will Cable 2 years ago (edited)
I think it migrates, older people seem to lose hair on their scalp but grow more in their ears and up their nose
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
Just wait a while. The hair that used to be on your legs and noggin begins sprouting from your ears and nose.
#48
Malls
StrangeOne 2 years ago
We have many in Canada. Still see kids wandering around and meeting up. But not the cool hang out spots they once were. Overbearing security is a large thanks to that.
#49
Photo shops
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Not sure if you're joking. But I'm sure they mean photograph printing shops, not the photoshop app. There used to be two in the nearby mall and one in the BigW store. Now I'm not sure there are any nearby if I wanted to actually print a physical copy of a photo.
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#50
Phone books
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago (edited)
Still remember my 80 year old Spanish teacher ripping one in half back in grade school. She was something else...
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
Was your Spanish teacher the Incredible Hulk?
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
You can get them from the phone company if you ask for one, usually. I agree it's better for the environment though, to do without. They're hard to recycle, I think. One good use is for you plant nerds, take one of the small ones and keep it in your car--the paper is good for pressing plant parts! I collected leaves for a tree ID class using one of those. :-)
Virgin Panda 2 years ago
We just had one delivered. (UK) It said on the front that it'll be the last one ever.
Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
It was so much faster to find what you're looking for in a phone book.
What do you think ?
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
Decent text tutorials. In the old days you could look stuff up, find a decent guide and just scroll to the part you need. Now everything is annoying video tutorials that force you to watch and listen and include so much annoying unrelated stuff that you can't skip because you have no idea how it's indexed.
Lauren S 2 years ago
This is so true! My child is getting into Minecraft and I’m trying to play with him which he is beyond thrilled about but every time I search how to do something I scroll past dozens of videos looking for the “how to” “step by step” instructions written out. That’s my speed. And it’s the same with anything, how to get my phone to blank, how to buy a new garage door remote, what on earth is the difference between washers with and without agitators (our washer recently broke and this was our c**p we have to spend money we didn’t intend to incident). I can usually find the text, I just have to scroll and sometimes *gasp* click on page 2! lol
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
One other that disappeared silently is colour-blind friendly colour schemes. EGA was colour-blind friendly. VGA games were colour-blind friendly. The early releases of Excel had palettes that were colour-blind friendly. The first Windows palettes were all colour-blind friendly. Early Unix palettes were colour-blind friendly. Now nothing is, it's not taken into account at all in the latest Excel for instance.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
I had to look this up. Only one or two G-rated movies since 2011. And you have to go a long way back to find one without animation. The genre of live action G rated dried up in about 1971. Only a few since and I didn't see any after 1995.
Load More Replies... LooneyMoons 2 years ago
Paper maps that don't tell you where you are and how to get to your destination...
Bored something 2 years ago
I work in a shop with a souvenir section. We get asked for maps all the time and we have a pad of the local cbd area which we give out regularly and often with directions on how to find a shop or post office.
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Jason Melvil 2 years ago
Decent text tutorials. In the old days you could look stuff up, find a decent guide and just scroll to the part you need. Now everything is annoying video tutorials that force you to watch and listen and include so much annoying unrelated stuff that you can't skip because you have no idea how it's indexed.
Lauren S 2 years ago
This is so true! My child is getting into Minecraft and I’m trying to play with him which he is beyond thrilled about but every time I search how to do something I scroll past dozens of videos looking for the “how to” “step by step” instructions written out. That’s my speed. And it’s the same with anything, how to get my phone to blank, how to buy a new garage door remote, what on earth is the difference between washers with and without agitators (our washer recently broke and this was our c**p we have to spend money we didn’t intend to incident). I can usually find the text, I just have to scroll and sometimes *gasp* click on page 2! lol
Load More Replies... David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
One other that disappeared silently is colour-blind friendly colour schemes. EGA was colour-blind friendly. VGA games were colour-blind friendly. The early releases of Excel had palettes that were colour-blind friendly. The first Windows palettes were all colour-blind friendly. Early Unix palettes were colour-blind friendly. Now nothing is, it's not taken into account at all in the latest Excel for instance.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
I had to look this up. Only one or two G-rated movies since 2011. And you have to go a long way back to find one without animation. The genre of live action G rated dried up in about 1971. Only a few since and I didn't see any after 1995.
Load More Replies... LooneyMoons 2 years ago
Paper maps that don't tell you where you are and how to get to your destination...
Bored something 2 years ago
I work in a shop with a souvenir section. We get asked for maps all the time and we have a pad of the local cbd area which we give out regularly and often with directions on how to find a shop or post office.
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