“Now” is relative, right?
I’m 60, and the list is long, but I read /r/Teachers and seriously don’t get what’s going on in public schools now. I can say that public school was CERTAINLY better when I was a kid. Grades mattered, kids got held back (and other kids shamed them for it), no eating in class, turn your assignments in on time, stay in your seat, pay attention, and shut up. Apparently, none of that applies now?
And, don’t try to say “it’s Covid”. Yeah, it’s gotten a little worse since then, but this shit has been increasing since long before five years ago. Also, yeah, “parents”, but schools traditionally have been the place where kids got an education in spite of how dumb their parents were, that was the fucking point.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a cloud outside my window that needs a dressing down.
My back hurts.
There’s too much automation and it’s not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.
54 and just this year my neck has started to look stringy, especially in bright sunlight. Ugh. At least I can manually fix the hairy ears.
Brunch and Tea not breakfast, lunch and supper. Fucking love eating at 4 pm. What the heck? I still have to make supper for everyone else on weekdays but those 9pm meals are not my preference anymore, on weekends it’s late breakfast and the teatime meal and that’s it.
I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO
I miss the days where you would actually own a copy of what you purchased. I also miss going to movie rental places.
When this happened.
These youngunns and their docker containers…
It’s fine and all, but I prefer to run stuff without them
Can’t code without a mouse. What the fuck does a mouse have to do with code! If I want to shoot nazis, I’ll go plug my mouse in.
Or if I’m coding a game that requires a mouse to play. Fuckin peeks and pokes. I miss my good old INPUT “What do?”, cmd$
Seeing fashion from the 90’s and early 2000’s come back into style.
Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.
Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.
(Again)
My knees randomly hurt for no reason!
I woke up this morning barely able to walk on my left foot. No idea what happened to it, was fine yesterday.
67 did it for me. I tried to understand it and reflexivity said “well that’s fucking dumb” before realizing that’s literally the point. And we’ve all done anti-authority shit at some point. This random act of nothing is what a constantly surveilled generation does to elicit a reaction against a system that has proven it can ignore everyone.
Technology is stupid, things where better in the old days
Tech peaked around 2010 ish. Nothing after that is needed and is mostly to steal data for advertising and spying.
I need to hold my phone further and further away for the letters to not be blurry
Some of them I have given up on 🤦
Me as a kid “Man, those grownups who don’t like kids are evil people. I’ll never become one of them.”
Me 30 years later: “Goddammit.”
“I used to be ‘with it’, then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me”
—Abe SimpsonI’ve always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.
EDIT:
I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.
