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    We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and “please allow six weeks for delivery” was the standard.

    Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here…

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    I’m glad I wasn’t born in the ww1/2 generation.

    I’ll take economic and ecological collapse over trench warfare any day of the week. I get to type this critique in air conditioning, while those dudes drowned in shell crater cesspools just trying to take a shit.

    Not to discount how horrible our future will be. At least compared to what our ancestors went though, we’ve got it good.

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        Lmao they did just get fucked by God every step of the way.

        “Stay silent, bitch” - Fate

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      You have a point. At the same time, the silent generations kids, the boomers, lived through every technological breakthrough, on times of huge economic growth. Also they owned cheap house, had almost free tertiary education and a better labor market. Lastly they had access to banking dept and never woried about the environment. Now they are reaking all these benefits and while they fucked around for us to find out.

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      Or even simpler things that people take for granted, like antibiotics, which weren’t discovered until 1942 and weren’t widely available until 1945. Can you imagine how awful things like strep throat or a minor infection were to deal with before penicillin.

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        I grew up dirt poor without healthcare until I got to the Army aat 18.

        I’ve gone through many infections without antibiotics. Nearly died from sepsis once because I didn’t go to the ER until the line in my arm was halfway to my shoulder.

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      There was very little trench warfare in WW2. Unless you’re talking about the trenches for the death camps. Those were some really big wide trenches.

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        They were ubiquitous, it just didn’t produce stalemates because armies didn’t rely solely on artillery and human waves to break through.

        They were still used because they still worked against poorly supported infantry.

        Still are used, look at Ukraine.

        Obviously the comment was mostly referring to WW1 but there were many battlefields that would have looked very much like their WW1 counterparts until some tanks or air support showed up.

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    I feel lucky to have bought a house in the sliver of time that I had when things lined up perfectly. Fuck

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      You should feel lucky. I am never going to own a home. Granted, I’m disabled and so broke my Internet is gonna be cut off in 36 hours, but still. Ain’t never gonna be a chance for me. My grandmother was able to buy a house by herself while raising two kids. My mother bought a house when she was 24. I’m 31 and gonna die in a cardbox box that I rent for $1800 a month.

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        $1800/month? That’s fucking insane. Look in to community living groups. I was turned on to it while I was in school (at 35 🤷🏻‍♂️) as a cheap option while I went back. I know we’ve all had room mate horror stories, but there are people out there who are willing to co-operate and work towards having a home.

        Four years on and now I’m running the house (it’s just a rental with lots of rooms) and we have a great group of 5 that’s been together for over a year, including a 9 year old. (Most of us have been together 2 years now, we had a housemate leave amicably last summer).

        I’ll admit the first two years were kinda rough. It took me a bit to recognize the red flags I needed to - and to build up the courage to be able to say “no, you wouldn’t be a good fit” to people I’ve known for years. I had some dramatic experiences trying to find the right people, but we’ve got a nice home now and we each pay around $600/month for a whole-ass home!

        It does take work; physical, mental, and emotional, but saving $1200/month is worth it. You’ve gotta be able to communicate your needs respectfully and be able to look at yourself and acknowledge where you need to improve to be able to get along with people.

        The rewards are worth it. We all work less now so we have weekly dinner and D&D and movie nights and it’s really quite nice. We still bump elbows from time to time, but we all know each other well enough now that it’s easy to solve conflict calmly.

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          Sorry, I was unclear. The cardboard box/$1800 thing was an exaggeration of how I expect the future to go. While i’m paying a lot, it isn’t nearly that much. That being said I don’t have a whole lot of options when it comes to places to live here anyway. Even with roommates, this city can be absurdly expensive. That being said I have currently lucked out. The place I live isn’t perfect but I have a great roommate and it’s rent controlled and utilities (minus internet) are included. I am extremely lucky to have what I have on that front.

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            Oh that’s what I’m paying an inner city apartment that has a mice/mold/insect problem and like the doors don’t close cause the frame and walls are cracked and lopsided… LoL I hate that pretty much every apartment is a flop house at luxury prices.

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      Same but I’m self aware that I got a house thanks to society falling apart and couldn’t have done it otherwise.

      2008 crisis + foreclosure + house needed tons of work.

      I’ve made it nice with serious updates, but I couldn’t happily rebuy my own house and that’s scary

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    Not even a joke, I miss the time when a virus was our biggest concern. That may be insensitive to people who had friends or family die because of it or who live in a country with shitty access to vaccines or health care in general though.

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      It’s awful but I get it…

      I’ve got CPTSD so I’m always stressed and sort of over-preparing for things to go very very wrong. When the pandemic hit, all of those preparations came true. I was expecting the worse and here it was.

      Was the only time in my life, at least in the past 15+ years, that I actually felt somewhat relaxed. Then the prices of everything went up and I got stressed for way different reasons.

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        I watch someone on YouTube who deals with stress. They said they were… I think relieved (can’t recall exactly what word they used) because, for once, their stress and the actions resulting from it were now normal.

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        Oh cool you too?

        I mean COVID still hit me harder than I was prepared for and kinda crushed me a little but I picked back up pretty ok but since then been sorta on the back foot and losing steam

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    One little crisis and my mom got scared, she said “you’re moving to your uncle and aunt in Europe”

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      I pulled up to the house about seven or eight And I yelled to the cabbie, “Yo holmes, smell ya later” I looked at my kingdom I was finally there

      Only to realize that the crisis in Europe was just as bad as there.

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        Slightly better healthcare and job security. Don’t go to Australia. It’s horrible and full of homeless drop bears.

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    Damn, this image really makes me feel sorry for Will Smith. He’s so pussy whipped, and it’s not even funny. His wife is in Scientology and basically uses the church and the threat of taking his kids away and hiding them within the church to get Will to toe into line, so much so that she cucked him with their son’s rapper friend (who she groomed after his mother died). This image is from her “red table” internet talk show where she had Will on and they both said they were ok with her sleeping around.

    Still though, he gave me my wifi SSID, “KeepMyWiFisNameOutYourF-ingMouth”. It literally only just fits lol.

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    You’d think that people who face a crisis every few years would be familiar enough with the word to know that the plural is “crises”.

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    It’s definitely making me bitter towards the concept of owning property

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    Ah yes, lost two jobs in three months, waiting for my rent to go up, and live in a tent while at uni for the next three years. There is no affordable housing where I live, and employers can fire us at any time. Makes total sense.