I actually like how younger people are going more minimalist in their fashion taste. Lots of reappropriation of stereotypical work clothes, like Dickies pants, overalls, stuff like that. That's a neat trend I've noticed.

Ngl, I unironically love rugged workwear, especially winter clothes. When I was 18-19 I had a Craftsman duck canvas jacket that i found at a thrift shop. It was heavy as hell but warm and comfortable. It became my preferred style even though I don't work construction or anything like that.

I catch myself rewinding them over and over because steps happen too fast or are not clear enough. Worse so ever since YouTube fucked up the seek bar in the mobile app so it's more difficult to precision seek a video.

Software tutorials especially. Even worse are the ones that are screen recorded off a 4K desktop so that unless you're also watching the video at 4K, you're not gonna be able to see where the mouse cursor is because the compression makes it almost invisible.

I wouldn't blame it on the current generation, though. People my own age do this shit too.

I shouldn't complain too much because it's free tech support and they're making these videos for no money , and probably for a program that I pirated.

This is in a lot of shows and not just sitcoms, but I hate contrived argumentative dialogue that's set up so that the protagonist always gets the last word with "witty" responses/comebacks. It's like watching a "I'm the attractive Chad and you are the ugly NPC" meme in real time.

Every time the weather goes out of whack, some huge torrential storm or freak wildfire, people (particularly chuds who think climate change is a hoax) will be quick to say it's weather modification or HAARP or some shit.

(CW: Movie prosthetics.)

Before Louis Pasteur's disproving of spontaneous generation, most people believed that bacteria and putrefactive organisms like maggots etc. spontaneously poofed into existence, like a video game character spawning. Pasteur suggested that maggots came from flies laying their eggs on rotting meat etc, and that bacteria were everywhere and will multiply quickly under the right conditions. A lot of people at the time thought these were crackpot ideas.

Every reggae song is by Bob Marley.

IP owners know an increasing number of people are giving up streaming services and going back to physical, so they're raising the prices on physical to make up for the loss.

Pirating will always be the way.

Lmao holy shit this unlocked a memory. As a kid I'd post on a Hey Arnold fan forum in 1999-2000, and I remember the absolute hate train that Spongebob got from the posters there.

I didn't think much about Spongebob myself for a couple years until I saw the episode "Band Geeks" in like 2002.

Also Rocket Power... That was one of those shows that merely existed. I didn’t encounter anyone who had anything bad to say about it, but I was hard pressed to find a diehard fan. All I remember about it was the dialogue was "hello, fellow kids" tier (even moreso than a typical Nick show) and full of slang that was about 10 years out of date by 1999.

As internet services get faster, i dread the day that games (or at least essential parts of them) are kept behind a server and the only way to play them is through an encrypted connection.

Alternate headline: 39% of Americans support genocide.

Windows 3.1/DOS on "my" first computer, a hand-me-down from my uncle. It was probably more than half a decade old at that point as Windows 98 was out around then.

While not Linux, the first non-M$ OS I dabbled with was BeOS in the early 2000s. I think Be was already long out of business by then so there was no official support, but I liked it regardless because there was a shit ton of free software for it on the BeBits website. I used it more than Windows 98SE for everyday non-gaming stuff.

SuSE Linux 10 was the first Linux I installed, I think around 2005 or 2006.

I wouldn't say "completely fucked", but for a few years I noticed YouTube on Firefox has this occasional quirk where videos will quit playing and infinitely buffer at the exact same timestamp. Like there's no way around it except skipping about 30 seconds ahead with the seek bar, or doing a Ctrl-F5 (hard refresh) and starting the whole video over. Opera GX doesn't seem to have this problem at all.

But it's still not a big enough deal to make me give up Firefox completely.

That's pretty much all mainstream news now. The worst is articles that are just tweets of people reacting to what happened.

Wokism is the belief that all food should be cooked in woks.

Lots of fashies do worry about that stuff too, but they blame it on "socialism" and "wokeness", and have a murder boner for anyone who's to the left of Trump.

It's like the shit at Boeing. Instead of recognizing its problems as the end result of decades of the company putting profit ahead of safety and lobbying for deregulation, the chuds would rather blame diversity hiring.

"You can drink it and not get sick."

"OK, drink some."

"You're a jerk!" leaves

When I worked at Pizza Hut (early 2000s), for shits and giggles I calculated the actual cost of a glass of Pepsi. Accounting for the syrup bag, the CO2 cylinder and water (the latter being the cheapest since it was filtered tap from the city main) it was like $0.14 a glass.

Every McDonalds I see constant has a huge line of cars in the drive through, and almost every parking space is filled. Yet at the same time I always encounter people who talk about how they haven't gone to McDonalds in years.

I don't think I've ever seen a McDonalds permanently close either, unless it was moving to a new location down the street or something. They always manage to stay open even in neighborhoods where everything else shuttered long ago.