On average the entire human population turns over every 120 years.
Everyone alive today wasn't here 120 years ago
Everyone alive today won't be alive in 120 years
The modern human species is about 60,000 years old .... we've only been technologically modern in the past 150 years, geologically speaking, we're still cavemen.
In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.
Idiocracy isn't even remotely funny nowadays, it's genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it's honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.
Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn't had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders ifrom 1995 n the background of any scene indoors.
Here's a fun little tidbit. Remember Marc Summers, and Double Dare? Remember how messy that show got?
Well Marc was actually a germophobe, and every time he got messy he would be having an anxiety attack as the show was being recorded. On double dare. DOUBLE DARE!!!! The show that was so messy, it's logo literally had a blob of green slime as the backdrop!
And every moment you see him, covered in mess, smiling away, just know that internally, he's having a panic attack and in hell.
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade
Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.
Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90's, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and militant separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia
Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in 'the west' it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular 'party' scenes today.
Almost as if the 50’s were being plagued by the same dumb rich out of touch assholes from the 1920s and it caused some trickle down issues for society down the line in the 90s. Turns out 35 years ain’t that long of a time in the grand scheme of things.
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You_are_dust@lemm.ee · 108 pts · 1y
kescusay@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 1y
Other ways to feel old:
Should I go on?
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 1y
You're wrong. It's an established fact that the 90s were ten years ago.
BertramDitore@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
You’re correct. The 90s has always been and will always be ten years ago.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 1y
This relevant XKCD is a teenager now
kescusay@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ouch. Guess I deserved that inevitable retaliation.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
The future scenes in Back to the Future II take place ten years in the past.
bradboimler@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Oof
blacklisted@lemmy.org · 14 pts · 1y
Your content is entertaining but you are a dick.
kescusay@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I... can't dispute that.
DarthKaren@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
You can go on away from here with your personal attacks.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I was having a good day
kescusay@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Sorry, I'll make up for it with this weird music video that wishes you a nice day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mkiGMtbrPM
Hope it helps.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
On average the entire human population turns over every 120 years.
Everyone alive today wasn't here 120 years ago
Everyone alive today won't be alive in 120 years
The modern human species is about 60,000 years old .... we've only been technologically modern in the past 150 years, geologically speaking, we're still cavemen.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee · 49 pts · 1y
If Back to the Future we're remade today, he'd be going back in time to 1995.
I'd like to see a remake of Back to the Future just so we can have a scene where Doc Brown refuses to believe Donald Trump will be president.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 1y
I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
The allure of fantasy
oo1@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 1y
Like the Sly Stallone comment in demolition man about the Schwarzenegger library.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
In retrospect, the standard of what seemed ridiculous and over-the-top at the time was a bit higher.
Idiocracy isn't even remotely funny nowadays, it's genuinely just very anxiety inducing now. And it's honestly too fucking positive. A government actually trying to fix issues? Yeah, right.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
Ronald Reagan, the actor?!
https://youtu.be/Y6or29F-_yA?t=44
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Even better: Make the alternate timeline a utopia with doc Brown saying he hasn't had time to analyze the differences and leave it at that. Throughout the movie have framed portraits of Bernie Sanders ifrom 1995 n the background of any scene indoors.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 1y
Listen here you little shit...
kameecoding@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y
Well, fuck you too
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 29 pts · 1y
Well damn.
1990-1995 were definitely a nicer place to be than 1955-1960, though, so we got that going for us as far as the 35yo past is concerned.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
1995 was amazing, really the whole 90s.
Amazing music, peace, and nobody was afraid to tell all the douchebags of the world to go f themselves.
SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Don't forget saturday morning cartoons and music on mtv
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
fire hydrant wearing a cowboy hat and playing a guitar
“After these messages… we’ll be right back.”
dmention7@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Well shit, that's a core memory reactivated.
It's crazy how vividly you can remember something like that, while moments earlier having absolutely no consciousness of it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Here's a fun little tidbit. Remember Marc Summers, and Double Dare? Remember how messy that show got?
Well Marc was actually a germophobe, and every time he got messy he would be having an anxiety attack as the show was being recorded. On double dare. DOUBLE DARE!!!! The show that was so messy, it's logo literally had a blob of green slime as the backdrop!
And every moment you see him, covered in mess, smiling away, just know that internally, he's having a panic attack and in hell.
Yay childhood memories!
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I might have to revisit it with that in mind!
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
I’m sure someone will come along and point out that the 90s were no more or less peaceful than any other decade.
But it did seem like a time of hope. Collapse of USSR. End of Cold War. Feels like now we’re doing the same thing, just historians will come up with a new label for it.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Not to be that guy, but there was the whole Bosnian Genocide thing from 92-95 and the Gulf War from 90-91 that really legitimized the US practice of inference in the Middle East in the eyes of many US citizens. Up until then, most Americans still saw intervention a la the Iran Contra Affair as a negative.
Plus, the Troubles in North Ireland were still in pretty high gear until 1998, most of Africa was involved in civil wars and ethnic cleansing for a large chunk of the 90's, and the collapse of the USSR, which was viewed as a positive in many parts of the world, did leave a power vacuum that resulted in numerous civil wars and militant separatist movements throughout eastern Europe and western Asia
InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yugoslavia is actually a good example.
We bombed the peace into Serbia.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
It was the peak of civilization
Which meant
Now with a high speed internet connection, we're disconnected from one another and we believe in every hair brained idea we find online.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
Found the extrovert.
Civilization didn't even start until broadband.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
YOU HAD PEACE!!!
Peace of mind.
Peace that everyone wasn't trying to force you to believe their opinions or be judged as evil.
I love the internet, but it desperately eroded the barrier that stood between our internal self-image and literally everyone else in the world.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah IDK about peace, but in terms of tolerance in 'the west' it was a huge step up over 1955, and rave culture in particular (where it was a thing anyway; might have been focused on european countries like UK and Germany?) was probably more tolerant and friendly than a lot of popular 'party' scenes today.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
I agree that the music was fine. I don't know about the rest of it.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y
The murder rate peaked in 1993.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 1y
In 2060s, people look back at the good old days of 2020s. Doomscrolling, AI generated images, brainrot, existential dread, LLMs, those were the days…
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
In 2060, people will curse the people of 2020 who did almost nothing to mitigate climate change.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Maybe. Or the propaganda will have been so successful that nobody will discuss climate change because that’s just the way things are.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Nah, by then we will be living in underground cave cities. Machines will control the devastated surface
Strobelt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Wait. There'll still be people around in 2060?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
You could be there too. Are you good at surviving through famine or avoiding violent people?
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
Atleast we have internet and visible stars
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
We’re working on those. Just a little bit more tyrannical dictatorship and a whole lot more smoke should do the trick.
anachrohack@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
remotedev@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
This is fucking with me
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
35 is not a reasonable age to become a parent? Is a bit older than it used to be.
TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
If Back to the Future were made today, Marty would be going back to the year 1995 instead of 1955.
pemptago@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
And Marty would be 57 years old
LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al · 11 pts · 1y
NO ITS NOT SHUT UP
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA
Envy@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
I miss the 90s. 😞
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
........I JUST woke up! Why do you want me to feel old???
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
The release of "1985" by Bowling for Soup was closer to actual 1985 than we are to its release.
levzzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The release of "1985" by bo burnham though...
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
That is how time works
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
I know how time works ... I just don't want to reminded of it .... (now my back hurts ... again)
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
dont do that
Donebrach@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Almost as if the 50’s were being plagued by the same dumb rich out of touch assholes from the 1920s and it caused some
trickle downissues for society down the line in the 90s. Turns out 35 years ain’t that long of a time in the grand scheme of things.13igTyme@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The tax rate in the 50s was 90% or more depending on the year.
zod000@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
That's not true, that's impossible!
I am all of the sudden Luke Skywalker, a character from that old classic film.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
June is still worried about the Beaver.
chatroom@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y