What's a part of your current life that your 10 year old self might not even believe is true if you travelled back in time and told them?

Stuff like having a smart phone, development of chatGPT, current events, etc.

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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 66d (1 reply)

That I actually WILL carry a calculator in my pocket all the time, and use it to talk to people across the world

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 66d

Haha Ms. Morrison, look at me now!!! Ask me what 285 + 485 ÷ 29 is BITCH!

NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 66d

There will be rockets that land themselves back on the ground after launching sattelites, but the people that make them are evil.

CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 66d

That I’m in fact NOT dead and she should probably plan for that.

Being a few months from 40 when you were told by all your doctors you won’t make it past 18 has made things very complicated and difficult

CelloMike@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 66d (1 reply)

That I didn't grow up to be a train driver

Oh and gay and married

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 6 pts · 66d

Came here to say: divorced

My Catholic mother always talked about divorce like it was one notch short of theft or larceny. Yet it was key to regaining joy in my life

lordnikon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 66d

Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.

Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.

sniggleboots@europe.pub · 14 pts · 66d (1 reply)

Just being a rad dude, honestly. My past self would be so stoked

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 66d

Rock on my dude.

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 65d

How much I get paid and how poor I still feel.

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 66d

My 10 years old self would not believe the current state of dating and distrust among people in general. Erich Fromm described it in 1952, but in Europe it arrived much later.

Also the lack of attention caused by smartphone and the almost disappearance of casual conversations on the bus, the train, etc. Sometimes people is afraid of casual conversations with strangers.

machine2918@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 66d (3 replies)

That I'm alive, on the other hand, that I have probably less than 2 years left to live 🤷‍♂️

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 66d (2 replies)

Why is that?

machine2918@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d (1 reply)

Terminal brain cancer, fun stuff! 🥳

GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 60d

I am so sorry. I hope you will enjoy every remaining moment!

Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 65d

That we voluntarily face our lifelong fear of needles once a week so that we can be a girl. Yes we basically just shoot up pure cooties all the time, yes it's extremely worth it.

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 66d (1 reply)

We all have a Ziggy from Quantum Leap in our pockets.

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 65d

Now that's a phone case I could get behind.

And before posting, I got curious and of course someone has actually done it... https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1510193079/ziggy-handlink-quantum-leap-phone-case?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

Miller@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 66d

That mum is actually nana and aunt Susan with the eye is really mum, also robots are dancing now.

KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 66d

it's worse than you imagined... yes, even worse.

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 66d

"It's actually downhill from here lol"

sfxrlz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 66d

That I am actually able to sit in front of a desk for 8 hours straight

Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 66d (2 replies)

That the future actually exists. That it is actually not some made up nonsense adults say for some unknown reason.

AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 66d (1 reply)

Deep

Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 66d

It really wasn't supposed to be.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 66d (3 replies)

It gets better once you leave education

skankhunt42@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 66d (2 replies)

I'm mid 30s. Care to elaborate?

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 66d (1 reply)

I am about the same age

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d

I am almost half again as old as you are.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 66d
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Malyca@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 64d

Gestures broadly

monovergent@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 65d

A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.

vapor_body@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 66d

I hate Obama

mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 66d

...that my marriage is crumbling. And that I am now atheist (completely separate things BTW).

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 66d

AI is definitely at the top of my list. I didn't think it would have ever come sooner at my lifetime.

And sorry to humblebrag, but I'm not doing too bad with my investing. I just wished I knew more about it ten years ago and I would not be stuck in a bad company!

TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 61d

Most of it, specifically the not being strictly "Christian" anymore and the being queer/nonbinary.

tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 66d (1 reply)

none actually , I'm as failure as exactly my parents told me

hexagonwin@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 65d

you're not :)

Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d
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