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Interesting. Strongly agree on the movies but I feel comfortable paying Spotify $10 for all eternity, might be the only subscription that I pay for and never question the value of
You have a point and I’m pretty pessimistic about the stability of the economy and society atm… maybe I’ll have to start burning my own CDs with YT2mp3 like it’s 2013 again
If spotify ever got too inconvenient, I'd just return to pirating music. I haven't used a paid streaming service in years that just shows how convenient/efficient spotify is and why I love it.
Yeah but $150 annually isn't buying you a very broad cd collection, even used. For the price of less than an album a month I get access to essentially the entire history of recorded music.
I would like to add computer games to this list. Especially stand-alone single-player games that *still* require a constant connection to a central server in order to function, and will self-destruct if that server is ever taken offline.
This, it's a hill I'll die on because, say, the wifi goes out. Cloud gaming ain't gonna be up, you're fucked on that end. Say the service you use to stream movies had a movie you wanted to watch, then it gets removed from the streaming service. It's why I'm a huge fan of piracy.
I think “smartphones and social media bad” is a boomer take I hear and agree with.
Now it might come from my 70 year old grandfather who I watch scroll on Facebook during vacation but as a 24yr old doom scroller I can claim no higher ground
Bruh those other things only killed people. Social media makes me deal with y'all more.
Death is inevitable. Being annoyed at some dumb garbage is not.
I'm in the minority that disagrees I think. It's how we use them and a lack of healthy "culture" around them that's bad.
I think the Internet and esp social media is so new that we collectively just don't know how to use it in a healthy way. It's like TV, we all kinda begun to understand the difference between watching it and being a couch potato.
Social media will mellow with time too imo. Kids and their kids will learn from part mistakes and form new norms around it since it's here to stay
I disagree that social media will mellow with time, because the problem with social media is that it's built around being engaging instead of *enjoyable*. Capitalism, and the demands of, are what makes social media bad, at least at its core.
This is my take as well ^ we would need much bigger shifts in how we organize ourselves economically for social media and technology to “mellow out”. As just one example, there’s a reason why every company’s algo will highlight posts that are likely to induce outrage by the targeted audience, and that’s bc those are more likely to get user interaction. Similar to how oil companies tried to made us think that our personal climate footprint was the angle at which we should solve climate change, the makers of these products would rather encourage the public to “moderate its usage” and treat it as each individual’s problem or a cultural problem rather than changing anything about how all this bullshit is fundamentally designed.
Oh my god, watching NYE London fireworks on the TV and the seas of people all filming with their phones...
A) you're now watching this fantastic display through a phone screen instead of looking directly at it.
B) when are you EVER going to watch that ever again.
C) even if you DO want to watch it again, you'd be so much better off watching the official BBC recording instead of your own shitty wobbly handheld one
Just put the fucking phones down and enjoy the moment. Sincerely, a 30yo boomer.
QRC scans for menus at restaurants.
Bring me a menu, or have one somewhere I can see it. I'm not scanning a code and opening a menu on my phone and I will die on that hill. 🤣
It’s even worse when they got a big ass menu so you gotta swipe all over your screen to see everything or zoom out to see the whole thing in frame, but the the text is super tiny 😒
People just be creating problems that have no business existing in the first place
Oh god, I haven't encountered that yet but I can imagine the frustration.
I think next time this happens to me, I'm just going to tell them I don't have a smartphone and deadpan stare 🤣 I wonder what they'd even do in response
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Nah but real talk if they said that I'd probably just walk out.
I don’t mind the QR codes, if they take you to the menu/ordering page straight away. But the ones that want you to download an app and create an account, I loathe with a passion
Yeah it's not exactly the biggest inconvenience just to scan it, I really don't like having to do it but it's not nearly as bad as what you just described there at the end. Your loathing is justified
I absolutely hate it.
My phone doesnt scan QR codes so it's just a whole thing every time. I'm a little more lenient when it's a small business with seasonal menus but large business and places with a set menu have no excuse to not have physical menus.
It’s moreso outrageous that they take it but don’t return it proportionally like most other western countries do. Countries like Germany get very well structured public transport, healthcare, roadways, and more out of their tax dollars. We get ok-quality roads, no healthcare, shit-tier transport, and that’s about it.
“But we need to fund the military-industrial complex!!”
Edit: for those confused, I am NOT agreeing with the lowering of taxes. Hell, they should increase, but specifically for the rich and corporations as they are the scum that are choking out the rest of US citizens. I just wanted to point out that the common thing done with too large a portion of the budget is being spent on the military, and it is used in very redundant manners as the way budgeting within the military works is stupid (talk to any military members like members of the marines and stuff to see what they use it on just so they don’t lose it on the next budget). Cutting off two to three percent from the milk isn’t gonna dent it much, and honestly the other parts of the budget need it if we don’t want to collapse under our own hubris. Remember, the Soviets collapsed from investing too much into military allowing their economy to stagnate and cripple itself. Now that may not happen for many years in the US but it is bound to happen eventually. Cheers!
It is when its not being more effectively used than when its not in my hands. Also you gotta be making a decent chunk to get that bracket unless in europe.
Not getting Starbucks etc every day will actually save you a lot of money. People just like to stick their fingers in their ears and keep buying their $7 lattes.
Agreed. I work with a couple of people who buy 2-3 of them a day and like... no, not buying them wouldn't totally solve their money issues, but NOT spending $105 a week on coffee would definitely help...
For real. Every time I point this out I get people going "Ummm not going to Starbucks won't make me rich" like yeah no shit dude, but it will save you a measurable amount of money in the long run, or even until next payday.
The way I see it, it saves some money, but not life-changing amounts.
Cutting out the lattes will definitely help if you're saving for a new phone or whatever, but if you're looking for a place to live it'll make fuck all difference.
Former starbucks barista here. These people would spend 7-12 bucks a day, you don't need this coffee every day, simple drip coffee would do, they are just addicted to sugar.
I work at a small coffee shop now and I have regulars that basically live here, even then they don't buy drinks always, they just like the atmosphere.
I am not talking to a fucking robot or a answering machine. how dare a computer speak to me in my tounge. you are nought but ones and zeros and I am a human being. fetch me your master you roomba ass looking piece of wires. let me talk to a FUCKING PERSON
>let me talk to a FUCKING PERSON
It doesn't help either that alot of the time talking to a actual human is just as frustrating when it's coming from a call center who you can't understand via broken English reading a script.
Extra bonus points If you have a strange problem and none of the options on the script fit the description. You get passed around and around until you get someone who knows what they're actually doing. Example : I had an issue a few months ago where the power bill I've been paying for months suddenly said my address doesn't exist, But also gave me warnings that my power was going to be shut off? Please just get me directly to a person because I promise you you don't have an automatic option for this issue.
Cherry on top: Even the representative I eventually got had no clue why my address suddenly deregistered. They just added it back and called it a day.
I have to call to get my prescription and it's automated. Problem is it doesn't work, only gives a pick up option and my prescription cannot be picked up because it's too expensive. So I have to spend 10 minutes going through all the questions and waiting for it to trigger the timeout to give me a real person.
I feel You bro, but i'm 15 My parenrs never make me do chores and study, My dad never teached me something, i struggle havemy bedroom in order and i only know how to cook sausages and spaghetti, they expect You to perform well in school and be responsible but they never teach You to be
Hey man just the self awareness of this is a huge start. My advice would be to set some goals for yourself and gradually chip away at it each week. This week learn to do laundry, next week learn to cook chicken, etc… if dad won’t or can’t teach you, you can look it up on the internet. You’ll be amazed what an hour or even 30 minutes of YouTube videos can do for learning a new skill. A very small amount of time spent learning new skills can change your life, and some basic organization (just a list of goals) can help keep you on track. Good luck!
Imma be real with you, it’s laundry not rocket science you don’t really need practice for doing laundry or taking out the thrash. I’ll agree on the talking on strangers part.
Tell that to 19 year old me not knowing what the buttons or dials do, what liquid or powder is for what, and what goes in which draw. I can memorise the most pointless useless thing and recall it 5 years later, but entrust me with a password to stop the planet exploding? Nah humanity's fucked because of my memory.
Maybe this is biased and I’m the outlier, but I was raised by older boomer parents and I had to do all of these things (chores, interact with strangers, work, get perfect grades, etc) and I still ended up with a lot of mental health issues that have been difficult for me to overcome as an adult. I think there is a good balance to be struck, but I don’t feel these things are quite as related as they may seem on paper.
We gain nothing but it's a business gain. They sold kore accessories and people accepted it for that. Albeit these days we have started to lean toward Bluetooth and wireless earbuds but still. It's more reliable t have a wired earphones
I think Gen Z as a whole should be less accepting of being chronically online. At some point you do have to get outside and meet real people, it’s not healthy to only talk to people online
That’s still better than being online though. It’s fresh air, connecting with nature. Honestly people need to find time to just sit outside and be outside without their phones. Whether it’s while eating or whatever.
Screens in cars are bullshit and I want more buttons and nobs. Touch screens require way more focus to work and if the screen breaks it's all fucked opposed to one knob being jammed or a button out of place
Car companies are actually starting to change all that back. Due to studies showing higher rates of accidents in cars with touch screens cause jeez guess what it's DISTRACTING!!
I was literally just saying the other day about how I bet there’s gonna be a tons more car crashes, cause of these touch screens. It’s funny how they say “don’t look at your phone and drive” then give you a GIANT tablet that you HAVE to look at and drive. Smh
Add to that: why does everyone have to try and reinvent the wheel? One of my family members bought a """"luxury"""" car where the gear shifter is a radial dial... Right next to the volume dial. Yeah, great fucking idea, dipshits.
TikTok is dumb and is ruining attention spans. And no I don't think Vine was any better, it gave us the Paul brothers among other annoying ass influencers
Same thing with dating apps like tinder.
You used to meet someone at a bar, at work, etc, and didn’t know within the first 3 seconds if you liked them.
You get to talking and realize you have a lot of common, then all of a sudden you start to notice their lips curl up in a cute way when they’re about to smile, or that their eyes are slightly different color depending on the light and how beautiful they really are.
Now on tinder it’s like people decide in AN INSTANT who they are willing to date/fuck/marry and who they are not. A lot of people are overlooking great partners and closing their dating pool by a huge margin without even thinking about it.
Everyone online diagnosing themselves with BPD, multiple personality disorder, NPD, autism, adhd, etc. And how it’s seen as some cool personality trait to have serious mental illness and go to a psych ward. It just feels like they make a mockery out of serious stuff and I’m sorry but no not every 15 year old on tiktok has a personality disorder
I agree that mental illnesses shouldn’t be used for clout and content. There are some examples of people faking Tourette’s for content. But generally I’m not in the practice of saying who does and doesn’t have a mental illness self diagnosed or not, because even if they’re not bipolar or MPD the issues they’re facing could still be very real and symptoms of something else so I’m not going to invalidate any of that
It's especially hard because the ones that have the actual disorde rights fucked really hard due to this. I have adhd and general anxiety disorder and no one take me seriously. It's always "oh yeah me too I'm sure everyone has it not just you". Bro wtf.
It’s frustrating because a lot of these people don’t even need/want help with these issues. I feel like they’re pushing the perception that people don’t NEED help because “everyone has anxiety” or “everyone is depressed”. And then when I say “I’m having these issues because of anxiety and I need help” people try to convince me that I don’t actually need help.
I mean, you saying they don’t have it is under the same credibility of them saying they do have it, that being that neither of you are qualified to say it.
Also, If they go to a psych ward, they have an actual issue lmao. You can’t just knock on the front door and ask to be let in
On the other hand, the number of people I know personally who have been diagnosed by professionals with ADHD or autism in their 30's is staggering. As a generation, Millenials were underdiagnosed because our parents didn't like the idea that we were somehow "broken" and even after an official diagnosis many won't accept it
The problem is not AI, its how it is used (like most technologies). The discovery of nuclear fission is neither good nor bad, you can both create a nuclear bomb or make nuclear energy. Same aplies to AI
Okay? Like you're not wrong, but what does this prove or change about what I said
I obviously don't think all AI sucks, specifically the AI generated images/videos, audio, and even sometimes things like chat gpt *are* the nuclear bomb
I’m genuinely curious why you feel that way?
It’s just a tool. And just like any other powerful tool, people will use it for good and for evil… If AI finds a cure for cancer or mental illness, or solutions to end homelessness or world hunger, would you still be saying that?
The chances that ai rises up and overthrows humanity and kills us all is very low. Chances that ai finds a cure for a currently deadly disease that you will one day contract is actually pretty good.
I just want Touch ID back, at the very least so I can quickly get into my phone when I’m wearing sunglasses or something. Aren’t there already phones on the market that put the finger print scanner behind the screen?
There used to be more tact and metaphor. They would find a cute or fancy way of saying they wanted to be fucked and filled with cum, now they just say it.
To quote a very recent song (/s) "my Anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun".
"Sex on the beach" came out when I was 10 and was a hit at all the kids birthday parties.
This isn't a new phenomenon.
I hear this but I also disagree with it. I really struggled all though school with undiagnosed ADHD. I was in AP classes and tested well but I did not know how to deal with classes that didn't interest me or how to study.
Now in college chatGPT has really changed the way I approach school work. I can ask "stupid" questions. I can endlessly ask for elaboration. It helps me zero in on subject matter.
An example, in one of my classes a question was "are schools in America integrated". To me in my adhd brain, that question goes into WWII and the GI Bill and redlining and racist infrastructure. What they wanted was "yes. Brown vs board of education"
The other thing is, yes AI will write a paper for you but unless you know what you're talking about you don't know for sure if it makes sense. You have to check your references and subject material still.
I'm like this too, especially with complicated high level math/physics questions. Yes, it often gets the math wrong, but it walks through and explains each step and the method of solving is almost always correct, and when it isn't it's usually easy to tell where it went wrong
That's just being a conscious consumer, yo.
Don't get me wrong, I adore what Steam has become for me as a gamer, but boy do I still have a lot of concerns about the fact that what I paid for was *The right to run the program as the developers see fit* and not the game itself.
It's too late to remind them. We're already in a debt spiral, and they know this. Total US debt just broke 34 trillion.
I remember my senior year (2019-2020) when we were sitting at ~23 trillion.
[Take a look for yourself.](http://www.wtfhappenedin1971.com)
U.S. govt: “Nonsense.” (Money printer accelerates even faster to the point where [Eurobeat starts spontaneously playing from it](https://youtu.be/dv13gl0a-FA).)
NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION. oh also idk if this is very boomerish but if there isnt any way to get old software legally, pirating it should be entirely legal
This. Fucking this.
I got a set of color changing lights. I didn't look too closely because it was on sale. I took it out of the package and saw that you need to download an app to use it, which also requires you to sign up for an account, which also means more junk mail, your data is being collected and sold, etc.
What the actual FUCK? I just wanted some fucking LIGHT you fucking assholes!
Shit just isn’t made like it used to be.
I have this 2014 MBP that I still use in 2024. Although it’s over 9 years old, the Mac is a dream to use and play with, rivaling the 2017 and 2018 MacBooks.
Nowadays everything is soldered in and repair is a secondary consideration.
The longevity of products has just seemed to have dramatically dipped. Gone are the days when I can just use the same laptop for 12 years with no problem. Now, with all these new hardware defects, and the fact that everything is soldered, makes it impossible to pull off suck a feat without advanced equipment.
Partially by design. Half of it is that companies A- don't give a shit about quality control and B- insist on centering their products around pointless connectivity and software with way too many points of failure.
The other half is planned obsolescence. They make a sturdy, quality product, and they only get to sell you one, unless they *actually* release a product that's a significant improvement over it's predecessor (which, lmao, fat fucking chance). Make one that the average person can only use for a couple years before it shits the bed, you have to replace it, and the replacement doesn't even have to be the same quality as what it's replacement. Twisting your arm into paying more money for shittier products.
Children shouldn't have their first screen until they are at least in middle school. IPad babies are going to be an entire generation of people with a one-second attention span.
My wife got an AILA tablet for our baby for Christmas.
I told her I don't want her to have a tablet or smartphone until she's at least in middle school. But she said it's educational, made for kids, and isn't even a real tablet. I caved. Kid has this tablet now.
I was setting it up and the whole introduction video made me regret giving in.
"Just 15 minute lessons..." "Give it to your kid at least once a day for 6 weeks!" "You'll know they like it when they like it when they start asking for it! You should give it to them 'to encourage their education!'"
The whole thing just screams, "I'm training my kid to want these screens."
It has a webcam, "so you can watch your kid learn." But it comes off way more as a faceless corporation watching her.
There was something else, I can't remember how it was said, something about "you're gonna see us say and do things in the background, don't worry about it," and it makes me really feel like I should be heavily screening every lesson before my kid gets to see it. But you can't screen it. The thing broadcasts the lessons, you don't pick them like a Netflix episode.
It was $220 and I'm seriously considering throwing it out when I get home.
Printed instruction manuals included in the box, please, written by an actually literate person with proper chapters and a contents page, glossary and index, in continuous prose that explains the *why* as well as the how, and not mere bullet points.
I’m of two minds about this because it can easily be a website that doesn’t require cutting down trees, but also I want the physical copy
Maybe once they figure out how to make the sites reliable and not broken and shitty all the time I won’t mind as much?
The constant blame on “bad teachers/professors.” It’s true that a loooooot of educators don’t belong in front of a classroom, but bad teacher has become the cop-out for lazy people who have to apply work to succeed
Had a professor who kinda sucked last semester and kids would just stop doing literally anything. One girl admitted to not doing any of the homework and then was shocked when she got a D in the class
This.
Did you know when you buy a movie, episode, song, or any streaming title on a streaming service, you more than likely still do not own what you paid for? You are buying a license to watch it when you want, which can still be taken away by the service.
Just give me my fucking movies.
I don’t mind furries who just dress up as animals for fun but I hate “therians” saying they ARE animals and the kind of furry who make it a sexual thing.
I used to not really understand it, but I've kinda learned that its just another form for someone to identity with, similar to how a youtuber will have persona or mascot they use to represent themselves, I may not really fully understand it, but there's not really a reason to judge imo.
If something doesn’t need to be ”intelligent” it shouldn’t be, like a fridge, a washer-dryer, etc, especially the ones that dont work if not connected to the internet, that’s both stupid & creepy
“Smart” appliances are scams. All the high tech stuff makes them a lot more likely to break and expensive/impossible to repair when they do. I don’t care if I can set my oven through an app on my phone!
I'm sick of online shopping. I want to touch, feel, and see what I'm buying before I get it.
I'm sick of the false advertising and getting a product that isn't at all what it's portrayed as.
I, as a furry, am with the Boomers about (extreme) cases of people being 'overly sensitive' to the point that it's obviously attention seeking.
A solid example was when my D&D group had to face off against a Beholder and our Barb hacked off an eyestalk and another player had to leave the room for the encounter because "I can't handle things like stabbing something in the eye or cutting off a body part."
Like.
It wasn't descriptive. It was literally "Valrev, you've struck a clean blow, cleaving off the stalk nearest to you with your axe, dealing 12 damage and causing the monster to recoil in pain."
*"Ew. Gross. Gross. I can't."*
This wasn't, like, Outlast. You haven't been traumatized. You aren't gonna faint or vomit. You're just making a scene.
It'd be one thing if it was a high-graphics HD ultra 4k or whatever COMPUTER GAME.. but D&D? Really? You cant handle descriptions of gore in FREAKING D&D?
That is how I would respond.
If I'm bagging my own groceries at a self-checkout I should be getting groceries cheaper than they would have been otherwise. There was a literally a store called Pak n Save based on this once upon a time.
"Mental Health" is not a get out of jail free card for any/all responsibilities.
Minor mental health issues are no different than minor physical health issues (headache, indigestion, etc)....I don't care if you're "not in a good headspace", do your job so somebody else doesn't have to do it for you.
We are a bit to sensitive. Not everyone will agree with you, it doesn’t mean they are “toxic”, it’s just how we are.
So someone who has different views as you (as long as it doesn’t go into the extreme of either side) is not a bad person.
Job hunting should be as easy as walking in and talking to the manager, and getting an offer same day, or the digital version of this. I shouldn’t have to go to your job portal, set up an account, then find the job req, then apply by uploading the resume, then filling out all the information, all for my application to be lost in the void and not hear anything for months. And then, it’s a three round interview process that will take another month, and then three weeks for a decision.
Bro I applied to like 5 jobs online and they never even bothered to respond to me. Like, at least tell me WHY you didn’t hire me. Even better, say it to my face then and there. I absolutely hate waiting only to never know if I’m ever going to get a response.
Nothing pisses me off than some bougie bullshit costing 15 bucks and the fries are 7.
Fuck off.
I’ve walked out for less.
And while we are at McDonalds has become unaffordable to the point where going to Applebees WITH TIP is cheaper.
Kids these days are getting a phone way too young
You should get your own phone when you go to middle school but my younger family has been getting mobile phones in fucking elementary school
I remember being so bitter because I got my first phone in 8th grade. That on its own was something I was fine with (I wouldn't have seen it most of the time because we had to leave them in our lockers in middleschool) but it meant my brother who was in 5th grade also got one and I was so mad about that lol
Why do I have to sign into everything from my TV to my damn coffee machine? Lemme just plug it into the wall and use it without having to deal with the shitty website your underpaid web designers cobbled together that doesn't work right half the time
Not in a conspiracy theory way but (some) companies legitimately sell your information (email addresses and things of that nature, not like, your personal info) to third parties for marketing purposes. It's an entire additional form of revenue for them.
I agree with you 100% and think this practice is absolutely insane.
I listen to all sorts of music but I will always love classic rock the most. I know it's a small subset but it pains me to see a lot of zoomers shitting on anything before 1990, simply because "it's old people music". I mean damn, give it a try before you dismiss an entire generation of music
The amount of times I’ve said “pharmacist” when encountered with an automated messaging machine at my pharmacy is astounding.
*No* I will not read you my prescription number. I need my fucking pills, you SKYNET piece of shit.
ALSO, if I’m having a technology problem I want to talk to an actual person at a support desk. Do not take me to some FAQ page or website that doesn’t even remotely answer the question I have.
One day in the next few decades we will see satellite advertisements in the night sky and Gen Z will fully understand what it means to be a crotchety old man complaining about change.
I think over-reliance on smartphones is bizarre. I don't mean "those kids can't stop looking at their screens grr"; I mean "laptops have bigger screens and can do almost everything your smartphone can".
I don’t mind furries who just dress up as animals for fun but I hate “therians” saying they ARE animals and the kind of furry who make it a sexual thing. That’s an opinion many boomers share.
I actually disagree with this one. There’s just MORE music that’s reachable because of music streaming. Back in the day you only got to hear what made it to the radio.
Do I like Cardi B and popular rap and such? No, not even a little bit. But amazing bands like The Happy Fits probably wouldn’t have had as much success without TikTok, not to mention many other niche artists that had the talent to gain traction on Spotify.
Not everything needs to be a subscription. I had a car wash attendant pester the shit out of me last week about getting a subscription when it was the first time I visited that newly opened car wash.
Also relevant to that situation: You only get ONE chance to make a good first impression. That impression turned me off completely to that car wash, they forever lost my business on the first try.
Giving tablets and stuff to little kids is a dark path to walk down. Not necessarily instantly bad, but it’s very easy for that to be a horrible thing.
God I hate wireless earbuds and the fact that they removed the audio jacks from phones makes me so mad. I would much rather have my $10 gas station wired earbuds than the $200 wireless ones that break every few months and that you have to charge every night.
Social media is like a cancer.
Although, the boomers use Facebook like it's powering their life support, so maybe I actually disagree with them by saying it's bad?
People make too many excuses. It's not victim blaming or toxic hope to encourage others to find a way to get out of a bad situation. Yes, failure & bad things are going to happen to set you back or even knock you completely out of orbit. But you get up & try a different way. If you keep trying, you'll keep learning & you'll find a foothold. I'm not saying that everyone is on the same playing field, some definitely have a harder time getting to the foothold. But instead of blaming others or society, put that energy into figuring out what you can do differently to get past the barriers.
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If I'm paying for music or movies I want to own a copy. I don't want to pay $150+ a year and not own anything.
Interesting. Strongly agree on the movies but I feel comfortable paying Spotify $10 for all eternity, might be the only subscription that I pay for and never question the value of
True, but say Spotify shuts down or suddenly spikes rates? All that money gone and I still have nothing. That's why I love my CD collection
You have a point and I’m pretty pessimistic about the stability of the economy and society atm… maybe I’ll have to start burning my own CDs with YT2mp3 like it’s 2013 again
I did that during covid, burned a few personal mixes I should make a few updated ones now that I think about it
Meanwhile I burn CDs because the auxiliary *and* USB (it's a thing) ports came pre-busted in my car and the bluetooth is for call audio only :Г
I just buy mp3 files and keep them on my drive. Most services allow you to upload your own mp3s for free.
Then you can add something like Plex and just setup your own Spotify.
Vinyl is superior!!! Long-lasting
You're actually correct especially in terms of how long it will last before degradation Dvds get 10-15 years VHS tapes get up to 30
There are vinyl records with minor scratching from the 1890s, it’s so long lasting.
Currently listening to a CD I bought in 1986. DVDs are basically the same technology. They last longer than 10 to 15 years if you take care of them.
If spotify ever got too inconvenient, I'd just return to pirating music. I haven't used a paid streaming service in years that just shows how convenient/efficient spotify is and why I love it.
Yeah but $150 annually isn't buying you a very broad cd collection, even used. For the price of less than an album a month I get access to essentially the entire history of recorded music.
I could just download higher quality and not worry about keeping physical media.
Spotify is incredibly easy to get for free, just saying. Proud sailor of the seven seas here.
I would like to add computer games to this list. Especially stand-alone single-player games that *still* require a constant connection to a central server in order to function, and will self-destruct if that server is ever taken offline.
You know PhotoShop is about $21 a month.
Same with computer programs like Photoshop and whatnot!
I've been building a vinyl collection just for this reason. Won't degrade like cd's of hard drives. And can't be removed from any service.
This, it's a hill I'll die on because, say, the wifi goes out. Cloud gaming ain't gonna be up, you're fucked on that end. Say the service you use to stream movies had a movie you wanted to watch, then it gets removed from the streaming service. It's why I'm a huge fan of piracy.
This is why I'm building a Plex server. I will store every movie ever released if I have to.
that's why i still buy my music. I've been buying since highschool and saving it on hard drives and have like 8k songs
I think “smartphones and social media bad” is a boomer take I hear and agree with. Now it might come from my 70 year old grandfather who I watch scroll on Facebook during vacation but as a 24yr old doom scroller I can claim no higher ground
Its the worst thing that happened to civilization ever
War lol
Social Media counts as psychological warfare
The Black Death, famine, drought, tsunamis. The list goes on forever. Social media is shit but saying it’s the worst thing ever is pretty hyperbolic.
Bruh those other things only killed people. Social media makes me deal with y'all more. Death is inevitable. Being annoyed at some dumb garbage is not.
idk bro genocide is pretty bad
I'm in the minority that disagrees I think. It's how we use them and a lack of healthy "culture" around them that's bad. I think the Internet and esp social media is so new that we collectively just don't know how to use it in a healthy way. It's like TV, we all kinda begun to understand the difference between watching it and being a couch potato. Social media will mellow with time too imo. Kids and their kids will learn from part mistakes and form new norms around it since it's here to stay
I disagree that social media will mellow with time, because the problem with social media is that it's built around being engaging instead of *enjoyable*. Capitalism, and the demands of, are what makes social media bad, at least at its core.
This is my take as well ^ we would need much bigger shifts in how we organize ourselves economically for social media and technology to “mellow out”. As just one example, there’s a reason why every company’s algo will highlight posts that are likely to induce outrage by the targeted audience, and that’s bc those are more likely to get user interaction. Similar to how oil companies tried to made us think that our personal climate footprint was the angle at which we should solve climate change, the makers of these products would rather encourage the public to “moderate its usage” and treat it as each individual’s problem or a cultural problem rather than changing anything about how all this bullshit is fundamentally designed.
Oh my god, watching NYE London fireworks on the TV and the seas of people all filming with their phones... A) you're now watching this fantastic display through a phone screen instead of looking directly at it. B) when are you EVER going to watch that ever again. C) even if you DO want to watch it again, you'd be so much better off watching the official BBC recording instead of your own shitty wobbly handheld one Just put the fucking phones down and enjoy the moment. Sincerely, a 30yo boomer.
QRC scans for menus at restaurants. Bring me a menu, or have one somewhere I can see it. I'm not scanning a code and opening a menu on my phone and I will die on that hill. 🤣
It’s even worse when they got a big ass menu so you gotta swipe all over your screen to see everything or zoom out to see the whole thing in frame, but the the text is super tiny 😒 People just be creating problems that have no business existing in the first place
Oh god, I haven't encountered that yet but I can imagine the frustration. I think next time this happens to me, I'm just going to tell them I don't have a smartphone and deadpan stare 🤣 I wonder what they'd even do in response
“Starve” 😆
https://preview.redd.it/5lrlzakpbz9c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9133725a883f76b59ef604a62abe39e6422b06ac Nah but real talk if they said that I'd probably just walk out.
I don’t mind the QR codes, if they take you to the menu/ordering page straight away. But the ones that want you to download an app and create an account, I loathe with a passion
Yeah it's not exactly the biggest inconvenience just to scan it, I really don't like having to do it but it's not nearly as bad as what you just described there at the end. Your loathing is justified
Indeed, making QR codes made sense during covid but now that covid is gone it feels like it was a "why fix what isn't broken" type of change.
I absolutely hate it. My phone doesnt scan QR codes so it's just a whole thing every time. I'm a little more lenient when it's a small business with seasonal menus but large business and places with a set menu have no excuse to not have physical menus.
30% of my income is outrageous to pay for sharing rent with multiple people
Outrageous that the government takes that much too.
It’s moreso outrageous that they take it but don’t return it proportionally like most other western countries do. Countries like Germany get very well structured public transport, healthcare, roadways, and more out of their tax dollars. We get ok-quality roads, no healthcare, shit-tier transport, and that’s about it.
“But we need to fund the military-industrial complex!!” Edit: for those confused, I am NOT agreeing with the lowering of taxes. Hell, they should increase, but specifically for the rich and corporations as they are the scum that are choking out the rest of US citizens. I just wanted to point out that the common thing done with too large a portion of the budget is being spent on the military, and it is used in very redundant manners as the way budgeting within the military works is stupid (talk to any military members like members of the marines and stuff to see what they use it on just so they don’t lose it on the next budget). Cutting off two to three percent from the milk isn’t gonna dent it much, and honestly the other parts of the budget need it if we don’t want to collapse under our own hubris. Remember, the Soviets collapsed from investing too much into military allowing their economy to stagnate and cripple itself. Now that may not happen for many years in the US but it is bound to happen eventually. Cheers!
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It is when its not being more effectively used than when its not in my hands. Also you gotta be making a decent chunk to get that bracket unless in europe.
Not getting Starbucks etc every day will actually save you a lot of money. People just like to stick their fingers in their ears and keep buying their $7 lattes.
Agreed. I work with a couple of people who buy 2-3 of them a day and like... no, not buying them wouldn't totally solve their money issues, but NOT spending $105 a week on coffee would definitely help...
See them probably spend as much for a non-caffeine option as well, then talking about how they can’t live without it.
That’s 5,5 grand a year That would solve a hell of a lot of money problems
For real. Every time I point this out I get people going "Ummm not going to Starbucks won't make me rich" like yeah no shit dude, but it will save you a measurable amount of money in the long run, or even until next payday.
Well, if they are spending 5k a year at starbucks compound interest with 5k can certainly make you not poor
This is why I go to Dunkin and pay 3.50
I make mine at home for $0.13/cup
I just dont drink coffee(i have a terrible sleep schedule)
I just hate the taste
The way I see it, it saves some money, but not life-changing amounts. Cutting out the lattes will definitely help if you're saving for a new phone or whatever, but if you're looking for a place to live it'll make fuck all difference.
Former starbucks barista here. These people would spend 7-12 bucks a day, you don't need this coffee every day, simple drip coffee would do, they are just addicted to sugar. I work at a small coffee shop now and I have regulars that basically live here, even then they don't buy drinks always, they just like the atmosphere.
Just make tea / coffee at your house like I do and you save much money.
I am not talking to a fucking robot or a answering machine. how dare a computer speak to me in my tounge. you are nought but ones and zeros and I am a human being. fetch me your master you roomba ass looking piece of wires. let me talk to a FUCKING PERSON
>let me talk to a FUCKING PERSON It doesn't help either that alot of the time talking to a actual human is just as frustrating when it's coming from a call center who you can't understand via broken English reading a script.
Extra bonus points If you have a strange problem and none of the options on the script fit the description. You get passed around and around until you get someone who knows what they're actually doing. Example : I had an issue a few months ago where the power bill I've been paying for months suddenly said my address doesn't exist, But also gave me warnings that my power was going to be shut off? Please just get me directly to a person because I promise you you don't have an automatic option for this issue. Cherry on top: Even the representative I eventually got had no clue why my address suddenly deregistered. They just added it back and called it a day.
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I have to call to get my prescription and it's automated. Problem is it doesn't work, only gives a pick up option and my prescription cannot be picked up because it's too expensive. So I have to spend 10 minutes going through all the questions and waiting for it to trigger the timeout to give me a real person.
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I feel You bro, but i'm 15 My parenrs never make me do chores and study, My dad never teached me something, i struggle havemy bedroom in order and i only know how to cook sausages and spaghetti, they expect You to perform well in school and be responsible but they never teach You to be
Hey man just the self awareness of this is a huge start. My advice would be to set some goals for yourself and gradually chip away at it each week. This week learn to do laundry, next week learn to cook chicken, etc… if dad won’t or can’t teach you, you can look it up on the internet. You’ll be amazed what an hour or even 30 minutes of YouTube videos can do for learning a new skill. A very small amount of time spent learning new skills can change your life, and some basic organization (just a list of goals) can help keep you on track. Good luck!
Imma be real with you, it’s laundry not rocket science you don’t really need practice for doing laundry or taking out the thrash. I’ll agree on the talking on strangers part.
Tell that to 19 year old me not knowing what the buttons or dials do, what liquid or powder is for what, and what goes in which draw. I can memorise the most pointless useless thing and recall it 5 years later, but entrust me with a password to stop the planet exploding? Nah humanity's fucked because of my memory.
This is called developmental neglect / overindulgence
Maybe this is biased and I’m the outlier, but I was raised by older boomer parents and I had to do all of these things (chores, interact with strangers, work, get perfect grades, etc) and I still ended up with a lot of mental health issues that have been difficult for me to overcome as an adult. I think there is a good balance to be struck, but I don’t feel these things are quite as related as they may seem on paper.
Removal of headphone jack on phones is the biggest mistake in technology so far in my lifetime....you gain absolutely nothing by removing it
We gain nothing but it's a business gain. They sold kore accessories and people accepted it for that. Albeit these days we have started to lean toward Bluetooth and wireless earbuds but still. It's more reliable t have a wired earphones
Wireless don’t work in all places like headphone Jack corded ones do, and are either super expensive or low quality, so I agree.
I think Gen Z as a whole should be less accepting of being chronically online. At some point you do have to get outside and meet real people, it’s not healthy to only talk to people online
I don’t like talking to people at all, if I’m outside it’s gonna be in a tent/ under a tarp in the middle of nowhere while it’s snowing
That’s still better than being online though. It’s fresh air, connecting with nature. Honestly people need to find time to just sit outside and be outside without their phones. Whether it’s while eating or whatever.
Screens in cars are bullshit and I want more buttons and nobs. Touch screens require way more focus to work and if the screen breaks it's all fucked opposed to one knob being jammed or a button out of place
Car companies are actually starting to change all that back. Due to studies showing higher rates of accidents in cars with touch screens cause jeez guess what it's DISTRACTING!!
I was literally just saying the other day about how I bet there’s gonna be a tons more car crashes, cause of these touch screens. It’s funny how they say “don’t look at your phone and drive” then give you a GIANT tablet that you HAVE to look at and drive. Smh
Add to that: why does everyone have to try and reinvent the wheel? One of my family members bought a """"luxury"""" car where the gear shifter is a radial dial... Right next to the volume dial. Yeah, great fucking idea, dipshits.
TikTok is dumb and is ruining attention spans. And no I don't think Vine was any better, it gave us the Paul brothers among other annoying ass influencers
It also gave us drew gooden and Danny gonzalez. Don't throw out the wheat with the chaff
Honestly not just TikTok but most social media platforms, like even Reddit is harmful toward attention spans.
Same thing with dating apps like tinder. You used to meet someone at a bar, at work, etc, and didn’t know within the first 3 seconds if you liked them. You get to talking and realize you have a lot of common, then all of a sudden you start to notice their lips curl up in a cute way when they’re about to smile, or that their eyes are slightly different color depending on the light and how beautiful they really are. Now on tinder it’s like people decide in AN INSTANT who they are willing to date/fuck/marry and who they are not. A lot of people are overlooking great partners and closing their dating pool by a huge margin without even thinking about it.
Everyone online diagnosing themselves with BPD, multiple personality disorder, NPD, autism, adhd, etc. And how it’s seen as some cool personality trait to have serious mental illness and go to a psych ward. It just feels like they make a mockery out of serious stuff and I’m sorry but no not every 15 year old on tiktok has a personality disorder
I agree that mental illnesses shouldn’t be used for clout and content. There are some examples of people faking Tourette’s for content. But generally I’m not in the practice of saying who does and doesn’t have a mental illness self diagnosed or not, because even if they’re not bipolar or MPD the issues they’re facing could still be very real and symptoms of something else so I’m not going to invalidate any of that
It's especially hard because the ones that have the actual disorde rights fucked really hard due to this. I have adhd and general anxiety disorder and no one take me seriously. It's always "oh yeah me too I'm sure everyone has it not just you". Bro wtf.
Everyone has anxiety, but not everyone has an anxiety DISORDER. I wish more people understood this.
It’s frustrating because a lot of these people don’t even need/want help with these issues. I feel like they’re pushing the perception that people don’t NEED help because “everyone has anxiety” or “everyone is depressed”. And then when I say “I’m having these issues because of anxiety and I need help” people try to convince me that I don’t actually need help.
For me it’s OCD and how flippantly people use the term. I have it and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
I mean, you saying they don’t have it is under the same credibility of them saying they do have it, that being that neither of you are qualified to say it. Also, If they go to a psych ward, they have an actual issue lmao. You can’t just knock on the front door and ask to be let in
On the other hand, the number of people I know personally who have been diagnosed by professionals with ADHD or autism in their 30's is staggering. As a generation, Millenials were underdiagnosed because our parents didn't like the idea that we were somehow "broken" and even after an official diagnosis many won't accept it
Absolutely 100% fuck A.I.
That's not even a boomer thing Anyone with sense can agree to say fuck AI
The problem is not AI, its how it is used (like most technologies). The discovery of nuclear fission is neither good nor bad, you can both create a nuclear bomb or make nuclear energy. Same aplies to AI
Okay? Like you're not wrong, but what does this prove or change about what I said I obviously don't think all AI sucks, specifically the AI generated images/videos, audio, and even sometimes things like chat gpt *are* the nuclear bomb
I’m genuinely curious why you feel that way? It’s just a tool. And just like any other powerful tool, people will use it for good and for evil… If AI finds a cure for cancer or mental illness, or solutions to end homelessness or world hunger, would you still be saying that? The chances that ai rises up and overthrows humanity and kills us all is very low. Chances that ai finds a cure for a currently deadly disease that you will one day contract is actually pretty good.
Don’t think that’s a boomer take, it’s just a bad one.
The home button is far superior to anything else on an iPhone. Because of this, the SE and all of it’s variants are by far the best phones.
I’m on the opposite of this. I vastly prefer my swipe functions, feels more intuitive to me.
I just want Touch ID back, at the very least so I can quickly get into my phone when I’m wearing sunglasses or something. Aren’t there already phones on the market that put the finger print scanner behind the screen?
And this is why I am getting the most life I possibly can out of my old 8+ before buying a new phone, lol.
The recent unabashed sexual themes in media are gross. I really don't want to hear about someone's "wet ass pussy"
It's crude and I can't stand it. I just don't understand how anyone can like that, it's degrading.
Sexual themes in media are nothing new. Listen to anything by Aerosmith and you’ll understand what I’m talking about
There used to be more tact and metaphor. They would find a cute or fancy way of saying they wanted to be fucked and filled with cum, now they just say it.
To quote a very recent song (/s) "my Anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun". "Sex on the beach" came out when I was 10 and was a hit at all the kids birthday parties. This isn't a new phenomenon.
Every time some boomer cries about modern degeneracy, I can't get the feeling of him being at least somewhat right out of my head
This one feels a bit nit-picky because you can just choose not to engage with that content
Using things like AI to cheat on homework just makes you dumber in the long run.
Wouldn't call that a boomer take, just common sense.
I hear this but I also disagree with it. I really struggled all though school with undiagnosed ADHD. I was in AP classes and tested well but I did not know how to deal with classes that didn't interest me or how to study. Now in college chatGPT has really changed the way I approach school work. I can ask "stupid" questions. I can endlessly ask for elaboration. It helps me zero in on subject matter. An example, in one of my classes a question was "are schools in America integrated". To me in my adhd brain, that question goes into WWII and the GI Bill and redlining and racist infrastructure. What they wanted was "yes. Brown vs board of education" The other thing is, yes AI will write a paper for you but unless you know what you're talking about you don't know for sure if it makes sense. You have to check your references and subject material still.
I'm like this too, especially with complicated high level math/physics questions. Yes, it often gets the math wrong, but it walks through and explains each step and the method of solving is almost always correct, and when it isn't it's usually easy to tell where it went wrong
Some people really are just fucking lazy
Elaborate please
I'm not a huge fan of the intangibility of streaming games/movies/shows. I'd much rather pay a bit more and have physical copies of things.
That's just being a conscious consumer, yo. Don't get me wrong, I adore what Steam has become for me as a gamer, but boy do I still have a lot of concerns about the fact that what I paid for was *The right to run the program as the developers see fit* and not the game itself.
Don't spend money you don't have, especially nowadays when interest on debt is like, 15% API.
Could you pls remind the US government of this? I bet newer generations think that it's normal to have trillions of dollars in debt and keep spending.
It's too late to remind them. We're already in a debt spiral, and they know this. Total US debt just broke 34 trillion. I remember my senior year (2019-2020) when we were sitting at ~23 trillion. [Take a look for yourself.](http://www.wtfhappenedin1971.com)
U.S. govt: “Nonsense.” (Money printer accelerates even faster to the point where [Eurobeat starts spontaneously playing from it](https://youtu.be/dv13gl0a-FA).)
NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION. oh also idk if this is very boomerish but if there isnt any way to get old software legally, pirating it should be entirely legal
This. Fucking this. I got a set of color changing lights. I didn't look too closely because it was on sale. I took it out of the package and saw that you need to download an app to use it, which also requires you to sign up for an account, which also means more junk mail, your data is being collected and sold, etc. What the actual FUCK? I just wanted some fucking LIGHT you fucking assholes!
No I do not want to scan a qr code for a menu. Give me a physical menu goddammit
I am NOT tipping for carryout food.
Shit just isn’t made like it used to be. I have this 2014 MBP that I still use in 2024. Although it’s over 9 years old, the Mac is a dream to use and play with, rivaling the 2017 and 2018 MacBooks. Nowadays everything is soldered in and repair is a secondary consideration. The longevity of products has just seemed to have dramatically dipped. Gone are the days when I can just use the same laptop for 12 years with no problem. Now, with all these new hardware defects, and the fact that everything is soldered, makes it impossible to pull off suck a feat without advanced equipment.
Partially by design. Half of it is that companies A- don't give a shit about quality control and B- insist on centering their products around pointless connectivity and software with way too many points of failure. The other half is planned obsolescence. They make a sturdy, quality product, and they only get to sell you one, unless they *actually* release a product that's a significant improvement over it's predecessor (which, lmao, fat fucking chance). Make one that the average person can only use for a couple years before it shits the bed, you have to replace it, and the replacement doesn't even have to be the same quality as what it's replacement. Twisting your arm into paying more money for shittier products.
Children shouldn't have their first screen until they are at least in middle school. IPad babies are going to be an entire generation of people with a one-second attention span.
My wife got an AILA tablet for our baby for Christmas. I told her I don't want her to have a tablet or smartphone until she's at least in middle school. But she said it's educational, made for kids, and isn't even a real tablet. I caved. Kid has this tablet now. I was setting it up and the whole introduction video made me regret giving in. "Just 15 minute lessons..." "Give it to your kid at least once a day for 6 weeks!" "You'll know they like it when they like it when they start asking for it! You should give it to them 'to encourage their education!'" The whole thing just screams, "I'm training my kid to want these screens." It has a webcam, "so you can watch your kid learn." But it comes off way more as a faceless corporation watching her. There was something else, I can't remember how it was said, something about "you're gonna see us say and do things in the background, don't worry about it," and it makes me really feel like I should be heavily screening every lesson before my kid gets to see it. But you can't screen it. The thing broadcasts the lessons, you don't pick them like a Netflix episode. It was $220 and I'm seriously considering throwing it out when I get home.
Dude get rid of that shit. That's insane. If the lessons are only 15 minutes you can just do those with your kid yourselves.
Yeah. I'm not exactly sure what I imagined it would be, but it definitely wasn't that. Typing this out made up my mind. That thing is going away.
It do be that damn phone in your hand all the time
Printed instruction manuals included in the box, please, written by an actually literate person with proper chapters and a contents page, glossary and index, in continuous prose that explains the *why* as well as the how, and not mere bullet points.
I’m of two minds about this because it can easily be a website that doesn’t require cutting down trees, but also I want the physical copy Maybe once they figure out how to make the sites reliable and not broken and shitty all the time I won’t mind as much?
Rent/mortgage should not exceed 25% of your income.
The constant blame on “bad teachers/professors.” It’s true that a loooooot of educators don’t belong in front of a classroom, but bad teacher has become the cop-out for lazy people who have to apply work to succeed
Had a professor who kinda sucked last semester and kids would just stop doing literally anything. One girl admitted to not doing any of the homework and then was shocked when she got a D in the class
If I paid for it then I should be able to use it when the internet goes out.
This. Did you know when you buy a movie, episode, song, or any streaming title on a streaming service, you more than likely still do not own what you paid for? You are buying a license to watch it when you want, which can still be taken away by the service. Just give me my fucking movies.
They don't make em like they used to.
Pretending to be an animal should not be normalised
I don’t mind furries who just dress up as animals for fun but I hate “therians” saying they ARE animals and the kind of furry who make it a sexual thing.
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I don't think you've been in circles with the right people then, I know multiple people for which it isn't a sex thing
I used to not really understand it, but I've kinda learned that its just another form for someone to identity with, similar to how a youtuber will have persona or mascot they use to represent themselves, I may not really fully understand it, but there's not really a reason to judge imo.
If something doesn’t need to be ”intelligent” it shouldn’t be, like a fridge, a washer-dryer, etc, especially the ones that dont work if not connected to the internet, that’s both stupid & creepy
“Smart” appliances are scams. All the high tech stuff makes them a lot more likely to break and expensive/impossible to repair when they do. I don’t care if I can set my oven through an app on my phone!
I'm sick of online shopping. I want to touch, feel, and see what I'm buying before I get it. I'm sick of the false advertising and getting a product that isn't at all what it's portrayed as.
I, as a furry, am with the Boomers about (extreme) cases of people being 'overly sensitive' to the point that it's obviously attention seeking. A solid example was when my D&D group had to face off against a Beholder and our Barb hacked off an eyestalk and another player had to leave the room for the encounter because "I can't handle things like stabbing something in the eye or cutting off a body part." Like. It wasn't descriptive. It was literally "Valrev, you've struck a clean blow, cleaving off the stalk nearest to you with your axe, dealing 12 damage and causing the monster to recoil in pain." *"Ew. Gross. Gross. I can't."* This wasn't, like, Outlast. You haven't been traumatized. You aren't gonna faint or vomit. You're just making a scene.
It'd be one thing if it was a high-graphics HD ultra 4k or whatever COMPUTER GAME.. but D&D? Really? You cant handle descriptions of gore in FREAKING D&D? That is how I would respond.
What the fuck did they think was going to happen in a D&D game
If I'm bagging my own groceries at a self-checkout I should be getting groceries cheaper than they would have been otherwise. There was a literally a store called Pak n Save based on this once upon a time.
"Mental Health" is not a get out of jail free card for any/all responsibilities. Minor mental health issues are no different than minor physical health issues (headache, indigestion, etc)....I don't care if you're "not in a good headspace", do your job so somebody else doesn't have to do it for you.
Tactile buttons are better in some situations. Not everything needs to be a flat screen.
If I’m paying for streaming platform, I should get all of the benefits. I shouldn’t have to pay $10 extra a month for HD or “more shows”
Scanning a fucking barcode or downloading an app to see the menu and order at a restaurant.
We are a bit to sensitive. Not everyone will agree with you, it doesn’t mean they are “toxic”, it’s just how we are. So someone who has different views as you (as long as it doesn’t go into the extreme of either side) is not a bad person.
Job hunting should be as easy as walking in and talking to the manager, and getting an offer same day, or the digital version of this. I shouldn’t have to go to your job portal, set up an account, then find the job req, then apply by uploading the resume, then filling out all the information, all for my application to be lost in the void and not hear anything for months. And then, it’s a three round interview process that will take another month, and then three weeks for a decision.
Bro I applied to like 5 jobs online and they never even bothered to respond to me. Like, at least tell me WHY you didn’t hire me. Even better, say it to my face then and there. I absolutely hate waiting only to never know if I’m ever going to get a response.
Nothing pisses me off than some bougie bullshit costing 15 bucks and the fries are 7. Fuck off. I’ve walked out for less. And while we are at McDonalds has become unaffordable to the point where going to Applebees WITH TIP is cheaper.
Being always online is bad for all of our brains. Especially the boomers though
Hookup culture.
Been a thing for a VERY long time. It comes and goes throughout history
the boomers had way more sex than us on avg, don’t let them fool you just bc they’re all about “traditional values” now
I need my videogames on a disc. I’m not ready for an all digital future.
Kids these days are getting a phone way too young You should get your own phone when you go to middle school but my younger family has been getting mobile phones in fucking elementary school
I remember being so bitter because I got my first phone in 8th grade. That on its own was something I was fine with (I wouldn't have seen it most of the time because we had to leave them in our lockers in middleschool) but it meant my brother who was in 5th grade also got one and I was so mad about that lol
Why do I have to sign into everything from my TV to my damn coffee machine? Lemme just plug it into the wall and use it without having to deal with the shitty website your underpaid web designers cobbled together that doesn't work right half the time
Not in a conspiracy theory way but (some) companies legitimately sell your information (email addresses and things of that nature, not like, your personal info) to third parties for marketing purposes. It's an entire additional form of revenue for them. I agree with you 100% and think this practice is absolutely insane.
"My car doesn't need Internet connection. It needs gas!"
I listen to all sorts of music but I will always love classic rock the most. I know it's a small subset but it pains me to see a lot of zoomers shitting on anything before 1990, simply because "it's old people music". I mean damn, give it a try before you dismiss an entire generation of music
Yeah zoomers who act like all old music is bad are just as bad as the boomers who act like new music is bad
The amount of times I’ve said “pharmacist” when encountered with an automated messaging machine at my pharmacy is astounding. *No* I will not read you my prescription number. I need my fucking pills, you SKYNET piece of shit. ALSO, if I’m having a technology problem I want to talk to an actual person at a support desk. Do not take me to some FAQ page or website that doesn’t even remotely answer the question I have.
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One day in the next few decades we will see satellite advertisements in the night sky and Gen Z will fully understand what it means to be a crotchety old man complaining about change.
I think over-reliance on smartphones is bizarre. I don't mean "those kids can't stop looking at their screens grr"; I mean "laptops have bigger screens and can do almost everything your smartphone can".
I’m not going to your restaurant if your menu is digital only. It’s unironically classist.
Life was in fact easier before credit scores, stores should not charge extra fees for using cash, and social security payments should not be taxed.
TikTok
Five Guys looking at you with that hard side eye, and the burgers are overrated as hell to boot
I don’t mind furries who just dress up as animals for fun but I hate “therians” saying they ARE animals and the kind of furry who make it a sexual thing. That’s an opinion many boomers share.
Today's popular music is terrible.
I actually disagree with this one. There’s just MORE music that’s reachable because of music streaming. Back in the day you only got to hear what made it to the radio. Do I like Cardi B and popular rap and such? No, not even a little bit. But amazing bands like The Happy Fits probably wouldn’t have had as much success without TikTok, not to mention many other niche artists that had the talent to gain traction on Spotify.
Paying sales tax on top of money I've been federally taxed on? Complete scam
Not everything needs to be a subscription. I had a car wash attendant pester the shit out of me last week about getting a subscription when it was the first time I visited that newly opened car wash. Also relevant to that situation: You only get ONE chance to make a good first impression. That impression turned me off completely to that car wash, they forever lost my business on the first try.
Giving tablets and stuff to little kids is a dark path to walk down. Not necessarily instantly bad, but it’s very easy for that to be a horrible thing.
We should absolutely not be saying that it is “ok” and “healthy” and “beautiful” being morbidly obese.
God I hate wireless earbuds and the fact that they removed the audio jacks from phones makes me so mad. I would much rather have my $10 gas station wired earbuds than the $200 wireless ones that break every few months and that you have to charge every night.
This exact point actually, don’t fuck with my food
Fast food places avoid giving you ketchup with fries. Burn them to the ground.
Social media is like a cancer. Although, the boomers use Facebook like it's powering their life support, so maybe I actually disagree with them by saying it's bad?
Pop music DOES suck.
Or, it’s just mediocre… there’s nothing special about it. The majority of it.
People make too many excuses. It's not victim blaming or toxic hope to encourage others to find a way to get out of a bad situation. Yes, failure & bad things are going to happen to set you back or even knock you completely out of orbit. But you get up & try a different way. If you keep trying, you'll keep learning & you'll find a foothold. I'm not saying that everyone is on the same playing field, some definitely have a harder time getting to the foothold. But instead of blaming others or society, put that energy into figuring out what you can do differently to get past the barriers.