Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.
I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
It's sad that he is basically every child's idol.
I use my young cousin as a yardstick for what kids are into these days. I know all kids are different, but this one in particular loves Tesla cars and Mr Beast. He even bought a bottle of prime on eBay for like £15. I feel so bad for him. Advertising has melted his brain. There's no reason for a kid to be obsessed with an energy drink brand. There's no reason for a kid to really even like a Tesla. Car kids when I was growing up all liked the big fat trucks or the super fast sports cars, which makes sense because really they are impressive feats of engineering and look pretty sleek. Tesla's are just some overmarketed and overrated electric car.
TV basically isn't a thing anymore. No more shows about fantasy worlds and interesting characters. No stories that play out over an episode. Just YouTube, an endless supply of advertisement sludge, with maximised attention grabbing short term stimulation. I really do fear that this next generation is going to turn out utterly brain-dead. I'm only the generation before that and we're all total fuckwits already.
Eh the Teslas kinda make sense. Back when I was a child the Dodge Viper was the fastest, coolest, most amazing car in existence. The Dodge Viper was a piece of shit then, and it's a piece of shit now, but I still think it's one of the coolest cars ever made.
Teslas are garbage, but they're still cool.
caliper comment, but you can also very obviously tell that the younger generations look different
tbh all the generations do, even the ones from the 1950s and stuff, and it's very obvious that the ones in the 60s/70s are the healthiest looking ones (in the US)
Hmmm. So you mean like muscle mass, BMI, wearing glasses and so on?
I think in general we look different because now people from lots of different places are getting it on and starting families. Even when it's just a white person from Germany and a white person from England there's still some degree of your offspring looking 'new'. I moved from a more rural area to the countries capital and you can really see that the kids of people who live rural look like they always did, going back to Ye Olden Days, whereas city folk's kids who've interbred with people from outside of their home town just look more modern in the face. Not in a bad way, they just simply look different.
Look at the Hollywood starlets through time - it's not just shifting beauty standards but also just that people who look like that don't really exist in the same numbers anymore. Same goes for models and actors these days - they have a more alien look about them (again, not in the pejorative sense) - just in the sense that now especially with the globalisation of beauty standards, the hottest people from one country are now able to fuck the hottest people from the other country, and both of those people might be operating on whatever beauty standard the American beauty industry has set. It means certain features are super pronounced like cheekbones and stuff.
Idk, maybe this is all bullshit. Just a hunching.