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?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    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)

    • RebloodlicanDemocrip [any]
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      1 year ago

      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.