The Final Frontier

wilwheaton:

technofeudalism:

the funny thing is that i don’t think younger people - and i mean those under the age of 40 - really have a grasp on how many of today’s issues can be tied back to a disastrous reagan policy:

1. war on drugs: reagan’s aggressive escalation of the war on drugs was a catastrophic policy, primarily targeting minority communities and fueling mass incarceration. the crusade against drugs was more about controlling the Black, Latino and Native communities than addressing the actual problems of drug abuse, leading to a legacy of broken families and systemic racism within the criminal justice system.
2. deregulation and economic policies: reaganomics was an absolute disaster for the working class. reagan’s policies of aggressive tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and slashing social programs were nothing less than class warfare, deepening income inequality and entrenching corporate greed. these types of policies were a clear message that reagan’s america was only for the wealthy elite and a loud “fuck you” to working americans.
3. environmental policies: despite his reputation being whitewashed thanks to the recovery of the ozone layer, reagan’s environmental record was an unmitigated disaster. his administration gutted critical environmental protections and institutions like the EPA, turning a blind eye to pollution and corporate exploitation of natural resources. this blatant disregard for the planet was a clear sign of prioritizing short-term corporate profits over the future of the environment.
4. AIDS crisis: reagan’s gross neglect of the aids crisis was nothing short of criminal and this doesn’t even begin to touch on his wife’s involvement. his administration’s indifference to the plight of the lgbtq+ community during this devastating epidemic revealed a deep-seated bigotry and a complete failure of moral leadership.
5. mental health: reagan’s dismantling of mental health institutions under the guise of ‘reform’ led directly to a surge in homelessness and a lack of support for those with mental health issues. his policies were cruel and inhumane and showed a personality-defining callous disregard for the most vulnerable in society.
6. labor and unions: reagan’s attack on labor unions, exemplified by his handling of the patco strike, was a blatant assault on workers’ rights. his actions emboldened corporations to suppress union activities, leading to a significant erosion of workers’ power and rights in the workplace. he was colloquially known as “Ronnie the Union Buster Reagan”
7. foreign policy and military interventions: reagan’s foreign policy, particularly in latin america, was imperialist and ruthless. his administration’s support for dictatorships and right-wing death squads under the guise of fighting “communism” showed a complete disregard for human rights and self-determination of other nations.
8. public health: yes, reagan’s agricultural policies actually facilitated the rise of high fructose corn syrup, once again prioritizing corporate profits over public health. this shift in the food industry has had lasting negative impacts on health, contributing to the obesity epidemic and other health issues.
9. privatization: reagan’s push for privatization was a systematic dismantling of public services, transferring wealth and power to private corporations and further eroding the public’s access to essential services.
10. education policies: his approach to education was more of an attack on public education than anything else, gutting funding and promoting policies that undermined equal access to quality education. this was, again, part of a broader agenda to maintain a status quo where the privileged remain in power.

this is just what i could come up with in a relatively short time and i did not even live under this man’s presidency. the level at which ronald reagan has broken the united states truly can’t be overstated.

I do not believe in Hell, but I will make an exception for Reagan.

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apolladay:

Using this schema of defining generations,

What generation/part of a generation are you?

Gen Alpha (born 2011-2025)

Young Gen Z (born 2006-2010)

Mid Gen Z (born 2001-2005)

Elder Gen Z aka Zillennial (born 1996-2000)

Young Millennial (born 1991-1995)

Mid Millennial (born 1986-1990)

Elder Millennial (born 1981-1985)

Young Gen X (born 1976-1980)

Mid Gen X (born 1971-1975)

Elder Gen X (born 1966-1970)

Baby Boomer (born 1946-1965)

Silent Generation (1926-1945)

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apolladay:

How many people have you lived with in your life (meaning, sharing place of residence, especially cooking areas, living areas, and/or bathrooms).

Group homes count, family counts, everyone in an apartment counts, not everyone in the entire apartment building counts.

How many people have you lived with in your life?

Only 1 other person

2 people

3 people

4 people

5 people

6-8 people

9-12 people

13-17 people

18-23 people

24-30 people

30-50 people

More than 50 people

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hyenabeanz:

pwhl-mybeloved:

ALT

Stumbled across this public post about this from the person who made the dress.

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ciannaaaaa:

This will sound kinda mean but if you’re in your 20s or even early 30s (not that I’m there yet but it’ll come fast) I think the best thing you can do for yourself is literally block out your peers. Saw this post the other day about this 29 year old absolutely crashing out over not yet being married or having kids, when in her eyes everyone else does and she is the odd one out. In my mind I’m like ur literally so young like you’re not even 30 yet……? The aging anxiety is very real because this generation feels very behind on the whole I think. Saw another reddit thread about this 26 year old saying how he has aches and pains now (bone mass peaks at 25 btw). Our sense of youth is warped. Please block these people out like we all have this anxiety but it’s getting to a point where people want to rush their youth bc they’re so scared. Block them out and enjoy being in ur 20s and grab at everything with ur two hands.

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charyou-tree:

prokopetz:

Going directly from what the average person I know in real life thinks constitutes kinky sex to what the average person I follow on Tumblr thinks constitutes kinky sex like

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Average Neighbor: Kink is when you pretend to hurt each other :(

Average Tumblr Mutual: Look, cannibalism is conventional erotic imagery, that can’t be a “hear me out”.

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izhunny:

theredandwhitequeen:

I'm Sorry Millennials, But There's Absolutely Zero Chance You Will Be Able To Pass This Quiz

I doubt you'll know what all these things are.

BuzzFeed

Try this buzzfeed quiz it’s fun.

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bealittleimprobable:

redstonedust:

may be a hot take but i think the fact minors can access 18+ content by just clicking a button that says ‘yes im totally over 18 trust me’ is like. totally fine tbh. its a non-issue. i dont care if curious teenagers are looking at porn. they’ve been doing that for as long as porn has existed. id rather teens explore their sexuality through images on the internet than rush into real life experiences when they’re not ready for it yknow. the UK is trying to put stricter age verification in place (which in turn is becoming an online privacy nightmare) and like. for what. who is it helping. why is this a problem.

People panic about “But what if kids pick up bad ideas from it???”

When I was a kid, Power Rangers got banned at school because we all thought it was incredibly cool and kept trying to kick each other in the head. No-one bothered explaining “Those are trained actors and it’s all practiced, they don’t *actually* hurt each other, and you’re not good at that yet”, they just banned it.

So we went to the park after school and read Kim’s smuggled copy of the Power Rangers magazine and kicked each other in the head there instead.

(This is a metaphor, but it’s also literally true. So much kicking in the head.)

God forbid parents actually talk to their teenagers.

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yooboobies:

‘the odds between them’ 🎰💰

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depsidase:

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elkian:

doccyuk:

syn4k:

syn4k:

ok note to self i gotta leave the house regularly so that i dont feel like im slowly transforming into an evil fucking shadow clone of myself

So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow

“Individuals aren’t naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are…well…human beings.”

Terry Pratchett, “Men At Arms”

One thing I’ve gotten a lot better at due to long and unpleasant experience is Going Outside even when I don’t have a Reason for it.

Unemployed stint? Go Outside. Sick? Go Outside. Etc.

Because even 5 minutes Outside helps me remember that there is an Outside. When I don’t Go Outside (ideally once per day minimum), my world shrinks to the house, then the areas I actually use, then my bedroom, then my bed, then me.

If you’ve got clinical depression especially, try to find time to Go Outside. I’ve got some potted plants out back this year - gotta water em! The porch of the new place is actually pretty nice - morning coffee when the weather isn’t abominable counts as Going Outside. I try to go to the library every weekend, take a walk, etc. etc. etc.

If you can Go Outside I highly recommend Going Outside especially when you don’t have an external reason to do so. Make a reason - whether it’s bird watching or a potted plant or just checking out the neighborhood, you will definitely feel less awful if you can make 5 minutes a day Go Outside Time.

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icsek:

fozmeadows:

the older I get, the more the technological changes I’ve lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn’t even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents’ house and our wall-connected landline; my mother’s first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend’s house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend’s massive CRT monitor wouldn’t fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room’s dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist’s in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that’s a decade’s worth of pictures I’d have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can’t ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don’t have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they’re obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there’s a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven’t had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

Being born in the 80s really meant you went through so many significant technological upgrades in a relatively short amount of time just in childhood alone.

My grandmother was a telephone operator back when there were still switchboards and party lines. My kids will likely never understand a landline except as a history lesson in the progression of the telephone. I remember and experienced the entire progression of mobile phones from the brick and car phone to the first flip phone (which only “flipped” to cover the number pad) to the first color screen phone to the first camera phone to smart phones.

My phone has many many times the RAM of the family computer we had. I learned my first computer skills on DOS and had Wheel of Fortune on floppy disc. I remember how revolutionary Windows 95 was!

It felt like there was something new all the time, but now it feels a bit like the magic is lost when “new” technology rolls out. Maybe it’s just the lack of wow like the change from cassette to CD. Now it’s just, “it has more RAM and more storage!” but it’s basically the same product.

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