• Ironfist79@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Hell, I’m 46 and it’s really hard to not be cynical these days. I want to believe there’s still good people out there but I run into so many assholes.

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        8 hours ago

        I will forever seethe that I missed out on the 1990s, especially considering how IT was a money printer back then & the rave scene was top notch. I just about caught the tail end of the old internet as well, even that has gone to complete corporate dogshit.

        And owning a house wasnt a Pipedream : (

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          8 hours ago

          Ah the rave scene really was amazing. Have you seen the tiktok videos? The music and feeling will stay with me forever

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            7 hours ago

            Don’t use tiktok lol, I’ve seen a few old clips passed around on forums and stuff uploaded to youtube though, shit looked great. Meanwhile the smallest rave gets shut down pretty quickly by the police these days : ( also pretty envious of pints being far more affordable back then, I barely even go to spoons as a student as it just costs way too fuckin much. I guess one upside of the modern day though is party drugs being cheap, pure and plentiful but that can obviously also have significant drawbacks.

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              7 hours ago

              I joined and deleted tiktok just to download the videos! I’m properly old now I swear everything was just better back then

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                2 hours ago

                Thats the way to use it lol, and I hear that a lot : ( most annoying this is we should be able to have a world where no one wants for anything anymore but alas no line must perpetually go up.

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      8 hours ago

      Uhh, ok hmm…so I learned in life if everyone you see is an asshole, you’re the asshole.

      Think about it this way: there are countless good people in your life but as a society we get taught to get fixated on the worst to complain about. Maybe it’s more entertaining. Maybe we sync to it cuz maybe we have similar features in ourselves we don’t like … which ever the reason it’s personal why we do this. But in doing so It’s easy to discount the good people by ignoring them and what they do. We notice every mistake and bad person out there.

      And how do you think that makes good people around you feel?

      Well they stop coming around. They get drained from being ignored. They put up boundaries where they don’t want to be around assholes fixated on the negative and don’t spend their time on assholes.

      And that’s how we become assholes telling on ourselves by admitting everyone is assholes.

      It’s the shoe smells like shit every where you go analogy.