The 90s weren’t great for most people, but they were the peak of hope and optimism for many people.

Education, telecommunication, and trade relations were developing so quickly it was “sensible” to foresee humanity living in a utopia soon.

Then baby bush goes back to the middle east, domestic surveillance expands internationally, but most importantly the internet disillusions most people that they are living in a progressive world.

How many genocides are currently happening? How quickly are sea levels going to rise? Why, exactly, are so many people dying from cancer at the same time that processed foods become so popular?

The tobacco scientists were LYING!?

Ask and the search engine answers.

Talk to international forum friends: people tell you about their lives manufacturing your comforts in China, Jamaica, India, and so on.

It rapidly became clear from the outset of social media that tech titans also champion commodification and privatization of personal and public information rather than using that information to benefit society at large.

Things weren’t getting better in the 90s, but before everybody was talking to each other and sharing their experiences, many people believed things could get better.

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Holy crow, that freaked me out. That’s really impressive. Pretty uncanny valley, but I can definitely see the appeal.

that’s really interesting. I listened to a podcast with one of the writers, or maybe the creator, I can’t remember right now, and he talked about how sincere everybody was about creating the superhero who could actually change the cultural lack of concern about climate change.

and what’s super cool is like statistically and culturally, it looks like the show worked.

like yeah everything is still fucked, but it would have been way worse a generation earlier if a bunch of awesome nerds didn’t make Captain planet for generation x so they would become horrified over climate change.

[here it is] (https://share.google/H4LaAuoFDf6AS01Al)

hahaha holy crap i am laughing out loud, thank you, dang that’s so funny

haha, this is it, this artist achieved expertise over layout.

I like a lot of their ideas, but this one is executed pretty flawlessly.

very funny.

back? I never gave it up, haha.

radical, congratulations! cheers to more good times!

I’m with you, Mario 64 is one of my all time favorites.

i still play it every few years and sometimes I’ll get the urge to watch the latest world-record speedrun, it’s so much fun to even just watch.

pretty much the only game i do that with.

great screenshots too. there are so many mods for SM64 but I almost always play vanilla, so it’s fun to see you guys as different characters.

SM64 Toad is a psychopath for sure.

congrats on getting to share the game with your friend, and almost hitting a year with your screenshots!

if you think that despite the overwhelming popular evidence, i don’t think any further examples are going to change your mind.

sewing is mine also. I don’t think I’ve talked to a single person in the 15 years I’ve been sewing that hasn’t reacted with shock to some degree or another upon finding out.

i like repairing clothes and making backpacks.

someone had to say it.

whaaat?

so a comment mentioned lump… that’s a quite a leap to your notion that Lemmy is nothing but presidents of the United States band posts.

I think the fact that you have that post at hand maybe indicates that you’re pretty into the band?

rather than all of Lemmy being into that band.

who does rock.

from my absurdly extensive(editorial opinion) user history alone, you’ll be able to tell that… wait let me check how many posts and comments I have…

that .01% of my posts are about that band.

I don’t think the POTUS band affliction is as a widespread as you are insinuating.

I see a lot more posts about the coward POTUS than the band POTUS these days.

also, they are free.

I have no clue what you’re talking about.

link?

i always figured with the “woman” cry and all the talking about bulges and fingering that it was about sex.

I don’t know its depth measurement, but I don’t think…the song is strictly about the peach fruit.

hahahha oh man, I’ve never seen that. that’s really funny.

I know it should have been earlier, but that really is the last straw for buying Nintendo products for me.

what a shame.

cannibal: the musical

I laughed at this, but now I might actually show it to her.

the longer that story goes on the less ridiculous it seems. I have a more favorable impression of the skibidi toilet series than I do of the official transformers movies.