smoking everywhere
Leaded gas.
I’m so fucking glad we’ve stopped calling women “hysterical” whenever we don’t believe them. That word is so blatantly misogynistic and it seems to be dying out now.
The Nazis.
OH WAIT.
Damn, came to make this joke myself.
Objectively, dial-up.
Otoh, what I would really badly like to become a thing again is actual media ownership, ie. not having streaming services randomly yank your stuff away from you.
Also, I would nominate the fact that the ‘It’s obsolete as soon as you get it in the door’ meme hasn’t been valid for decades now, but hardware manufacturers, Windows itself, and the game industry are trying really hard to make that a thing again seemingly.
Yup! Spotify removing things off my playlists was a big initial factor into me getting into self hosting. All my music streams through Plex now and I haven’t looked back
Even DRM-free storefronts like 7Digital for music or GOG for games aren’t immune to random delistings.
For music, I’ve pulled it into my self hosted Plex setup, so even if the original sources like Bandcamp die, I am hosting my own copy.
Games are their own beast. Hard to do similar self hosted concepts when there are servers involved, other players, etc. I’m still 100% on the “streaming services” for games.
DEI
The Hedolith.
Smoking sections
As long as the law is properly enforced. It’s worse to have smokers just all over the place
white dog poop
This is probably completely uninteresting to everyone else, but this has re-surfaced an old memory for me. I had a really dull data entry job one summer, and the crowd I worked with included a few odd figures. One particular guy was always making jokes that were just a bit too edgy for the workplace, especially amongst a bunch of people that didn’t know him well enough to know how much he meant any of it. For some reason, completely unprompted, he brought up that “you never see white dog turds any more”. Everyone heard this as “white doctors” and immediately winced in anticipation of some incoming racism, and everyone still heard it that way when he tried to clarify several times. Turns out no, it was 100% innocent, just weird.
He was fired for unrelated reasons a few weeks later; he had gone to the nearby pub on his lunch break and had several pints
goals, honestly
It’s not “gone”, but the notion of it being “acceptable” is gone:
Using ‘retard’ as a slur, not only for people with intellectual disabilities but also just for people or things you think were stupid.
Using ‘retard’ as a slur, not only for people with intellectual disabilities
That’s actually the one group of people I’ve never seen anyone call that, lol.
Sadly that slur’s starting to become in vogue again ⚰
I was gonna say the same. I saw the R word casually dropped in a CRT enthusiast group the other day and called the guy out, and a bunch of people stood with me, but nearly as many brushed it off as no big deal.
Worst part ? Seen LEFTISTS say it wen clearly they should know better ❗❗ And in my experience see it on tumblr more than any where else
Oar wat about “sch⬛⬛⬛” ⁉️⁉️ Wen we’ll ever move past describing (peop|thing)s using ableist words
I have no idea what word you’re redacting there. “School”?
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Schizo
I’ll update my slurs list. That’s an entirely new one on me.
Another person with a slurs list?!
I keep mine in a little book in my font pocket so its close to my heart.
Might need to go digital soon, its almost full.
Smoking everywhere. For anyone who wasn’t around for the 70s/80s/90s, everything was tinged yellow and smelled of smoke. Car/plane/train seats had built-in ashtrays. Restaurants had smoking sections separated from the non-smoking sections by waist-high walls.
I have asthma and it sucked. Not sure if I grew out of it as I got older or if there’s just not a miasma of smoke around everywhere, but it rarely bothers me anymore.
George W. Bush’s presidency. I don’t know what the kids are smoking when they say current republicans make him look “classy” or that Trump’s first term was worse than his. He bred a constant state of paranoia and xenophobia and used it to justify killing countless people in the middle east. The damage done to that part of the world is staggering and everyone just treats it like background noise.
Also that decade post-SpongeBob where every kid’s cartoon was about a loud, annoying, dumb guy.
GWB definitely had a scarier presidency than Trumps first term for sure. but this second term is unlike anything I’ve ever seen
Absolutely, that’s why I specified the first term! Even during Biden I kept seeing people say GWB was better than Trump, when they didn’t have this current nightmare fresh affecting their judgment. The kids just really want to redeem Bush for some reason.
Women having to get husband’s permission to open a bank account (speaking of the US).
CRT screens and incandescent lamp.
Having recently played some retro games on era appropriate hardware, I’m actually a little sad CRTs are gone.
Obviously they were heavy, hard to manufactur safely, and were filled with toxic materials, but man are they like the perfect anti-aliasing tool for retro games. I’m sure some good filters exist to replicating it on newer monitors tho.
Overall tho I am glad both of these things are no longer the defacto used tech.
Yeah those things would get HOT. like, hot enough to melt plastic. And they were really wasteful.
Not 100% gone yet, but gas powered yard tools are dying. Battery powered tools are just better in 99% of use cases.
Two stroke engines do seem dead though which is awesome, because mixed gas was a massive pain in the ass.
Oh god I want to gift ALL OF MY NEIGHBOURS BATTERY LEAF BLOWERS. I bought one, it’s amazing, and we’re about to go into autumn 🤢
Really? Some appliances are a great fit for battery but others less so.
An electric mower just doesn’t feel right to me.
The mower is in that 1% unless you have a really small lot. It gets cost prohibitive if you need multiple sets of batteries to finish your lawn.
I use one on a cord. I put it on my shoulder so I don’t ride over it. Never had any problems.
Even better: tools on a wire
It’s getting legit difficult to find corded tools, corded mowers are fine for the size of yard I have, but choice in those was extremely limited. Yeah battery ones exist, they’re twice the price for the cheapest ones and only go up from there, I can live with an extension cord.
I haven’t had much trouble after ditching google and bing. Except for headphones that take aaa batteries
Wired tools are also a pain unless you have a limited scope for movement.
I make sure to have plenty of extension cords, and sockets hanging from most ceilings (with a place to tuck them away).
I don’t know hoe relevant this is, but I am in a 240 volt country. So extension cords don’t really run hot or poorly even with quite a bit of distance and high loads
I remember fighting with gas weed whackers endlessly as a teen trying to do chores… having to dick with the choke for a cold start, having to pump prime them (and it being possible to over prime and lock them out), then you had to carry them around and use them with the exhaust at steak searing temperature… and if you didn’t know how to tune an idle they’d just die in your hands if you didn’t goose the throttle occasionally
This is a great one - don’t miss small gas engines even a little bit lol
Ngl I always thought starting 2-stroke engines was pretty fun. But I certainly don’t miss the noise or the horrible pollution.
I had a 11kW two-stroke motorbike and while it was very important for my rural youth, I do not want it back. Fuck the constant oil refueling, fuck the fumes, fuck the noise. If I ever get a motorbike again, it’d be electric.
The fumes and noise of those little engines makes me excited that the battery versions are taking over.
Love my electric chainsaw except for in winter. Battery life is horrible.
Do you keep the battery inside or on a shed? Much better for the battery to be kept indoors if that’s an option.
Yeah stored in a shed. It’s not an option to keep it indoors as there’s no heated indoors.
I’m perfectly content with my little electric chainsaw. Basically I only ever use it if a tree dies or falls in a storm, it actually starts unlike the gas ones I’ve had…It wouldn’t be up to the task of chopping enough wood to heat my house through the winter but for occasional use it’s better than gas.
Just gotta have backup batteries that you keep charged.
The electric chainsaw is the only one I still don’t like being battery powered. Indeed the battery life is too short for most jobs.
But the noise is also part of the experience, it just doesn’t feel as Powerfull without it.
Lawnmower and snowblower have been the only things I haven’t been happy with being electric. Climate change might help me not need the snowblower at all.
