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.
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”?
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.
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.
Smoking sections
As long as the law is properly enforced. It’s worse to have smokers just all over the place
Vinyl (for music, not floors).
I don’t care much about the supposed fidelity, but having a group of mates around each pick an album from my stack is a lot of fun.
It stops people from focusing too hard on the music and going “oh wait lemme queue up this track” etc.
CDs would fulfill the exact same use-case while being more convenient, space efficient and cheaper.
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.
Imagine being 6 years old and your mother hugging you while crying. You have no electricity. It’s night time. Artillery shell explosions followed by the crumbling buildings and injured crying in pain are the only break you get from your mother’s sounds of sobbing. They’re destroying your entire block, but what you feel is terror. You can look out a window and see flashes. You don’t even know what politics or weapons of mass destruction. You’re just there scared until you die. You wonder what you did for this to happen. Now imagine hundreds of that same experience per night.
That never makes it into the news. I would love to see people’s responses. Show the child and mother live. Then, people are randomly asked, “Push button to kill this person immediately or you will be put in jail and shamed for life.” Let’s see how they react to that guilt for eternity.
There’s a quote from Game of Thrones that I think of often. The setting is that 3 brutal high-class leaders have to decide which one of them will die as punishment. They start getting nervous, so Tyrion says:
It always seems a bit abstract, doesn’t it, other people dying?
I find it validating.
The Ozone hole.
Also acid rain. Two massive environmental Ws that aren’t celebrated enough.
Smallpox
Henry Kissinger
May he rot into nothing and be forgotten
CRT displays.
I like to have one around 😅. I like the look and it’ll probably survive me
Survive you or outlive you?
Still using mine daily! Older shows and movies just look better on it.
Smoking everywhere and anywhere. Younger folks have no idea how ubiquitous it was, not to sound boomerish, but everything smelled so bad, and people would smoke in places that would shock you now, like in hospitals they would smoke in the nurses station, if you walked into a clothing store at the mall they’d be smoking at the counter, etc. Even when they did things like making that glass room for smokers at Tim Hortons, I once saw a woman sitting in there with her toddler in a stroller puffing away. It was actually amazing that anyone put a stop to public smoking because so many people did it.
At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren’t there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There’s still bigotry but it’s not as casual and pervasive.
a lot of media used the F slur well into the 2000s. it’s pretty shocking to watch nowdays
It’s weird watching average sitcoms from then because of this. The more popular ones are sometimes better but even Seinfeld wasn’t great with it.
Eminem has a song where he casually drops an F bomb.
the marshall mathers lp alone has like 4 tracks where he does
And yet his first major song endorses gay marriage.
He dropped like a thousand of them. He was using it regularly until sometime in the 2010s.
Eminem is weird cause he leans left but will use any word— save for n word and now f— as long as it rhymes or fits the scheme, then does nearly nothing else offensive. It’s like words are exempt from his morality.
As does Tyler, The Creator, a decade later.
Can gay men not use that word?
In context, it’s an insult.
Policing a gay man on this is odd
Boney ass is an insult too, but you can say that.
I’m not going to explain to you why that’s different than a slur. Suffice it to say, shut the fuck up.
CDs and DVDs and (video)casettes. Took up so much room, annoying to use while travelling.
We could always bring back the 8 Track Tape!
Quality was also very low. Nostalgia blurred our memories, watching/listening that stuff today is wild.
CDs still sound better than streaming.
DVD and VHS, absolutely they look like trash now.
Oh definitely.
I was thinking VHS and cassettes
Cassettes can sound great if ya got Type III metal tapes. Lots of cheap tapes were Type I, which don’t sound nearly as good.
VHS tho nah, as nostalgic as I am for it, it’s just a bad option today lol
CDs are great though :( I love that I can rip them and back them up, play them wherever I go, no licences or streaming. :)
So you don’t actually love CDs but the fact you can not use them after buying them. You can still buy non DRM music you don’t have to subscribe and you could rip or copy streamed music if it wasn’t easier to pirate it.
CDs by the way also are subject to licenses and DRM has started to appear on them. The reason they did not try as hard as with DVDs and Blurays is that Music is trivial to copy, people have been ok with taping from the radio after all. If video on physical media was still a thing you would have plenty of DRM, they’d probably make you buy a newer player after 5 years or so.
I love that they play in my car, don’t take up a tonne of space, have liner notes, and occupy physical space. I stick them on in the house as much as my LPs, and like picking out what to play.
I’m okay with being in the minority, but the sentimental value of where I was when I picked an album, where I’ve listened to it, and who I was with means a great deal to me. :) I download too, but usually things just sit on my drive and don’t get listened to.
You present a good point about licences, but I’ve not ever experienced this, and my main concern with licencing is things vanishing from my library - it bothers me when an album vanishes from spotify, and that never happens with physical media (same is true of downloaded music to be fair). It’s not that I’m blindly loyal to Phillips or whatever, just that I like this format for my specific use case.
Can’t argue with non licensing/copying/backup reasons for preferring CDs or other physical media.
But a lot of people are under the misconceptions that things like licensing came to existence after the switch away from physical media or that there were not DRM in physical media, therefore switching back to a physical media would solve the current problems with lack of control over our media. It will not.
What we need is DRM-free digital media, which we can use wherever and however we want. Just like a lot of us did with MP3s and CDs.
I’m with you 100% :) I have a record collection too, but heck if I’d want only records! There’s a use case for each, even if mine’s oddly specific.
I feel Steve Albini’s take on CDs hit it correctly, it was basically to the effect of “welcome to the rich man’s eight track tape, the music industry’s newest way to make you re-buy your music and spend more money”.
I will say he couldn’t have forseen CDs lasting like they have and being the last big physical format, but I think it’s very true. You’re right that physical formats don’t negate the greed/capitalism, and there’s a compulsive desire from companies to control how you enjoy the media you paid for and “own”.
In short, I completely agree with you and the media industries are really restrictive/anti-art, but love CDs as a format. :)
Nazis
You haven’t been paying attention, have you?
Catholic clergy are done molesting children…
No, they’re not
Since when? Has Hell frozen over?
A couple years ago it was an issue in Christian religious organizations bad enough that there’s plenty of memes about it. How much this is still the case, I do not know
It was an enormous issue under Pope Benedict, yes, and then I think Pope Francis took things in the complete opposite direction and cracked down on the issue. But alas, it’s still a problem. And not really just in churches but anywhere where an in-loco-parentis system is involved, which includes things like regular school teachers and daycare providers as well, which is one contributing factor against the idea of children in regular occupations. As an asexual, a part of me wonders if simply screening people would solve the issue.
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.
Women having to get husband’s permission to open a bank account (speaking of the US).
