I was born in 1959 - that was over 225 years ago! And I sure feel like it. Only good thing is, I've seen a lotta stuff over the years, and I can tell you this - the world today is no better or worse than it was back then. War was raging the middle east, people were protesting police brutality, and Russia was threatening war to everyone. It seems like the more we progress the more we stay the same.
I was born in 1974 and I have this constant debate with my wife about world politics and historic politics. After traveling the world and reading a bunch of history and living as a poor Native kid in the north ... it's made me realize that the world hasn't changed all that much.
The world changed for the privileged few North Americans for a few decades in the 60s, 70s and 80s and it felt like things were really going to change but it didn't. In the meantime, things stayed the same for everyone else ... the 90 percent of the rest of the world population.
As a first world resident that benefited from major social change ... it feels like there were big changes and that things should progress some more ... but when you look at it with a wider lens, the rest of the world hasn't really moved and has stayed the same, no matter how much it changed in your corner of the globe.
There has been marked progress in reducing poverty over the past decades. According to the most recent estimates, in 2015, 10 per cent of the world’s population lived at or below $1.90 a day. That’s down from 16 per cent in 2010 and 36 per cent in 1990.
I've traveled a bit too, not that much, but to every state in the U.S., through all of Canada and Mexico, and China as well. And it's just amazing to experience all that and see how much we have in common and yet, the most modern of all those places was China - their cities look like something out of the not too distant future. So much neon, it reminded me of Blade Runner. And I've trekked to the most remote, untouched parts of Mexico were people still live in mud huts or under old mattresses for a roof with no walls - and you see that human civilization hasn't really progressed at all in those spots. It's just an eye-opening experience.
@ininewcrow@lemmyshitpost@tygerprints but if you look more is about 50 years, is not much time to have a notable changes, maybe 50 years in the future you see more changes for best or worst
*lets go of what they are holding onto. //coffee cup falls and splashes all over carpet. ///lost coffee? Worse than losing a hand and discovering the equivalent of the head of the Gestapo in a galaxy wide Nazi regime is also Dad.
I don’t need bad math to make me feel old
We're only 34 years from this being true
Next year we will be closer to 2067 than 1990.
And 34 years could be another 60 for all we know
That would make today 2057. Damn! I overslept!
Wish I could oversleep that much and not age.
Wake me up when we get to interstellar travel.
Rip Van Winkle moment.
I'm 46 years old and I'll have you know that 1990 was like two months ago.
Yeah. That one song from Nirvana just released.
Is that the "grungy" band? Meh. They'll never catch on. *turns on AM radio. //clock radio ///the one with the panels that flip to show the numbers
I was there
GTA V came out 12 years ago. The Playstation 2 was released 48 years ago. Internet Explorer 3.0 was released 59 years ago. Feel old yet?
Did you know that when Jesus died, the Big Chungus cartoon had been airing for 2 years? It's possible Jesus saw Big Chungus.
There was a time Madonna was a actual virgin but that long ago in the before times
There are paintings.
Before she was devirginated?
And 3/4 of that time has passed since 2019.
2016 for me
You got me for one sec.
It must be that elderly brain!
I was born in 1959 - that was over 225 years ago! And I sure feel like it. Only good thing is, I've seen a lotta stuff over the years, and I can tell you this - the world today is no better or worse than it was back then. War was raging the middle east, people were protesting police brutality, and Russia was threatening war to everyone. It seems like the more we progress the more we stay the same.
I was born in 1974 and I have this constant debate with my wife about world politics and historic politics. After traveling the world and reading a bunch of history and living as a poor Native kid in the north ... it's made me realize that the world hasn't changed all that much.
The world changed for the privileged few North Americans for a few decades in the 60s, 70s and 80s and it felt like things were really going to change but it didn't. In the meantime, things stayed the same for everyone else ... the 90 percent of the rest of the world population.
As a first world resident that benefited from major social change ... it feels like there were big changes and that things should progress some more ... but when you look at it with a wider lens, the rest of the world hasn't really moved and has stayed the same, no matter how much it changed in your corner of the globe.
https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/ending-poverty
I've traveled a bit too, not that much, but to every state in the U.S., through all of Canada and Mexico, and China as well. And it's just amazing to experience all that and see how much we have in common and yet, the most modern of all those places was China - their cities look like something out of the not too distant future. So much neon, it reminded me of Blade Runner. And I've trekked to the most remote, untouched parts of Mexico were people still live in mud huts or under old mattresses for a roof with no walls - and you see that human civilization hasn't really progressed at all in those spots. It's just an eye-opening experience.
@ininewcrow @lemmyshitpost @tygerprints but if you look more is about 50 years, is not much time to have a notable changes, maybe 50 years in the future you see more changes for best or worst
Time truly does fly.
Fuckin' feels like it.
We are 250 years from 1991, feeling old yet
The internet will save this comment til its true
RemindMe 250 years
(We need a reminder bot on lemmy, lol)
And longevity, or Longevity Escape Velocity at least.
Pretty sure there is one? Not sure how to summon it though.
@[email protected] 250 years
@owatnext Ok, I will remind you on Sunday Oct 29, 2073 at 12:50 PM PST.
Looks like 2073 is 250 years from now!
Wow I guess I'm just dumb!
Edit:
/s
In Africa, every 60 seconds a minute passes
So do 83.7476 children.
Side note fake fact: most kids in Africa don't have names because they won't live long enough to need one.
Old enough to remember Obama being cutting edge because he used a Blackberry.
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My past was stolen
No...That's not true...That's impossible!
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
*lets go of what they are holding onto. //coffee cup falls and splashes all over carpet. ///lost coffee? Worse than losing a hand and discovering the equivalent of the head of the Gestapo in a galaxy wide Nazi regime is also Dad.
Wooooooow
How... how did that happen?
No.
We've got a time traveler in the chat
At least you'll get a cool robot hand!