In the long run I don’t think it would matter that much. They would just move it elsewhere potentially in someone’s else backyard but the infrastructure will still run by you and the effects/consequences are still the same. A nice looking backyard doesn’t matter when everything around it is on fire.
I wouldn’t say I want the pre-internet world but I would definitely want the early-internet world. It used to be the best of both worlds before corporational greed and governmental control took over the entire internet. The internet was just this useful communication tool that happened to have some other niche uses like forums and archives.
Not 90s but the 2000s in the middle east (keep in mind the same technology was released here at a similar time but adoption was slower due to prices and companies at the time not knowing how to market their products in non-western markets)
I have older siblings and younger siblings and I want say me and my friends in the same age group exist in this weird transitional generation. We are too young to have embraced the optimism and hope of the older generations but we are too old to have just accepting the current status quo as how we found the world to be.
As a child I have used the entire progression of the telephone. I have used landline, dumb Nokia phones, blackberry, smart Nokia phones, and Samsung smart phones. I remember watching both satellite TV and YouTube Minecraft let’s play as a kid. My dad used to take family pictures using both a film camera and a digital camera. I remember when we had to go out I would schedule the VHS recorder (or whatever it’s called in English) to record my favourite cartoon tv show.
But what I believe is the most impactful aspect is the politics. I can clearly remember the Arab Spring (a series of revolutions in 2011). I was too young to understand it at the time but I sure have felt this feeling hope, optimism, and freedom in everyone around me just to realise when I grew up that we’ve lost.
Also LLMs and AI became a thing while I’m in the middle of university so I have seen how the concept of education slowly change from who learnt the skills better to who can make it the fastest with least tokens spent.
I’m also an introverted nerd so the moment I had internet access I was totally invested. I have seen how it turned from wholesome (and totally not wholesome) forums, chatrooms, and personal blogs, to these gated gardens, to brainrot and then AI slop. And I miss just hanging around uninvited in a small niche online community and talking to people.
I think what would resonate with my age group and some older folks is the feeling and promise that certain things and the future will be ours when we grow up, just to loose it all before we had the chance to.
Actually the number of situations matches the number of “fuckin” and they ended with a “fuckin” not a situation/question so "fuckin"s follow the the questions and not precede them. What might have confused you is the fact that the first time was not formatted as a question but rather a conditional statement describing a situation, and also the very fucked up use of punctuation.
I have a 5 years old laptop and was planning on building a home pc but I can’t afford this shit now. I’m still planning on it but now I have to wait till I save enough money to even be able to enter a store.
to me at least and I believe many other people too, space travel seamed like an impossible magical fantasy as kids. it was fascinating and opened the door for imagination. as we became older and more aware and also as the world around us changed, like most things it became less magical and less impossible. additionally most of us especially in this modern political environment most of had unintentionally realigned their priorities. space travel sounded less utopian and magical and more dystopian and bad prioritization. also people like elon musk has just ruined it for an entire generation. I used to admire the man as a kid now everything he is involved in is just meaningless political tools and corporational greed to me.
seeing how bleak humanity’s future is and how corrupt and ruined the planet became suddenly the idea of someone going to a rock in space became less important. it also didn’t help that this event coincides with the current war in iran and gaza and the trump administration. as someone from the middle east, it felt eerie seeing the same flag that represents tyranny and murder to also represent scientific advancement and human achievement.
For god’s sake can corporations and governments stop trying to control and survey people do the job of parents and society. If parents are not doing their job then you need better awareness and education not to take over.
I’m starting to think that no place is left that isn’t turning into a shit hole.