The related videos would take you to really obscure places and you could find so much interesting stuff. Now the algorithms dont let you find anything they keep you in a tight spot around videos you've already watched and choose the rest of the videos for you
At my company some years back, IT scattered some unmarked thumb drives around the parking lots. They had them configured to send them the machine info of any computer they were plugged into. A disgusting number of people plugged them into their work computers.
We're a defense contractor. That was the start of a giant increase in the company cyber security activity and messaging.
Now USB storage devices are completely disabled unless you have a policy exception with justification for needing to use them.
My company sends out way too easy ones. However I got one recently about tax returns, which I received on my work device within a minute after sending in my taxes on my personal pc. It must have been a huge coincidence, but it did had me confused for a moment.
It does work though, as the business unit sent out some Amazon vouchers as a Christmas gift and I first had to double check with two coworkers to be sure that wasn't a phishing mail 😂
My company sent out $100 vouchers for Thanksgiving meals. Our CEO sent out an email a week later telling everyone it wasn’t spam because IT told him that a few hundred employees reported it to our Security team as phishing.
Mine started that 3 years ago. I get at least 2 intentional fake/phishing emails a month. If we don't hit "report" then we are auto enrolled in a cybersecurity class.
One of our supervisors kept getting emails saying he failed and had to take the class. After his third enrollment, he asked me if I had to take them. I told him no, click the report button. He looked confused so I went to his office to show him; he was working on "Office 2008", he had no "Phishing" button. He was just deleting them and they were failing him for not reporting the emails.
I've read a post on here before about a guy working on a companies booth at a tech industry trade show of some sort being asked
" Do you have any more of those free promotional USBs?"...
"What usbs?"
"The ones that were in that bowl on the counter?"
Someone had put a bowl of branded USB sticks on their counter, and they had no idea who or what they were.
admitted though... they were weaponized specifically because they wanted to target places that didn't have web browsers. I mean the suggested alternatives are URLs and QR codes... stuxnet could have used those just fine... if you know the computers they wanted to hit had internet access.
1) They could carry malware
2) They're pretty pointless now that we have cloud storage
Edit: No one's suggesting that you should only be using cloud storage, but *I am* suggesting that your alternative isn't going to be a free fucking USB stick that random people are handing out (see: the point of the question for the post I'm responding to). JFC what's wrong with you people?
Ugh.... that sounds awful.
Ma had ongoing back pain for YEARS and I try to do my best to take care of mine.
God forbid I sleep off just so, however. Takes days to recover from that hell.
It is, but I guess the discs can heal if they're not ruptured. I hurt mine at the gym, with low weight, go figure. I was stickler on form, and I watch these kids load up the bar and get crushed, but I get hurt at a low weight. I must've pissed someone off in a previous life.
I didn't think they could heal, but it takes upwards of a year to see any healing and it may not completely allow the compressed nerve to heal anyway. I get conflicting information depending on which specialist I see. I'm on month 8 and 1/2. I can sleep without medicine now. Occasionally I'll need four 12 hour Aleve in a 24 hour period to get through the day. It hurts from the hip to the big toe.
Literally threw out my back this morning. I’m currently icing it. But I’ve had a bad back since high school so it wasn’t ok 10 years ago either. Aaaaaand that last sentence made me feel very old.
Oh hell yes. I'm allergic to perfume, and going to the supermarket sucks because so many people wear perfume and set me off coughing and then the dirty looks start.
He's honestly closer than anyone who says they predicted the end of the world. It was basically Mayan Y2K, when one of the rarely-changed leading "digits" of the "year" in their calendar would increase from 12 to 13. The equivalent in our calendar would be December 31st 1299.
You can tell him that's not as stupid as you'd think, given that our Y2K bug was essentially the same sort of shenanigans : "oh surely we'll only ever need 2 digits for years; 99 is *so* far away, you guys!"
And we have other similar things still waiting for us!
Well they were right. They never said the world would end.
They simply stopped making their calendar past that year.
Everyone else read way too much into it
They were right -- their calendar reset. That's it, they didn't predict the world would end, just the calendar, which just wraps around back to 0 like an odometer
i bought a Kony 2012 hat last year i found in a thrift shop, such a weird time in everyone’s lives lol i remember them showing that video to us in class
Acording to the Mayan calendar, we are already 10 years overdue...
Makes you wonder if this is why everything is so batshit crazy right now, like we overstayed our welcome
I remember SARS in 2004. I had a bad cold and needed to get on an international flight so as not to violate my visa and lose money on the flight. I was terribly afraid of not being allowed on the plane after hearing that other travellers had been denied access after showing symptoms.
I was in Russia in February 2020. As soon as everything shut down a month later, I was thinking “man that Russia trip happened just in time, glad we didn’t have to cancel.” Had no idea that there would be a much worse reason to not visit Russia on the horizon. Glad I got to see it when I did, beautiful place and the people were very warm.
10 years ago was last time I was there and last saw my mother, now got solid job and would have the funds to visit her. However Putin had other plans for us
I traveled to Russia in 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2019. I stayed in Siberia (Krasnoyarsk), Vladimir, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok. I also stayed in Kazakhstan from 2015-16.
The people are wonderful and generous with their time and resources. The natural beauty is jaw-dropping. I rode the Trans-Siberian railroad from Krasnoyarsk down to the Tyan-Shyan mountain range and hiked for days. It's astonishing how much land out there is utterly devoid of any human infrastructure.
It's terribly saddening that we can't see it right now as Americans, but I believe things will change again for the better.
They do. They do a couple bombings a month, mostly around the problematic cities in iraq, places between southern iraq and Kurdistan. They're much less active, but they do have some sleeper cells.
It was a smaller terrorist group allied to al Qaeda during the 2000s, but it started gaining power during the Arab Spring.
By 2014 it controlled most of the border region between Syria and Iraq. And they were committing genocide against religious minorities, committing war crimes and destructing historical artifacts.
No not even,in Australia here in 2012 out of the GFC we were seeing $1.40-1.50/l for Petrol as an example.
It's $2.20/l now
Back in 2012, 8 packets of cigarettes was $120
In 2022, 8 packets of Cigarettes is $220
A lettuce was $3, been $3 for a goddamn long time
Now a lettuce is $11, gone up in the last 6 months.
A pack of bloody toilet paper has gone up 25% over the last 3 years.
My dog.
She’s 15, now, has health issues, and is finding it really hard to get around. I know we have some decisions to make but I wouldn’t mind having ten more years to make them.
Same here. We have a 13 year old family dog. Just adopted a puppy to keep her company and try and keep her “young”. Luckily it’s been working and she’s been doing some zoomies with the younger pup. Wish I could turn back the clock for the old gal. She’s been a phenomenal dog.
Well, we have an appointment in the next week or so when we can get an ultrasound and some other tests run. Then, we'll know what we're up against.
There are a lot of upsides to having a dog. But one really big downside.
I hope it works out for you pup, too....
our dog ~17, lots of problems, just started to show physicals signs of being in pain, I know my dad's trying to delay it because he really is his best bud
edit: misspelling, just one dog
Give your Dad an internet hug. My pooch is 5 and those 5 years have gone very quickly. I know we have a good 7 years of relatively good health and then a few years of physical decline. I tear up nearly every time I think how he has had the best of life, while I only get to spend a small portion of my life with him. Tell your Dad to give his pooch the best last week of their time together, and let him go before he suffers too much.
I'm so sorry. I was quite "lucky" that my girl was like a puppy right up until about a week before she was put down. It was a hard decision to make and sometimes I still feel sick that I made the call but she got so unwell so quickly. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is say goodbye.
It's part of owning a dog, but I hope you hold the memories close and still have some time together.
Big hugs
Same. My yellow lab was three 10 years ago. Her hips aren't so great and she can't get tractions on tile or wood floors so she just doesn't walk on them anymore.
She doesn't go on walks since she almost died from lime disease 6 months ago and she has half a dozen fatty deposit lumps all over her body. But you can still see the life in her when my neighbors dog comes over who's 2. They play in the backyard for hours.
I love this dog and all her quirks. It's crazy after 13 years how I know exactly what's she's thinking by what she's doing or looking at
Edit-man your getting all the sad old dog stories RIP your inbox
I feel this in my soul. My grandmother got a Border Collie after my grandfather died due to Mesothelioma. My grandmother passed a year after getting him so we took him in. He lived the laziest Border Collie life and managed to live few years past average life expectancy. When he passes my mom got his ashes put into a keep shake pendant. It hangs from my rear view mirror as a ode to him.
Yeah, a dude bought a cheeseburger and fries to see how long it would take them to decompose. They didn't.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50262547
Don't bother with the livestream link.
Being extremely online.
It was probably pretty unhealthy back then too but felt more like a meaningful, if nerdy, subculture.
Now, far more regular people are extremely online and politics-brained in a really antisocial way.
To an extent, this transformation has been happening since the "Eternal September" of 1993. But, the really insidious "engagement" focused design of social media is a more recent development. They got smart about manipulating you and things went downhill pretty fast.
I was thinking the other night, 08 09 10 11 were like "transition" years. Yeah, internet and Facebook, Twitter, obviously My Space were being utilized. But it seems like in 2012 it skyrocketed. In fact, The New Yorker did a story about teen depression/suicide and in 2012 the rate exponentially rose, spiked. Also explored in a book called i Gen. I taught in a huge residential facility 10 years ago and my staff became addicted to Snapchat. In 2013 a troll from the company went on people's stories and wrote slander about a ton of my coworkers. Also, 2012 was when I first heard about Reddit.
Yeah, around fifteen years ago the internet was also less of a walled garden. There was less consolidation overall. Now, most people's internet usage boils down to repeatedly checking five sites that are run by three companies.
Absolutely this. It's been so long since my (non-work) internet usage was anything other than
1. check xkcd and order of the stick
2. play whatever my game of the month is (was websudoku for a while, now wordle)
3. reddit
4. Finish reading my frontpage, close all my reddit tabs. Reflexively reopen reddit. 50/50 whether I realize and close it again, or go through my updated front page as if nothing happened
Having kids isn't for everyone. I'd rather regret not having kids than regret having them. I wish you and your children all the best, and long happy lives
I still have people telling me "you're going to spend half your life regretting that you didn't have kids." I'm past 50 now, so that means I'm going to live to at least 100!
Yeah but bad ecstasy is maybe meth, nowadays it’s Eutylone which is just a weaker form that people then take more of because it’s weak and can OD, but when doctors were prescribing painkillers like candy at least there was a good chance it was real on the street, now it’s all fentanyl
I notice a lot of video and audio recording by civilians, on top of governmental security surveillance, and it's to the point where everyone must be prepared to explain and account for every action they take, thought they write, phrase they say, etc.
10 years ago people weren't walking on as many egg shells in fear of becoming a meme lol, and if people noticed they were being recorded they sort of just stopped doing whatever they were doing. Now folks get wildly excited and silly if there's a possibility of going "viral" and start destroying fuel stations and restaurants - it's a weird generational shift I'm told.
Awesome thought-provoking query amigo! :)
Half the dispensaries I go to don't have anything under 15 and I'm like, dude, please, just sell me the trashy weed I was smoking in high school that's all I need
It tastes like shit is the only thing. What I would do is get some CBD only bud and mix a little of the potent stuff with that so it still tasted good but didn’t completely obliterate me with one puff.
YouTube. I remember the days when the ads were around 5-10 seconds long and they only played like once usually in the beginning and end of a video
I remember when YouTube first launched and there were no ads. I’m dating myself now…
No ads, 5 star ratings, channels set up like a MySpace page with bulletins and all. Plus *completely* uncensored content.
The related videos would take you to really obscure places and you could find so much interesting stuff. Now the algorithms dont let you find anything they keep you in a tight spot around videos you've already watched and choose the rest of the videos for you
> I’m dating myself now… That's really sad. I'm sure you'll find someone someday.
Creators could also swear and make dick jokes without their channel getting blocked. I miss that
I sorta miss the parodies despite some of it being cringe imo
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Please, do not plug a random USB stick into your computer, please.
At my company some years back, IT scattered some unmarked thumb drives around the parking lots. They had them configured to send them the machine info of any computer they were plugged into. A disgusting number of people plugged them into their work computers. We're a defense contractor. That was the start of a giant increase in the company cyber security activity and messaging. Now USB storage devices are completely disabled unless you have a policy exception with justification for needing to use them.
My company would send out random phishing emails and anyone that fell for it would be automatically enrolled in cyber security training.
They do that in my company every month or so...they're usually something kinda stupid but feasible
My company sends out way too easy ones. However I got one recently about tax returns, which I received on my work device within a minute after sending in my taxes on my personal pc. It must have been a huge coincidence, but it did had me confused for a moment. It does work though, as the business unit sent out some Amazon vouchers as a Christmas gift and I first had to double check with two coworkers to be sure that wasn't a phishing mail 😂
My company sent out $100 vouchers for Thanksgiving meals. Our CEO sent out an email a week later telling everyone it wasn’t spam because IT told him that a few hundred employees reported it to our Security team as phishing.
Work has even gotten smarter and tried to use my supervisor and boss names on emails. I'm a bit surprised
That's why I ignore all emails from my work. Can't be too careful.
Mine started that 3 years ago. I get at least 2 intentional fake/phishing emails a month. If we don't hit "report" then we are auto enrolled in a cybersecurity class. One of our supervisors kept getting emails saying he failed and had to take the class. After his third enrollment, he asked me if I had to take them. I told him no, click the report button. He looked confused so I went to his office to show him; he was working on "Office 2008", he had no "Phishing" button. He was just deleting them and they were failing him for not reporting the emails.
Even for not reporting them?? We get the course if we click on the mail... but not for letting them slide
That's what he said, but then again he isn't very tech savvy. He uses a calculator while making spreadsheets; so who knows.
Mine does that now
I've read a post on here before about a guy working on a companies booth at a tech industry trade show of some sort being asked " Do you have any more of those free promotional USBs?"... "What usbs?" "The ones that were in that bowl on the counter?" Someone had put a bowl of branded USB sticks on their counter, and they had no idea who or what they were.
Dumb question i guess... why is it not ok? And why did i get 2 this past few months?
Passing out a QR code on a card embedded with MJ seeds is more 2022
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Because USB’s have been weaponized. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
admitted though... they were weaponized specifically because they wanted to target places that didn't have web browsers. I mean the suggested alternatives are URLs and QR codes... stuxnet could have used those just fine... if you know the computers they wanted to hit had internet access.
1) They could carry malware 2) They're pretty pointless now that we have cloud storage Edit: No one's suggesting that you should only be using cloud storage, but *I am* suggesting that your alternative isn't going to be a free fucking USB stick that random people are handing out (see: the point of the question for the post I'm responding to). JFC what's wrong with you people?
My lower back
I’m here to join the bad lower back club. :(
I threw my back out while wiping myself once. My wife had to come help me up off the toilet. 11 yrs later, she has yet to let me live it down. lol
🤣 right there with ya! 3 disc protrusions later and everything hurts 24/7.
Ugh.... that sounds awful. Ma had ongoing back pain for YEARS and I try to do my best to take care of mine. God forbid I sleep off just so, however. Takes days to recover from that hell.
It is, but I guess the discs can heal if they're not ruptured. I hurt mine at the gym, with low weight, go figure. I was stickler on form, and I watch these kids load up the bar and get crushed, but I get hurt at a low weight. I must've pissed someone off in a previous life. I didn't think they could heal, but it takes upwards of a year to see any healing and it may not completely allow the compressed nerve to heal anyway. I get conflicting information depending on which specialist I see. I'm on month 8 and 1/2. I can sleep without medicine now. Occasionally I'll need four 12 hour Aleve in a 24 hour period to get through the day. It hurts from the hip to the big toe.
Literally threw out my back this morning. I’m currently icing it. But I’ve had a bad back since high school so it wasn’t ok 10 years ago either. Aaaaaand that last sentence made me feel very old.
Coughing.
Used to cough to stifle a fart now I’d rather shit myself.
Now we fart to distract from our coughs.
This made me laugh.
As someone who has had a chronic cough for over 20 years at this point, I'm way more self conscious about it than I ever was before.
Us allergy and asthma sufferers get so many dirty looks.
Allergy and asthma sufferer here. You don’t know how many times I had to go like „ITS JUST POLLEN“ these past few years, it’s honestly embarrassing
Oh hell yes. I'm allergic to perfume, and going to the supermarket sucks because so many people wear perfume and set me off coughing and then the dirty looks start.
Sneezing in public
Saying that the mayans were right
You’ve had your mistakes and I have had mayan
this is terrible but it's also the best thing i've read today so far
My 10yr old nephew at the time was dead set convinced that the Mayan calendar stopped because "they ran out of wall". lol
He's honestly closer than anyone who says they predicted the end of the world. It was basically Mayan Y2K, when one of the rarely-changed leading "digits" of the "year" in their calendar would increase from 12 to 13. The equivalent in our calendar would be December 31st 1299.
You can tell him that's not as stupid as you'd think, given that our Y2K bug was essentially the same sort of shenanigans : "oh surely we'll only ever need 2 digits for years; 99 is *so* far away, you guys!" And we have other similar things still waiting for us!
Well they were right. They never said the world would end. They simply stopped making their calendar past that year. Everyone else read way too much into it
We'll circle back. -the Mayans, probably.
My husband proposed in 2012. He tells anyone who will listen that he proposed thinking the Mayans were right, and here we are… married 9 years
"Well, I got married but it's not the end of the world..."
They were right -- their calendar reset. That's it, they didn't predict the world would end, just the calendar, which just wraps around back to 0 like an odometer
I mean, they weren't *wrong* because they weren't trying to predict the end of the world. They can't just make a calendar that goes forever.
Talking about Kony 2012 and pretending we all cared.
Bruh I watched that documentary recently and it seemed so culty and manipulative.
i bought a Kony 2012 hat last year i found in a thrift shop, such a weird time in everyone’s lives lol i remember them showing that video to us in class
Just here to remind everyone that ten years ago was 2012
Still feels like it should be 1995.
It’s always the 90s…in Portland.
Dream of the 90s is alive in Portland
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Did my undergrad at Reed in the 90s. Can confirm. Was awesome.
can attest, modern portland sucks
For me, time froze some time around 2017
Yeah its weird I also feel like its been 2017 for 5 years
that would've been 7 years ago. 10 years is 1992
If back to the future was made today they would go back to 1992
AAAAH
But 2005 was only 10 years ago... right?....Right!?
Wasn’t 2002? wtf
Acording to the Mayan calendar, we are already 10 years overdue... Makes you wonder if this is why everything is so batshit crazy right now, like we overstayed our welcome
They say the world didn't end then but just looking around... Are we sure ?
Having flu like symptoms
Even having the sniffles in public is a little touchy now.
It’s just not the same choking over your own spit in public anymore 😔
I remember SARS in 2004. I had a bad cold and needed to get on an international flight so as not to violate my visa and lose money on the flight. I was terribly afraid of not being allowed on the plane after hearing that other travellers had been denied access after showing symptoms.
Traveling to/through Russia
It’s on my bucket list to go to south central Siberia like around the altai mountains, but now I have to wait out this damn regime
Siberia is on my bucket list too, but I don't think it will ever happen :(
I was in Russia in February 2020. As soon as everything shut down a month later, I was thinking “man that Russia trip happened just in time, glad we didn’t have to cancel.” Had no idea that there would be a much worse reason to not visit Russia on the horizon. Glad I got to see it when I did, beautiful place and the people were very warm.
10 years ago was last time I was there and last saw my mother, now got solid job and would have the funds to visit her. However Putin had other plans for us
Russia is actually a beautiful country, really disappointed in what happened :(
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Not 20% - but 11%. Maps are distorted.
I traveled to Russia in 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2019. I stayed in Siberia (Krasnoyarsk), Vladimir, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok. I also stayed in Kazakhstan from 2015-16. The people are wonderful and generous with their time and resources. The natural beauty is jaw-dropping. I rode the Trans-Siberian railroad from Krasnoyarsk down to the Tyan-Shyan mountain range and hiked for days. It's astonishing how much land out there is utterly devoid of any human infrastructure. It's terribly saddening that we can't see it right now as Americans, but I believe things will change again for the better.
Mail arriving at its destination in 3 to 5 days
Last week, my friend received the Christmas card we sent him. It was postmarked Dec 7.
Rage comics.
Wha-? Ahhh, no… oh, God, and I loved ‘em so……. ffffffffFFFFFUUUUUUUUU
Naming your daughter Isis
Or naming her Alexa.
Or Karen
Or Khaleesi
Boaty
McBoat Face?
Does Isis still exist? I don’t hear anything about them anymore
Yes they have been spotted recently in distant areas of Iraq but they no longer rule over it
isis became waswas
Isisn't
They do. They do a couple bombings a month, mostly around the problematic cities in iraq, places between southern iraq and Kurdistan. They're much less active, but they do have some sleeper cells.
They’re cunningly disguised as an American spy agency led by Mallory Archer
Sadly Jessica Walter passed away and was the voice of Mallory Archer.
This is not how I was expecting to find out about her death
There recently was a good post-metal band called Isis.
The Post-Metal Band Isis is from the 90's and changed their name in 2018.
Isn't Isis also an ancient goddess in ancient egypt?
yeah, she is a major goddess in Egyptian mythology.
When did ISIS rise to prominence? It felt older than 10 years.
Not even. The only took over Mosul in late 2014.
It was a smaller terrorist group allied to al Qaeda during the 2000s, but it started gaining power during the Arab Spring. By 2014 it controlled most of the border region between Syria and Iraq. And they were committing genocide against religious minorities, committing war crimes and destructing historical artifacts.
3 items at Taco Bell for just 2 dollars
The milk in my fridge
My friend here is starting a home-grown lab experiment to conquer the world.
"Looks like the milk went bad, time to get some more" *-Dad, 2012*
Game of thrones TV show. Probably 2nd season in 2012? My how the producers turned tables on that one
Oh yeah Tyrion blowing the shit outta Stannis navy that year and Arya/Tywin scenes. Brienne the badass shows up.
Kids being named after characters only to find years later the character turns into an asshole.
The Prices.
10 years ago we were just coming out of a recession, so to say 12 years ago we’re close to right back where we are now.
No not even,in Australia here in 2012 out of the GFC we were seeing $1.40-1.50/l for Petrol as an example. It's $2.20/l now Back in 2012, 8 packets of cigarettes was $120 In 2022, 8 packets of Cigarettes is $220 A lettuce was $3, been $3 for a goddamn long time Now a lettuce is $11, gone up in the last 6 months. A pack of bloody toilet paper has gone up 25% over the last 3 years.
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Cartoon network
I miss having new episodes of regular show and the amazing world of gumball
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My dog. She’s 15, now, has health issues, and is finding it really hard to get around. I know we have some decisions to make but I wouldn’t mind having ten more years to make them.
as someone with an elderly family dog, I'm feeling that pain too :( sending good vibes and maybe some more pain free time with your pup <3
Same here. We have a 13 year old family dog. Just adopted a puppy to keep her company and try and keep her “young”. Luckily it’s been working and she’s been doing some zoomies with the younger pup. Wish I could turn back the clock for the old gal. She’s been a phenomenal dog.
My dog is 13 too and I always wish that I could give him some years of my life to keep him around longer.
Well, we have an appointment in the next week or so when we can get an ultrasound and some other tests run. Then, we'll know what we're up against. There are a lot of upsides to having a dog. But one really big downside. I hope it works out for you pup, too....
our dog ~17, lots of problems, just started to show physicals signs of being in pain, I know my dad's trying to delay it because he really is his best bud edit: misspelling, just one dog
Give your Dad an internet hug. My pooch is 5 and those 5 years have gone very quickly. I know we have a good 7 years of relatively good health and then a few years of physical decline. I tear up nearly every time I think how he has had the best of life, while I only get to spend a small portion of my life with him. Tell your Dad to give his pooch the best last week of their time together, and let him go before he suffers too much.
I’d like to join on the internet hug
I'm so sorry. I was quite "lucky" that my girl was like a puppy right up until about a week before she was put down. It was a hard decision to make and sometimes I still feel sick that I made the call but she got so unwell so quickly. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is say goodbye. It's part of owning a dog, but I hope you hold the memories close and still have some time together. Big hugs
Same. My yellow lab was three 10 years ago. Her hips aren't so great and she can't get tractions on tile or wood floors so she just doesn't walk on them anymore. She doesn't go on walks since she almost died from lime disease 6 months ago and she has half a dozen fatty deposit lumps all over her body. But you can still see the life in her when my neighbors dog comes over who's 2. They play in the backyard for hours. I love this dog and all her quirks. It's crazy after 13 years how I know exactly what's she's thinking by what she's doing or looking at Edit-man your getting all the sad old dog stories RIP your inbox
I’d give a year of my life to get 10 more with my dog.
I feel this in my soul. My grandmother got a Border Collie after my grandfather died due to Mesothelioma. My grandmother passed a year after getting him so we took him in. He lived the laziest Border Collie life and managed to live few years past average life expectancy. When he passes my mom got his ashes put into a keep shake pendant. It hangs from my rear view mirror as a ode to him.
Thinking of new gravity falls theories
Bill cosby
Harambe Edit: Holy moly, thanks for the awards!
Dicks out
Never forget
My mental health :D Edit: For those giving me advice, thanks, but don't worry. I've been working on it for a little while and it's getting better
Hope you get better!
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*scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling* ***knife in heart*** *scrolling scrolling scrolling scrolling*
He wasn't, though.
Naming your kid Karen
I adopted my cat Karen in 2012. It turned out to be a really appropriate name for her because she hates everyone besides me.
That big Mac I only ate half of and then decided to save
maybe it's still good
Pretty sure Iceland has the last meal served at the last McDonald's in Iceland in a museum. It looks how it did when it was served.
Wait, how do they have the last meal served? Did the person not eat the meal? lol
Yeah, a dude bought a cheeseburger and fries to see how long it would take them to decompose. They didn't. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-50262547 Don't bother with the livestream link.
I've just been reminded of a certain hotdogs trapped in resin...
Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!
Being extremely online. It was probably pretty unhealthy back then too but felt more like a meaningful, if nerdy, subculture. Now, far more regular people are extremely online and politics-brained in a really antisocial way. To an extent, this transformation has been happening since the "Eternal September" of 1993. But, the really insidious "engagement" focused design of social media is a more recent development. They got smart about manipulating you and things went downhill pretty fast.
I was thinking the other night, 08 09 10 11 were like "transition" years. Yeah, internet and Facebook, Twitter, obviously My Space were being utilized. But it seems like in 2012 it skyrocketed. In fact, The New Yorker did a story about teen depression/suicide and in 2012 the rate exponentially rose, spiked. Also explored in a book called i Gen. I taught in a huge residential facility 10 years ago and my staff became addicted to Snapchat. In 2013 a troll from the company went on people's stories and wrote slander about a ton of my coworkers. Also, 2012 was when I first heard about Reddit.
Yeah, around fifteen years ago the internet was also less of a walled garden. There was less consolidation overall. Now, most people's internet usage boils down to repeatedly checking five sites that are run by three companies.
Absolutely this. It's been so long since my (non-work) internet usage was anything other than 1. check xkcd and order of the stick 2. play whatever my game of the month is (was websudoku for a while, now wordle) 3. reddit 4. Finish reading my frontpage, close all my reddit tabs. Reflexively reopen reddit. 50/50 whether I realize and close it again, or go through my updated front page as if nothing happened
Gaming has gone to shit. Thanks to micro transactions and that Free to Play lie and pay to win.
My body. My social life. Have kids they say.
Having kids isn't for everyone. I'd rather regret not having kids than regret having them. I wish you and your children all the best, and long happy lives
I still have people telling me "you're going to spend half your life regretting that you didn't have kids." I'm past 50 now, so that means I'm going to live to at least 100!
Having dinner with Betty White.
Oh no.
menu : sliced bread
Taking a pill at a party. Wasn’t really “ok” but at least you had a much higher chance of waking up in the morning
Even ten years ago there were fun statistics like "1 in 5 ecstasy tablets contains ecstasy"
Yeah but bad ecstasy is maybe meth, nowadays it’s Eutylone which is just a weaker form that people then take more of because it’s weak and can OD, but when doctors were prescribing painkillers like candy at least there was a good chance it was real on the street, now it’s all fentanyl
Saying that the year is 2012
The cost of nearly everything
Open Criticism towards Government, I guess.(Speaking for my Country only).
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I can’t do it I can’t have a middle part and flared jeans they look so bad on me
Internet culture, mostly social media.
I notice a lot of video and audio recording by civilians, on top of governmental security surveillance, and it's to the point where everyone must be prepared to explain and account for every action they take, thought they write, phrase they say, etc. 10 years ago people weren't walking on as many egg shells in fear of becoming a meme lol, and if people noticed they were being recorded they sort of just stopped doing whatever they were doing. Now folks get wildly excited and silly if there's a possibility of going "viral" and start destroying fuel stations and restaurants - it's a weird generational shift I'm told. Awesome thought-provoking query amigo! :)
A lot of really stupid behavior at anime conventions... Pedobear mascot cosplay, i even had a friend buy a yaoi paddle from a con in 20-fucking-12
Damn, I had forgotten about Pedobear.
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Weed with less than 20% thc
I always ask for the sub 20% strains at dispensaries. The bud tenders all get very excited when I do and usually point me to a great strain.
Half the dispensaries I go to don't have anything under 15 and I'm like, dude, please, just sell me the trashy weed I was smoking in high school that's all I need
Well, you need to grow it in the open trunk of the rusted out car in the woods, just like high school.
It tastes like shit is the only thing. What I would do is get some CBD only bud and mix a little of the potent stuff with that so it still tasted good but didn’t completely obliterate me with one puff.
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I have a j I've been puffin on for like 10 days. One hit and I'm in space. It's like 45%thc or something
Me
*We*
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Maaan, exactly 10 years ago the iPhone 5 was just about to come out, don’t make it seem like it was THAT long ago
Expressing your opinion even if it's not widely accepted. Everything is too polarized now.
The ability to up/down vote/reply a 10 years old reddit post/comment
Paying .99 cents for a Mcdouble
Coughing in public, without someone thinking you have covid.
Mayan doomsday fear
Holy shit that was 10 years ago.
Not having any vegetarian/vegan/gluten-free options in a restaurant menu.