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Not to mention all the shit that wasn't being captured on any kind of recording at the time.
The rose tint feels so fuckin good tho, right?
yeah and for a lot of people who'd be using lemmy, the reason they weren't aware of all this shit is our parents kept us safe from it
I mean - I probably got to live the very best of the 90s Americana as a suburban kid with an old computer and a modem in it.
I still saw a lot of shit going on in the world. I mean ... AIDS pandemic, anyone? Remember fear around shaking someone's hand?
Sometimes I think the problem is that at any GIVEN time, like 2/3 of people aren't paying attention to what is happening outside their own immediate experience.
It is intensely difficult to join those ⅔. It takes more than adding fascists’ names to your Lemmy filter tell ya that much.
"Oooommmmmm .... Ooooommmmm"
<2 minutes guttural screaming>
"eh, I'll try again next time"
I’m supposed to be walking even more now. I have no ability left to forget difference between what should be and what this garbage today is. Play some old favorite shows in my earbuds? Idfk.
All I know is that most people just want to live their lives without hurting anyone else.
I wish it were "all people."
With no sarcasm, this is nice.
🤝
There's only a single decent quality video of the first plane on 9/11. Because in a city of millions of people, only 1 person in the area was recording at the time.
I can't even imagine how many videos there would be if it happened today.
More videos. And yet somehow
less agreement on what happened.
"obviously fake ai sludge"
perhaps some “that’s what Comrade Pelosi wants you to believe”