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I wonder if (assuming things get better) future generations would be like "I hate this boring and lifeless AI art that we have today, I wish I was born in the 2010s!" Or will the shit show that has been going for the last few years be so vivid that they would be happy not to have been born now.

Kinda like how it can be fun to imagine being born as a boomer and working casually while living luxuriously, but not so much to imagine being born in 1920s and going through WWII as a soldier

Or maybe they will also yearn to be boomers lol

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see throughout history things have their ups and downs. I look forward to the next up.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it doesn't magically go up. people have to fight for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Can't fight for shit with OP's attitude.

OP needs perspective and needs to read stuff like Studs Terkel. Hardship takes on a whole new meaning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I hope you believe in reincarnation then, this isn't going away

When Germany went full nazi, we were there to stop them

Now it's us who are the nazi and who can possibly stop the largest military in the world by a factor of 3?