Medicine in general has gotten a lot better. I'm also able to buy stuff like silken tofu without having to drive quite far to find a specialty store that sells it.
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The lack of privacy, independence, and freedom that generally comes with childhood.
I'm glad that Furbys, inflatable furniture, and disposable cameras are no longer mainstream. And may they never return.
Orkut, Flogão (kind of a precursor to instagram, it was mostly used by high schoolers around 2004-6), Skype, Internet Explorer and ActiveX
And Adobe Flash.
Dial-up internet. I would open a website and go do something else for a minute until it loads, then fight with my parents when they pick up the phone when I've been downloading something for 3 hours.
We had very late internet infrastructure upgrade, so at the end we had a bluetooth dial-up internet router in the early 2010s...
Internet over bluetooth is a crime against humanity
Not 100% gone yet, but gas powered yard tools are dying. Battery powered tools are just better in 99% of use cases.
Two stroke engines do seem dead though which is awesome, because mixed gas was a massive pain in the ass.
I remember fighting with gas weed whackers endlessly as a teen trying to do chores… having to dick with the choke for a cold start, having to pump prime them (and it being possible to over prime and lock them out), then you had to carry them around and use them with the exhaust at steak searing temperature… and if you didn’t know how to tune an idle they’d just die in your hands if you didn’t goose the throttle occasionally
This is a great one - don’t miss small gas engines even a little bit lol
I had a 11kW two-stroke motorbike and while it was very important for my rural youth, I do not want it back. Fuck the constant oil refueling, fuck the fumes, fuck the noise. If I ever get a motorbike again, it'd be electric.
The fumes and noise of those little engines makes me excited that the battery versions are taking over.
Love my electric chainsaw except for in winter. Battery life is horrible.
I'm perfectly content with my little electric chainsaw. Basically I only ever use it if a tree dies or falls in a storm, it actually starts unlike the gas ones I've had...It wouldn't be up to the task of chopping enough wood to heat my house through the winter but for occasional use it's better than gas.
The electric chainsaw is the only one I still don't like being battery powered. Indeed the battery life is too short for most jobs.
But the noise is also part of the experience, it just doesn't feel as Powerfull without it.
Lawnmower and snowblower have been the only things I haven't been happy with being electric. Climate change might help me not need the snowblower at all.
Henry Kissinger
At the risk of becoming too anti-casual, anti-gay slurs were so common in the US up until the mid/late 90s, if you weren't there for it you just have no idea. One of the Bill and Ted movies (I think the first one?) just randomly dropping it in there as a joke, where the slur is the joke, is a good example of just how it was then. There's still bigotry but it's not as casual and pervasive.
Eminem has a song where he casually drops an F bomb.
He dropped like a thousand of them. He was using it regularly until sometime in the 2010s.
Eminem is weird cause he leans left but will use any word— save for n word and now f— as long as it rhymes or fits the scheme, then does nearly nothing else offensive. It’s like words are exempt from his morality.
As does Tyler, The Creator, a decade later.
Can gay men not use that word?
In context, it's an insult.
the marshall mathers lp alone has like 4 tracks where he does
And yet his first major song endorses gay marriage.
It's weird watching average sitcoms from then because of this. The more popular ones are sometimes better but even Seinfeld wasn't great with it.
The Ozone hole.
Smallpox
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CDs and DVDs and (video)casettes. Took up so much room, annoying to use while travelling.
We could always bring back the 8 Track Tape!
CDs are great though :( I love that I can rip them and back them up, play them wherever I go, no licences or streaming. :)
Quality was also very low. Nostalgia blurred our memories, watching/listening that stuff today is wild.
CDs still sound better than streaming.
DVD and VHS, absolutely they look like trash now.
Oh definitely.
I was thinking VHS and cassettes
Cassettes can sound great if ya got Type III metal tapes. Lots of cheap tapes were Type I, which don't sound nearly as good.
VHS tho nah, as nostalgic as I am for it, it's just a bad option today lol
While not technicly gone outright , forums
Hate juggling accounts to be part of communities , some forums (have strict rules|ban VPNs|.*) . There's reason they've been succeeded by (subreddits|discord servers|.*)
Oh, I preferred that. There was much less pressure to conform. All fora had their own "personality", in a way. Small little islands inhabited by people having fun in their own ways.
we need to go back to forums
Isn't this true for Lemmy instances to an extent?
As far as I can tell, not really no except for the weird insular communist ones. What's the difference in personality between lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works?
Discord is so much worse than forums though. Lemmy/reddit are better than every website having their own forums though.