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LinuxDebian’s a Debian, but they call it Le Debian.
Millenial.
I know recognize the 2000s being the decade of trade-offs.
The 2010s had CDs finally disappearing,
CCFL-LCDs finally disappearing, ugly blocky 3D-games finally disappearing, HDs finally disappearing.
LED screens, OLED screens for phones finally became popular.
Color finally returned to normalcy again.
SSDs became popular.
Copying your files from a device to a computer finally returned to normalcy again.
The 2020s has AI and HBM.
We also have solar replacing fossil fuels.
Air quality is returning to normalcy again.
We also have medical technology like anti-obesity drugs becoming popular and possibly even anti-aging drugs.
Human health is returning to normalcy again.
Mass internet adoption took a full decade.
The 1990s had better graphics almost every year.
One year you were playing single-color blocks with bleeps and bloops
and the next year you’re suddenly looking at controlling real looking people with sound and music.
You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it.
It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.
HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray
Blu-Ray was just another fancier DVD, which was another fragile CD.
It wasn’t a completely new looking device like SD cards, USB sticks or floppy disks.
The number of transistors are still doubling and never stopped.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moore%27s_Law_Transistor_Count_1970-2020.png
1990 -> 2000
Commander Keen -> Quake III Arena
2000 -> 2010
Quake III Arena -> Quake Live
There’s a big difference between the first period.
Not so much the second.
2000s were awful in my view.
Slow technological progress compared to the fast-paced changes during the 1990s.
I was constantly frustrated by subpar technologies that took one leap upwards and five steps back.
CD-Rs that could not be rewritten,
LCD screens that you could not view from the side and had these washed-out colors,
and people actually complained when those colors improved in the 2010s with LED
because “we don’t like those candy colors"
Slow internet that kept being slow as webpages got larger faster.
The whole decade should have been condensed to a year.
The only good thing about it was that computer parts were cheap.
And anime.
The 2010s picked up the pace and the 2020s are just crazy,
maybe even faster paced than the 1990s.
[edit]
I see people disagreeing, so I’ll double down on why the 2000s were awful.
The 2000s had Ugly 3D replacing beautiful 2D.
The 2000s had ppl tlkng l1k3 d1s.
The 2000s had Fred being #1 on youtube.
During the 2000s gross-out movies were popular.
The 2000s had the movie Idiocracy which was not a prediction, but a reflection of its time.
Because it was a painfully stupid time.
Same goes for Wall-E, who envisioned a far-future where everyone is painfully fat,
because they couldn’t imagine anti-obesity drugs being invented,
despite the precursor of semaglutide having already been invented at that time.
It’s also a time where ‘gamer’ stopped meaning having fun playing various types of games
at the arcades or Commodore 64, and instead started to exclusively mean
having the fastest rig possible in order to play a foot soldier in war games,
especially FPS shooters like Counterstrike, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty, etc..
and to a lesser extend strategy war games like starcraft and MMORPGs like WoW.
[edit #2]
Perhaps advancement wasn’t necessarily slow, but every advancement was a trade-off in the 2000s.
Beautiful 2D -> Ugly 3D
Bulky CRTs -> Bad-angle badly colored flatscreens
Curated TV -> Poor-quality internet videos
low-storage sturdy floppy disks -> Read-only fragile CDs
A whole new world of communication -> A whole decade wh3r3 ppl tlkd l1k3 d1s
The only exception, again, was anime.
What are the odds?
That’s more like it.
There would always be loyal followers, plus oligarchs with lots of drones who all want to maintain power.
What’s the exact law called?
Sounds like a good start.
Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I’m looking at you /r/china.
Memes@lemmy.ml
That would be for North America,
but I disagree considering where the name America likely came from,
not Albericus Vespucci, but from a Mayan mountainous region named Amerrisque,
“land where the wind blows constantly” and perhaps combined with the Spanish word “rica/rich”,
because those mountains were rich with gold at that time.
And I think that name is more fitting than ‘Turtle Island’ to be honest.
North America has a lot of hurricanes and tornadoes.
And it’s rich with resources.
South America needs a rename though.
Memes@lemmy.ml
Liberal is against bigotry of any kind. That’s a core foundation. It supports equality.
The core foundation of liberalism is capitalism.
They are the party of merchants and lawmakers
that rebelled against against the kings and theocrats of their time.
Since the US has just two parties by design, it makes both parties tent parties,
that is to say that there’s multiple parties of different ideologies inside the party.
The way I look at it is that the US democratic party went from
white supremacist to social democratic (Kennedy) to liberal (Clinton).
Republicans are currently dominated by Zion-Anglo male supremacist racists together with other pro-white racists.
Why are you under the impression that only pro-white racist are alt right and all other kinds are liberals?
Because most other kinds are being suppressed by the pro-white racists, so they’re not going to join the Republican party.
One of the few that still joins forces with the Republicans, for example Zionists or Falun Dafa, assume that they can rule over them.
You can hate whites. Mexicans. Jews. Men, etc. Any support of group discrimination is right wing by its definition because liberals specifically is against bigotry.
It’s socialists that are against bigotry.
Liberal are just capitalists.
EuropeIt was EU membership that Zelensky desperately wanted, not NATO.
That permeated throughout his entire presidency and his show.
Memes@lemmy.ml
Did Russia provide any help to those poor souls? No. Is this what is called “freeing”?
As long as the war continues, any money sent to displaced Ukrainians would end up in the pockets of the corrupt Ukrainian government and be used to buy weapons to attack Russia or to further suppress Russian-Ukrainians.
Debian’s a Debian, but they call it Le Debian.
Millenial.
I know recognize the 2000s being the decade of trade-offs.
The 2010s had CDs finally disappearing,
CCFL-LCDs finally disappearing, ugly blocky 3D-games finally disappearing, HDs finally disappearing.
LED screens, OLED screens for phones finally became popular.
Color finally returned to normalcy again.
SSDs became popular.
Copying your files from a device to a computer finally returned to normalcy again.
The 2020s has AI and HBM.
We also have solar replacing fossil fuels.
Air quality is returning to normalcy again.
We also have medical technology like anti-obesity drugs becoming popular and possibly even anti-aging drugs.
Human health is returning to normalcy again.
Mass internet adoption took a full decade.
The 1990s had better graphics almost every year.
One year you were playing single-color blocks with bleeps and bloops
and the next year you’re suddenly looking at controlling real looking people with sound and music.
It wasn’t special because adoption happened painfully slow.
Blu-Ray was just another fancier DVD, which was another fragile CD.
It wasn’t a completely new looking device like SD cards, USB sticks or floppy disks.
The number of transistors are still doubling and never stopped.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moore%27s_Law_Transistor_Count_1970-2020.png
1990 -> 2000
Commander Keen -> Quake III Arena
2000 -> 2010
Quake III Arena -> Quake Live
There’s a big difference between the first period.
Not so much the second.
2000s were awful in my view.
Slow technological progress compared to the fast-paced changes during the 1990s.
I was constantly frustrated by subpar technologies that took one leap upwards and five steps back.
CD-Rs that could not be rewritten,
LCD screens that you could not view from the side and had these washed-out colors,
and people actually complained when those colors improved in the 2010s with LED
because “we don’t like those candy colors"
Slow internet that kept being slow as webpages got larger faster.
The whole decade should have been condensed to a year.
The only good thing about it was that computer parts were cheap.
And anime.
The 2010s picked up the pace and the 2020s are just crazy,
maybe even faster paced than the 1990s.
[edit]
I see people disagreeing, so I’ll double down on why the 2000s were awful.
The 2000s had Ugly 3D replacing beautiful 2D.
The 2000s had ppl tlkng l1k3 d1s.
The 2000s had Fred being #1 on youtube.
During the 2000s gross-out movies were popular.
The 2000s had the movie Idiocracy which was not a prediction, but a reflection of its time.
Because it was a painfully stupid time.
Same goes for Wall-E, who envisioned a far-future where everyone is painfully fat,
because they couldn’t imagine anti-obesity drugs being invented,
despite the precursor of semaglutide having already been invented at that time.
It’s also a time where ‘gamer’ stopped meaning having fun playing various types of games
at the arcades or Commodore 64, and instead started to exclusively mean
having the fastest rig possible in order to play a foot soldier in war games,
especially FPS shooters like Counterstrike, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty, etc..
and to a lesser extend strategy war games like starcraft and MMORPGs like WoW.
[edit #2]
Perhaps advancement wasn’t necessarily slow, but every advancement was a trade-off in the 2000s.
Beautiful 2D -> Ugly 3D
Bulky CRTs -> Bad-angle badly colored flatscreens
Curated TV -> Poor-quality internet videos
low-storage sturdy floppy disks -> Read-only fragile CDs
A whole new world of communication -> A whole decade wh3r3 ppl tlkd l1k3 d1s
The only exception, again, was anime.
What are the odds?
That’s more like it.
There would always be loyal followers, plus oligarchs with lots of drones who all want to maintain power.
What’s the exact law called?
Sounds like a good start.
Imagine the US holding a "Cost-of-living crisis" protest of 100+ million. Even the army and police protest. You are tasked with making *the* list of demands. What would be on this list?
Since four of the first five answers I’ve seen are so mild, let me give you what my list would include and tell me if I’m wrong or if I’m missing something:
Subreddits that do not represent the title and instead hate it.
I’m looking at you /r/china.
Would the Mayans agree?
That would be for North America,
but I disagree considering where the name America likely came from,
not Albericus Vespucci, but from a Mayan mountainous region named Amerrisque,
“land where the wind blows constantly” and perhaps combined with the Spanish word “rica/rich”,
because those mountains were rich with gold at that time.
And I think that name is more fitting than ‘Turtle Island’ to be honest.
North America has a lot of hurricanes and tornadoes.
And it’s rich with resources.
South America needs a rename though.
The core foundation of liberalism is capitalism.
They are the party of merchants and lawmakers
that rebelled against against the kings and theocrats of their time.
Since the US has just two parties by design, it makes both parties tent parties,
that is to say that there’s multiple parties of different ideologies inside the party.
The way I look at it is that the US democratic party went from
white supremacist to social democratic (Kennedy) to liberal (Clinton).
Republicans are currently dominated by Zion-Anglo male supremacist racists together with other pro-white racists.
Because most other kinds are being suppressed by the pro-white racists, so they’re not going to join the Republican party.
One of the few that still joins forces with the Republicans, for example Zionists or Falun Dafa, assume that they can rule over them.
It’s socialists that are against bigotry.
Liberal are just capitalists.
It was EU membership that Zelensky desperately wanted, not NATO.
That permeated throughout his entire presidency and his show.
https://youtu.be/J8IRLdGpr3Y
Explain
As long as the war continues, any money sent to displaced Ukrainians would end up in the pockets of the corrupt Ukrainian government and be used to buy weapons to attack Russia or to further suppress Russian-Ukrainians.