• DaChrissy@reddthat.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I feel that. I have no clue about new celebrities. Or old ones. I just don’t care enough about them to keep with their lives. Only a few I have an actual interest in/like

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Fuck im 25 and feel 40, this is why I will not shy away from my day of destined death. I can feel that it’ll be before I’m 40 and I frankly want nothing to do with being 40.

        • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Na, being 40 is fine. I’m 45, eat well and get a little exercise. I am healthier than I was in my 20’s, I have more stamina and I think more clearly.

        • oatscoop@midwest.social
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          6 months ago

          One day you’ll wake up and realize people born on the year you graduated school can legally vote, drink, etc. A short time later those kids have kids of their own … and you are ( or are old enough to be ) a grandparent.

          The worst part is you’ll still mentally feel like you’re not much older than your late 20s or 30s.

          • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I dunno, I’m in my mid-50s and I feel like I’m about 100. The world today is just so different from that of my childhood in the '70s.

          • wisely@feddit.orgEnglish
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            6 months ago

            My older sister was a grandmother at age 34. 30’s is literally grandparent age to my great nephew and great niece who are approaching their teens.

        • turnip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Luckily by the time you get there I’m sure you will feel it will be yourself soon, and will be more a feeling of existential dread than a fear of loss.

          But what makes it sad, death is the harm of deprivation, presupposing lack, loss, or absence of some future goods. At the same time, people deprived of things valuable for them try to acquire them joining some movements or struggling for some privileges.

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            Perhaps I should’ve spelled out why I am so willing to embrace death. I do not care about myself and of the general opinion that I could do more for mankind by throwing myself into violence. I wish to make someone I hate or who opposes my end goals bleed out right alongside me, I ain’t picky. The problem is that even if I end up like my 3X great grandfather and practically don’t age till I’m 70 I would still face some amount of slowdown in my physical or mental faculties, slowdown that may make me less effective.

            The only way I could be convinced otherwise would be if I could purge my biological fathers blood from my veins. Or if I do my damnedest to get myself killed and somehow survive. Not like I’m rushing into it, I swore an oath to my friends that I wouldn’t do anything unless I get a Stamford bridge.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Personally, I loved the idea of new media. Cable was shit.

    After experiencing new media… there’s some good stuff in there, guys. I promise. Just gotta wade through mountains of shit.

    • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      If its good enough, the news of it will get to me eventually and I will see for myself.

      This is how I live now.

      This is what it means to be old.

      I’m 34.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Why even care about those “celebrities”? Stuff they do is usually mediocre at best anyways.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Listening to what their interests are is a good way to connect with much younger (or much older!) people. I’ll happily listen to a kid explain Fortnite to me, or my to grandpa talk about his favourite TV show. I’ll ask them some questions about it and get a conversation going.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I mean, are they materially worse than Paris Hilton and Kimberly Kardashian? Or the Jersey Shore crowd? I’m not here to judge.

      But I didn’t really follow them when I was age-appropriate to care about that shit, anyway. Was too busy reading blogs about the newest feature list of an up-and-coming MMORPG or tearing through the latest edition of my favorite TTRPG, because I was focused on what truly mattered.

      At some point, its not an age thing, its just a taste thing. I could probably name more web comix artists and indie board games than C-list celebrities and Reality TV shows, and that’s fine.

      • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Makes sense from that POV, I guess. Although I’d probably rather talk about hobbies and stuff instead

      • Magister@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I’m an old coot, I know some names like something paul, mr beast or pewdiepie, from when I was on reddit years ago, I know those guys are “youtuber” because I saw the thumbnail, but I have no clue what they do or what they speak of or why they would be famous?!? I don’t watch youtube, first because comments are toxics, it takes too much time, who spent hours listening/watching some rants by some guy in his basement?!? I’m like an out of touch skinner :)

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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          6 months ago

          Youtubers are different than movie, music, and tv stars.

          I’m old school too though, i could be wrong at this point.

        • gibmiser@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          From what i can tell, YT comments have actually improved over the years. Still plenty of garbage, but it’s bearable and there is some real discussion sometimes now.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m 29 so maybe I’m too young for this statement but if you ask me it’s because younger celebrities tend to be the result of nepotism and don’t have any actual talents.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    In the distant future, when we look back on scattered social media caps, we will regret that the date of posting is not shown. Like scattered pages from books unknown, page numbers elided.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      The fun thing is that none of this stuff is going to survive long-term at all. Databases are backed up onto forms of media that have a very short lifespan. Only material that is endlessly copied forward (like DNA) will still be around, and nobody is going to pay for that kind of archiving, at least not for the generally trivial bullshit that comprises social media. FWIW this fact make me happy.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        6 months ago

        As civilization has progressed, we’ve done more and more writing and record keeping and done so an less and less durable media. From stone to clay to papyrus/parchment to paper to film to digital media.

        I feel like there needs to be some kind of write once media that’s extremely durable and reasonably dense for digital data specifically for long term archival purposes. What’s the digital equivalent to carving something on a stone tablet, that a thousand years from now despite age and weathering could be dug up in a field somewhere and still hypothetically be at least mostly readable?

      • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

        I think that as storage density goes up and price goes down, what used to be cumbersome and expensive amounts of data become easily manageable. So the only reasons we loose data will be business or political. Which will also decrease as there’s now money in buying failing platforms.

        But yeah, I’m also happy none of the social media I created when I was young still exists, and the platforms are buried by the sands of time. Having everything you do on the internet stay around forever feels like a nightmare.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          What forms of media are you taking about that have short life spans?

          Things like tape drives and optical storage etc. Even if they have lifespans measured in decades (and these things typically don’t) that still means they have short life spans in terms of being recoverable in the future. A hundred years from now these things won’t be restorable.

          • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            6 months ago

            I found this report from NIST that estimates tape to last 20 years, CD-R and DVD-R 30 years, and M-DISC 100 years 🤷 (I didn’t even know optical was used professionally, and found the term “optical jukebox” to be hilarious :)

            https://www.nist.gov/publications/digital-evidence-preservation-considerations-evidence-handlers

            But more importantly, an actively maintained storage system will last forever (as long as maintained). And for example AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive costs just $0.00099 / GB / month*, so you can store terabytes for the price of a cup of coffee.

            *Plus extra fees for access and stuff, but the point is managed storage isn’t particularly expensive unless you have very large amounts of data or heavy usage.

            • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              an actively maintained storage system will last forever (as long as maintained)

              I mean, this is really my point. This stuff isn’t going to be maintained forever and will eventually be lost - even if it takes 100 years or more. This idea of future archaeologists troweling their way through Facebook posts isn’t going to happen.

              Even much of what we know about the first civilizations in Mesopotamia is only because their clay tablets - which were never intended to be permanent records of anything - were accidentally fired and buried when their storage facilities caught fire. It’s possible that some modern forms of media might be accidentally preserved and restored somehow thousands of years in the future, but it’s a bit hard to imagine such a scenario. Especially when we’re going to cook ourselves off the planet before then.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I used to be really into new music. Now I have 10 bands I listen to and just hope they keep releasing new albums.

    I used to be really into standup. Now people mention it and all I can think to say is “Kyle Kinane is still doing comedy, right?”

    I used to be really into movies. The newest I’ve seen recently is the Bob’s Burgers movie.

    But, hey at least I’m ignoring a lot of my hobbies these days!

  • metalsd@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Well and here we are! I don’t even know if peeble and doop are real places online or she just made it up to make a point 😆

  • saigot@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I wish it was like that, reality is there’s like 3 platforms that make you IRL famous. Youtube, Twitch and TIk Tok.