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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
My favorite thing from The Matrix was the concept of "Residual Self Image." It is the perfect starting point to understanding dysphoria. If I was plugged into The Matrix, I would not at all look the way I actually do. I would look to you the way I see myself in my own mind.
I believe the creators are also trans
Yes. And I understand that one of the character's expressed gender is opposite inside and outside the Matrix.
Living in the 90s would be so chill compared to today.
Wealth inequality is fucking over everything.
I just want to be rewarded for working to support humanity with a life that doesn't feel like a prison. :c
monkey paw curls now you won't be rewarded for working while being contained in an actual prison.
If we really were to be in the Matrix that's fine, but could I maybe ask for some better living conditions? Maybe be able to actually afford things without constant worry and anxiety over whether I can pay the rent.
They tried a perfect society but humanity rejected it as fake.
That's part of the control.
So relevant now lol
It was that gods damned Hadron collider, I’m telling you. It let the 5G into our reality and now we’re all being controlled by fucking lizard people from the Nth dimension who are after all of our blood.
It was in all the papers.
Probably not the place for it but I shall point out that the 00s were going swimmingly until the cunts at Goldman Sachs and others of a similar bent made a shedload of cash out of turning the housing market into a massive casino and then stuck taxpayers the world over with the bill in the '08 crash and the global economy has been pretty much fucked ever since.
It's Goldman Sachs. Those board members should be in prison.
Sure. Prison would be fine. Hell, I'll gladly argue for the reduced sentence after they're brought to justice. I bet I'll be feeling generous.
I dunno. I kinda consider 9/11 to be the shifting point. That’s when racism came roaring back and also the introduction of the Patriot Act. The 2008 crash was just the solidification of the shit show to come.
The 2008 crash was also the result of Greenspan and Bush’s 0% interest rate bullshit that prevented savings and ruined the housing market while starting wars to avoid smaller correctional recessions. 9/11 was the excuse, so I kinda caused all this, in a way.
YOU did?!? You son of a...
Guys, guys. We all know the true inflection point. Harambe.
I'm starting to think having my dick out this whole time hasn't been working.
Its working for me....
Dicks out everyone.
The LA race riots and Clintons going on about "super-predators" would like a word with you about racism going away in the 90's
Didn’t say that it wasn’t there. Just that it got a lot worse after 9/11 and the following years.
9/11 was a pretext for doing what they wanted to do anyway. Kind of like how the Olympics in LA was the pretext they needed to militarize the police there.
Finding a pretext isn't hard, but sometimes events outside of your control just kinda hand one to you.
I've heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.
As a trans person, I'm very glad I live today and not the 1990s
That's good. I remember doing the scene in the 90s there were fuck all trans people
A lot of them were already there and just afraid
Mid-2000s were also kinda nice. We got relatively capable pocket computing devices. Proper 3D games. Avatar: The Last Airbender. Music was not yet so... algorithmic.
Kinda downhill from there, though, ngl.
Someone hasn't heard of late nineties, early two thousands boy bands if they think music wasn't formulaic...
I didn't say it wasn't formulaic, I said it wasn't AS "formulaic". Back then popular music still had much more variety, nowadays whatever flows to the top is much more same-y, and you gotta dig deeper for the interesting stuff.
I think it's easier to find the weird stuff these days. Back then you'd basically have to be a part of a particular scene, or have someone i produce it to you. Otherwise you had whatever top 50 radio stations were in your area. Speaking of formulaic...
It's definitely easier to find weird stuff with all the streaming services. But I don't often look for stuff, and back then the good stuff found me. I'll occasionally even look at what's trending now to try and find something interesting, but I rarely see anything.
Either way, it's not just my opinion, it can be verified empirically, there is way less variety in popular music these days. I even remember Vsauce had a video about that. And it applies to other mediums as well. All big budget movies are generic. All AAA games are either live service or Assassins's Creed but Vikings/Hackers/Jedi/etc. And by "all" I mean "most", of course. If you want the good stuff you either go indie or retro.
What are you talking about? The golden age was obviously 2010 when the Last Airbender movie came out! You're way off
What movie? Never heard of it.
James Cameron directed it. Went in a very unique direction from the source material.
The earth king has invited you to lake laogai
Peak was 2011 change my mind.
In between the matrix and 2011 you have 9-11, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2008 financial crash. And that's just the big US-centric stuff.
Well, my first kiss was around 2011 so that kinda evens everything out
Fair