u/GabeReddit2012

These subreddits are very toxic and fights will break out against fans of specific decades like the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, etc. and people will keep arguing about nonsense logic, why a decade is "bad", cultural trends, etc.

And people will often judge or harass others based on what generation they were born in, or otherwise, what year they were born in. Some 1970-born who was 10 in 1980 will say they're superior to a 1980-born that was 10 in the 1990s with the 90s were their childhood. Or otherwise, the younger people tend to be even worse than the older people on there.

Stuff they say is often bullcrap and nonsense.

Examples of stuff:

"Baby Boomers is the best decade ever, and I wish most of us were born there. No more working jobs, we are all elderly, and we are literally boomers."

"I am a 1994 kid, but I have the soul of some 10-year-old in the 1980s. I may've actually been born in 1984. I was clerically assigned the wrong birth year."

"You were born in 1983, but you were born in the 1970s, since the 1970s lasted from 1967 to 1984, and the 1980s was 1984-1986. 1987-1989 are 90s kids, given that the 1990s lasted from 1987 to 2004."

"The Millennials are the most intelligent generation ever. Gen X, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha are dumb, because they have letters in their names. Millennials is not Gen Y, so we are literally super smart."

"The 70s was truly the best decade ever. Everything in the 1980s and 1990s was just straight up boring, and nothing has been fun since the 1970s. I wish we lived in a time before video games existed, and TV was barely a thing."

Mine has to be any "unpopular opinion" subreddits or subreddits dedicated to posting opinions. UnpopularOpinion, TrueUnpopularOpinion, The10thDentist, ChangeMyView (CMV), ControversialOpinions, etc.

Most of them are already bad by now and they have become massive echo chambers. People on these subreddits will often post unhonest opinions or logically wrong facts for the sole purpose of karma farming. Political posts on them are an absolute nightmare to read. Like with TUO and CMV, when you allow political subreddits, stuff start to become worse. Defensive arguments can easily break out and can make the environment worse. A lot of the opinions aren't even "unpopular" or need a "CMV" and their take is actually colder than what they think it is.

The actually unpopular opinions will often get downvoted, while the popular opinions often get upvoted. The comments can also be rowdy on them as well. I do sometimes look at "hot takes" on specific, topic-related subreddits, but for the best, I avoid general opinion subreddits and don't look onto them anymore.

I know 9/11 was a major turning point, but how was your life in NYC back in the 2000s after 9/11?

(yes, I know it seems weird, but it's like that many New Yorkers still fondly look back on the 1970's in a nostalgic way for their life back then, not the crime levels and rates in then)

It's sad to see the state of the Internet now. Privacy is slowly being lost. Digital ID/Age verification laws are being passed in the guise of "online safety". Chat Control is being implemented across the EU. There's also this "youth and technology" moral panic that appears to have gotten aggressive over time. And thanks to the UK Online Safety Act and Chat Control, the Internet is now locked down, close to the bare walls.

I had high hopes for this decade. For the Internet and online industry, I thought it would be even better than the 2010s. I expected this to be the decade of later Gen Z similar to how the 2000s was for younger Millennials and the 2010s was for earlier Gen Z. I also expected that we would find more privacy-preserving but logical solutions to fix issues and keep the Internet as a free place to search information and explore your own knowledge. We've had things like SOPA and PIPA (2012) and even the earlier Communications Decency Act of 1996, but even they were tame compared to the new laws and regulations being passed right now, despite still being bad. It's not even effecting privacy in the Internet, but even the real world too, as I've seen things like flock cameras, triangulation of cell towers, etc. that also effect the real world.

Before this anti-privacy law and motive push even began, the digital world was more tolerable. Sure, there were some discussions about online safety or how younger people used the digital world, but they were nothing out of the ordinary. 10 or even 5 years ago, the state of the Internet really wasn't as bad as it has now. There appears to have been a massive lacking in age verification laws from roughly about 2009-2021.

Instead of what I had hoped for, the digital world has slowly become worse and worse over time. Especially since 2022 and 2023, I have seen governments, companies, etc. pass and implement the most insane restrictions or laws effecting the Internet even possible. Our autonomy and digital independence are being taken away, and we are having less and less privacy than ever compared to 5 years ago.

I wish we still lived in the era where we had more privacy, digital autonomy, and less government interference. Only if I had a time machine, I would go back to that era. It's sadly becoming a thing of the past now. We're probably not going to reexperience the era ever again.

Roughly 15-20 years ago or so, pretty much everyone hated Windows Vista (released in 2006/2007). They thought of it as being the "worst OS ever" and they thought of it as unbuggy, unstable, slow, etc. So, people often downgraded to XP or just waited until Windows 7 came out.

Now, ever since the late 2010s or so, the reputation of Vista seems to have somewhat changed. Sure, there's tons of people who seem to dislike Vista, even today, but there's a small but growing group of people who actually appreciate the OS now and actually say it wasn't bad as everyone thought. Compare this to Windows ME (2000) and Windows 8 (2012), which rarely has ever had fans, and even today I rarely see people that actually like these OSes. Now, I do occasionally see Vista fans now.

Why is our stance on Vista quite different now, so it turned from largely negative, into mixed? Though I do understand Vista's failure being stuff like the "Vista-Capable" sticker controversy where budget PCs were actually unable to handle Vista properly and the rushed development thanks to the Longhorn development reset in 2004, but how come do we now have a mixed Vista stance in general?

I've had this computer since October 2024, running Win11, and my laptop is a MSI Vector 16 HX A14V. For the last few weeks or so, it now often gets BSODs that usually last a second or so, with reasons like "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" or sometimes, other reasons. I genuinely have no idea why this keeps happening so often now. For quite a while, my computer was fine and rarely got BSODs. Now, it keeps happening a lot. Can anyone understand why this is happening? How can I fix this and ensure the BSODs become less frequent like they are now?

I often hear people discuss the massive debate on whether or not childhood or adulthood was/is better. Often, you will see people say "adulthood's always better, even with a good childhood because you have more responsibilities", while others will say "childhood is better, you can have so many fun things!". It's often framed by the media like if one choice is inherently better than the other. I believe it doesn't matter if one is better than the ether or it depends solely on age, it more so depends on personal experience.

You see, both childhood and adulthood has it's own advantages. For childhood, you may have a lot of new discovery, wonder, creativity, making new friends, and entertainment media that people will fondly look back at today, as well as having great experiences like vacations and stuff. I do understand why most people often say adulthood is better than childhood, that's often because they weren't raised well or were abused by their parents. Then, adulthood can offer more independence and freedom, stay away from negative experiences or people, build a family, work a job, get your own career, and be emotionally more stable (though this depends, everyone's unique). I can also understand why others miss their childhood, primarily because of the current life conditions in some countries, political polarization, as well as having a simpler, happier life in childhood.

In my opinion, both childhood and adulthood can be good, and whether or not one can be better than the other or not is entirely personal and depends on your upbringing and life experiences. If you were raised and treated poorly in childhood and felt like there was a harsh world around you, adulthood can be better for you. But if you were raised well in childhood with a positive upbringing and seems to have a more stressful life as an adult, especially the current work, economic, political, etc. conditions for you, your childhood can be better for you. But even if you do have both positives: a great, well-raised childhood with boundaries and proper freedom and a happy, well life as an adult, both of them can be good for you. You can be grateful for your youth while you can also look forward to adulthood or also like it. Don't let inherent 'binary' labels discourage you, feel free to choose what you prefer: your childhood (when you were younger), or your adulthood (your current, older years). But it doesn't have to be either one or the other, liking both is perfectly fine.