Comment on Are you too young to remember these?
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh a simpler time. When nothing needed to update, billion/trillionaires didn’t exist, and no one was trying to steal every normal of your data to rip you off and con you politically. I miss riding bikes till the street lights came on.
thallamabond@lemmy.world 5 days ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
rethnor@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I saw fireflies on the 4th, I even managed to pick one up.and we’ve got humming birds in our backyard. Humming birds and firefly’s are gone?
neograymatter@fedinsfw.app 5 days ago
Insecticides were hard on them in some areas. Same reason I remeber always having a ton of squished bugs all over the windshield and radiator growing up, but cars stay much cleaner now.
Some populations are rebounding though, Saw tlmy first Monarch butterfly in 15 years the other day
rethnor@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
True they are. Some of the monarch habitats are threatened, the one in Santa Barbara/Goleta has greatly been reduced over the years.
I too remember great bug swarms growing up in a desert area. Caterpillars covering the road making popping noises as you drove over them. And I hadn’t thought of bugs on cars in a long time so you do make a good point.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Why did you have to shatter the small bit of perceived relief I had!!??
thallamabond@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Thought you might want to know. Information is power.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 5 days ago
100%. It is always better to know. I think that’s what draws us all to this place.
At the same time, fuuuuuck man. 😔
I think capitalism is humanities terminal illness.
So much potential wasted.