ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you're at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we're blessed not to hear about him from?

  We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

  Did I claim otherwise?

  Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is older folks tend to think the world was better in the past than it truly was.

  Also, America sucks and always will.

  That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and Bernie Sanders is old as dirt yet a decent politician in touch with young people.

  But they're exceptions. We need AOCs and Mamdanis and Sanders as the norm in politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's not a bad idea. But then you have to outlaw money in politics, because as soon as money is in the picture, it invariably favors rich old dudes, or people with connections that can only be formed over time.

  In other words, nothing like this will happen in America in my grandchildren's lifetime, let alone my children's or mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's an illusion.

  America 7 millenia ago might have been empty enough of people to be peaceful (though I highly doubt that) but people died young of easily treatable diseases because they didn't have vacc....

  Nevermind...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the tragedy of government: rulers and lawmakers need to be old enough to be wise, but age also disconnects them from the needs of the world of today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As I got older and I reflected on all the grumpy old men waving at the cloud and complaining constantly about this-or-that being better in their days when I was a kid, I realized why.

  Now I'm the old man and I avoid becoming bitter my reminding myself of the following truth:

  • When you're a kid, the world belongs to the grown ups - your parents, adults of authority around you.

  • When you reach teenager years, the world starts being yours: you've developed tastes for things people your age do and create. As you go through puberty, your identity is reinforced with things of your time, and other young people your age with which you do the same things. You all have a bright future in front of you.

  • When you get out of puberty, hopefully you get our of school and start working: the world is fully yours. The trendy things in the world are things you find trendy too. Other people speak like you. You're not a powerless kid and you're not weaker old guy/gall yet. You're fully part of it and it suits you. You may not like the world, but it's yours. It shares your values and your values are what makes the world go round at that point in time . Your personality, your cultural identity and the cultural norms you respect, and your value system are fully developed.

  • And then they stay that way. But the world keeps evolving. Slowly but surely, the things you learned become deprecated. The things you like become old. The way you speak becomes strange to younger ears. The values you believe in no longer apply. The world slowly shift below your feet, but it's happening very slowly, year after year, until...

  • You reach an age at which you're very visibly and obviously out of sync with the world. Even you notice it at this point.

  And here lies the trap: you can either reflect on how the world has changed and acknowledged that it's not your world anymore, but it's younger people's now. People who are now the age you once were: it's their turn to have a go at owning the world. You're just in it for the ride.

  Or you can take refuge in your old values, wallow in the old things you've liked for decades, and bitch and moan about the world going to shit. It's not going to shit, but it feels that way to you. It's easier to reject the world around you than admit it's just not how you like it anymore, but it's poisonous: it turns you into a bitter person everybody hates.

  I choose to ignore the things I dislike - which, at this point, constitute a lot more of the world than the things I like from the past - from my youth. But I also choose to not pass judgment on them because they're not from my world: they're from today's youth's world, and I have no say in it.

  If you're old and angry, think about this. You might find some comfort in letting go.