• The Assman@sh.itjust.works
    79·
    8 months ago

    fastest cars

    You can buy a mid level sedan with a turbo today that will blow the doors off of most cars from that era. I mean we have cars today with 1500+ horsepower with zero modifications.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    54·
    8 months ago

    This is the mentality of older boomers you didn’t go through the war or the 50s you were a baby. You literally rode the 60s-90s boom train . Remember one telling me rose tinted stories about rationing dude was 50 it ended like 20 years before he was born

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    8 months ago

    …and ignorant, and stupid, and moronic, and selfish, and rude, and entitled, and…

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 months ago

    If you were born in the 50’s you had rock and roll, acid rock, heavy metal, disco, synthwave, house, grunge, and rap.

    Not a bad claim to the best music. They only missed classical, jazz and big band. Weird Al was born in the 50’s. If you think Weird Al doesn’t have the best music then I say to you, “Good day, sir!”

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      I don’t even understand this shit. People born in the 50s came of age in the 60s and the 70s. When they say they had happy days, they literally mean they watched it on TV.

  • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
    9·
    8 months ago

    Pigeonholing / steoreotyping people according to an aspect over which they have zero control? Yeah that does sound vaguely unfriendly - just a bit!

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    • marcos@lemmy.world
      9·
      8 months ago

      Even better. Doing that to accuse people of pigeonholing/stereotyping people according to an aspect they have zero control.

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Upvoting. Or, accusing people of accusing people of pigeonholing/stereotyping people according to an aspect they have zero control!

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      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Just wait’ll the fascists take control in the next election, and it may become so here! (this statement works regardless of country or year or even party affiliation, unfortunately, but people are people)

            • no banana@lemmy.worldOP
              5·
              8 months ago

              Not here they ain’t. Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, baby. It’s the bees knees!

              • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                Wow, a representative democracy - I have heard those words before but I struggle to even so much as begin to understand what it might be like in such a place. For instance, I presume you have socialized healthcare? (It’s a good bet b/c the only 2 first-world countries that do not are the USA and Saudia Arabia iirc:-P)

                • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
                  4·
                  8 months ago

                  Switzerland and Japan both do not have socialized health care, off the top of my head. They have much more tightly regulated insurance and prices, but their healthcare isn’t covered by taxes.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      But hey, at least they had the choice in becoming racist.

      (not all of them are, I know)

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        (Wow a lot of downvoters here but fwiw I at least upvoted you.)

        You bring up a FASCINATING tangent: is there a minimum level of agency required for someone to be “wrong”? Like if ChatGPT were to say something that represent racist trolling language, is it racist, or is it merely incorrectly trained? (and if it is a racist troll, then why is it not banned entirely from places like Reddit, Facebook, Tumblr, Threads, X, and the Fediverse? humans that do precisely that have that happen to them - why is it treated with “kid gloves”?)

        Moreover, if someone steps up to become a leader, do we hold them to a higher standard? e.g. even though Trump can barely pass a test to determine if he is mentally incapable, do we hold his actions (such as assassination, invasion of another country like Russia is doing, etc.) against him? Do these standards vary according to the level of leadership, e.g. what if someone is not running to be a President, but they do vote to remove access to medical care for pregnant mothers - does the person bear any responsibility whatsoever for their actions in that case, if they “merely voted”, the way that their cough cough evangelical christian cough pastors told them to?

        Another source of bias is a personal relationship - is someone wrong, or conversely not wrong, even if they are your mother or father?

        I think the Western world is under attack, and we have some difficult decisions ahead of us. People people are literally dying, and we are in this trolly staring at the lever. Whatever the attacker does is on them, but whatever we do in response is on us. imho. But if I say that, then isn’t it likewise on them, those people who vote in the other way than I think is correct?

        • Dicska@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          Thanks. The only reason I wrote it because I believe people CAN stop being racist. I grew in a small town (and family) where almost nobody was nazi level racist, but the kind that still grabs their bag when a gypsy/roma person gets on the bus. No N words, no swastikas but the kind of “passive” racism where you still have unrealistic prejudices and stereotypes.

          It took me a few years, meeting more people, getting some education (and a few amazing girlfriends) to realise that I’ve been fed some unfiltered, biased information on ethnical minorities, people of colour and the LGBT community. But the same way as I could get more information and stop being racist, I think the majority of those people (if not everybody) can, as well.

          • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            Good points! Fwiw, though I’ve never met a roma person, I thought that one was more “cultural” than “ethnic”, and also that it was a part of the culture (literally) to steal. That said, one should keep a solid eye on their belongings regardless of who else is around, so the “clutch” seems entirely unnecessary. Being aware is just good advice, though not making an obvious clutch is an “anti-racist” pattern that considers the feelings of the person that just stepped onto the bus, and I would strongly advocate for doing both actually.

            One thing to add to your story though: you were willing to learn - but not everybody is. And if your racist parents, just to give an example, were to vote against women’s healthcare, then their choices will lead to literal deaths, possibly even of your very girlfriend, like if a period went wrong one day but then doctors did not know what they were allowed vs. not allowed to do and she died as a result. At least, this is happening in America. This is not theoretical - this is ACTUALLY happening.

            Russia may be feeding into the existing prejudices in the Western World - by making memes, making TV shows (like Tucker Carlson’s, before he got booted out as a result of going too far), bribing politicians; and overall causing or at least inflaming or taking advantage of things like Brexit - but the people who make themselves into sheep and enact those wills… they bear some of the responsibility as well. As in, if they ever were fortunate to have your own experiences, then they would look back at how they voted decades ago and feel guilt. Assuming that they were still alive - which many of the anti-vaxxers are already not anymore. And they did not go down quietly: they took MANY others along with them too. They also prevented us from even so much as counting precisely how many there were, but from the excess death stats it was A LOT - in the USA we lost more people to covid than all the wars we’ve ever had combined (with the one exception of the immensely bloody civil war on our own soil, and even that number we’ve probably blown past by now?).