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Just discovered Lemmy while browsing for Reddit alternatives, so let’s break the ice with this first post.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago) (1 children)

What do you think of feminism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

I've always supported women's rights, but I don't consider myself a feminist. First and foremost, I can't support an ideology that considers women inherent victims (victims of the "patriarchy"). As a woman, I reject that notion and premise. If you put feminist principles and victim mentality characteristics side by side - they basically become a circle. I just don't find that a healthy mindset to have - I even find it a bit insulting honestly. Secondly, I don't support demonizing an entire gender (men). Thirdly, most of the feminists I've personally interacted with have been nothing but condescending, judgmental or straight up hostile because I chose to get married young, not pursue a career and focus on house and family, letting my husband lead, etc. when I have never been anything but supportive of career women, the stereotypical modern woman archetype, etc. I also don't appreciate being made into some sort of victim by them because of the lifestyle I chose to lead. To me feminism is a militant group. I've also noticed that in the last years feminists have started to adhere to a lot of right wing positions (anti-trans people, anti-sex work, sex negative, anti-pornography, etc.). Modern feminists tend to see women as a monolith, if you deviate from what they believe is right - you're the wrong kind of woman: which ironically enough is also what the anti-women crowd believe: I guess it's true what they say, if you go too left you'll only end up right and vice versa...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

How does it feel to be 72?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Do you think life is easier for kids now versus when you were born? Why or why not?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What were the 1980s like compared to the 1970s? Unrelated to my last question, of all the decades you have experienced, which decade was the best/peak decade overall, in your opinion (and a little about why)?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

The 1980s in my eyes was a stable, distinct decade but cynical and kind of drifting back in terms of society (the start of the war on counterculture, the hippies had cut off their hair, were born again Christians and advocating against drugs now). On the other hand the 1970s felt like a continuation of the 1960s - counterculture, chaotic, felt like we were headed to greener pastures. 1990s was in my opinion the peak of modern US and the last great American decade. End of the Cold War (the fear of nuclear war was real), the dawn of global technology, kept the good parts of the 1980s while getting rid or improving the bad parts. It all ended with 9/11. That was a societal shift that we never recovered from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

That was a societal shift that we never recovered from.

Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm 20-years younger but felt the exact same about those decades! The 90s was indeed the peak and 9/11 beginning of the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

Lots of millennials & outside of the US feel the same. Especially seeing the effects of modern tech on societies too I yearn for simpler times. It's sad because you'd think they'd solve so many of our problems, make us globally more informed, but the opposite kinda happened. Everyone's in their own disinformation safe space / bubble and radicalizes themselves further, causing everyone to just drift further and further apart. Class clown type people become annoying menaces and stream to a clout of equally annoying people, further reinforcing their behavior and pushing them to become more and more extreme for their perverse entertainment. Everyone throws a camera in people's faces the moment they feel like it. Institutions push for more and more mass surveillance methods and idiots feed the same models through TicTok, Instagram and other superficial media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I feel you on 9/11 killing the post Cold War honeymoon. I was a kid when it happened and it really felt like the death of my childhood innocence in a lot of ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

What's weird is looking back on it, most of the fears were hysteria.

I think the biggest real impacts on American lives (aside from having to think about/discuss the war) were increased security at airports and increased gas prices.

Looking back, it's incredible how little effect the attack and war had on Americans who didn't let it affect them.

If information and discussion was as easily accessible as it is now, perhaps people would not have been so afraid of what they did not know then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where are you from?

Do you have children?

What do you think about your country's current political situation?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

The US. Born and raised in Massachusetts. Husband is from NYC, studied in Boston 1965-1971. We got married in 1968, lived together in Boston until 1971 when we moved to NYC. Him and I have been living in Thailand for years now though, on a very advantageous 20-year visa (Thailand Elite Visa). Yes, 1 son born in 1971, who’s living in Switzerland. Depressing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

How was the Thailand Elite Visa application process? Did you find it straightforward and is dealing with Thai immigration relatively hassle-free for you now?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Okay, cool. I live very close to Switzerland (close enough that my wife works there.) As I am also an anglophone living in a non-anglophone country, Lemmy is basically my sole source of English language news and whatnot. It's sometimes very difficult to be surrounded by another language and culture, and this place has become my escape in a way. Reddit was great back in the day, but I can no longer support the enshitification it has suffered.

Welcome home!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you find it depressing? Because he doesn't visit or?

The way I see it, the son moved away and is clearly living an exciting life

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

Depressing was my answer to the political question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What was the reason for moving to Thailand?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Great culture, great climate, so much to see and do, amazing long-term visa, well connected to the rest of Asia and the world through Bangkok, close to world class healthcare (Singapore). Couldn’t ask for more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Do you both speak Thai? Or just winging it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Trying but it’s difficult.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Do you occasionally play videogames ? I'm asking because my parents are younger than you (they are in their early 60s) and tech literate but for some reason it never clicked with them, nor did "internet culture". Like, I would be extremely surprised if one day they started expressing interest in stuff like Reddit (let alone Lemmy) and I'm trying to understand why. So I guess my followup question is how did you get into Reddit ?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don't play video games. I liked the format of Reddit and I like socializing, that's how I got into it. Just randomly came across it one day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Ok, thanks, this gets me one step closer to finding the "missing link".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Considering the season... what are your favorite Winter Holiday (would assume Christmas but whatever you are observing - if anything) traditions and how did they evolve over time?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What is your favorite Linux distribution?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What is your favorite operating system?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Of all time, it's between Win 7 and XP.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

This answer is acceptable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Sorry, the correct answer is Windows 3.1. Welcome to Lemmy!

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