(cw: meat) amish for the 90s

I can't really explain it but that's what Japan feels like. It's like they got really, really good at the 90s

Yeah it's very bizarre how so much is still physical over there. CDs and DVDs everywhere. Payphones that actually work. Everything's cash too. Every time I come back from Japan I have a sack of coins.

There's also a lot of advertising there about eating healthy or recycling. Not as any specific product, but just odd public awareness campaigns done by cities or interest groups. That feels really 90s

I'm sure you can agree though, the most 90s thing Japan does is how everyone smokes everywhere.
- Yeah it's very bizarre how so much is still physical over there. CDs and DVDs everywhere.
  
  This needs to come back, especially because the ruling class has proven over and over again how much they like to make things you pay for disappear on a whim.
- I am angry how PC's so quickly ran away from disc drives. I wanna nerd out with old games or relish some obscure CD's. (But like, on a budget.)
that's when they peaked. 2nd biggest economy in the world, even more than the USSR. now theyre like 4th or 5th

They just want to live in the eternal capitalist victory Fukuyama timespace lol

The machines in the Matrix certainly seemed to agree that that was the height of Burgerland.
- Can't we just rephrase it as "we will stick the pipe in your ass and second in your mouth (sometimes we will switch their places) and use you as battery"? But wait that's kinda accurate description of capitalism.

"Hey, I heard you went and visited the Neo Amish, how was that?"

"Well, the plane into their airport was a Concorde, so flying at 2,170 km/hr was an experience. Their Tokamak nuclear power plant was also really impressive. Having to get off the landline to go on to the internet was pretty annoying, though."

communist amish community would give everyone T1

Amish are famously good at making barns, what would this community be good at?

Slowly loading boob
Picking a cd from your cd wallet while driving with your knees
- "y'all heard the new Filter CD?"
Comedy where the whole punch line is someone being gay or trans.
Fitting a surprising amount of information on magnetic tape. Making casually racist content in the mid of "normal" content.

Been there, done that. Gopher, Gemini, Web 0.1 everybody gets bored of each other and the whole things dies.

That raw autistic energy to document power plants or subways just wasn’t there and you were just reading about the mundane lives and half baked manifestos of these glorified bloggers.

So sick of this rvturn shit. Whether it’s ironic and unironic. Stop moaning like life has system restore points and challenge yourself with a sound materialist analysis of what you think not feel has gone wrong.

Dialup, local intranet thonk

2007 would be a better cutoff.

I cannot stand CD players. My iPod touch was a god send. Also Netflix just started and didn't suck yet.
I mean, they HAD better connections than dialup back then, they just weren't as widely available/used.

I'm fine with this but without the religious baggage.

Mennonites stay winning.

They're currently settling the Amazon, so I don't think we should attribute a whole lot of winning to them.
- Yup, everything is bad all the time.
lol I was about to make a Mennonite joke.

I wasn't born nor did I grow up anywhere near the plain communities, but I moved near them as a grown up. all I knew was the plot to Witness, starring Harrison Ford.

I was at a farmers market and this dude in the fully plain gear with the beard and straw hat comes up and we start talking about farming stuff and suddenly he pulls out his cell phone and that's how I learned about Mennonites.
- Lol yeah I sometimes visit an irrigation supplier run by Mennonites. They just haul ass around the warehouse on segways/hoverboards with boxes of 1000 tiny plumbing parts in their hands.
- So I'm too lazy to fully read up on it, and what little I could find wasn't completely clear, but are Mennonites essentially LARPers? Like do they just dress plain like it's the 17th century while enjoying all the modern conveniences?
- Was working in a grocery store years ago, hippy dippy place, totally focused on fronting/facing shelves.
  
  I hear somebody speaking rapid fire in non-english... German or Dutch or something. Nobody is replying and I figure its somebody on a cell phone.
  
  I look over and see a dude in what I'm guessing is regular Mennonite gettup, slacks, boots, suspenders, button up shit and straw hat holding an iPhone to their ear and my brain was just like, "huh... haven't seen that before."

(cw: comment) yes

showing sensitivity toward our vegan comrades is cool and good
- I know buuuuuuut… maybe you should consume less social media, if an image of a movie scene might trigger you, just because a person is eating a piece of meat.
  
  Content warnings are good for extreme stuff, causing major distress. But not for this.
  
  This is just how I see it with my EU brain
- It's not real meat smh didn't you watch the movie