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Technology is kind of shit now (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/goodoffmychest

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I'm kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It's just not fun anymore. I know I'm probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.

I know it's more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.

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[–] partial_accumen 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wikipedia would be a good example against you argument. I can find out details of the reign of Caesar Augustus as well as how many valence electrons are on a carbon atom. Neither of those is in vogue nor particular money makers and I know exactly where to find the info just by searching Wikipediea. Additionally, all the sources are linked so I can go down a rabbit hole on any deeper version of the topic if I want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You listed one of the most popular historical figures, by far, and some physics/chemistry, which I can assure you is involved in making enormous amounts of money, as someone in the nanotechnology field.

Try finding actually legitimate information regarding Tartaria.

[–] drphungky 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarian_Empire

7 sources for further reading in that article, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Like I said, try finding actually good information on the real thing, not just 'debunking' a bunch of obvious bullshit. People wrote about it as fact before 1911ish, yet it's almost impossible to find any of that 'human knowledge' anywhere online.

Just a few things I've managed to find:

An old novel

Britannica has some sparse information

The first edition of the Britanica speaks of it as a 'vast country'

Clearly there has been a lot written on the subject, but you really have to dig to find even scraps remaining of what people once said of it, which gets overshadowed by popular conspiracy theories as you have shown.