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SokathHisEyesOpen @ Anticorp @lemmy.ml
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  • Idk if you consider this fake or not, but there's considerably more plastic surgery, Botox, veneers, teeth bleaching, and appearance oriented behaviors these days. Especially in movies, but also in real life. There's not a single actor with natural teeth now, except for Steve Buschimi. Even he probably bleaches his teeth. You used to see people everywhere as they were naturally. Now it's very common to see people who have had cosmetic procedures done. There's also a lot more bodybuilding and body sculpting now. That one is possibly a positive, since it contributes to a person's overall health. Go watch a movie from the 70's. The actors look like real people. Now every actor looks like digitally sculpted perfection.

  • The weirdest part for me is feeling totally comfortable talking on screen about anything, but then when you think about meeting in person, being worried that you won't have anything to talk about and it'll be awkward.

  • and the systems that uphold them as well.

    This is the most important point. Governments at every level are discarding constitutional law, and embracing fascism in opposition of American ideals. Cops couldn't do this without the support of city, county, state, and federal programs to give them what they want.

  • Search engines really have become terrible. Plus so much of the internet is absolute trash now. I built a career from nothing but desire, Google, and Stack Overflow. Idk if someone could still do the same. A lot of the resources that I used for free are subscriptions now, and Google refuses to show relevant results for any searches not related to products. If Google's search results pages are to be believed, then there are only 3-4 pages related to any given search, out of billions of websites across the globe. We have more information available on the internet than at any previous point in human history, yet much of it is completely inaccessible because search engines refuse to produce accurate results now. What is incredibly frustrating is that they were already an unimaginably wealthy company when they were still producing amazing results. But I guess more wealth than a company could spend in a thousand years isn't enough? It wasn't enough to have that kind of power? No. They went and completely enshitified their services, despite incredible success with their previous approach. What a fucking shame.

  • Right? I used to help people with their computers all the time. Then one day it occurred to me that I never really knew the answers either, I was just googling everything and following instructions. That's something they could do themselves, but chose not to. So I started feeling like they were taking advantage of my time and started saying no. Then they all acted like I was their only hope. Eventually I just started pretending that I don't know anything about computers, saying that they've changed too much since last time I was interested in them. I figured that's no different than them pretending they can't resolve their own computer problems.