Not really. It's all part of the mental illnesses we have. We should be getting gratification from wonderful discoveries but instead we're grasping for anything the feels a little calming, a little good.
i don't think it's remotely embarrassing to share whatever you think is fun or interesting or important or whatever you want. the thing about embarrassment and shame is that people cannot impose them on you if you refuse to accept them. much like if someone tries to guilt trip you, you can refuse to go on the trip. just let them hate you. let them misunderstand you. let them die mad. it's the only way to be free
To be fair, I don’t, nor have I ever done this. And I do not plan to. I do however shit post some memes and type comments on Imgur though so there’s that
Listen I love having a death scroll of entertainment, but if the people making it stopped I wouldn't care. I don't do it, I don't take photos of myself, I think the entire culture is fucking stupid, so if you are "embarrassed" then just don't do it. That's kinda the point.
It is totally embarrassing bc we are apes acting like moths to a flame. But it is also one of the most revolutionary ideas to date. If data can manage to survive even the collapse of civilization, we technically will never have died. The universe will figure out how to use digital energy to manifest a new reality. It’s an endless cycle. Also check out https://youtu.be/L8IYPnnsYJw?si=fHs778k0lfr8o5ch. Absolutely hysterical.
A tiny percentage of the world was involved in what we now consider amazing back in the Middle Ages. A tiny percentage of the world is now involved in what future generations will consider amazing. Live your lives, contribute to the betterment of society where you can, and find enjoyment in the stupid and embarrassing things if you so choose.
"this generation would live tweet the apocalypse" people like to hurl at us like an insult, but we absolutely would. anyone would. if the citizens of ancient pompai had twitter they would have too. saying "i was here" "i'm scared" "please remember me." it would be our duty to document. to connect. to love and share until the end. the medium doesn't matter. humans are going to human
We're going to be a historical black hole. Most of us couldn't read computer files from 30 years ago. That's assuming we still have devices to read the media it's on. And the media hasn't degraded. Ask your systems guy sometime how long backups last, and how much effort it takes to maintain them.
By the time it's historians trying to figure out what we were up to, most of what we've put online will be gone.
Undoubtedly, there is no data to assume we stop with a field going back half a century that's still rapidly growing. Archives spend so much time already on it, you don't just wait for data to degrade, you actively convert, etc.
Michelle Wolfe has much better jokes than lampooning social media on social media. This the lady that invented the "uncle Tom for white women? Oh that's Aunt Coulter" joke 1/2
Future generations are gonna have no clue. The English language is gonna sound totally different in 200 years. I’m amazed we know the difference between butt dial and booty call in 2024…
Real talk, they're not going to think anything about Tiktoks, the data won't be around by then assuming there's anything else looking into humans. All of your Grandparent's CDs that they bought in the 80's are starting to degrade, even if they were kept out of the sun in temperature controlled areas, no one's hard drive or phone is going to be the Dead Sea scrolls of 5821 A.D.
Future historians will salivate over the specificity of our surviving records. Is that Stone Age rock a dildo? 🤷🏽♂️ is this Information Age glass jar a dildo…uhhh yea I guess it was
Yeah except there will be no records, clay tablets survive, carved stone survives. Flash media, CDRs, magnetically encoded data, none of that will see more than a century or so.
Are you referring to that one video of a guy shattering a glass bottle that I watched by accident because someone posted it to a forum and it was just there with no context?
Paige will be the Ea-nāṣir of our time. So much will be lost in the coming war and its bleak aftermath, but the ubiquity of telling Paige to not place dangerous items in her vagina will undoubtedly live on. Whoever or whatever lives beyond us will know that we were once here, and we were indeed as reckless as Gullivers Yahoos when it came to sexual gratification. Let that be some small solace during the dark times ahead.
In all likelihood, the root details regarding Paige may be easily transformed enough over time that, by the time the distant future looks at the references, they'll wonder who Paige was, and why we always told her "no."
I truly hope that the found half of the Rosetta Stone that will inevitably become this comments section contains only your cryptic allusion to Paige and her fondness for doing that which she should not.
I hope this for the literal irony and for their own sake. In their act of forever searching for information and having it always kept tantalizingly just out of reach they will learn more about the internet than they could ever imagine.
I love her comedy, but this could not be further from the truth. We privatized space travel. We built devices that allowed the entire world to speak with each other. Our accomplishments are just as mighty and noteworthy. The big difference is not everyone got to see or participate in the cathedrals, bur even the homeless have intraplanetary communication devices.
And we made dildos that let us experience what it might be like to get fucked by a dragon, we created timeless works of art like "Skibidi," and we endlessly shared a picture of a man stretching his distended butthole open so far you could park a school bus in his colon.
We did not. A select few with knowledge did. Back when those cathedrals were being built you had family names like Mason, Smith, and Hunter because your family had a role and you knew your family trade. People didn't know as much but were well more capable. Now we have people who know everything at the touch of a button but cannot apply themselves. It is actually a sad thing.
This has always been true. Everyone has access to mud and rocks and hammers, but not everyone knows enough to be a Mason. Some people use worldwide knowledge to better themselves and the world and some people don't.
No. We have access to information unparalleled now. You can watch videos for free to learn to be a mason or most anything. People have chosen to box themselves in. They opt not to disconnect because it feels better laughing at your screen than it does to work to educate yourself.
Her Correspondent's Dinner speech was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw Women in comedy have had a lot of influence on me in my life. Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Carol Burnett, Vicky Lawrence, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Betty White were pioneers in building what I found funny. They began to take the male humor stigma into a new light.
Sorry. Yes and definately. Ghostbusters movies, Designing Women, and Young Sheldon she is the best Mee Maw. There are a ton of women I could list through SNL, SCTV, Mad Tv, Mel Brooks movies. A big shout out to Teri Garr. It's rough to watch her decline when MS took a toll on her.
Ooh I didn't know that. Yeah, she's great too. In fact, really, for every great male comedian, there is an equal female one. No sitcom was purely one sided, really, and if the true list of "both sides" came out, it would most likely be even.
Her Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind roles were great. Michael Keaton, Gene Wilder and Richard Dreyfuss were great in the respective movies as you mentioned. I would have loved to be on the set of Young Frankenstein to watch everyone.
I exist in your same time. Yes there is more to consider but part of it is knowing what NOT to waste time on. I am quite happy with where I'm at in my life but that required sacrificing the distractions of my peers. You hear it all your life, less games, more education ect. If it's deemed not fun then you are "robbing time from yourself because you only live once". This is not abstract. This is ego. People willfully forego bettering themselves because they value distractions more.
So I guess we're ignoring all those bridges, skyscrapers, and other bits of ingenious engineering that's been and is still being built on the regular? Nevermind the network of satellites floating around the planet making all those communications possible? Or the fact that we have supercomputers in the palms of or hands? Or all the other amazing shit?
Oh, but I guess every single person has to be doing something amazing 24/7 in order to not be embarrassing? Is that the point I somehow missed?
Yes, the tiktoks are just not worthy in general. From how I understand the IT there will be more or less nothing left from these days - either the servers simply went offline or the data format became to incompatible. Re: buildings - an economy favoring the greedy way to profit from stock market makes it unlikely that much lasts long because it gets bulldozed for the new. Re: satellites ... seems fragile for impacts in that way that a chain reaction would follow once a few got smashed.
A lot of concrete is build to not last so most of these will crumble within 300 years. However we do build some things to last, great dams, flood barriers, etc.
A lot of concrete is build with rebar because it's many times easier and more flexible in the shapes that it can have, which eventually oxidizes and expands and cracks.
The bridges though? They get better every time we build one. The skyscrapers get better and better, we're starting to build long lasting fireproof skyscrapers out of wood.
Tokyo can be seen from space. Not like many of the other things where it's theoretical if you zoom, it's a grey mark on otherwise green land.
Those wooden skyscrapers aren't meant to survive over 300 years either. I'm not saying we don't build impressive things I'm saying most are not build to last for a variety of reasons. Also every object over a mile in size can be seen from space, so that's almost every city. Tokyo isn't special in that regard.
And all that's ignoring the mining and earth moving we've done. The Panama and Suez canal, the connected waterways, the mountains flattened for coal, the massive salt mines, and tunnels in every mountain that got in our way.
Our mark on the world isn't going anywhere any time soon.
TsubakiTragic
If she's the future... then I can relax a little.
BORGALOOGIE
Becker37
Not really. It's all part of the mental illnesses we have. We should be getting gratification from wonderful discoveries but instead we're grasping for anything the feels a little calming, a little good.
spiritussancto
i don't think it's remotely embarrassing to share whatever you think is fun or interesting or important or whatever you want. the thing about embarrassment and shame is that people cannot impose them on you if you refuse to accept them. much like if someone tries to guilt trip you, you can refuse to go on the trip. just let them hate you. let them misunderstand you. let them die mad. it's the only way to be free
suchwowname
Embarrassing is that water mark in the subtitles
Shaodyn
Look at the stuff we build and ask yourself if we really want any of that lasting hundreds of years.
Shaodyn
Do you really want Walmart to still be there in 500 years? I don't.
buttcreambandit
To be fair, I don’t, nor have I ever done this. And I do not plan to. I do however shit post some memes and type comments on Imgur though so there’s that
sellingmysoulforupvotes
The world will survive. We, on the other hand, may not.
AnUpvote
TiredBanana
You're grown people using an idiot app for preteens. It's all embarassing.
Jewdakris
Listen I love having a death scroll of entertainment, but if the people making it stopped I wouldn't care. I don't do it, I don't take photos of myself, I think the entire culture is fucking stupid, so if you are "embarrassed" then just don't do it. That's kinda the point.
DigititalRemoval
It is totally embarrassing bc we are apes acting like moths to a flame. But it is also one of the most revolutionary ideas to date. If data can manage to survive even the collapse of civilization, we technically will never have died. The universe will figure out how to use digital energy to manifest a new reality. It’s an endless cycle. Also check out https://youtu.be/L8IYPnnsYJw?si=fHs778k0lfr8o5ch. Absolutely hysterical.
GhostSavage10
Tell me more
rudejohn
A tiny percentage of the world was involved in what we now consider amazing back in the Middle Ages. A tiny percentage of the world is now involved in what future generations will consider amazing. Live your lives, contribute to the betterment of society where you can, and find enjoyment in the stupid and embarrassing things if you so choose.
spiritussancto
"this generation would live tweet the apocalypse" people like to hurl at us like an insult, but we absolutely would. anyone would. if the citizens of ancient pompai had twitter they would have too. saying "i was here" "i'm scared" "please remember me." it would be our duty to document. to connect. to love and share until the end. the medium doesn't matter. humans are going to human
DrewK98
We're going to be a historical black hole. Most of us couldn't read computer files from 30 years ago. That's assuming we still have devices to read the media it's on. And the media hasn't degraded. Ask your systems guy sometime how long backups last, and how much effort it takes to maintain them.
By the time it's historians trying to figure out what we were up to, most of what we've put online will be gone.
bbueller
In actuality, they won't find anything, the videos will be corrupted, and so they'll just be like "huh. I guess it was the dark ages"
mormacil
Digital archeology is a thing
bbueller
the question is, will it be a thing hundreds of years from now? bits flip
mormacil
Undoubtedly, there is no data to assume we stop with a field going back half a century that's still rapidly growing. Archives spend so much time already on it, you don't just wait for data to degrade, you actively convert, etc.
GravyEducation
Michelle Wolfe has much better jokes than lampooning social media on social media. This the lady that invented the "uncle Tom for white women? Oh that's Aunt Coulter" joke 1/2
GravyEducation
that being said...
AgentCatherine
Future generations are gonna have no clue. The English language is gonna sound totally different in 200 years. I’m amazed we know the difference between butt dial and booty call in 2024…
phoony
#mildlyembarrassing
svga
circlebreaker
Real talk, they're not going to think anything about Tiktoks, the data won't be around by then assuming there's anything else looking into humans. All of your Grandparent's CDs that they bought in the 80's are starting to degrade, even if they were kept out of the sun in temperature controlled areas, no one's hard drive or phone is going to be the Dead Sea scrolls of 5821 A.D.
Number1Cause
Wow. That is profound
Serkus
We are products of our environment, and our environment is exploitative, shallow, and draining.
xenjamin
Well put brother.
TalkingSnake
BarderBetterFasterStronger
spitfires2000
Well... we went to the Moon. Maybe even Mars, in time. And people still staved to death. And war, don't forget about war.
LoudBirb
I mean... none of that's new. War and people starving at the whim of a few obscenely wealthy individuals is a tale as old as time.
spitfires2000
*starved, of course.
laserfrog
both
twentytailor41
Future historians will salivate over the specificity of our surviving records. Is that Stone Age rock a dildo? 🤷🏽♂️ is this Information Age glass jar a dildo…uhhh yea I guess it was
lostharbinger42
ZeroZeta
These records indicate this couple was in a homosexual relationship... *writes best friends in notes*
zenoshogun
Yeah except there will be no records, clay tablets survive, carved stone survives. Flash media, CDRs, magnetically encoded data, none of that will see more than a century or so.
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
Even less if a large solar flare decides to make a slightly bigger trip than usual
Doledog
And then the power went out
ShipofRockets
No, it's a model cucumber
080080
the videos, reddit threads and imgur pictures is what they will use to decode the modern hieroglyphs we call memes.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
They’ll be wondering why everything is cake
4etherling
Didn't take much away from her video huh?
EmptyHouseBurglar
Of course it's company policy never to imply ownership in the case of a dildo. It's always "a dildo" not "YOUR... Dildo"
hnngh
hydrocarbon82
And due to how our data is currently stored, they'll be missing the best part - the reaction to "is it a dildo"
DidItForScience
Are you referring to that one video of a guy shattering a glass bottle that I watched by accident because someone posted it to a forum and it was just there with no context?
LarvaLamp
*are these fragments of an Information Age glass jar a dildo?- fixed it for you
DeserTimmy
Paige will be the Ea-nāṣir of our time. So much will be lost in the coming war and its bleak aftermath, but the ubiquity of telling Paige to not place dangerous items in her vagina will undoubtedly live on. Whoever or whatever lives beyond us will know that we were once here, and we were indeed as reckless as Gullivers Yahoos when it came to sexual gratification. Let that be some small solace during the dark times ahead.
jonReremy9669
>items in her vagina
all this time i thought they were talking about putting things in the right hole
doppelfisch
In all likelihood, the root details regarding Paige may be easily transformed enough over time that, by the time the distant future looks at the references, they'll wonder who Paige was, and why we always told her "no."
DeserTimmy
I truly hope that the found half of the Rosetta Stone that will inevitably become this comments section contains only your cryptic allusion to Paige and her fondness for doing that which she should not.
I hope this for the literal irony and for their own sake. In their act of forever searching for information and having it always kept tantalizingly just out of reach they will learn more about the internet than they could ever imagine.
May they never lose the game.
Einstein9073
Here. I'm doing my part.
doppelfisch
All your base are belong to us
Lol my bff Jill
Amen
throwaway12345432
Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
Paige no!
Ubernaut1
If someone had not commented this by now, I was about to.
NoPostsOnlyComments
Michelle Wolf is great
SlightChungus
Her press correspondence was just perfect. I still watch it from time to time.
BunchaCrunchOfHuman
I was hoping she was gonna end that with eating candy
SkamanSam
I love her comedy, but this could not be further from the truth. We privatized space travel. We built devices that allowed the entire world to speak with each other. Our accomplishments are just as mighty and noteworthy. The big difference is not everyone got to see or participate in the cathedrals, bur even the homeless have intraplanetary communication devices.
reverendbonobo
And we made dildos that let us experience what it might be like to get fucked by a dragon, we created timeless works of art like "Skibidi," and we endlessly shared a picture of a man stretching his distended butthole open so far you could park a school bus in his colon.
LarvaLamp
4etherling
We did not. A select few with knowledge did. Back when those cathedrals were being built you had family names like Mason, Smith, and Hunter because your family had a role and you knew your family trade. People didn't know as much but were well more capable. Now we have people who know everything at the touch of a button but cannot apply themselves. It is actually a sad thing.
SkamanSam
This has always been true. Everyone has access to mud and rocks and hammers, but not everyone knows enough to be a Mason. Some people use worldwide knowledge to better themselves and the world and some people don't.
4etherling
No. We have access to information unparalleled now. You can watch videos for free to learn to be a mason or most anything. People have chosen to box themselves in. They opt not to disconnect because it feels better laughing at your screen than it does to work to educate yourself.
steelundecided
Her Correspondent's Dinner speech was great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw Women in comedy have had a lot of influence on me in my life. Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Carol Burnett, Vicky Lawrence, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Betty White were pioneers in building what I found funny. They began to take the male humor stigma into a new light.
LarvaLamp
Throw Annie Potts in there. She does understated wry wit with the best of them.
steelundecided
Sorry. Yes and definately. Ghostbusters movies, Designing Women, and Young Sheldon she is the best Mee Maw. There are a ton of women I could list through SNL, SCTV, Mad Tv, Mel Brooks movies. A big shout out to Teri Garr. It's rough to watch her decline when MS took a toll on her.
LarvaLamp
Ooh I didn't know that. Yeah, she's great too. In fact, really, for every great male comedian, there is an equal female one. No sitcom was purely one sided, really, and if the true list of "both sides" came out, it would most likely be even.
steelundecided
Her Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein and Close Encounters of the Third Kind roles were great. Michael Keaton, Gene Wilder and Richard Dreyfuss were great in the respective movies as you mentioned. I would have loved to be on the set of Young Frankenstein to watch everyone.
vystral
I miss her. She hasn’t really done much lately.
zero020
She either had a baby, or is pregnant with one, which might be taking up some of her spare time
vystral
Cool! Sounds like she’s living her best life
brownribbon
Not much left to do when you slay the WHCD
4etherling
And completely right. People honestly don't care about growing into something more than a lump these days.
seriously9
F!cking overachievers those lump people I says, now back to lurkin’
tentacularfleshscape
Most of us have less downtime and more pressures and have to deal with more abstract bullshit than those medieval peasants.
4etherling
I exist in your same time. Yes there is more to consider but part of it is knowing what NOT to waste time on. I am quite happy with where I'm at in my life but that required sacrificing the distractions of my peers. You hear it all your life, less games, more education ect. If it's deemed not fun then you are "robbing time from yourself because you only live once". This is not abstract. This is ego. People willfully forego bettering themselves because they value distractions more.
DocFunkenstein
So I guess we're ignoring all those bridges, skyscrapers, and other bits of ingenious engineering that's been and is still being built on the regular? Nevermind the network of satellites floating around the planet making all those communications possible? Or the fact that we have supercomputers in the palms of or hands? Or all the other amazing shit?
Oh, but I guess every single person has to be doing something amazing 24/7 in order to not be embarrassing? Is that the point I somehow missed?
contextisimportant
Yes, the tiktoks are just not worthy in general. From how I understand the IT there will be more or less nothing left from these days - either the servers simply went offline or the data format became to incompatible.
Re: buildings - an economy favoring the greedy way to profit from stock market makes it unlikely that much lasts long because it gets bulldozed for the new. Re: satellites ... seems fragile for impacts in that way that a chain reaction would follow once a few got smashed.
mormacil
A lot of concrete is build to not last so most of these will crumble within 300 years. However we do build some things to last, great dams, flood barriers, etc.
montyman185
A lot of concrete is build with rebar because it's many times easier and more flexible in the shapes that it can have, which eventually oxidizes and expands and cracks.
The bridges though? They get better every time we build one. The skyscrapers get better and better, we're starting to build long lasting fireproof skyscrapers out of wood.
Tokyo can be seen from space. Not like many of the other things where it's theoretical if you zoom, it's a grey mark on otherwise green land.
mormacil
Those wooden skyscrapers aren't meant to survive over 300 years either. I'm not saying we don't build impressive things I'm saying most are not build to last for a variety of reasons. Also every object over a mile in size can be seen from space, so that's almost every city. Tokyo isn't special in that regard.
montyman185
And all that's ignoring the mining and earth moving we've done. The Panama and Suez canal, the connected waterways, the mountains flattened for coal, the massive salt mines, and tunnels in every mountain that got in our way.
Our mark on the world isn't going anywhere any time soon.
mormacil
Sure but we don't build to last compared to the past, which was my argument. I never said we didn't leave a mark on the world, that be silly.