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  • Jarix@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•It's not your time
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    4 days ago

    I don’t consider the ARPANET stuff the internet.

    It’s the precursor. TCP/IP adoption isn’t a bad place to consider what is the internet. I think adoption/invention of WorldwideWeb is too late though I could agree to use it as the beginning of what most people think of what started the internet we see today.

    I think somewhere in the 80s is accurate, however it doesn’t really matter as the internet wasn’t suddenly everywhere. It took a LOT of time to reach a lot of places so one can remember what the world was like without the internet, even if it was already around at that time.

    I remember when most people didn’t have a computer let alone access to a modem of some kind.

  • Jarix@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•It's not your time
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    6 days ago

    Yes. I watched my grandmother slide from the strongest person in our family into a barely recognizable shell as she would have me come sit with her and i would have to tell her repeatedly in 5 minute increments that her brain was a asshole and there’s nothing she can do but eat well, take care of herself. It didn’t matter to the dementia she had. When she was sitting in bed crying on my shoulder telling me that all her friends are dead, she can’t remember simple things and so many other batshit crazy things I can’t even remember, and all the while, everyday for about 10 years I woke up to check and see if she was a corpse that day.

    I’m well well well aware of what 90 can look like.

  • Jarix@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Thoughts?
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    6 days ago

    That’s no different line of reasoning if you said billionaires don’t have too much money they are just bad a resource dispersal because we’ve built our society to reward greed and individualism. Which I wholly reject as well.

    You aren’t wrong that we need to fix a lot of things such as our management or resources and waste products, and that greed and individualism are things we need to curtail, but just from water and food production going into the climate change we already have experienced, the global population is much worse off than it would be if we worked to reduce the global population by at least 1/3rd. (Under about 6.5 billion a d 4.9 being maximally ideal iirc)

    That’s just how the data wizards worked things out. That number is not a static number either. If magically we woke up tomorrow and all of the systemic problems were suddenly functioning in the best possible technical capability we have right now, the global population could support about 18-20 billion if they were spread out maximally.

    But that’s just not the reality we live in. We have so much waste both in usable things like food waste, and garbage from end of the line material(mostly plastic

    That’s the conclusion I’ve arrived at after looking into this topic multiple multiple times. (I started looking at it seriously when countries began pulling out of the Kyoto Accords) I could be mistaken about some of the information I hold to be true, and if I am I will need to readjust my perspective on this, but I’m not going to do that with you. I dont have the patience or grace to argue with people who want to ignore reality.