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Periodic anti-nostalgia thread. What are you happy is gone or is less present in the world? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Here’s a bit of a personal list:

Undeniably the food scene in the US has changed for the better. Sometimes almost to an overcorrection (protein-slop and all). It’s great that so many different cuisines are easy to name and find even in more traditional rural parts of the country. Organic food isn’t seen as a weird hippie thing but an investment you make for your health.
A lot less smoking in the world. I say this as early gen Z but I never grew up in a time when smoking was seen as cool when I was a teenager. My uncle even quit and that was good to see.
It may not seem like it sometimes, but the one consolation prize of YouTube is I can theoretically be a content creator and never need to worry about the bottleneck that is getting chosen out of millions of people in Hollywood. I could theoretically just stay in the midwest and learn to livestream or make an anime discussion channel and produce content without needing a massive studio or working in Hollywood. Of course, it’s still almost impossible to get paid for it, but still.
More and more people are aware of cars not being the best way to get around which has sparked interest in walkable cities. Problem is, there’s too much demand and too little supply but seeing car culture be questioned is a great first start.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Styrofoam in packaging. Most of it has been replaced by plastic pillows, and good riddance.

"Low-fat" as a selling point. That crammed so much sugar and artificial flavors into food. Yes, we now have the "no seed oil" craze and protein everything, but this doesn't seem quite as bad.
Also more generally, the sense that you were weird if you cared about the ingredients on the label.

The stigma against playing games as an adult. Everyone plays games now, even people who grew up before the NES. Even though along with this comes lots more gambling; the arcades are gone but slot machines are all over and online gambling is huge.

Overt homophobia is on its way out. It used to be all over the place, and also used as a cudgel against anyone who wasn't normative enough. This seemed to change about when people who were out passed the 5% mark. Even the reactionaries understand that people with same-sex attractions are a large part of their base and society at large, and they either bear with it or hamper their own growth and viability.

As a matter of personal taste, I really don't miss the period when an overwhelming plurality of men had the same gel-heavy hairstyle. Nowadays I can use this as a red flag when I see it.

If electric vehicles come dominate the market in the next decade, I won't miss all the things that come with internal combustion engines: revving engines just to make noise, rolling coal, oil stains and spills all over parking lots, making a big deal out of driving a manual transmission.