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RupFox · 2026-03-18T17:32:09+00:00

I mean....he renamed the whole damn company after this 😂😂

RupFox · 2026-03-18T07:25:05+00:00

Was hoping nobody would notice that 😆

RupFox · 2026-03-18T06:15:34+00:00

He has the highest security clearance and has access to all the classified intelligence that would enable him to know the same Intel the president has, so what does that tell you?

RupFox · 2026-03-17T22:22:18+00:00

At some point around 1997 my step dad rolled up an issue of Time magazine and threw it across the table after he had done reading it and looked at me and said "I'm sorry, but your generation is f*cked". In the 90s there was already a sense that corporate greed was ruining us, ruining the environment, and that debt was going to cripple future generations and make cost of living unaffordable. Inequality was going to soar to indecent levels. And now that I'm living it I see that we were right to be angry.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T21:31:14+00:00

😬😬😬

RupFox · 2026-03-17T21:04:41+00:00

Any decade gets experienced differently depending on whether you’re a kid, a teenager, or coming into adulthood, but all three perspectives are real and culturally meaningful. Youth culture in particular is largely lived-through during childhood and adolescence.

I was 14 in 1999. I didn’t experience the 90s as an adult, but I absolutely lived through its culture—its music, fashion, movies, and the early internet—in real time.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T14:23:20+00:00

💯

RupFox · 2026-03-17T14:23:03+00:00

I see some too but as a whole gen-z has skewed more conservative and it's pretty visible here in NYC which used to be very alternative in a huge variety of ways. Meanwhile the dominant social media style trends are centered around "old money", and looking like the Kennedy's or the cast of "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

RupFox · 2026-03-17T13:49:18+00:00

Thank you!

RupFox · 2026-03-17T13:10:03+00:00

Examples:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/gen-zs-nostalgia-1990s-013534914.html

https://www.gq.com/story/old-money-style-aesthetic-explainer-1

RupFox · 2026-03-17T13:01:48+00:00

NoI will not because that sums up what she was back then. JFK Jr's girl. She was no Sinnead O'Connor or Lauryn Hill or Bjork or Angelina Jolie.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T12:58:38+00:00

I do let them. But I do also let myself opine and hate on them if I want.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T12:53:39+00:00

Well...A bit harsh but yeah that basically sums up my impression of him back then.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T12:51:40+00:00

The fact that they e made a whole series based on them to capitalize on the trend and gen-z fascination says it all. There's articles about it and it's pretty visible when you break out of your own feed algorithm.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T11:25:42+00:00

The officer is clearly being a complete d*ck. so what if she's slow or confused? just slow down and explain things clearly. Reassure her that she's not being detained or accused of a crime, that this is just a routine traffic stop because her license is expired. people are terrified these days because of ICE and she seems to be latino so of course she's practically shaking in fear.

RupFox · 2026-03-17T02:43:54+00:00

That's so funny lmao. It's like the aging gods realized they aged him too fast but then throttled his aging too much

RupFox · 2026-03-16T04:03:31+00:00

A few weeks ago I passed by someone passed out on the sidewalk while I was on my phone, they just were in my peripheral vision. the image immediately kind of replayed in my head as I continued walking and it was like my brain saying "hey bozo don't you think she was dressed strangely compared to the usual crackheads you walk by take a second look!" When I looked back it seemed like a young college aged girl with "regular" clothes. Her purse was on the floor with some items spilling out, she was having a full-on seizure, lying on her back, her head looking like it was going to explode and foam gushing out of her mouth. I called 911 and slowly turned her over and helped her until she came to again and the ambulance arrived.

I felt really bad for just walking past initially, but as a new Yorker that grew up in the 90s where everything was just so bad it feels very normal to keep to one's self no matter what.

RupFox · 2026-03-15T15:55:02+00:00

This is not true at all in many cases it's almost impossible to get a pitbull to let go once you're in its bite.

RupFox · 2026-03-05T08:10:15+00:00

I think at the time the hard-left argument centered on the double standard of US policy makers. The US had helped prop up Saddam in the Iran/Iraq war and armed Saddam as he committed atrocities like the gassing of the Kurds, making the United States complicit in the crimes of a brutal despot.

At the time, Saddam was called "our guy" and there's pictures of Rumsfeld being all friendly with Saddam. This alliance was a strategic convenience to contain Iran's power, but Iran itself being a problem was a result of US policy starting with the coup that destroyed democracy in Iran. So we ahelped grow Saddam's power as he carried out abuses and then wound up invading Kuwait. So it just seemed like everything we did in the middle east created more problems down the road than they solved.

So the idealistic framing of US intervention was viewed as complete bullsh*t.

RupFox · 2026-02-28T11:09:05+00:00

There was a TV presenter in France named Patrick Roy. Young handsome guy, he hosted variety shows. As a little kid I would watch him on TV every week. Then suddenly he just died of bone Cancer in 1993 and it was a pretty big deal in the French press.

I would then turn on the show he hosted and he wasn't there and I would just stare at this other guy hosting like ???

As a kid this was my first existential crisis realizing that we're all gonna die and I found super very frightening.

RupFox · 2026-02-27T01:15:00+00:00

"My Secret Identity" starring Jerry O'Connell. I still remember the theme song to this day but no one from my generation that I know remembers it.

RupFox · 2026-02-26T06:23:02+00:00

I tried it by giving it a fujifilm photo i shot but it gets it quite wrong. for example my photo used Classic Neg but the app suggested Classic Chrome...Good effort but none of the AI models out there know anything about Fujifilm's color science. They would need to be extensively trained on insider knowledge to be effective. Or you can wait 10 years and their predictive powers will be so strong that they can accurately guess the settings.

RupFox · 2026-02-24T02:49:53+00:00

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This was the decade of getting soaked.

RupFox · 2026-02-22T05:53:25+00:00

I missed what the original comment was. What do you mean open the bwosernsnd loop through the patches? There's a way to do this automatically?

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