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OT: Is the old way better?

I have made a real conscious effort in the last couple years to listen to full albums or at minimum not skip any songs on my playlists. Makes a huge difference in my mood.
 
My body was definitely better in the old days than it is now, so that is one thing that has gotten worse.
 
Bar scene and just running into people out was significantly better back in the day.

Music is the obvious one. Way worse now.

Cars are less reliable now and harder to work on. Everything’s plastic and you need a degree in Electrical Engineering to debug.

Hartford was better back in the day.

Politics and just normal conversation was way better. Water cooler talk too. Now I have to watch over my back if I upset anyone at work by saying something that isolates someone.
 
CTBasketball said:
Cars are less reliable now and harder to work on
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Not sure on that reliability comment, and they may be harder to work on if you self-repair your car, but competent dealers have diagnostic tools now that never existed years ago.

Cars have a lot more safety features (backup cameras, blind spot detectors, automatic slowing or stopping if you get too close to another car or if you are backing out and getting close to an object) If truth be told, you can get a lot of these features installed on older models aftermarket at Attention to Detail in Middletown or any similar place out of state.
 
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Car engines are as reliable as ever. It's all the ancillary stuff that fails.

As for streaming, I think it's wrong to lump in Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad etc. Breaking Bad concluded around the same time Netflix produced their first house show. Sopranos was done 7 years before that. For a short period after the streaming services started producing their own show, the content was great, but there is now nothing that comes close to approaching any of Sopranos/Breaking Bad/Mad Men/early GoT/Wire. The model now seems to be pay big $$ for star power and skimp on writing. The result is mass-produced junk with big names. More options/quantity, less quality.
 
husky429 said:
I have made a real conscious effort in the last couple years to listen to full albums or at minimum not skip any songs on my playlists. Makes a huge difference in my mood.
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I almost always play albums when I am working out.
 
Excalibur said:
Car engines are as reliable as ever. It's all the ancillary stuff that fails.

As for streaming, I think it's wrong to lump in Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad etc. Breaking Bad concluded around the same time Netflix produced their first house show. Sopranos was done 7 years before that. For a short period after the streaming services started producing their own show, the content was great, but there is now nothing that comes close to approaching any of Sopranos/Breaking Bad/Mad Men/early GoT/Wire. The model now seems to be pay big $$ for star power and skimp on writing. The result is mass-produced junk with big names. More options/quantity, less quality.
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There is some good TV out on streaming platforms and some good music being made but I found something interesting:

During the pandemic the most binge watched show was Friends. And it seems by a lot (+ 30 million streams over the next competitor)
Sopranos and the office (both pre-streaming shows ) were top 3 as well.

Also, I live in Nashville and when you go to bars to hear live music the vast majority of songs you'll hear is pre-2000s. Ive also played in many of these bands and nobody requests any new music. Even the drunk kids in their 20s
 
uconnfan68 said:
Need to get locally grown.
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Its not where they’re grown. Over the last few decades tomatoes have been engineered for looks, shelf life and durability during transport. In the process many of the traits producing good flavor (sugar content and various aromatic compounds) got removed.

Go to your local farm stand, grow them yourself, and they still don’t taste like they used to.
 
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mussels said:
So what’s better ?

Smoke free bars, airplanes, movie theaters etc. Probably have to be older to appreciate how widespread smoking was, and how you and your clothes absolutely reeked after spending a night in a bar.
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100% that's better. There are a few smoking bars around nashville and I can't even believe we used to tolerate that.

Also, any bar now offers a bunch of different alcohol brands and microbrews. I remember in the late 90s when I used to go to a bar and get an....Amstel light??? Is that even around anymore?
 
Tenspro2002 said:
White collar jobs were better before bosses could reasonably expect to reach us 24/7.
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It's funny to in see every technological leap the false need for immediacy that it creates.
 
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Remember when real hate existed in baseball and this Yankees Red Sox rivalry?



Don’t even think sports has any real rivalries these days.
 
mussels said:
Its not where they’re grown. Over the last few decades tomatoes have been engineered for looks, shelf life and durability during transport. In the process many of the traits producing good flavor (sugar content and various aromatic compounds) got removed.

Go to your local farm stand, grow them yourself, and they still don’t taste like they used to.
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The main driver was the push for yield after WWII. There are still seed varieties that produce old style flavors to grow on your own, you just have to be willing to do trial and error. When you find one that works, make sure to save the seeds for the next year. And there have been studies done on this phenomenon and some seed developers are trying to engineer fruit with the correct balance of sugars and acid components (see the link).

My father has been saving recycling his own seeds for almost 50 years. I don't notice a difference between his and mine.

www.theguardian.com

Out of flavour: why tomatoes have lost their taste

After exhaustive studies, an international team of scientists has worked out why tomatoes don’t taste like they used to
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Chin Diesel said:
To me it goes back to a lack of education on how to to assess and evaluate information sources. I'm all for flooding people with info.
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And it's only going to get worse Chin. Just like the calculator severely degraded people's ability to do math in their heads, AI is going to degrade people's ability to rationally think and evaluate. They'll ask their preferred AI source and accept whatever the answer it proffers.

Ask AI a question to which you already know the answer, and you may be surprised to find out the answer it gives you will be incomplete, misleading, and sometimes just flat out wrong. Overtime, though, I strongly suspect that people's ability to critically assess the information they're given will atrophy. Never underestimate the impact of people's inherent laziness.
 
Baseball was much better before the introduction of interleague play. With it, the All-Star Game has no juice, and the World Series has no mystery. As a youngin', it was exciting to wonder how Donnie Baseball would fare against Gooden or Ryan or...

Really, baseball was just better on a thousand different levels when I was a kid.
 
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mussels said:
So what’s better ?

Smoke free bars, airplanes, movie theaters etc. Probably have to be older to appreciate how widespread smoking was, and how you and your clothes absolutely reeked after spending a night in a bar.
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I was in the hospital over thirty years ago. The worst part was that one of the patients in the four bed room was a smoking maniac. There was oxygen in the room for another patient but this idiot insisted on smoking whenever he wished. I was a smoker at the time but his actions freaked me out.

I knew one smoker who used to complain about the smoking stench on his clothes. He never saw the irony either. I believe that smoking percentages nowadays are around 14% down from 40% in USA.
 
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HCCForever said:
I was in the hospital over thirty years ago. The worst part was that one of the patients in the four bed room was a smoking maniac. There was oxygen in the room for another patient but this idiot insisted on smoking whenever he wished. I was a smoker at the time but his actions freaked me out.

I knew one smoker who used to complain about the smoking stench on his clothes. He never saw the irony either. I believe that smoking percentages nowadays are around 20% but that percentage of smokers in USA used to be much higher.
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It's insane to me that patients were able to smoke in a hospital. That's next level.

I mean, you could get a note from a parent to smoke in the courtyard at my high school in the late 90s, there was a smoker's area at the UConn library when I got there, and when I started my career, one of our "duties" was to police the bathroom for kids smoking in the bathrooms. 20ish years later, it's the vaping battle. If you bring up cigarettes or that you were a smoker, the students (ironically) are so disturbed that people could have put a substance like that in their bodies.
 
boog204 said:
It's insane to me that patients were able to smoke in a hospital. That's next level.

I mean, you could get a note from a parent to smoke in the courtyard at my high school in the late 90s, there was a smoker's area at the UConn library when I got there, and when I started my career, one of our "duties" was to police the bathroom for kids smoking in the bathrooms. 20ish years later, it's the vaping battle. If you bring up cigarettes or that you were a smoker, the students (ironically) are so disturbed that people could have put a substance like that in their bodies.
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I was a smoker up until about 7 years ago, never a pack a day. Usually just a few a day and could go close to a pack on a night out drinking. I vape now, smoking is a million times worse for you. In the UK doctors have prescribed vapes to smokers for years now.

I'm pretty thankful vaping came along.
 
Excalibur said:
Car engines are as reliable as ever. It's all the ancillary stuff that fails.

As for streaming, I think it's wrong to lump in Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad etc. Breaking Bad concluded around the same time Netflix produced their first house show. Sopranos was done 7 years before that. For a short period after the streaming services started producing their own show, the content was great, but there is now nothing that comes close to approaching any of Sopranos/Breaking Bad/Mad Men/early GoT/Wire. The model now seems to be pay big $$ for star power and skimp on writing. The result is mass-produced junk with big names. More options/quantity, less quality.
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I guess I think of "streaming" as anything not on network TV where you could take a season (or seasons) to tell a story, as opposed to episodic TV (Law and Order, 1/2 hour sitcoms, etc). When TV became something where a director could take an idea and really build out the characters and plot over time.

Even if you think that's watered down now on actual "streaming" services, try watching some of garbage on NBC or CBS today.
 
mussels said:
Its not where they’re grown. Over the last few decades tomatoes have been engineered for looks, shelf life and durability during transport. In the process many of the traits producing good flavor (sugar content and various aromatic compounds) got removed.

Go to your local farm stand, grow them yourself, and they still don’t taste like they used to.
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You must have crappy farms and/or buy the wrong seeds because we get delicious tomatoes out here. The 6-8 weeks of BLT season is something I really look forward to. And yes, I read the link to the story. I do not agree.

We used to successfully grow 3-4 heirloom varieties on our own but past three years animals/bugs are getting to them before we are. Even with "rabbit proof" fencing.
 
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I hate that the younger generations prefer texting over voice. I prefer to talk to people. It's almost as if they want use the texts as a buffer in case the conversation gets confrontational. I believe this is why the younger generation has no conflict resolution skills.
 
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storrsroars said:
You must have crappy farms and/or buy the wrong seeds because we get delicious tomatoes out here. The 6-8 weeks of BLT season is something I really look forward to. And yes, I read the link to the story. I do not agree.

We used to successfully grow 3-4 heirloom varieties on our own but past three years animals/bugs are getting to them before we are. Even with "rabbit proof" fencing.
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Have you considered the possibility that either your memory or your tastebuds are shot?😊
 
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