Here’s a bit of a personal list:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Huh the bullies were right all along.
I don’t condone bullying weaker people, so no, I don’t think they were right. But I think they were right to spot in nerds the antisocial behavior, now the same antisocial behavior is lauded in nerd circles and being a creep is seen as a good thing.
No nerd was being bullied for anti-social behavior, they were being bullied for not liking popular things, being seen as weak and unmasculine. No one was bullying nerds for harboring misogynistic communities.
Which is rich because the nerds were never going to have a seat at the table of traditional patriarchy since the jocks viewed them as weak.
no the bullies became project managers at those tech companies
The bullies were mostly targeting people who were visibly queer or disabled, and said bullying frequently involves forms of SV. So no, fuck that and anyone who says it.
CW: Sui
My best friend growing up was bullied so severely for being overweight that he tried to take his own life (mercifully, he failed). He’s not a Silicon Valley techbro now, he’s an overworked and underpaid nurse.