Being light skinned in a first world country in the early 2000s
What do you feel lucky forabout?
Submitted 21 hours ago by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Supportive parents. Being in a first world country with social security and free healthcare. Sometimes I struggle with stuff but overall, I must be playing in easy mode.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
I cant imagine what a fucking far worse mess I would be even we didnt have the healthcare angle covered. Its insanity for a society to not have that taken care of
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I met my partner when we were both in our early 20s and we clicked very quickly. Growing up and through my teens I assumed I would never settle down into a long-term relationship. I didn’t really have a good idea of what a long-term relationship would even be like for me; I certainly didn’t want to wind up in a mutually-resigned tolerance that my parents resolved into. Then for a while after we got together I (fortunately privately) assumed that we were too young and it was too good to last and that things would eventually fall apart but (so far) we’ve just never gotten tired of being around each other. We’ve had a few rough eras, actually in one of the scrabble periods now, financially, but as for the relationship itself we’ve been together almost 20 years now and going stronger than ever. Still rather in awe that it worked out this way when I think back on it. Feels very lucky.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Multilingualism. Cantonese, Mandarin, English. Also I rarely really watch media in those other languages, feels special to have them. Like bragging rights xD
Literacy in English and Chinese (sort of, idk the higher level vocabulary). Just having literacy in general, 100 years ago most people can’t read.
And ease of access of information in this era, and also in my region. No firewall* like they did have in my now-former country
(*for now at least)
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That I was born at a time when computers were knowable. I grew up in the 80s, and cut my teeth on a ZX Spectrum. Very little was hidden - even loading software into memory was something you experienced, listening to the beeps and warbles and watching the flashing colours for ten minutes or more. Guide books showed labelled photos and diagrams of the actual hardware inside, giving real tangible meaning to the commands you typed in.
I think there’s a massive amount of disconnect now between the users and the actual hardware, and getting up to speed with how things work is so much more difficult.
Also, I’m lucky that I was born into a family that was just able to afford a microcomputer. My dad had a stable enough job that he was able to get a loan from the bank to buy one.
Not sure my life would have turned out the way it did without this starting point.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Same. Feels very old to say but computers are so much more complicated and abstracted now, I feel like they were much more approachable when there wasn’t as much to them. Like being able to open the hood of a 60s era car and see all the discrete parts vs a 2020s car and you just see a tangle of plastic :/
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I just have to say I love your username :) 🐍🚀
Your comment is great, too, though
Apepollo11@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The snek!
Ha, you caught me, I was indeed a Reddit refugee. A little less enthusiastic about the MOASS these days, but I liked my old name, so kept it 🙂