I think I noticed a lot of people starting to complain around 2015 but I don’t remember the exact timeline and I’d like to get the bort’s thoughts

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365086)

Would be the obvious choices here but yet

"Sopranos" back in '98 contained

The same theme of American decay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365124)

IIRC, we knew before Obama was elected he launched his political career in Bill Ayers's living room. I guess it was a lesson in 'you get what you vote for'.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365195)

all three of them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365293)

Campaigning, and we still were in Iraq.

The social pressure ramped up then as well.

"Smith-Mundt Modernization Act" on Google

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365137)

The malaise is more specific ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365360)

Screens / social media has had the biggest effect on our happiness ever.

WFH is a great example of this. Almost everyone prefers WFH, but it's also pretty clearly awful for your mental health.

It's easier t owatch something on Netflix than to go to the movie theater. It's better to get food delivered to your porch and eat it on your couch that to go to a restaurant. Everyone prefers to text their friends than call them. You meet people on dating apps instead of going out to bars.

All these little improvements in our life have made us miserable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365157)

Everyone posts fake pictures of themselves having fun and then looks at everyone else's pictures and wonders why their own lives aren't like this.

What you're describing is happening to you is happening to everyone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365193)

if you don't have gonorrhea, pissing first thing in the morning is a pleasurable experience, not an unhappy one, wtf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365298)

So much of life's problems go away if you WFH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365325)

I didn't realize they let fucking retards sign up for this site. WFH is amazing. I did it so many years before retiring, and I'd wake up late, work from bed, go to a cafe, chat people up there while casually working, if i had a meeting i'd head back home to call, but basically i was just chilling, playing with my kids, fucking my wife, never having to drive a car, working out in the middle of the day, and going to bed early and getting 8+ hours of sleep every night.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365297)

https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&mc=15&forum_id=2#49365146

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365147)

during the 9/11 aftermath and iraq it was all just disappointment and an almost quaint mocking frustration with american leadership as a pastime, mostly about things that were a distant reality for 95% of the population.

2008 was the first time we saw real anger. and we never turned back. if we had a republican president libs would have gotten violent. obama being president kept them merely demoralized.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365208)

Only someone who wasn't an adult in 2003–04 would say this. There was legit fury over the invasion of Iraq. I was at uni at the time, and we blocked the roads and the city sent vehicles to run us over. Basically it was an ur-MAGA moment where crazy people thought they could commit vehicular murder on behalf of the gov't employer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365306)

EDIT: in retrospect, you and your faggot friends were right, an irrelevant fact.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365328)

But what tech frauds call "friction" is actually the texture of life.

You see ads for products or services that promise to "take care of X so you can go back to doing what you love." But now there is a smartphone-based service for everything that used to just be part of living a normal life. And all that people seem to love doing is endlessly scrolling. But not because they actually love it, rather it's because the smartphone has removed so much of actual life from the world. And what remains is but a husk.

It doesn't mean a person can't be happy, but it requires a meaningfully concerted effort to replicate a more analogue life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365248)

anybody answering stuff other than these is not being Honest

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365252)

It’s obvious evil is in full control of this realm and automation will not be done kindly, but needfully. haha

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365326)

Also, a great argument could be made for the year they started passing out smartphones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365331)

1/2 became miserable at the end of 2016 when trump won

the other 1/2 became miserable at the end of 2020 when biden won

now each half hates the other

the libs are the ones to blame, but that's a different conversation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365441)

can you explain this further? i know about the 47% comment, but what do you mean here exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366358)

hard to say exactly 07-12 when they became ubiquitous, and of course "phones" can be kids on tablets or employment on desktops. so theres nuance, sure, but within a handful of years mankind converted its existence to virtual

been long enough since the matrix movie that its kind of goofy and stale to still talk about, but we really did that shit, we really chose a matrix existence - and only since most of us were in law school

but its as remarkable, and more sudden, than almost any other development in our species - so there is no understating it. ITS THE PHONES

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49365922)

If internet access only existed on a stationary computer, humanity would legitimately be saved (even if fraud stock valuations would come down.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366345)

-Obama clearly not going to be a transformative president but instead sps

-Shitlib 'privilege' rhetoric etc. going mainstream

-Capeshit becomes ubiquitous and all the IP crossover stuff begins going hyperbolic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366320)

both insanely obese and no energy looked depressed af ordering

sat down at their table no talking to each other just pulled out their phones and started scrolling

order came in they gulfed it down and went back to their phones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366347)

but i think it was around 2020 when people looked up and got a peek behind the curtain and realized it was fraud and lies all the way down. american institutions were hollow, our leaders were utterly corrupt and incompetent, and the nefarious ((actors)) we had thought might possibly be in charge were far more powerful, and far more evil, than we ever realized. we were lied to constantly for decades. it's hard to accept that American brainwashing was just as cunning and heavy-handed as the regimes we were taught to despise for doing the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366356)

I remember reading something, maybe it was on XO, that the average person in the pre-industrial period would take in less information in their entire lifetime than can be found in the average daily edition of the NY Times today. Ignorance is bliss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367128)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49366971)

all automated through a sophisticated system of operant conditioning, variable rewards, and personalized algorithms

We need to decouple from the machine

*CMD + T XO + Enter*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5788486&forum_id=2.#49367332)