Anonymous
02/23/2026 20:54
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
PP didn't say she saved anything. Probably paid somewhere between $400-$1000 in the end. And I think she doesn't understand standard deviation.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
Not in my industry.
This are low value examples. Google search results from scraping the internet are the best source of info to make decisions? Lol
We were recently told we needed new brake pads and I knew our minivan got all four new for $600. So when the guy said $500 for two rear ones on a much smaller vehicle I laughed
Meanwhile my city boy husband google AI searched it and it said it can cost $400-1000 so sounds good! No mention of car size, metro area, whatever.
Yeah! Fully informed! Got a range with five standard deviations from reality, here’s my money.
Perhaps use that savings to learn to speak like an educated person.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 20:02
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
Not in my industry.
This are low value examples. Google search results from scraping the internet are the best source of info to make decisions? Lol
We were recently told we needed new brake pads and I knew our minivan got all four new for $600. So when the guy said $500 for two rear ones on a much smaller vehicle I laughed
Meanwhile my city boy husband google AI searched it and it said it can cost $400-1000 so sounds good! No mention of car size, metro area, whatever.
Yeah! Fully informed! Got a range with five standard deviations from reality, here’s my money.
Perhaps use that savings to learn to speak like an educated person.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 20:01
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Perhaps use that savings to learn to speak like an educated person.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
Not in my industry.
This are low value examples. Google search results from scraping the internet are the best source of info to make decisions? Lol
We were recently told we needed new brake pads and I knew our minivan got all four new for $600. So when the guy said $500 for two rear ones on a much smaller vehicle I laughed
Meanwhile my city boy husband google AI searched it and it said it can cost $400-1000 so sounds good! No mention of car size, metro area, whatever.
Yeah! Fully informed! Got a range with five standard deviations from reality, here’s my money.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:58
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
It’s the sugar and the emotional detachment that damaged the brains.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:27
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:It started with the election of Nixon.Anonymous wrote:The downward spiral started after 9/11, not Covid
It started with Reconstruction going unfinished.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:21
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Shut up and stop whining. At least you’re still alive.
All it did was pull forward some deaths of SOME chronically unhealthy people. Plus jack up stimulus spending, stop educating kids for 12-24 mos, and create violence amongst people with nothing to do.
You fools conveniently forget about the OG covid in 2020. Nick Cordero was a DANCER and died after 95 days and an amputation. He wasn't obese, unfit. Children died on ventilators. Covid is a vascular disease.
And it’s still causing strokes in people who were fit, healthy, and young before they caught COVID multiple times. Colds don’t do that.
The flu can.
Remember how we were told there were negligible flu cases the year of Covid? And people believed that?
The closures helped knock down flu cases, but that was not sustainable. Check out how much money was dumped into the economy to keep things going,
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:19
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
This is true, and obviously due to the democratization of information via technology. But it also touches on something else that really bothers me about now versus maybe 15 years ago.
People are more confident in their own knowledge now. You might think that sounds great! I thought so too, initially. People have access to so much more information that they can arm themselves with, and that makes them approach lots of different situations with more confidence and security, especially when they are interacting with experts in a field outside their own -- doctors, teachers, therapists, chefs, etc. So you can be more educated going into an appointment with a medical specialist, or talking to your kid's 2nd grade teacher. Sounds good, right?
The problem is that people only have a little bit of knowledge, often that knowledge is not very good, and their confidence is unmerited. And this creates all kinds of problems. People don't listen to each other anymore, including listening to actual experts who are trying to give them important information. They assume they must know better. This contributes to the breakdown of trust in institutions, because when you are convinced you know everything, it's very easy to take what is actually your tiny amount of knowledge and cast doubt over institutions that actually have a ton of knowledge. So universities are a con, the CDC are liars, the hospital is just out to swindle you, your actual therapist doesn't know as much as your TikTok therapist, and so on. If everyone is an expert, then no one is.
I have also just gotten exhausted by how everyone talks now, because so many people think they are experts. We're a country of reply guys now -- "Well, actually..." It makes it hard to connect with people, because you're so often being lectured at or contradicted by them instead. It's so important for people to be viewed as "in the know." But real communication requires people to believe they don't know anything, and be willing to listen and learn. This feels increasingly rare. A lot of places I go now -- work, book club, exercise class, PTO meetings -- it's just a bunch of know-it-alls trying to top each other. Maybe this problem is worse in DC than it is other places (probably?) but I miss when people used to not know things and be okay with it.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:18
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The way we are now was not because of Covid. A much worse sickness started before that. And you became infected with it. We can tell by the callous way you describe people. Don't blame our cesspool country on Covid. Oh no.
Are you talking about the rise of Trump a ‘la 2016??!
Obviously.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:14
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:The way we are now was not because of Covid. A much worse sickness started before that. And you became infected with it. We can tell by the callous way you describe people. Don't blame our cesspool country on Covid. Oh no.
Are you talking about the rise of Trump a ‘la 2016??!
Anonymous
02/23/2026 19:04
Subject: Re:I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The world is definitely worse post Covid, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
The very fabric of society frayed in a way that’s not easily mended.
I think it has more to do with a certain political movement than Covid.
Yes, that pair of geniuses—Joe & Kammi—were asleep at the switch, & millions strolled in.
Thanks for proving my point.
Fvking idiot.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 18:05
Subject: Re:I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The world is definitely worse post Covid, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
The very fabric of society frayed in a way that’s not easily mended.
I think it has more to do with a certain political movement than Covid.
Yes, that pair of geniuses—Joe & Kammi—were asleep at the switch, & millions strolled in.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 17:43
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
What did end up paying for the rear brake service you needed?Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
Not in my industry.
This are low value examples. Google search results from scraping the internet are the best source of info to make decisions? Lol
We were recently told we needed new brake pads and I knew our minivan got all four new for $600. So when the guy said $500 for two rear ones on a much smaller vehicle I laughed
Meanwhile my city boy husband google AI searched it and it said it can cost $400-1000 so sounds good! No mention of car size, metro area, whatever.
Yeah! Fully informed! Got a range with five standard deviations from reality, here’s my money.
On car service, checking the internet has been great for me because I know nothing to begin with. So when they show me a list of things that need to be fixed, I can actually check what it means.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 17:24
Subject: Re:I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I dunno man. Covid brain damage is real. More so with multiple infections 🤯
Brain damage, damage to your heart and blood vessels. People that I know that had a few infections of covid all had blood clots and stokes and are only in their 40s/very early 50s this isn't normal.
Funny how it’s all blamed on Covid and not the proposed solution to Covid…which didn’t work anyway
People who weren't vaxxed likely have more covid cases including the OG one and Delta. It's a vasular disease not the sniffles.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 17:22
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Life hasn't always been as competitive as it is now. It's a by product of the easy access to information.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We made more in the market than we have lost to inflation. And people are still spending like there’s no tomorrow.
Good for you boomer. I was a new grad with almost nothing in the market when Covid happened
DP. Not a Boomer. Based on your post, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer person! I love this for you. Your whiny, negative attitude and lack of resiliency tells me you were always going to be poor and a loser.
COVID is hardly the worst or only bad thing that has happened, you just lack a knowledge of history and have a deep sense of entitlement. The Holocaust,WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the crash 1929…
Your post is 10x more whiney and entitled than the short and pertinent comment from pp so maybe take a good look in a mirror.
Explain how it’s whiny and entitled? Life has always been hard. I don’t expect anything different. You on the other hand…weak.
Do you remember when you might know a driving shortcut that no other cars used? Now everyone knows. Do you remember when you might know of a great sale, show up a little late but still find your size? Now everyone goes first day. Do you remember when you could book a great beach house in May, lol good luck with that now.
It's not just those. Back in the day only the people who really valued something were in on the best info about it. Now everyone who is vaguely interested has the same best inside tips. The result is less overall happiness because for everyone.
Not in my industry.
This are low value examples. Google search results from scraping the internet are the best source of info to make decisions? Lol
We were recently told we needed new brake pads and I knew our minivan got all four new for $600. So when the guy said $500 for two rear ones on a much smaller vehicle I laughed
Meanwhile my city boy husband google AI searched it and it said it can cost $400-1000 so sounds good! No mention of car size, metro area, whatever.
Yeah! Fully informed! Got a range with five standard deviations from reality, here’s my money.
Anonymous
02/23/2026 17:15
Subject: I hate how s*** the world became after Covid
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Shut up and stop whining. At least you’re still alive.
All it did was pull forward some deaths of SOME chronically unhealthy people. Plus jack up stimulus spending, stop educating kids for 12-24 mos, and create violence amongst people with nothing to do.
You fools conveniently forget about the OG covid in 2020. Nick Cordero was a DANCER and died after 95 days and an amputation. He wasn't obese, unfit. Children died on ventilators. Covid is a vascular disease.
And it’s still causing strokes in people who were fit, healthy, and young before they caught COVID multiple times. Colds don’t do that.
The flu can.
Remember how we were told there were negligible flu cases the year of Covid? And people believed that?