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I like that in the US, for at least two generations, sick days home from school were synonymous with watching Bob on The Price is Right.

Something about that is very satisfying to me.

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We might be the last generation with a largely shared monoculture. I don’t know if that is better or worse, but the future will be different.

Is church/temple out of the question too? Where do people go these days?

I'm an 80s kid, it feels like the end of the old world was around 2000, you could probably draw a line through 911 since really nothing has been the same since. I was 21 in 2001. I feel 90s kids are the last generation to have a decent childhood.

People still went out trick or treating, people still watched tv with commercials which I think made us slow down and talk about things more while we waited for the commercials to end. I love Netflix and chill as much as anybody else and I'm obsessed with AI but as I get older nostalgia hits harder and harder.

I'm not certain I love stranger things for the story or just the nostalgia it brings. Probably both, but I'll watch and probably enjoy anything set in the 80s, or 90s. There seemed to be a lot less political polarity and hatred between the left and right too. that was nice.

S.E. USA here, people still trick or treat, i get large amounts of kids each year.

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