What’s gotten much better over the years

[Meadow Skipper]

Coffee. Not the latte/frappe/mocha drinks (though I suppose those have improved) but the kind and quality of beans you can get and the consumer-level makers.

Did someone mention skis yet?

Radiant heating.

Wireless headphones.

Battery-powered tools.

[Timberridge]

The number of shills on TGR promoting ski brands. A decade ago this place was like walking down a Tokyo street full of titty bars.

[smartyiak]

Mountain bike are a tounsandty times better. Road bikes are better too, but not as much better as MTBs.


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[skifishbum]

You don't hang out in Utah much do you?

my og green jello oylmpic pins are gonna be bank when we gits the lympics again
and ice aint old hes seasoned
to the point of cant members
how to be iceman again

[schindlerpiste]

Civil rights for women and minorities. (Still a long way to go)
Luxuries available across the board, but especially to those willing to work for them.
Weed

[paulster2626]

Headphones/earbuds

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Well, cars.

edit: oh yeah and weed

Do you mean access to good weed? It hasn’t really gotten better since I started smoking, early ‘80s.


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[stealurface831]

Do you mean access to good weed? It hasn’t really gotten better since I started smoking, early ‘80s.


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isn't it common knowledge that THC concentrations have gone through the roof in the last few decades?

[MontuckyFried]

Coffee.

Truth. When I was a kid, seems like everybody drank Folgers and other such swill.

Battery-powered tools.

HUDGE leaps for sure. I'm still always blown away by how much life I get out of my Milwaukee batteries and how much power they can pump out. I've switched away from air tools for the most part and that kind of blows my mind. When you can use a wrench with 2000' lb-ft of torque and a battery that lasts all day out in the field, that's just.... wow!

[MagnificentUnicorn]

isn't it common knowledge that THC concentrations have gone through the roof in the last few decades?

The access to really potent weed has gotten better. While you can generalize that weed has gotten more potent there was plenty of people growing really potent weed 40 years ago and potency isn’t the only metric for quality. We weren’t all smoking brick weed in the ‘80s. They didn’t even start quantitative testing of weed until recently.



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[danmelon]

splitboards

[subtle plague]

Sex robots... ...I've heard from a friend.

[XXX-er]

Not so sure about appliances. Yes, maybe they have more features, but something like a fridge hasn't really come too far if you ask me and it doesn't really seem like they're any more reliable.

I could always fix them cuz they were simple but I'm not so sure anymore more features are just more things to break that I can't fix without n expensive serice came and replacement of an expensive assembley

[dtown]

Ice hockey--the speed and skill level have never been higher. Now if they could get rid of the fighting and cheap shots. (I'd rather watch international hockey--the wider rink makes for a more wide open game with less banging for the puck in the corners, and minimal fighting.)

This is 100% true, fighting is on its way out too.

Mentioned on a podcast last week but hard to argue Connor McDavid isn’t the most dominate star in any professional league right now. People will see that as ESPN has tv rights for next year and will be much more promoted.

Athletes in general are a lot better. Some of it aided by technology but also habits. 25 years ago guys were drinking and smoking in locker rooms, not so much anymore.

I’d say access to quality (not high end, just good eats) restaurants/ food has gotten a lot better. Seemed as a kid everything was the same bland options.


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[MontuckyFried]

I could always fix them cuz they were simple but I'm not so sure anymore more features are just more things to break that I can't fix without n expensive serice came and replacement of an expensive assembley

And much like cars, these days it seems like 9 times out of 10 the problem boils down to a prohibitively expensive and hard to obtain PCB or some little component on the board that's impossible to repair.

[RootSkier]

isn't it common knowledge that THC concentrations have gone through the roof in the last few decades?

No, this is generally considered false. There has always been good weed, it's just that NOBODY smokes ditch weed anymore.

[Danno]

availability of edible sushi

[tgapp]

+100 on coffee. The advent of real time data logging is almost completely responsible for the leaps and bounds quality increase we've seen in coffee over the past 10 years. Hard to understate just how big of a breakthru this is.

Middle and lower shelf whisk(e)y, craft beer, widely available organic produce, healthier food in general

Restaurants - 15 years ago it was all Olive Garden and Pizza Hut, now we have pretty damn good food available everywhere.

Climbing gear. Weather modeling. Cost of travel (AirBNB and cheaper airfare). Materials technology - across the board - from goretex to medical device implants to anything else.

Surgery techniques. I donated a kidney and I was working (while laying down) the same day, hiking two days after. Nerve blocks.

[Danno]

Re coffee, one of the things that has vastly improved is the floor. As in, shitty coffee has gotten much better. Gas station coffee used to be universally disgusting. Now, while it certainly isn't always good (occasionally it is), it is usually drinkable if you need a cup of coffee; it doesn't make you gag. That's a big win on road trips.

[dunfree]

Funny, Airbnb and the raising of the floor price for travel is one thing that’s gotten worse, IMO. Markets were way more inefficient, to both the bad and good.

[Not DJSapp]

Availability of good Mexican food. Absolutely no idea why anybody in the west would ever eat at taco bell ever. So many better choices at the same price point.

[54-46]

Cameras: phone, still, and video

Access to action sports coverage

On-demand entertainment (availability of streaming video/music)

[old_newguy]

Wolfram Alpha still amazes me.

[MontuckyFried]

Cameras: phone, still, and video

And for the price too! The level of easy performance you get for the money out of a Sony Alpha-series camera is just absurd!!! That's not the only example either. Now any noob like me can take stellar looking shots.

[AKbruin]

This will likely be an unpopular opinion in a forum of grumpy dotards, but, from what I've seen, kids are better. My kids and their friends are so much better than I and my friends were at their age. And I've seen articles about how, statistically, kids these days drink less, smoke less, get pregnant less, bully less, and commit fewer violent crimes than we, the children of the 70's, 80's, and 90's.