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Bhodi posted:It happened again https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/961619337936125952
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lancemantis posted:My mom attended a 1 room schoolhouse until maybe high school or so my mom was born in 1950 and her family had an outhouse when she was a kid. they lived within city limits too. when i was a kid, around 1983 or so, we lived on a dirt road. our telephone was on a party line.
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lancemantis posted:My mom attended a 1 room schoolhouse until maybe high school or so there's nothing particularly bad about a one room schoolhouse President Beep posted:my mom was born in 1950 and her family had an outhouse when she was a kid. they lived within city limits too. my grandma's phone line was still a party line up until 2002 or so when FIOS got installed, but the other homes on the line had been given their own phone numbers long before, like by the late 70s. but since it was still in the system as a party line it saved a surprisingly big amount on the phone bill
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President Beep posted:when i was a kid, around 1983 or so, we lived on a dirt road living on a dirt road, yes, clearly a marker of a thing. especially in one of the geographically-largest countries on the planet
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Lutha Mahtin posted:living on a dirt road, yes, clearly a marker of a thing. especially in one of the geographically-largest countries on the planet that was primarily to set the context for why we had a party line—ie we were out in the sticks. e: i do deffo see how my post could be read like that though. President Beep fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Feb 9, 2018 |
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flakeloaf posted:cape breton? me? no, a far more magical place: southern Michigan, about six miles north of the indiana border. 
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the thing about party lines is they were very common in straight up suburban and even some urban areas, because upgrading telephone exchanges to get a whole separate line could take a lot longer, but you could be patched into party lines very shortly after move-in, as well as costing less money per month
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fishmech posted:the thing about party lines is they were very common in straight up suburban and even some urban areas, because upgrading telephone exchanges to get a whole separate line could take a lot longer, but you could be patched into party lines very shortly after move-in, as well as costing less money per month is it just me, or is mankind’s communications infrastructure in general still jankity as gently caress.
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Jonny 290 posted:reminds you gently to go the f to sleep and keeps track of sleep/wake (it assumes you go to bed on time, but will mark your 'end of sleep' as when you start fuckin with your phone in the AM) a fitbit does this automatically and accurately ate all the Oreos posted:i'm not saying it to be judgey i'm saying it's weird that you're apparently from a backwards dimension where people wake up in the morning and then proceed to sleep backwards in time until an alarm goes off to put them to sleep having crippling ADHD makes it extremely difficult to remember go to bed in time to get a proper amount of sleep, so thanks for that I suppose
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dc3k posted:it's made by californians and reacts like californians. OH MY GOD, WE'RE SURROUNDED BY SNOW EVERYBODY FREAK OUT can you imagine the street value of this mountain alone?!
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i drove on a cape breton dirt road yesterday ama
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i drove on a cape breton dirt road yesterday ama This is code for anal, I take it?
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nope dead serious. got one of the last flights out of halifax before the weather closed in.
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i think it bears stating that millennials are woefully undereducated compared to previous generations, and it's only getting worse a portion of it can be chalked up to public school budgets being slashed by gen x childfrees/conservatives who don't understand why they should fund other people's kids, but it's mainly a pervasive attitude of incuriousness fueled by not needing to know things because of the internet basically the death of expertise is directly leading to the death of education and it's truly scary to see
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Feb 9, 2018 03:48
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yep, and getting wronger all the time no reason to learn anything if you can just pull up a patently false web page on your phone any time you need to
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rjmccall posted:oh poo poo, companies employ people to do labor, let me go update the world's economic models, nobody had any idea im glad you've finally come around on the need for global communism friend
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:don’t encourage him
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Stymie posted:no reason to learn anything if you can just pull up a patently false web page on your phone any time you need to but enough about the weather forecast! hey-o!
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President Beep posted:is it just me, or is mankind’s communications infrastructure in general still jankity as gently caress. Does this include email and texting and twitter (because the answer is still yes.)
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Chris Knight posted:can you imagine the street value of this mountain alone?!
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Stymie posted:i think it bears stating that millennials are woefully undereducated compared to previous generations, and it's only getting worse you are thinking of the generation after millenials, namaste
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NUMTOT is proof that's false
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atomicthumbs posted:NUMTOT is proof that's false  
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fishmech posted:you are thinking of the generation after millenials, namaste nope, i'm definitely thinking of millennials, their kids are an entirely different kettle of fish millennials are the product of the ravaging of public education and the rise of the internet eradicating both modern education and journalism which makes them the perfect implement for gen x to wreck the government and society baby boomers handed gen x a economy rich with wealth and opportunity and they're busy hoarding it while shunting the blame onto boomers for the failures gen x engineered to be fair, gen x is and remains the real problem, but millennials are still dangerously uneducated which doesn't bode will for the generations following
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fishmech posted:the thing about party lines is they were very common in straight up suburban and even some urban areas, because upgrading telephone exchanges to get a whole separate line could take a lot longer, but you could be patched into party lines very shortly after move-in, as well as costing less money per month our cabin still has a party line with one other person on it. still works just like it always did. two short rings is ours, one long one is theresa. i wonder how rare they are in tyool 2018
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Stymie posted:nope, i'm definitely thinking of millennials, their kids are an entirely different kettle of fish The next generation isn't the kids of millennials except the very oldest. They're millennials younger cousins or siblings. Their parents are mostly gen x
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fishmech posted:The next generation isn't the kids of millennials except the very oldest. They're millennials younger cousins or siblings. Their parents are mostly gen x oh cool thanks for this distinction without a difference, really clears things up
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Stymie posted:nope, i'm definitely thinking of millennials, their kids are an entirely different kettle of fish i don't think gen x was really in charge of things during the 80s, that strikes me as like blaming millennials for the invasion of iraq
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Stymie posted:oh cool thanks for this distinction without a difference, really clears things up It's a pretty big difference
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so you’re saying stymie made a bad post? I guess Theresa first time for everything!
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Yup, the first generation of kids in the US in a century without lead poisoning and literally the sum of human knowledge in their hands is actually very dumb compared to their parents. Go drink some hemlock old man.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i don't think gen x was really in charge of things during the 80s, that strikes me as like blaming millennials for the invasion of iraq yeah going by my old-rear end parents the boomers had actual power from like, 70's to mid-late 80's, then gen-x had it from 90's thru the 00's, and now the 10's and 20's are millennials time to shine and boy what a great job we're doing so far
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Greatbacon posted:Yup, the first generation of kids in the US in a century without lead poisoning and literally the sum of human knowledge in their hands is actually very dumb compared to their parents. i mean it's the sum of human knowledge plus the sum of human stupidity and it's all wrapped up and marketed in a way where most people can't really tell them apart
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Sagebrush posted:our cabin still has a party line with one other person on it. still works just like it always did. two short rings is ours, one long one is theresa. this suddenly makes me think of a time where I misdialed a number, got some weird operator that picked up and told me to hold a second while they completed my call, waited through a few more rings to discover that the person that picked up was not who I was trying to reach I wish I still had that number so I could figure out exactly where I called
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ate all the Oreos posted:yeah going by my old-rear end parents the boomers had actual power from like, 70's to mid-late 80's, then gen-x had it from 90's thru the 00's, and now the 10's and 20's are millennials time to shine Boomers were 8 to 25 years old in 1970. You don't even have them all past high school age until 1980, let alone having settled into ages where they vote en masse. When this site, a creation of Gen Xers, was created over 18 years ago, there was still Gen X kids in high school, and plenty still in college - and there's yet to be a gen x president or anything like that. Gen x is basically just getting settled into things still.
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ate all the Oreos posted:the sum of human knowledge what an age we live in! ate all the Oreos posted:plus the sum of human stupidity 
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