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  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • To counteract all the rose colored glasses looking back decades and the doom and gloom now …….

    We also had the Cold War. Mutually Assured Destruction. And you never knew whether anyone would be M.A.D. Enough to end the world. Later on we found out they were, and at least one time the world didn’t end because of a Russian specialist disobeying launch orders

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  • Most of what you said was true for me as well. However I wasn’t able to provide that for my kids. Part of it is personal electronics, part societal as it is frowned on, but also economic since I have to live where the jobs are and that is not where the land is.

    And I’m reminded just last week: ticks. We’re were out in the woods all the time and rarely worried about ticks. Now my kid gets one playing frisbee

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  • Maybe, but the usual survival strategy in sci-fi is a diaspora. If we had multiple homes, a disaster is less likely to hit all at once.

    I don’t know if such a thing will ever be doable, but it is a worthwhile goal to work toward

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  • I am kinda annoyed with stores being allowed to not accept cash nowadays.

    I’m more annoyed they’re not required to accept something electronic. I almost never carry cash anymore.

    • electronic works any time, anywhere
    • electronic works for any currency
    • electronic immediately updates your account, compared to checks where you had to track pending purchases

    Yes it means I can’t be anonymous, yes it makes it too easy to spend money I can’t afford. But the advantages really make up for the disadvantages (at least for me)

    Either way, fees have gotten out of hand. If I need cash, I need to pay $3-$6 to get access to my money and save the bank from having to pay more tellers. But the rise of higher credit card fees is more annoying these days. I know the blame is usually put on rewards cards and agree that’s all a bit of a scam that needs to be pulled back, but part of it also is now we’re locked into using it

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  • Ready access to the facts is a huge loss. These conversations used to drive a lot of social interactions that no longer exist.

    Realistically is it more important that we know who played a certain character in a movie or that we had a a group of friends spending time together discussing it?

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  • It’s so weird too. I also buy preshredded cheese but it is noticeably less good and shredding isn’t that difficult so I don’t understand it.

    I mean now that I need a bit of shredded cheese to get my dog to eat, I’m not dirtying a grater every meal for a small biteful

    Similar to pre-shredded lettuce. I do buy it and it does help me eat it more frequently, but buying a head would be much cheaper and better, and it’s not like shredding it is time consuming. I don’t understand it

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  • There were a lot of parallels to today, where there was increased awareness of problems and a large societal movement to fix them

    Some of the most fundamental changes from back then had lasting effects, but the broader movement seemed to fade after the successes

    Today we are living in the backlash, where regressives are rolling back the fixes, even the fixes from back then. I’m not just depressed with them fighting EVs and renewables from this time period, but them fighting the clean air act and clean water act that were the centerpiece of the earlier mivement

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  • The problem is it isn’t usually fresh. At the time I didn’t mind that so much either but the lingering smell of stale smoke and ash tray over clothes, hair, buildings, was always a problem.

    Now that we don’t live with the constant stench, I realize even fresh smoke was never good. It was only less bad than the stale lingering stench and we didn’t have clean air to compare to

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  • Lived through this world

    • my grandparents were on a party line for ast my college graduation
    • my parents built their house when AT&T started being opened up, so it was a new thing that we had many phone jacks throughout the house without having to pay them
    • my parents had a single phone line, shared among multiple phones and dialup
    • in the 80s I started knowing people with multiple phone lines, for dialup and voice.
    • about 1990 I got my own ISDN connection for high speed internet (arguably before internet existed) so I didn’t have to block my voice line

    To be complete, dsl in the late 90s, then fiber in early 00s, gigabit fiber in 2020

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  • I graduated in 1988, in a blue state.

    I saw things go from smoking everywhere, to there being non-smoking sections, to eventually no smoking inside

    While there were still way too many smokers, they were already becoming less common. I saw smoking go from something the “cool kids” did, to individuals saying “come on out with me for a smoke so I’m not alone”

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  • Pollution was really bad

    1970-1980’s was the first environmental movement. We were all excited to change the world. Some of the worst cases of pollution were because people finally cared enough to find them. Some things didn’t work and something’s had backtracking

    This was the era of huge successes like the clean air act, clean water act, and bottle deposit laws! Superfund cleanup for the worst of the worst.

    Cars were more unsafe

    Car safety was becoming a concern and we started doing something about it

    Air travel was crazy expensive

    But also the rise of discount airlines

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  • Same here. When we weren’t outside in the yard or the pool, we were out in the woods.

    My parents installed a large bell that my Mom could ring for dinner time, that we could hear from far away.

    The only time my parents objected was when we described the fort that some neighbor kids had built, “you know they stole that material from our house under construction, right?”

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  • let’s say, I have one day, a week or a month left to live suffering from an illness,

    A big problem with this line of thinking is that in real life you rarely know this, especially while remaining aware enough to commit to such a plan. It’s just a prognosis, based on averages.

    or I know that after a while I’m going to have a heart attack that will definitely kill me.

    1. You want to give up your remaining time because a heart attack is in your future? Usually you can reduce the chances with diet, exercise and medication.
    2. For many heart attacks, survivability is directly related to how quickly you get medical attention.

    Generalizing this back to what I believe is the goal of your question, it’s rarely certain or predictable. When it is, you may already be too far gone to make such choices (hence legal documents like DNR)

  • Thai Peanut Chicken Noodles

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  • This may not be just a joke. Since I was divorced several years ago, I’ve been enjoying making new foods in new and interesting ways. However my kids are in college and it’s tough to keep the interest/motivation without a regular set of customers. I’ve been seriously considering try to find or start some sort of dinner club

  • Thai Peanut Chicken Noodles

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  • Smoked salmon Benny

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  • Never actually made a benny of any variation. I should

  • A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance

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  • No salary, and the stock value is contingent on the company meeting some ambitious goals over 10 years.

    Unfortunately the article doesn’t say what happens if they don’t nor is it comparing to anything: are those goals as ambitious as they look when we’re talking 10 years? I don’t know

    If you argue that musk’s talent is a reality distortion field creating bubbles, it has historically panned out pretty well. The original Tesla bubble was the reason they were able to grow fast enough to be where they are today

    …. Personally I’m skeptical of most ai businesses surviving when that bubble pops, and I’m very skeptical of their being a market for a million humanoid robots that cost as much as a car

  • Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

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  • Moving to Nebraska is a pretty high cost for trying to improve the life expectancy of people who don’t want that

  • Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store

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  • I’m not sure what entirely trying to say here …. At least then the dog would take the idiot out of the gene pool?

    But seriously, this is exactly the reason people shouldn’t be allowed to carry weapons. They are more likely to harm or kill innocent people, more likely to escalate violence, than they are to defend themselves from inescapable violence. I get that many people claim the right, and have a foundational document to support it, but what about the victims?