Tell me about references in older media lost on modern audiences

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

FreudianSlippers posted:

I can learn more than Socrates knew in his entire life in 15 minutes online

Is this intentional, or did you just get owned by Socrates?

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

You can't call yourself an archivist if you aren't chiseling ones and zeroes into stone tablets as we speak

# ¿ Mar 21, 2021 11:51

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

wesleywillis posted:

I'd say no memory card, but pretty much all dig cameras cone with at least a bit of internal memory

I guess this proves op's point.

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Joan posted:

Although I guess a lot of podcasters are comedians

Or rather it's what they want you to believe.

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

In South Philly they stopped street sweeping because people very very much didn't want to move their cars. However, there's lots and lots of trash everywhere. So they've been experimenting with a labor intensive street sweeping operation with crews using leaf blowers to clean the streets around the parked cars.

I though towing away the uncompliant cars for extra revenue from parking fines was a feature of street cleaning

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

American schools make no loving sense.

# ¿ May 15, 2021 19:33

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Outfit your polar expedition for the cost of a cup of coffee? You can't lose!

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Cobalt-60 posted:

People have been complaining that the Simpsons is no longer funny longer than they've been saying it was funny.

And they are right

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Cemetry Gator posted:

In terms of gen z and computers:

I've thing I think we all forget is how many Millennials and old people also aren't really good with computers. I think a big thing though was that a lot of us got taught computer literacy before college, where we learned about things like file folders and stuff like that.

But honestly, most software today just works and handles that for you. Outside of work, I almost never use file explorer since everything handles the file storage for me.

Lab equipment is generally not designed with usability in mind, so it requires you to do things that most software aimed at consumers does with no fuss

Yeah, there never was a computer literate generation, its merely that the vanishingly small fraction of people who understand at least a bit more than just basic user stuff used to be marginally less vanishing, maybe.

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

It always was a bit of a mindfuck that in American movies everybody appeared to sleep under just plain sheets with no stuffing, and nobody would comment on how unnatural and offputting it was.

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Why not just sleep in a sensory deprivation chamber in a vat of saline solution heated to perfectly mirror your body temperature

# ¿ Nov 20, 2021 12:25

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Cobalt-60 posted:

I thought leisure suits were one-piece; maybe I'm thinking of something else.

Are you thinking of Elvis-style jumpsuits?
https://www.elvisconcerts.com/jumpsuits/

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

wesleywillis posted:

I never liked the format of reddit.

It reminds me of message boards from the early 2000s. Or something like the old IMDB message boards. All the nested comments and whatnot.

It's youtube comment section, for things other than Youtube. With all the negatives that come with it, namely there's no community, and no possibility of even forming a community, as all interactions are by design ephemeral at best, transactional at worst.

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