ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @ MutilationWave @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You'll trade one day of one extra hour of sleep for increased misery all winter long?

I like em a little sour. I also eat the fur skin which grosses out my wife.

Right on, thanks for the story! This is later than I thought because when I think dialup internet, it was before laptops were really a thing. They existed but I don't think I ever saw one in person, just in catalogues.

They literally published project 2025 in it's entirety months before the election.

Soulseek is still going believe it or not. Fantastic service.

DeJoy. He is quitting or maybe already has by now. He was terrible. Should have been fired by Biden day one.

Might have had a tremor disorder. Might have been an alcoholic, I've been there before shaking so bad. My friend has essential tremor. It's actually had a big impact on his life and the way people perceive him.

Gonna need the story on that one. It reminds me of trying to teach my grandpa to use a mouse. Not his fault, he had a fifth grade education then went into the mines. This was all magic to him. So every time he wanted the cursor to go higher on the screen he'd lift the mouse in the air. We couldn't get past it- this motion on the horizontal plane becomes that motion on the vertical plane.

I'm sure I could teach a man like him now that I know how to teach. At the time I was an impatient young teen.

So your mom spent around $4500 in today's dollars for a standard computer set up of the time, then spent thousands more on an encyclopedia set because she wanted the computer crippled so you couldn't look at porn.

My god we humans are repressed.

An Encarta CD would have been a lot cheaper, just saying.

Ever seen an adult open Google Chrome, type in google, click the first link to www.google.com, then click the search bar on the page and begin to search? I have.

I've had similar experiences teaching zoomers basic shortcuts: ctrl-c, ctrl-v, alt-tab, ctrl-shift-esc. Makes me feel like a wizard. They might think I am a wizard.

It was really hard to process. I was about to turn 18. So I didn't know shit about shit, but I sure as shit thought I did.

A friend ran up to me in the hall when we were changing classes and says dude a plane just hit the world trade center. I started laughing, imagining some idiot in a cesna. He gave me an ugly look and walked away. I got to class and it was on the TV. Our amazing teacher was clearly in shock in retrospect, but she tried to guide us and we had a little discussion on terrorism and the US involvement in war in the middle east. We talked about how Bush was going to handle it.

We had only one conservative in class who was also loud out and proud gay. This was unusual for the time. He had a big personality but even he was quiet. I remember talking to a friend trying to estimate casualty numbers.

We watched the second plane hit and the towers fall live. Saw all the people jumping out the windows. The rest of the day is a blur. We got sent home early. I rode the bus home and watched live TV all night.

It's not owned by a corporation and doesn't sell your data or use it to feed an algorithm. So yeah I'd say it's a lot better.

In my state, which is extremely conservative, it is illegal to force a student to participate in the pledge. Most teachers are ignorant of this though so you have to bring it up when they try to make you do it. I haven't been in high school for well over 20 years though.

This was also the same time "In God We Trust" was added to all coins and paper money.

I had an amazing American Government and Politics teacher in senior year of high school, but I knew about her much earlier. She kept a file of print-outs of the section of State law which codified that no child could be forced to participate in the pledge. She was so awesome. I happened to just arrive at her class after the first plane hit on 9/11. I don't think there could have been a better place for me to be trying to make sense of that.

Incel culture has always existed it just didn't have a way out if its mom's basement without the internet.

Never seen a Ring doorbell?

You don't have an assorted cables drawer? I mean mine is a bucket in a cabinet but same thing really.

Smoking gives you a sense of doing something while doing nothing. And it's great. I've read that 90% of schizophrenics smoke.