Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

yeah. good thing we got that womens liberation in the early 1900's! we should of stopped there. look at these magazine cut out from the 50's and 60's when women were truly free and the world made sense.

Electricity and indoor plumbing man, I’m telling you they’re gonna be big.

maybe avoid the computer. who knows if typing can be harmful to the female body. plus if you don't have the laundry done your husband will give you a spanking when you get home.

also my favorite thing is in like the 1850s when trains were starting to go faster people wanted to keep women from riding them. they claimed that women's bodies couldn't withstand such speed and their uterus would be sucked right out.

/salute

Depends on the race.

yeah i bet it does

But then again, my parents and grandparents listened to a ventriloquist on the radio ...

Soooooooooooo. reallyreallylongathon 5 started today. Thought it was supposed to start the 4th...

Anyway. 3 solid weeks of long games speedran.
https://oengus.io/marathon/RRLOL2/schedule
https://www.twitch.tv/reallyreallylongathon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/unopened-super-mario-bros-game-from-1986-sells-for-660-000/ar-BB1ffzUG

Next you'll tell us they had to watch their black and white TVs by candle light :P

I think the most alarming change I have lived through has been being able to order an item internationally and have it show up on my doorstep within a few days.

Depending on the post, I can watch its epic journey as it goes back and forth, like why did that package start out in Kentucky, then go all the way to Guam to come back to me in Georgia?

The things we use the internet for in this regard have expanded so much, every time I get a package from Amazon I joke, "Praise be to Overlord Bezos."

Other than that, tapes to discs to digital drives.

We have so many things on demand. Fruit from the tropics at all times of year, a whole world away.

We went from bringing road atlases with us on trips to google maps to GPS.

The depth of our world blows my mind. I've been spelunking in total darkness, save for head lamp, and then that same day I traveled to another city to the top of a skyscraper and talked with someone on another continent an ocean away.

It's hard to believe the two situations exist on the same world for the same person. I get this sort of mental whiplash a lot, these days.

My Dad describes it too. He was born in 1949, and he often goes on about not growing up with a TV, growing up listening to the radio. Going from Black and White to color. The end of segregation, though he never mentions the moon landing.

He makes fun of the time his Army command got a bunch of computers and put them to work typing out their work instead of writing it out by hand or on typewriters. He fondly recalls the entire computer lab getting fried by a massive thunderstorm caused electric surge.

Up into the modern day. His civilian job at Lockheed. His problems with the ever increasing modernity of computers.

Humanity's sure been on a wild ride.

I just started in an IT department and its mindblowing how much to catch up in terms of knowledge.

Back last year i was still in that mentality that if i want a product, i just need to by CD/DVD/license, plug it in the PC and its good to go.

But now, enterprises changed so much the paradigms. Now, everyone have access to the technology in the form of open source, in someone git repository. But, as its given a complex solution, now software companies sell not the technology but the semi-user friendly interface. The technology keeps popping everywhere inside the concept of community, suposelly free. You just need to pay for someone to actually read the documentation and decipher it for you, and hopefully he can put it all running on your server where you hope you can just treat it like a hidden box.

Though that sums up the concept of changing from the information society to the knowledge society.

We are past the era where the most developed groups were those with information.

Now, as everyone have them, the ones in the top of the pyramid gonna be those who can dig the meaningful information out of this pile of junk and process it. Be it connecting one meaningful info to others meaningful infos, or giving it a new PoV, or bringing it to real life.

negan in

Made a third char in XI (I'm one of the scum sucking multi boxers that everyone hates now apparently) and she's coming along quickly. Crazy how convenient unity warps and survival logs are for new characters. Already almost lv99 with good mission progress on day 1.5

The darkness has taken you!

Just remember to start your Voidstone timer by talking to one of the NPCs and getting your first Abyssite thinger when you hit 75.

Timegates are the only thing this has holding anyone back in anything really.

A new waifu is born.

The united nations has demanded (and got) microsoft and amazon to stop using default female voices in their AI products because it promotes the idea that women are subservient.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/soon-siri-wont-default-to-a-female-voice-anymore-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal-11617294792?mod=hp_minor_pos21

People that push agendas like that don't even know how to use the three seashells.