Despite all her alligator tears and performative wordplay attempting an about-face, there isn’t one single shred of work she can point to that shows she was on the right side of things. Not one vote, not a single bill, nothing.

They’re conveneint to charge you with.

I don’t really have an issue with that, a little nostalgia is ok. The stuff that does bug me is friendships that have disappeared. Whether just by distance and time or because the people in it have changed so much that you can’t really relate well anymore.

Externalizing their “alpha” BS.

One of the worst things about those routers other than having generally poor coverage despite looking like a Crown of Thorns was that if you actually took advantage of the more advanced features like VLANs, port forwarding, static routes, FTP and all that stuff and set it up… It inevitably seemed that there was a 99% chance that a firmware update would not allow you to restore a backup of the router config on the updated device!

That happened a couple times, spent days getting everything set up only to find out the firmware update refused to load a config made with an older version. F that. Never used those routers again.

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Add: “The Way We Never Were” by Stephanie Coontz.

While she deals more specifically with society in the US she also covers things like how people didn’t really have or use money in society. Money was what rich people used, the rest of everyone traded and bartered work and goods for what they needed.

Wat’chu talkin’ ‘bout, Willis?

What sheltered world did this guy come up in? The list of sounds we used in daily life or quotes from entertainment as Gen X was endless. Everything from “Ruh roh Raggie” to the “arr arrr arrr” from Tim Allen’s character or various Beavis and Butthead references were never too far away. “Book 'em, Danno” an even older reference comes to mind.

(However, in professional settings this should be avoided. Standard chatter with familiar people in the office you can get away with it)

Dude needs to grow up and remember to be young.

Eh, it’s not the social battery at this point that is the issue. Even if the battery were good, the people all meandering unpredictably and too slowly would be frustrating AF.

Limits on wealth.

This is awful. Looks like what AI would produce.

That too, but I’ve ordered from Aliexpress and other than the long shipping time I had to wait in order to cut out the Amazon middle man the product worked just fine and was as described. It appeared to be the same thing as what was being offered online elsewhere in the US. But yeah, it’s roulette. You never know if you’re actually going to get a decent product.

The thing is that it’s going to be consumer “Amazon-grade” products that are like this. There’s tons of stuff made in China that goes unseen, from automotive electronics to power grid components that lasts for a good service life and may not fail until damaged by an outside problem.

Well, if the Greeks had had climate change they might’ve been right.

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Tyvm!

“I’m Spartacus!”