It’s Nice To Think About For Sure. Believe Me, I Have Been. But Maybe This World Is What We Make It.

Just thought it was an interesting song

I wish I knew people my age out here.

You might like folk punk

inventing new genre of music blending ska and punk. calling it skunk. primary instrument is a trashcan

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

I was carrying around a camera and 2 teens asked me to photograph them. I was like ok but how do you want to get the file from me. And they were like “?” “It doesn’t print?”

It’s a Canon Rebel T6i it doesn’t remotely resemble any printing or instant development film camera I’ve ever seen.

This was the stance taken by my 10th grade history teacher after making us read Hiroshima by John Hersey.

yeah the cold war created thousands of nuclear weapons and killed millions in proxy wars but it also gave us wd-40 so it's impossible to tell if it's bad or not

My experience with my autoimmune disease. Quite literally what my first doctor’s medical opinion was.

“Hmm your body is still eating itself, that’s not great. Anyway come back in 6 months 👍”

Doctors are like: ughhhhh. You're confusing. Come back if you die

No trespassing signs are optional actually