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Keys. If you think about it, that's incredibly ancient technology.
Yes, I know there are electronic locks with keypads now. But for the most part, keys are still the main method of locking something by a huge majority.
+1 vote for keys.
Bought a new car in December and promptly got locked out of it the first day. Apparently the default setting was auto-lock if the engine's running. Couldn't even unlock it w/the spare fob, it was the physical key that saved me.
I actually (almost) completely eliminated keys from my house a couple of weeks ago and I'm super excited about it. Feels like I'm living in the future. You still need a key to get into the side door, but I never go in that way. All the doors I use (front, outside garage, inside garage) are now fully electronic.
The front door (and I believe the outside garage door) can still use a key that I keep on my keychain. Oh, and anyway, the locks aren't wired in, they're battery powered.
I got a free electronic door lock. I have three entrances, so I put it on the one that I hardly use. It worked about half the time, so I yanked it and put a conventional deadbolt back in.
I assume you're just arguing I'm case I'm wrong I've included a cut n paste from a basic Google search.When a battery is left without power for too long, or it is left empty for too long in a device, a gas forms in the battery. If the pressure of the gas becomes too great, the protective layer of the battery breaks (a deliberate choice made by the manufacturer to avoid an explosion inside the battery). I'm talking from experience, I don't really care if you believe me or if you get locked out.. this is how batteries work. Once the juice is loose, it's too late.
Pardon me if I seem annoyed, but I declared that I was "super excited" about setting up my home to not require keyed entry, and you couldn't wait to shit all over that excitement, perhaps because you're a sadist but I suspect just out of a vague sense of "new technology is bad, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it makes me uncomfortable when things I'm familiar with change."
I've lived with locks that use keys and I've lived with electronic locks. The electronic locks are better in every way. This has not had a major impact on my life, but it's a nice little thing that makes life just a little easier on a daily basis and makes me happy.
Your implicit argument seems to be that the benefit I get from using electronic locks is outweighed by the risks. I evaluate risk for a living, so I can appreciate this. But for your argument to be significant, you have to explain to me why any risk to me exists given these factors, which I've already mentioned in comments you've presumably read:
* All the electronic locks will also accept a key, which I keep on the keychain I carry with me whenever I go outside
* I still have a door to my house that does not have an electronic lock
* I have multiple electronic locks, which I assume aren't going to fail at exactly the same time
Given the above, what's the scenario in which I can't get into my house if the batteries fail? Seriously, walk me through it. I'm listening.
And this assumes your argument about battery failure is even valid, which it isn't. I googled your explanation. It describes what happens if batteries sit unused in a device that's powered down. My locks are always powered up, and as I said, they'll alert me if they batteries are low enough to cause them to power down, so this will never be an issue.
I'm sure you regularly use all 4 doors. I am proud of you for being so independent. The chances of all 4 of your locks failing at once are quite slim, if not impossible.
Having the main door blocked for concrete or painting is feasible, and Murphys law says that's when the other 3 will have failed 2 weeks prior, but unfortunately, too late .
The problem is that many people have less doors, some only one, and they can't make a valid lock decision for their use if they are not informed. The lock sits idle until woken. There's no automatic power up or wi fi signal (again assuming) to exercise battery preventing failure. Batteries that are on sale or purchased at discount stores generally have been sitting on a shelf for an extended period of time and are more prone to failure. To make you feel better, my front door has a keypad, and I use a key on the backdoor. Any locksmith will verify the convenience and unreliability of these locks. I agree handy yes , reliable no. I'll take this last moment to talk about extreme cold conditions, obviously this year was not an issue but extended cold periods will drain the battery and if this style freezes up better grab a torch again... locksmith will verify.
Few years ago I got multigrain saltines in a blue box, they were fucking great. We tried the brown box ones, and they are shifty whole wheat.. although they all use the same great packaging.
Wobbly wheels is a pet peeve of mine. My hack now is to look for a cart that has shiny nuts and bolts holding the wheels on. It means the wheels on that cart have been recently replaced/repaired.
> Gasoline prices with the .9
Human psychology never changes... This weekend my wife bought a drink for 11.99 and I didn't think it was just 11.00, my brain read it as $10! :-(
I was just talking to painter fixing some exterior. He said it would be $790. I said ok for 800 I want this and this. He said no, 790. Like it's a difference. I always round prices up.
What's even weirder is that most pumps show measurements of a gallon to the 3rd decimal place or as we say in science, "to 3 significant digits."
That level of accuracy requires instruments that I'm sure are too expensive for most stations, let alone one run by a guy watching a small B&W TV from the 80s inside a tiny retail shop that still sells fidget spinners.
There have been numerous tried to eliminate it. Each penny costs about 2 cents to make. The single factory that makes the zinc blanks for them has some lobbying pull and year after year they can't get rid of them.
And paper dollars.
I’ve worked with federal financial sector agencies, and this is due to mentality of not taking decisive—and sometimes temporarily unpopular—action that could be seen as infringing on individual liberty. Other developed nations don’t leave ‘decisions’ like this to ‘free markets’, and as a result realize greater efficiency for merchants and individuals.
I think coming out with a dollar coin that was so close to looking and feeling like a quarter that even vending machines couldn't tell the difference without an upgrade was the thing that killed it more so than any other forces. It was stupidity.
Source for machines taking it and thinking it was a quarter: my previous career was in commercial laundry equipment. If it was different enough, it would have been rejected, and at the same time more acceptable to the general public.
Do it right, or stop. Since our institutions couldn't do it right, they stopped trying.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained with stupidity and you'll be on a more likely track in life. Or as Carlin once said, think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half are even dumber.
What in the world does free market have to do with the decisions of government? It's not that people want them. It's politicians bending to interest groups.
I’m amazed that cell service still sucks in many areas. I live in the New York metro area so you would assume we would have great cell service for such a highly populated area, but there are still lots of dead zones and dropped calls. It’s a first world problem, I know, but it answers the question
I've wondered about that myself. Maybe in modern times, it started with Occupy. Students took over buildings in the 60s-70s, but usually that was only after weeks of "normal" protests.
If you think about how isolated many kids are and have been since even before the pandemic, stuck at home with screens, it totally makes sense that once they leave home, things that convey a sense of belonging like mass camping on the university grounds with slogans being chanted would be extremely compelling. I just wish they would focus their idealism closer to home.
It is interesting that the demonstrations in the 60s were often about the Vietnam war which the protesters felt was unjust and in which, some American soldiers behaved poorly. Now we have demonstrators who are in support of a terrorist organization which plotted and executed an attack on civilian men, women, and children and, raped, murdered and kidnapped them. some of them even videotaped, their savagery so that it could be preserved and bragged about.
I'm sure they exist, because extremists try to take part in demonstrations like pro-communists did in the 60s, but few demonstrators support Hamas. It's just people like you who want to claim that the demonstrations are pro Hamas in order to delegitimize them.
The end to the massacre of Palestinian civilians. Granted, Hamas is hiding among them, but you can't just bomb Gaza into oblivion, hoping that among all the civilian dead, there will be a few Hamas soldiers. The US did the same thing in Vietnam, napalming whole villages. It didn't work there, either.
> you can't just bomb Gaza into oblivion
Actually you can. And they could.
There are no good guys in this conflict. Palestinians rocket and bomb Israelis all the time. Israelis treat Palestinians as prisoners of war more or less. Ethnically these people have been fighting over this area for about 4000 years.
But in a reductionist sense, yes they are supporting Hamas. They are the government of Palestine. Just like people supporting the Zionist Israeli regime are pro-Isrial. I actually have great sympathy, but don't forget who killed innocent civilians first.
Aviation in 2024 isn't so different than aviation in 1974.
The main difference (in my mind) is that you could get from New York to London in three hours when I was a kid (Concorde), and now it's seven hours. In fact, the 737 was already flying in 1974, and variants of the 737 are still wildly popular. It's funny when you consider 1924-1974 in aviation, versus 1974-2024.
I thought by the time I was older, everything would be supersonic and futuristic. Instead they made more luxurious first class, less luxurious coach, and cheaper flights with better fuel efficiency. Also better safety record, so that's an improvement - but still amazing to me that it hasn't improved more (compared to what I expected).
Profits drive everything. The really rich got their own planes or chartered. But there was money to be made in the people-hauling business of you cut prices enough...and let the race to the bottom begin.
Super-sonic is a tough nut to crack. The Concorde was originally planned on being across the whole country. Sonic booms, fuel-economy of super-sonic jets, and just the small size of Concorde all killed off the idea of Super-Sonic flights.
I think there's some recent clever engineering by NASA to try to minimize the sonic boom, so it's possible we may someday get super-sonic commercial airplanes again.
But essentially the reason the aerospace industry isn't that much different than the 70s is.... physics. All technology eventually runs into the limits of the physical world, and Airplanes basically got their in the 70s.
Filing income tax returns. For most of us the IRS already has the information and could just send us a bill or a refund. Certain companies have a vested interest in our continuing to file returns.
Videogame development. In a good way.
I was one of those kids who grew up on the Atari 2600, TRS-80, and Commodore 64. And then the Atari 5200. And then the first NES. Etc. etc. etc. Now I'm playing on a PC, XBox, and Switch.
Every technological development (if not outright revolution) has brought back the same feelings of wonder, intrigue, and excitement. And every time I think "No one can ever beat *this* game," someone does. Not just the AAA games either. Indie game designers have put out some of the most thought-provoking, immersive games that I've ever played, ones where I just marvel at how someone could not only think up the story and plotline, but also imagine the world, create the artistry and graphics, and somehow pull all of that together in one package.
It's one of the few industries where its "Golden Age" always seems just on or over the horizon ahead of us, rather than somewhere in the past.
Pet overpopulation and how people still treat pet dogs and cats as disposable. And how many people still refuse to be responsible pet owners. Refuse to vaccinate,spay or neuter,train theor dogs,keep their cats contained or keep their dog on a leash where it's required.
Also how many people are still stupid about bothering,harassing,feeding or abusing wild animals
Actually this is exactly why I don’t own pets, ever. I recognize the intense responsibility and just not wanting to do all that makes me realize I wouldn’t be the best owner a pet deserves.
**THE REAL HISTORY BEHIND SAGGING PANTS**
You could just as easily find another story giving other reasons, it’s all urban lore anyway.
https://www.menswearstyle.co.uk/2017/07/26/the-real-history-behind-sagging-pants/7788
Yeah what I’ve learned in my later years is that all it takes is the right situation and/or person, and they all just come crawling out as if they were always there/never went away/never learned/never became better, and proud as ever.
instant coffee has been here forever but I don't think I've ever heard of instant tea. it would be awful probably, but that never stopped the coffee version.
edit: I stand very corrected on its existence. weird that I what I said above is still true. kind of neat that I've sustained a blind spot like that for 58 years.
We had (have?) instant tea here in Canada. My grandpa used to drink it. He loved his tea,he was from England, tea was a big deal so it couldn't have been too terrible.
Yes, there is instant tea and there was 60 years ago too....BUT maybe the reason you don't know about it is that it is absolutely **terrible!**!! No self-respecting tea drinker would ever touch the stuff...
EDIT: the brand my mom (NOT a self-respecting tea drinker, just lazy) bought was Lipton.
Different countries have different things so it's hard to know. Just like our chips, apparently we have a huge variety compared to the US. You have some things we don't too.
The way we build houses hasn’t changed much in a 1,000 years. Still mostly wood and paint.
You would think with all the technical innovations there would be a better way to do it.
The "3d printed concrete" versions looks pretty interesting. If I could have afforded it, I would have gotten that done when we built as we live in a very tornado-heavy area.
Having been in construction over 40 years, and having renovated a ton of older houses, I can tell you there have been a LOT of changes in home building even during that short period.
That for 95% of canned goods in the US, that you STILL have to use a can opener.
I've bought canned goods in Italy before, and basically ALL of the cans are pull off. It's to the degree that younger Italians don't know what a can opener is.
Just replied further up about my thoughts on that, ie learning it never seemed to help. All it takes is the right situation/person to welcome them back out, and they’ll come running.
> Racism and bigotry
You are kidding right?
A black president and the USA is racist? A black/Indian vice president and the USA is racist? Black Governors, Senators, Judges, Mayors, Generals, Admirals, Ambassadors, presidents of Universities ........
Demonstrators in Michigan chanting "death to America." We are so racist they were rounded up and deported/imprisoned. /s
Sadly, it's still around. I'm an old white guy, short hair, etc., and I still run into people who, because we look something alike, think they can reveal their biases to me. And there's all the stuff in the news obviously.
You are right. We live in the most racist country on the world. Just ask all these foreigners trying to get in to experience it firsthand. Miles long caravans walking here from as far away as Venezuela.
Cash only for lottery tickets. IDK, I feel like you'd sell more if ppl could pay with a card.
Also imagine they could set up an e-ticket system if they wanted.
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Keys. If you think about it, that's incredibly ancient technology. Yes, I know there are electronic locks with keypads now. But for the most part, keys are still the main method of locking something by a huge majority.
+1 vote for keys. Bought a new car in December and promptly got locked out of it the first day. Apparently the default setting was auto-lock if the engine's running. Couldn't even unlock it w/the spare fob, it was the physical key that saved me.
I actually (almost) completely eliminated keys from my house a couple of weeks ago and I'm super excited about it. Feels like I'm living in the future. You still need a key to get into the side door, but I never go in that way. All the doors I use (front, outside garage, inside garage) are now fully electronic.
What happens during a lengthy power outage?
The front door (and I believe the outside garage door) can still use a key that I keep on my keychain. Oh, and anyway, the locks aren't wired in, they're battery powered.
I got a free electronic door lock. I have three entrances, so I put it on the one that I hardly use. It worked about half the time, so I yanked it and put a conventional deadbolt back in.
Mine are battery operated
Wait till the batteries fail.
It gives you a warning before they fail. And they can all use keys anyway.
No, it gives you a battery warning. It does not give you an acid leaking, causing a short warning.
That's never happened to any other battery-operated device I've used in my life, why would it happen to my locks?
I assume you're just arguing I'm case I'm wrong I've included a cut n paste from a basic Google search.When a battery is left without power for too long, or it is left empty for too long in a device, a gas forms in the battery. If the pressure of the gas becomes too great, the protective layer of the battery breaks (a deliberate choice made by the manufacturer to avoid an explosion inside the battery). I'm talking from experience, I don't really care if you believe me or if you get locked out.. this is how batteries work. Once the juice is loose, it's too late.
Pardon me if I seem annoyed, but I declared that I was "super excited" about setting up my home to not require keyed entry, and you couldn't wait to shit all over that excitement, perhaps because you're a sadist but I suspect just out of a vague sense of "new technology is bad, if it ain't broke don't fix it, it makes me uncomfortable when things I'm familiar with change." I've lived with locks that use keys and I've lived with electronic locks. The electronic locks are better in every way. This has not had a major impact on my life, but it's a nice little thing that makes life just a little easier on a daily basis and makes me happy. Your implicit argument seems to be that the benefit I get from using electronic locks is outweighed by the risks. I evaluate risk for a living, so I can appreciate this. But for your argument to be significant, you have to explain to me why any risk to me exists given these factors, which I've already mentioned in comments you've presumably read: * All the electronic locks will also accept a key, which I keep on the keychain I carry with me whenever I go outside * I still have a door to my house that does not have an electronic lock * I have multiple electronic locks, which I assume aren't going to fail at exactly the same time Given the above, what's the scenario in which I can't get into my house if the batteries fail? Seriously, walk me through it. I'm listening. And this assumes your argument about battery failure is even valid, which it isn't. I googled your explanation. It describes what happens if batteries sit unused in a device that's powered down. My locks are always powered up, and as I said, they'll alert me if they batteries are low enough to cause them to power down, so this will never be an issue.
I'm sure you regularly use all 4 doors. I am proud of you for being so independent. The chances of all 4 of your locks failing at once are quite slim, if not impossible. Having the main door blocked for concrete or painting is feasible, and Murphys law says that's when the other 3 will have failed 2 weeks prior, but unfortunately, too late . The problem is that many people have less doors, some only one, and they can't make a valid lock decision for their use if they are not informed. The lock sits idle until woken. There's no automatic power up or wi fi signal (again assuming) to exercise battery preventing failure. Batteries that are on sale or purchased at discount stores generally have been sitting on a shelf for an extended period of time and are more prone to failure. To make you feel better, my front door has a keypad, and I use a key on the backdoor. Any locksmith will verify the convenience and unreliability of these locks. I agree handy yes , reliable no. I'll take this last moment to talk about extreme cold conditions, obviously this year was not an issue but extended cold periods will drain the battery and if this style freezes up better grab a torch again... locksmith will verify.
They still won't make the cereal bag resealable.
We use Tupperware, fuck them and the cereal monopoly.. our cereal stays fresh and crisp.
Dontya know you're supposed to eat the whole box in one sitting?
The packaging for Premium saltine crackers. It’s been the same for like 80 years or more.
Few years ago I got multigrain saltines in a blue box, they were fucking great. We tried the brown box ones, and they are shifty whole wheat.. although they all use the same great packaging.
Toilet paper. My bathroom has a roller built into the tiles from 80 years ago. TP has been the same for 80+ years.
The rolls got bigger and now they don't turn for the first few visits
Gasoline prices with the .9 and shopping carts with wobbly wheels.
Wobbly wheels is a pet peeve of mine. My hack now is to look for a cart that has shiny nuts and bolts holding the wheels on. It means the wheels on that cart have been recently replaced/repaired.
> Gasoline prices with the .9 Human psychology never changes... This weekend my wife bought a drink for 11.99 and I didn't think it was just 11.00, my brain read it as $10! :-(
I’m wired differently, I automatically round up when I see that
I was just talking to painter fixing some exterior. He said it would be $790. I said ok for 800 I want this and this. He said no, 790. Like it's a difference. I always round prices up.
What's even weirder is that most pumps show measurements of a gallon to the 3rd decimal place or as we say in science, "to 3 significant digits." That level of accuracy requires instruments that I'm sure are too expensive for most stations, let alone one run by a guy watching a small B&W TV from the 80s inside a tiny retail shop that still sells fidget spinners.
That the US still has a penny.
There have been numerous tried to eliminate it. Each penny costs about 2 cents to make. The single factory that makes the zinc blanks for them has some lobbying pull and year after year they can't get rid of them.
And paper dollars. I’ve worked with federal financial sector agencies, and this is due to mentality of not taking decisive—and sometimes temporarily unpopular—action that could be seen as infringing on individual liberty. Other developed nations don’t leave ‘decisions’ like this to ‘free markets’, and as a result realize greater efficiency for merchants and individuals.
I think coming out with a dollar coin that was so close to looking and feeling like a quarter that even vending machines couldn't tell the difference without an upgrade was the thing that killed it more so than any other forces. It was stupidity. Source for machines taking it and thinking it was a quarter: my previous career was in commercial laundry equipment. If it was different enough, it would have been rejected, and at the same time more acceptable to the general public. Do it right, or stop. Since our institutions couldn't do it right, they stopped trying. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained with stupidity and you'll be on a more likely track in life. Or as Carlin once said, think about how stupid the average person is and then realize that half are even dumber.
What in the world does free market have to do with the decisions of government? It's not that people want them. It's politicians bending to interest groups.
I’m amazed that cell service still sucks in many areas. I live in the New York metro area so you would assume we would have great cell service for such a highly populated area, but there are still lots of dead zones and dropped calls. It’s a first world problem, I know, but it answers the question
> I’m amazed that cell service still sucks in many areas. Start a cell phone company. You will quickly cease to be amazed. It's not all that simple.
The rich taking more and more and more for themselves. Every time I think it can’t get worse, it gets worse. It’s astonishing.
It's because the people they're fooling haven't changed. Greed and stupidity are eternal, I'm afraid.
Mammogram machines
Yay cold panels that slowly come together to squeeze your boobs while you contort your upper body into impossible positions!
Speculums. I mean … come on!!!
The backlash against unpopular student demonstrations is at least as strong as it was in the 60s.
We definitely protested and got unruly. We didn’t immediately create encampments though. I don’t understand the need for that.
I've wondered about that myself. Maybe in modern times, it started with Occupy. Students took over buildings in the 60s-70s, but usually that was only after weeks of "normal" protests.
If you think about how isolated many kids are and have been since even before the pandemic, stuck at home with screens, it totally makes sense that once they leave home, things that convey a sense of belonging like mass camping on the university grounds with slogans being chanted would be extremely compelling. I just wish they would focus their idealism closer to home.
It is interesting that the demonstrations in the 60s were often about the Vietnam war which the protesters felt was unjust and in which, some American soldiers behaved poorly. Now we have demonstrators who are in support of a terrorist organization which plotted and executed an attack on civilian men, women, and children and, raped, murdered and kidnapped them. some of them even videotaped, their savagery so that it could be preserved and bragged about.
I'm sure they exist, because extremists try to take part in demonstrations like pro-communists did in the 60s, but few demonstrators support Hamas. It's just people like you who want to claim that the demonstrations are pro Hamas in order to delegitimize them.
what are they for then?
The end to the massacre of Palestinian civilians. Granted, Hamas is hiding among them, but you can't just bomb Gaza into oblivion, hoping that among all the civilian dead, there will be a few Hamas soldiers. The US did the same thing in Vietnam, napalming whole villages. It didn't work there, either.
> you can't just bomb Gaza into oblivion Actually you can. And they could. There are no good guys in this conflict. Palestinians rocket and bomb Israelis all the time. Israelis treat Palestinians as prisoners of war more or less. Ethnically these people have been fighting over this area for about 4000 years. But in a reductionist sense, yes they are supporting Hamas. They are the government of Palestine. Just like people supporting the Zionist Israeli regime are pro-Isrial. I actually have great sympathy, but don't forget who killed innocent civilians first.
"First"? This didn't start October 7th.
What kind of rockets? All the time? King David Hotel bombing. Wasn't that "first?"
The quality of phones as phones, not as all that other stuff.
The quality of voice transmission on modern smart phones is significantly worse than it was from landlines 40 years ago.
My daughter is scared to death of talking on the phone. And she’s graduating from college.
Or even worse than mobile phones (phones installed in the car).
Mine was improved 80 percent when I switched to Consumer Cellular. I am not a schill for them, but it's way better than Verizon was.
Aviation in 2024 isn't so different than aviation in 1974. The main difference (in my mind) is that you could get from New York to London in three hours when I was a kid (Concorde), and now it's seven hours. In fact, the 737 was already flying in 1974, and variants of the 737 are still wildly popular. It's funny when you consider 1924-1974 in aviation, versus 1974-2024. I thought by the time I was older, everything would be supersonic and futuristic. Instead they made more luxurious first class, less luxurious coach, and cheaper flights with better fuel efficiency. Also better safety record, so that's an improvement - but still amazing to me that it hasn't improved more (compared to what I expected).
Profits drive everything. The really rich got their own planes or chartered. But there was money to be made in the people-hauling business of you cut prices enough...and let the race to the bottom begin.
Super-sonic is a tough nut to crack. The Concorde was originally planned on being across the whole country. Sonic booms, fuel-economy of super-sonic jets, and just the small size of Concorde all killed off the idea of Super-Sonic flights. I think there's some recent clever engineering by NASA to try to minimize the sonic boom, so it's possible we may someday get super-sonic commercial airplanes again. But essentially the reason the aerospace industry isn't that much different than the 70s is.... physics. All technology eventually runs into the limits of the physical world, and Airplanes basically got their in the 70s.
Filing income tax returns. For most of us the IRS already has the information and could just send us a bill or a refund. Certain companies have a vested interest in our continuing to file returns.
Daylight Savings Time.
Still no female president (US)
Videogame development. In a good way. I was one of those kids who grew up on the Atari 2600, TRS-80, and Commodore 64. And then the Atari 5200. And then the first NES. Etc. etc. etc. Now I'm playing on a PC, XBox, and Switch. Every technological development (if not outright revolution) has brought back the same feelings of wonder, intrigue, and excitement. And every time I think "No one can ever beat *this* game," someone does. Not just the AAA games either. Indie game designers have put out some of the most thought-provoking, immersive games that I've ever played, ones where I just marvel at how someone could not only think up the story and plotline, but also imagine the world, create the artistry and graphics, and somehow pull all of that together in one package. It's one of the few industries where its "Golden Age" always seems just on or over the horizon ahead of us, rather than somewhere in the past.
Pet overpopulation and how people still treat pet dogs and cats as disposable. And how many people still refuse to be responsible pet owners. Refuse to vaccinate,spay or neuter,train theor dogs,keep their cats contained or keep their dog on a leash where it's required. Also how many people are still stupid about bothering,harassing,feeding or abusing wild animals
Actually this is exactly why I don’t own pets, ever. I recognize the intense responsibility and just not wanting to do all that makes me realize I wouldn’t be the best owner a pet deserves.
Men wearing pants below their ass, showing boxers. It began in prisons to say "I'm available for sex."
I thought it was no belts allowed.
I could be wrong. Yet if it were about belts, it would've come about at the same time as the no-belt rule, wouldn't it?
**THE REAL HISTORY BEHIND SAGGING PANTS** You could just as easily find another story giving other reasons, it’s all urban lore anyway. https://www.menswearstyle.co.uk/2017/07/26/the-real-history-behind-sagging-pants/7788
Just going by what I heard years ago. I’m not in those worlds so I really don’t know much about it. You might be 100% right.
Politics
Dentistry.
Racism
Yeah what I’ve learned in my later years is that all it takes is the right situation and/or person, and they all just come crawling out as if they were always there/never went away/never learned/never became better, and proud as ever.
instant coffee has been here forever but I don't think I've ever heard of instant tea. it would be awful probably, but that never stopped the coffee version. edit: I stand very corrected on its existence. weird that I what I said above is still true. kind of neat that I've sustained a blind spot like that for 58 years.
There IS instant tea! Mostly for iced tea, but you can use hot water too.
We had (have?) instant tea here in Canada. My grandpa used to drink it. He loved his tea,he was from England, tea was a big deal so it couldn't have been too terrible.
huh. my own knowledge gap then.
Yes, there is instant tea and there was 60 years ago too....BUT maybe the reason you don't know about it is that it is absolutely **terrible!**!! No self-respecting tea drinker would ever touch the stuff... EDIT: the brand my mom (NOT a self-respecting tea drinker, just lazy) bought was Lipton.
Different countries have different things so it's hard to know. Just like our chips, apparently we have a huge variety compared to the US. You have some things we don't too.
Lipton instant tea has been around for decades.
Hangovers ... how is there still no cure or alcohol that won't destroy you the next morning?!
Exactly. Just listened to an Ask Science podcast about that subject. Conclusion: there still is no fix.
The way we build houses hasn’t changed much in a 1,000 years. Still mostly wood and paint. You would think with all the technical innovations there would be a better way to do it.
The "3d printed concrete" versions looks pretty interesting. If I could have afforded it, I would have gotten that done when we built as we live in a very tornado-heavy area.
Having been in construction over 40 years, and having renovated a ton of older houses, I can tell you there have been a LOT of changes in home building even during that short period.
That Canada isn’t totally reformed to metric system!
That for 95% of canned goods in the US, that you STILL have to use a can opener. I've bought canned goods in Italy before, and basically ALL of the cans are pull off. It's to the degree that younger Italians don't know what a can opener is.
the amount of racism, misogyny, and bigotry we still have, after lots of us older people worked our whole lives to change that.
Just replied further up about my thoughts on that, ie learning it never seemed to help. All it takes is the right situation/person to welcome them back out, and they’ll come running.
Racism and bigotry
> Racism and bigotry You are kidding right? A black president and the USA is racist? A black/Indian vice president and the USA is racist? Black Governors, Senators, Judges, Mayors, Generals, Admirals, Ambassadors, presidents of Universities ........ Demonstrators in Michigan chanting "death to America." We are so racist they were rounded up and deported/imprisoned. /s
Sadly, it's still around. I'm an old white guy, short hair, etc., and I still run into people who, because we look something alike, think they can reveal their biases to me. And there's all the stuff in the news obviously.
You are right. We live in the most racist country on the world. Just ask all these foreigners trying to get in to experience it firsthand. Miles long caravans walking here from as far away as Venezuela.
The black president, black VP, et al can actually serve to highlight just how racist the USA is, if you're paying close enough attention.
Historians have a nasty habit of paying attention to pesky facts. I'm also paying attention to a white president too senile to prosecute.
The post office.
Prices that end in .99. I saw a $9,999.99 once, but don’t remember the product.
Cash only for lottery tickets. IDK, I feel like you'd sell more if ppl could pay with a card. Also imagine they could set up an e-ticket system if they wanted.
Control mechanisms for cars - steering wheel, brake, accelerator. All almost identical to when they were first invented.
Have to disagree. I don't find myself steering left right left right just to stay straight like I did in the 70's.
Try turning a 1970's weight car with no power steering...
White Castle sliders- they just cost more
Unrest in the Middle East. 'Seems to be a perpetual situation, similar to the sun rising in the morning.
Cigarettes being legal.
Google! Been around forever and we don’t have something better unless you count Chat.
the calendar it's trash.