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For anyone interested in someone who’s fantastic about interviewing people from all over the US (and maybe someoutside, cant remember), Peter Santenello is great. Found his videos on Appalachia one night when I couldn’t sleep and was hooked.

One of the few people that actually let’s people talk and tell their story without trying to be leading or get a sound bite.

I know it’s kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You’ve already seen it happen to 00s music and we’re watching it happen with the 10s.

But yeah, it’s wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just… don’t go looking.

…why would you put that image im my head

I have absolutely zero expertise in the field, but every time you see something like that in history, I always wonder if it was primarily spurred on by a change in writing medium. E.g. paper vs tablet.

It being ugly has absolutely fuckall to do with the structural integrity

Good fried chicken can be great cold, especially if you properly store it in the fridge to minimize how much moisture it absorbs. Mediocre or bad fried chicken is awful cold thought.

But then I don’t get to justify my 3d printer purchase with custom enclosures with their jobs engraved on them

The issue with the combination of rabbit holes I’m going down is all the damn pis Im gonna end up being lol

I was referring to the usage of masks

Or, y’know, literal decades (centuries?) by medical professionals

Portal and Portal 2 are my go to tests for if a machine qualifies as “an computer”. Basically, if it can run those, it’s probably good enough to be grandmas facebook machine. Might have to toss an ssd into it (exactly what I did with an old core2duo hp pavilion), but generally I find it to be a good rule of thumb.

Plus it gives me an excuse to play Portal when I test a machine :P

Surprised no one has said it, but Minecraft. I love it as much now as I did when I was 12. It can be as simple or as complex as you want it, especially if you start playing with mods. Then there’s servers such as Hypixel which for all intents and purposes are an entirely separate game in and of themselves.

I’m sure part of it is nostalgia, some of my fondest gaming memories were playing Minecraft with friends, but I still find it to be an excellent way to relax.

(Tangentially related, anyone else remember when waiting 3 months for 1.2.5 > 1.3 was an absurdly long update time for the game? Different times.)

Didn’t have any bullies in high school (thankfully), but my elementary school bully ended up becoming one of my better friends. Nothing crazy, kid was just a shithead when he was little, he moved to the other side of the district and I didn’t see him again til HS. Completely different and really chill person by then.

I will forever maintain that 8th graders are the most vicious people on this planet

I had a relatively similar experience. Some people were definitely treated like shit, but there’s was nearly none of what’s classically considered bullying, especially of a physical nature. Im not pretending it was some utopia where everybody got alone, but the vast majority of people were far too busy worrying about their own shit.

Yeah that’s just… not how that works? People are perfectly capable to keeping to themselves without necessarily being bullied

Homeboy here probably wouldn’t, but this is Missouri. Cops getting shot/shooting someone who shot at them because they’re dumb as fuck and don’t announce who they are is not an altogether uncommon occurrence here. There’s a reason STL (at least ostensibly) banned no-knocks.

Or more likely, they knew nut didn’t care, because they did all the same tbings.

I’ve got a pretty decent stomach for horrible stuff. Having unfettered internet access from a very young age tends to desensitize you to a lot of things.

I damn near couldn’t finish it, and honestly I wish I didn’t. It’s just so, so awful.