I can’t even find the words for how incredibly supercalifragilisticexpialidociously stupid that sounds when I take your lack of argument into consideration
Try to leave your childhood trauma out of this, and we might be able to turn this trainwreck of a discussion into something productive.
[…] your lack of argument […]
Right. It is so obvious from the context that you haven’t even considered the effects that stabilizing the eel population in the Caucasus could have on achieving world peace.
Scientists saying empty space not really being empty doesn’t lend your argumentative vacuum any substance.
So often do I see people starting their comment with some variation of that or “you’re wrong!” But then they basically agree with that the other was saying. People just want to shout and be angry and dominant and not even really reading what the other one is saying.
Event television would be a big thing. I was a senior in college in 93. Seinfeld, Simpsons, Frasier, you had to schedule your day around that. The bar I worked at would even put these shows on instead of playing music and market it as a reason to come in.
Yes, we could record shows on VHS and watch them later, but that was mostly done with daytime soap operas - also a thing that has mostly gone by the wayside.
Landline phones with answering machines would throw a teenager from today into chaos.
Smoking everywhere. Not even California had introduced smoking bans yet.
No TSA. Flying was fun.
Weed possession was a decades long sentence.
You could play around with all kinds of things that were different.
I’d go back to '93. Vs. had just been released, Jurassic Park was in theaters, the US dollar had almost exactly double the buying power it has today, and I still remember how to design web sites using tables.
On Wednesday, the North Carolina state House passed a new congressional map for the Tar Heel State. Since the map had already passed the state Senate on Tuesday, it is now law. (In North Carolina, the governor has no veto power over redistricting.)
The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week. But it is still heavily skewed toward the GOP: It creates 10 reliably Republican seats, three reliably Democratic seats and one competitive seat in a state that former President Donald Trump carried just 50 percent to 49 percent in 2020. Democratic Reps. Kathy Manning, Wiley Nickel and Jeff Jackson have now been placed in reliably red seats, meaning Republicans will almost certainly pick up three House seats as a result of this map. They could even flip a fourth, Democratic Rep. Don Davis’s 1st District, which this map makes more competitive.
Thanks for the info, Wikipedia just needs an update.
Since the map had already passed the state Senate on Tuesday, it is now law. (In North Carolina, the governor has no veto power over redistricting.)
I’m not from the US so I didn’t understand the importance of these comments. To clarify for others, North Carolina’s Senate is currently Republican majority, and the incumbent governor is Democratic (Roy Cooper). My source is still Wikipedia.
The map is an amended version of Proposal CCJ-1, the less aggressively gerrymandered of the two proposals unveiled by Republicans last week.
If you’re morbidly curious in seeing the other map proposed, it was CBP-5:
The shittiest thing is that they’re not actually good at it. We generally use compactness as a proxy for a gerrymandered district. However, you can effectively gerrymander using extremely compact districts. youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44
This is terrifying, and a strong reason to move to multimember districting.
Yeah, the biggest delineation is "world without computers and digital electronics" vs. the world after all that proliferated. I'd still consider the 80s and 90s part of the "modern" era, what we used to call the "information age" or "computer revolution".
Pretty much all our modern tech is just more advanced versions of the same shit we already had in the 80s. Even social media (BBSs).
I'm not sure, my Dad is a 50s kid and he always complained that shit went downhill in the 80s. He displayed absolutely no interest in the media of the decade, the culture, music, or whatever, and probably felt very out of place. I don't feel the same way. I am just as comfortable with the world now as I was back then.
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