@paulisci the weird thing is that these days even young people agree 😅

@paulisci what if they’re all right? maybe the 1840s were just out of this world incredible

@paulisci "life was better in the 1940ies", that's dark; especially reading this in germany. when I'm under the impression "these are absurd times" I think: "compared to 1933-1945?"

though - and counterfactual nostalgia may be part of it - it's time to be afraid of exactly this time: it has happened so it can happen again.

lighter stuff : you know douglas adams' three rules of technology?

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"History should be taught twice, so it will be more difficult to forget."
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This sounds like The Onion, but it was for real. 🫤

@paulisci For anyone who wishes to see the original piece in full.

Source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/10044076

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This is the carrot capitalism love to dingle in front of people

@paulisci Who keeps telling us about this predicted shortened work week length? Moreover, why hasn't these prognostications come to pass if they were so evident?

I believe there are "kids, these days!" complaints found in papyrus scrolls from Ancient Egypt.

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I sometimes think about a guy in #Austin we derisively called "Three-Piece" at the cafe because he had the gall to dress up in a suit every day, despite the climate. Sonofabitch, he had the audacity to keep the style conversation going; he brought his A-game. And here most of us are, in our cargo shorts and tees, sweating just as much but looking the slouch for it.

@paulisci I feel like pretty soon we will be able to make "a brief history of reposts of a brief history of nobody dresses well anymore"

Why is the coffee Nicolas Cage?!@paulisci @gloriousnoise

@paulisci "My good Sir -- Did you know your velocipede is invisible?"

@paulisci I love it, is it pro coffee? Is it anti coffee? Who knows? It depends on your perspective!

@paulisci Sorry to let you down, 1924.

@paulisci He would also note that absolutely NOTHING has changed.

@paulisci …and the world economy was in desperate recession after a global pandemic.

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