Oh wow, in my head I pictured it starting around 2006 or so.

Community, IT Crowd, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Scrubs… The 00’s had a lot of great sitcoms. We didn’t know how good we had it.

It got so popular, had occasional Star Trek references, even a cameo by Leonard Nimoy, and I still couldn’t get myself to enjoy it. It’s such a a shame.

The disrespect!

Couldn’t have said it better. It’s the ultimate free speech.

We have a bad habit (speaking as someone in the US) of celebrating these lofty ideals, but then privatizing the way that they are commonly experienced so that it technically isn’t a violation of our values by the government. I think if it’s something we truly hold dear, we should strive for it everywhere we can.

This is why federation is so important. Nobody (country, company, or admins/mods) should have absolute authority to censor an entire platform.

Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.

Why don’t we have this??

People turning their phones to film in landscape will probably be one of those things that’ll look silly in old media once this is changed.

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I had them! Hurt myself plenty…

They have them and can do both. I think field sobriety tests might be more common these days if they suspect you’re on something other than alcohol though.

And the fact that they could be anywhere.

Every day??

I’ve seen a lot of people praising Mint in here. It sounds like that’s the distro for me to try first.

I have no idea what the original was, but it became a format that people started using for memes. Here are a few random others:

I played the demo for this game, and it’s a really creative concept. It feels like one of those tile-laying board games crossed with an indie mystery title.

The puzzles go deeper than you’d think too. By the end of the demo, my wife and I were trading off playing and taking down notes, while our 2 y/o was excitedly shouting out doors for us to go through next. It was a good time.

Schools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.

School administrators don’t want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don’t want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there’s a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.

The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a county in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:

Wow, I didn’t realize Lexapro had been around so long.

These kind of products went hard in the Y2K era.

I’m pretty sure the first step is hanging out in the woods at night.