2003??? We were learning this shit from Ferris Bueller back in the early 80s!!!

When it happened to me recently it was a local community college, definitely not just scraping data. It makes it that much more frustrating too because I thought the interview went well and I will never know what they were looking for that I didn’t have.

They have said this a bunch, here is just one example from before their recent developers conference even.

winget install Mozilla.Firefox

Now you never have to use Edge.

Okay… but the point was that wasn’t unrealistic science fiction 50 years ago.

You really need to learn to handle people disagreeing with you better.

Mobile phones have existed since the 1940s.

The Internet has been around since the 1960s.

Satellite TV became established in the 1970s, which is just one way people do in fact use satellites every day.

I stand by my opinion that you saying that technology today was unrealistic science fiction just 50 years ago is ludicrous and I hope you enjoy your day too.

This is a public forum, are you saying that they are allowed an opinion and I am not?

I chose to bicker because it was a ludicrous statement. Whatever else you need to tell yourself is for your own comfort.

No, the point was that wasn’t unrealistic science fiction in the 70s. The idea that someday you wouldn’t have to touch the cassette was not unrealistic science fiction.

Just because you’re wrong doesn’t mean you need to be an ass.

Cassette tapes existed in the 70s I could listen to the same music in my car and in my house, by simply ejecting the tape and carrying it in with me. The way you’re describing shit you might as well say it was science fiction in the 90s too you’re splitting hairs that don’t need to be split and that more importantly have nothing to do with your original argument.

No, the vast majority of things we used today were not science fiction in the 70s.

Mobile phones, the Internet, satellites, etc. all of these things existed before the 70s.

The biggest technological innovation of the last hundred years has been miniaturization.

So they don’t rent to stay at home parents either then right???

They are called “fully furnished” and it is especially common in condos and beach houses and similar.

I mostly agree with you, but I would caution that not all credit unions are the same. Mine for instance has enshitified hard over the last 10 years. For instance they’ve removed all tellers from every branch except their main one and replaced them with ATMs.

There was an attempt back in the day to do something like that but it never went anywhere.

This is a problem for adults too, which is why they make dedicated distraction free writing devices and software. It’s not the screens, it’s how they are being used.

Some people like offal…

The fifth amendment applies to this because he was a US citizen. He had every right to not give them his pin and it would only be destroying evidence if charges had been pressed. In this case some butt hurt border guard just really wanted to look at his vacation pictures or some shit.

What should the tiny independent media company do instead to keep the lights on? I’m just as annoyed as you but we also have precious few independent media companies left.