Adderbox76

This thread took a strange direction…

I think Married With Children has managed to come through unscathed because of Ed O’Neil and who he is as a person. He’s so much the opposite of Al Bundy and has always been very open about that. The show as a result falls into that same category as South Park or All in the Family; We understand that the jokes are meant to be satire via absurdity; It’s so over the top and the actor is so different in real life that we just get it.

Compare that to something like Home Improvement, where we know that the humour isn’t meant to be absurdist, and we know that Tim Allen really is a douche.

I never saw those moments as Kif being homophobic. I read it as a subordinate being repulsed by the idea of seeing his commanding officer naked.

Nothing is unknowable. It’s just unknowable for now.

Short answer. Yes.

Long answer: I’m 48. And while some of what we are feeling is certainly a sense of “back in my day” nostalgia, its certainly not the only cause.

We are from a strange generation who were old enough to remember a world before all of this, and young enough to adapt to all of it with relative ease. ( “this” being a transition to an online existence)

Even one generation before us just simply struggles with it. And just one generation after us, while still “born” before this all became a thing, were to young to truly experience it.

So we have a very unique and valuable perspective to offer; one that says "yes, things seemed better back then, and that is likely most certainly true for many things. But some things were likely just as fucked up back then and we simply didn’t have the internet screaming it at us 24-7. And perhaps right and left were not quite as polarized as they are today because of it.

Just my Gen-x take on it.

Valley Lodge

They play the opening theme for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

How to Waste Your Potential by Taking the Easy Path at Every Key Moment

That is very true. Good point.

Yes.

Anyone who says differently is confusing “necessity” with “efficiency”.

When I first started in Linux I rarely used the command line at all. But as time went on and I became more familiar, I found that there were some things that were simply faster to do in the command line.

I can’t think of a single “everyday regular user task” than needs the command line, tbh.

Quick, someone check to see if his breath shows up in the cold air.

likely yes. I was in university in the late 90s. My knowledge is very out of date.

Actually yes…it is.

Law enforcement often employs archaeologists for that very purpose. My professor in Uni for example would go help them out whenever they got a call about a body being found because there just weren’t enough murders in my part of the world to justify having someone full time.

The skill-sets are virtually identical, the bones are just fresher. Reading a crime scene and reading a archaeological site are basically kissing cousins.

From my time majoring in Arch, I’d say the rule of thumb is:

“Is the culture the body came from vanished or changed to the point where no one has a personal stake in it.”

So for example, vikings are long since gone. Modern northern europeans are generally a completely different culture, therefore not grave robbing. Same with Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, etc…

Indigenous tribes in North America and Australia for example, still very much around and still very much grave robbing (though that opinion is controversial)

Basically, if the existing culture still shows reverence to those ancestors…leave them alone. If the existing culture no longer honours them as ancestors, dig baby dig.

Remember when Johnny Depp wasn’t a parody of himself…?

but wouldn’t “the sum of all the little bits of x” just be… x? Like what the fuck Calculus?! Speak plainly.

Neofetch reloaded. followed by neofetch revolutions.

Pop Rocks, mouth, coca cola.

Silent Hunter III

Sink some tonnage.

So many good answers already that I agree with. So I’ll add James Ellroy and Clive Barker

For Ellroy, the entire LA Quartet remains a pivotal sea change in “hard boiled” crime fiction; taking a lot of the conventions created by the likes of Hammett and Chandler and updating them for a modern audience.

Barker is a more personal choice. But his writing is just so evocative and descriptive that I couldn’t NOT mention him. Imajica literally changed my literary life, with Weaveworld being (in my opinion) a less dense, more reader friendly version of Imajica.

The Island of the Day Before was my first introduction and remains one of my favorites.