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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Electing a convicted felon President of the United States.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That one cuts deep. It's really weird too because if you asked your parents they would say america would never elect a felon. Then they went on to elect a felon.

I sometimes think about trying to reach out to older folks to better understand their views but then I remember the absolute garbage brain rot they believe.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

US conservatives calling Russia the good guys and electing a convicted felon as president.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

And literal nazis marching in the streets

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

My math teacher: "You can't walk around with a calculator in your pocket!"

Well well well, look at me NOW, Mr. York!

I have a calculator in my pocket that I can talk to and it'll talk back. "Hey Bixby, what's half of five and three-eighths?"

About 33% of the time the dumb bitch comes back with "Okay, here's what I found on the internet."

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

never opens calculator app

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hah, I suck at math so I use it all the time

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if I suffer from dyscalculia but, man, is mental arithmetic so hard for some reason. I did well in all my other math classes up to college, wtaf, brain.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Arithmetic was easy for me. It made sense. What didnt make sense was finance and accounting. That shit exists just to muddy waters and hurt people. 5

[–] KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Telling the "computer" to do a thing and it just does. AI has it's upsides and saves me so much time and energy

[–] cygnosis@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

For real. Who would have guessed the most realistic prediction from Star Trek was talking directly to the computer. Whereas the least realistic one is that a post-scarcity society would benefit average people.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Directly measuring gravity waves, the first measurement using LIGO was back in 2016 and they've observed almost a hundred so far. The observations are being used to create newer generations of gravity wave detectors.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Being single

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A battery powered table saw.

Absolutely not a thing in the 1980's, in stock now at your local Lowe's.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That one does blow me away - I've had a cordless drill for years, but a tablesaw??? - when I realized they even existed I couldn't believe it.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, when you think about it, it's just a battery-powered circular saw flipped upside-down. Not too crazy to consider like that.

Battery powered circular saws were also science fiction the day I was born.

Go watch early seasons of The New Yankee Workshop and look for the cordless power drill he uses in the first couple of seasons. It's got this gigantic permanently attached battery hanging out of the hand grip (the hand grip is like a foot long) and it can just barely turn a wood screw.

By the time I was in high school tiny, underpowered circ saws were available that ran on drill batteries. These things had like 5 inch ultrathin blades. Now look at it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The first battery powered drills were pretty horrible. Batteries have come a long way

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know if people were really talking much about this kinda stuff back then, but a PC like device that wasn't a laptop that allowed you to play full-on PC titles at home, either hooked to a TV or on its own, or on the move. Especially a device that also allows you to do normal computer things outside of playing games.

Again, not including laptop since I personally don't know any people who actually used their laptops for playing games while in a moving vehicle. There probably are plenty of people who did it or do it, but I don't know any.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Child me is just dying to have the dancing and gaming skills I have!

Child me wishes he had the basic communication skills and treatments for his mental illness.

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