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Back before the 1970's if a woman was travelling she'd have her husband or a porter carry her bags. With the rise of women travelling alone there was suddenly a market for wheeled bags. Men didn't want them because they made men look too weak to carry their own luggage.
We live closer in time to the first T-Rex than the first T-Rex does to the last Stegosuraus
No way T-Rex did high fives
Due to its tiny arms and non-pentadigit hands the T-Rex would commonly high five with its teeth. This lead to the T-Rex being unfortunately labeld a carnivore.
Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
Do people want to go back to the system that was used before credit scores? Where the person serving the loan just made the choice based off if they thought you seemed trustworthy? Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
Maybe the answer is less reliance on a debt based economy. Maybe the answer is to not bake into the fabric of society a mechanism that makes a lifetime of debt a foregone conclusion. Kill the loan shark for all I care. Why does everyone need a loan? Because it's built to require one.
In an economy where skill (supposedly) correlates to income, income is expected to increase across a lifetime.
Therefore 25 year-old me borrowing excess income from 45 year-old me is a good thing, purely egotistically.
Furthermore lack of debt means every big purchase is preceded by hoarding. No matter which way you look at it this is bad for society. If I had 50k€ laying around it would be much more efficient resource-wise to lend it to my neighbor so they can build up their business, than to keep the money under my mattress and tell them to tighten their belt for another five years. They get a business, I get a bit more money in the end, everyone is richer and the economy is stronger.
Economics are not a zero-sum game. This belief that "if someone is making money then someone else is getting robbed" is deeply damaging, especially as it seems to be the main economic driver for Trump's batshit insane administration.
Debt is good. Predatory practices are not. That is what regulations are supposed to curtail. Where I live "credit scores" are not a thing, banks only loan to you based on proof of income, a declaration of open credit lines, and your civil status (age, partnership status, dependent people). Racism and sexism are of course an issue, although if caught the banks face big fines. But it's not like American credit scores are colorblind...
That was a great writeup. I see that "someone earning money hurts everyone else" mentality on Lemmy constantly, its maddeningly stupid.
As a person with very little debt, this is the way.
It's so cute you think that credit scores aren't racist.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/how-structural-racism-plays-a-role-in-lowering-credit-scores.html
Almost no "traditional" recipes are older than 150 years.
Edit: i meant meals, not basic fare.
Traditional food : bread
Show me a single loaf that is older than 150 years
I'm waiting
Let me get nananana's old sourdough starter
You: “Almost no”
Comments: pff look, some example!
Reading comprehension is in the dirt.
It’s 2025 and my invention idea from the 1980’s, the glow in the dark toilet seat, still hasn’t taken off. Makes me want to quit inventing.
For some of the kids here: SPAM of the mail variety was not a thing before 1995.
Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I'm scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso's chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most "Chinese" food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
Some of it was invented by Japanese-American restaurateurs (fortune cookies are one example), who were in the same business as the Chinese ones: using their knowledge to make cheap, satisfying food that the locals would like, authenticity being no consideration. It all got labelled as “Chinese”, because that’s where they assumed the cooks were from.
This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the ~~50's~~ 1910s by some dude.
1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.
That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren't introduced until westward exploration.
Why would anybody care? The only thing that matters is who uses them to make good stuff.
The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I'll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn't be in and I always have to say something lol.
No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It's not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it's something made for black american pride and reflection.
I actually thought this was common knowledge.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
I still can't do that
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980's by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.
Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White
Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Invention that's not obvious but I'm sure it's a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!
Clearly the High V
This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit