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Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
On 8/20/2023 10:58 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
Photography and film equipment was significantly rarer and more
expensive, so the imagery of e.g. 30s you do see tends to be heavily
selection-biased, not the stream-of-everything that 5 billion camera
phones tends to provide.
People were thinner on average then but of course most everyone is
looking particularly good in pictures because that\'s the kind of scenes
that were getting shot, the pics you end up seeing were staged and real
candid photography was much rarer, at least until cameras got small
enough to fit in a coat pocket..
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/somecontrivedvideo
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school.
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
On 2023/08/20 5:36 a.m., Cursitor Doom wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/somecontrivedvideo
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
These are the good old days for most humans on the planet, other than
perhaps if you live in the USA or a war zone. Forest fires come and go,
this too shall pass.
The doom and gloom merchants would have us believing otherwise - they
need to sell their story to keep the gravy train going!
If it isn\'t falsifiable it isn\'t science and calling it xyz Science
doesn\'t make it a science.
John :-#)#
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:58:02 -0700, John Larkin
jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
Perhaps too much choice. What is wrong with slide rules? I\'m sure most
of us here were weened on them. And libraries???? What is your
problem? I know there are a lot of people here who hate America but
I\'d never have thought for a second you were one of them. Repent!
Repent! You\'re sounding a bit like Bill Sloman!
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 7:58:20?AM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school.
I am non-white and non-women, but life was good in 80s in a good cheap engineering school. I did not attend my appointment for Regent\'s Scholarship because I didn\'t need it. I had enough grants without any loan. Someone told me it would look good on my resume.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer now.
Except things are so much more expensive.
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 10:58:20?AM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <c...@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
That commentary is so trite...
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 8:36:37?AM UTC-4, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
Don\'t believe a bit of that egregious propaganda. The place was a shit-hole and a half. If you watch some of the older film footage of the cities, it\'s very clear looking down the road even just two blocks the place was a filthy smog haze.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:58:02 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
Perhaps too much choice. What is wrong with slide rules?
I\'m sure most
of us here were weened on them. And libraries???? What is your
problem?
I know there are a lot of people here who hate America but
I\'d never have thought for a second you were one of them. Repent!
Repent!
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:01:46 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 8:36:37?AM UTC-4, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
Don\'t believe a bit of that egregious propaganda. The place was a shit-hole and a half. If you watch some of the older film footage of the cities, it\'s very clear looking down the road even just two blocks the place was a filthy smog haze.
Smelly cars were an improvement over horses.
I used to take BART to the UC Berkeley engineering library, hoping to
find what I needed. About 2 hours travel, round trip. Not being a
student, I had to purchase an annual library card just to see books; I
couldn\'t check them out, and they would have had to be returned in two
weeks anyhow.
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 1:46:07?PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 10:01:46 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, August 20, 2023 at 8:36:37?AM UTC-4, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
Don\'t believe a bit of that egregious propaganda. The place was a shit-hole and a half. If you watch some of the older film footage of the cities, it\'s very clear looking down the road even just two blocks the place was a filthy smog haze.
Smelly cars were an improvement over horses.
Dunno how accurate it is, but it\'s said before Henry Ford\'s time the majority of Americans never strayed more than 50 miles from their place of birth.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:18:56 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 8/20/2023 10:58 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:36:27 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com
wrote:
Not currently, obviously!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiWB0g9sVk
Nobody can tell me the quality of life we have today is better than
back then. Nobody!
That\'s pretty. But I didn\'t see a single non-white person, and the
women then were mostly decorative drudges who were sworn to \"obey.\"
Most people lived in sickness and poverty. Non-white people and women
couldn\'t attend a good engineering school. Worldwide life spans were
about half what they are now. And the 30\'s gave us WWII and organized
megadeaths.
I remember some of the 1950s. Life was tough for most people. I prefer
now.
We had to use slide rules and go to libraries hoping to find what we
needed. The food was awful.
People now have so many more choices.
Photography and film equipment was significantly rarer and more
expensive, so the imagery of e.g. 30s you do see tends to be heavily
selection-biased, not the stream-of-everything that 5 billion camera
phones tends to provide.
People were thinner on average then but of course most everyone is
looking particularly good in pictures because that\'s the kind of scenes
that were getting shot, the pics you end up seeing were staged and real
candid photography was much rarer, at least until cameras got small
enough to fit in a coat pocket..
Some not-so-pretty pics were taken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8S5uJcTKq0
now no doubt colorized and tuned. The relief lines and giant barren
spaces were probably not staged.
Photography was a big deal, with expensive film and wet processing.
I used to take BART to the UC Berkeley engineering library, hoping to
find what I needed. About 2 hours travel, round trip. Not being a
student, I had to purchase an annual library card just to see books; I
couldn\'t check them out, and they would have had to be returned in two
weeks anyhow.
Try Stanford, rich kids don\'t care. I just asked a student there to check out a book for me. She didn\'t even think and did it. I could have kept the book, but I returned it anyway.