I’m thinking of the other end of the equation: I don’t listen to a lot of the artists I liked twenty or thirty years ago. I’d be annoyed if I spent a bunch of cash on their albums only to have them be coasters now.

Exactly this. A music collection is expensive. Even more so if your tastes change over time.

less filling tho

The 80s and 90s were rife with that trope. I don’t know if modern action flicks are as bad.

Sex and relationships in action movies.

The whole “hot chick gets horny for the hero after a traumatizing couple of hours” thing gives a pretty messed up view of relationship building.

So does that other cosmonaut.

Jesus

I agree that it’s awkward and it creates problems in some scenarios. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s an understandable (over) correction for some pretty heinous behaviour.

I think it’s also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone’s humanity.

At work? I think it’s preferable to limit our interactions to work related stuff.

Outside of work, I’m ambivalent. We associate physical features, names, and accents with cultures. But those don’t always line up to significant differences in someone’s personality.

In the last few decades we’ve noticed that we’ve been treating each other like shit. We’ve used race, skin colour, ethnicity, weight, etc to insult others and reduce their social standing.

We’re trying to fix that. As such, calling out those specific differences is frowned on, even if we aren’t using them negatively.

Is this inconvenient? Yes. It’s pretty easy to point out the only black/fat/disabled person in a work place. But we’re really trying to avoid any conversations that could turn into insults or attacks.

So we now have an unwritten social rule that we avoid using those identifiers when talking about individuals.

Jucika doesn’t seem crazy. Mimi is borderline feral.

Ugh. That sounds lousy.

I’m older, but I only recently got AC. It’s a nice quality of life improvement.

Subsubversion? Superversion? Sousversion? Which one is it?

It’s funny how many of these have been about how uncomfortably hot/cold it is.

The world before AC was rough.

That Pepsi ad during BLM.

The study is interesting. It uses a fun natural experiment to validate the hypothesis. At no point do the authors blame changing social mores for the entire decrease in birthrates, but they do say it accounts for a small, but statistically significant proportion.

You aren’t wrong, but, as the authors point out, phones have dramatically changed how we interact.

What if the profit doesn’t cover the cost of building and maintaining the roads?

I love her Morpheus sunglasses.

The one sticking out of the pelvis.

I was working at a music festival, schlepping cases of beer. Some guy hit me with “I’m Gord Downie’s cousin, give me one”, I didn’t know who he was talking about, so I told him that and ignored him.

Later, a bunch of Ontarians told me I did that in perfect deadpan. In reality, I grew up on the east coast, where the Tragically Hip wasn’t nearly as popular, so I legitimately had no clue who he was talking about.

I guess I have to rethink my opposition to engineering humans now. 😞