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[RobClock]

Is it still so cold you need to worry about an electric heater in Canada? Or is it your water heater?

it's going up to like 20+ degrees during the day but there's a frost warning for tonight. The house currently does not have a furnace because the one i ordered never arrived and it's now on 'back order', so I have a plug in electric heater next to the couch im sleeping on

[PhantomCatClock]

a sequel to the Good Son called the Bad Son where instead of kids it's fully grown Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood and at the end she drops both off a cliff. Not because they're too heavy, she wants to.

[Slurpee]

what is the floor of costco made out of?
it's like one big smooth hard stone like a garage
is it concrete?
why is it different from the concrete the sidewalk is made out of?
it's smoother and seems more resilient

where do these mighty stone slabs come from? tell me bubba

[PhantomCatClock]

Apple stores have a floor that's marble from a certain mine in Italy that Jobs really liked. If Apple didn't end up buying the entire quarry, they somehow finagled being the only people allowed to use stone from it. The engineers/chemist folk at Apple—who have since invented a new gold because they wanted a metal with an opulently high gold content while being harder to scratch—begged him to let them use a concrete emulation. They could make it identical to that marble without darkening over time, not to mention lower maintenance costs and making it less prone to cracking than brittle marble being trampled all day. But no, he was Steve Jobs and that was his marble and it was in the floor of every Apple store.





Then Steve Jobs died and they use their own concrete formula and what do you know it's fucking identical.










The moral of the story is there are different recipes for concrete so probably that. In fact, nobody knows how the hell to make the ancient Roman flavor.

[Slurpee]

I see
so steve jobs invented concrete eh...

[PhantomCatClock]

No he hated concrete because he knew they'd entomb his body and his high tech necromantic resurrection would be ruined but as soon as he died, bam. concrete. apple store floors, apple campus mausoleum.

[NukaClock]

No he hated concrete because he knew they'd entomb his body and his high tech necromantic resurrection would be ruined but as soon as he died, bam. concrete. apple store floors, apple campus mausoleum.

I think they turned Steve into concrete

[GreyClock]

I talk to this girl at work occasionally. Sometimes on the phone, sometimes face-to-face. When it's on the phone it's fine, when we talk face-to-face she sounds like she's about to cry.

I'M NOT THAT UGLY OKAY

[GreyClock]

Do you think anyone will ever look back nostalgically to this day and age? I mean disregarding whatever's going on right now specifically, covid, the protests, name it. Just the general feel of the times I mean. Is there even one? Just bland, shit gumbo. The dawn of the narcissistic age. I didn't live through the sixties/seventies/eighties, but a lot of what we now think about those decades is probably rose-tinted, cherry-picked, revisionist bullshit. I mean we've seen about five thousand movies where someone is doing something cool and at just the right moment Voodoo Child (Slight Return) kicks in, but the day-to-day reality of John Q. Public was probably just as mundane and dreary as at any point in human history. Maybe a bird shat on his shirt. Then again, what in life wouldn't be mundane and dreary, I wonder. Snorkeling off the coast of Cozumel for the rest of your life? Eating sea crab and woman clam in a golden, sea-sprayed laguna, where it rains sweet coconut milk from the heavens? Extrapolating from that, we watch these sci-fi movies and marvel at the technologies and possibilities, but that's only through our contemporary eyes, in reality it would be just as fucking dull as anything. How long before this miraculous thing called the internet was just one other fucking thing? A space cruise to Betelguese? BIG DEAL. The five-dimensional buffet with Bose-Einstein condensated dip? FUCKING COLD.* I heard about this Egyptian-French writer, Albert Cossery, who lived his life according to a philosophy of laziness. He lived in the same place most of his life. Slept late, went to the same café every day, where he had coffee and a cigarette and just... observed. Which is a lifestyle I feel I've been practicing (for) for the last fifteen years or so. (Although then you get to this old chestnut: why even bother with a routine like that? Just do whatever. Float about for a bit like a fart in the wind, until it dissipates into nothingness.) I daydreamed out loud once in this very thread about how I should go on little trips to random places, have a beer on the patio section of some bar, in some town I've never even heard of. Maybe I'll start doing that after all this blows over. Or maybe not.

Leave daddy alone kids, he's having one of his special times.






* Clever joke!

[Slurpee]

I think there will be plenty of fond memories of this, the last decade before The Event

[VCRClock]

Heaven's Gate was right; they just left early

[PhantomCatClock]

EVERYBODY SHUT UP new polkimon snap announced



also yes I think about that all the time and it turns out yes, everybody's nostalgic for everything. Remember there are people who aren't done being kids right now and if you think they won't be taking a slow drag off a cigarette bitching about how they miss Fortnite "how could i waste all my time on a game that obviously wasn't going to exist forever" then you've got another thing coming


It is a unique time to be a kid—all nostalgia needs to have the same grip we've known—with having most of your real life friends become internet friends in a time when voice/video chat is 100% taken for grantedly easy to do

[Marlin Clock]

Do you think anyone will ever look back nostalgically to this day and age?

Almost nobody looks fondly on the 70s or 30s. Seems like every person gets their crap decade, we might be in it now.

[VCRClock]

Nobody looks fondly on the 70s or 30s. Seems like every person gets their crap decade, we might be in it now.

there is no factual basis to this statement

different populations are into fetishizing different decades, even outside of the obvious "that's when i was young" group

I'll admit I don't know of too many people who are hot on the 30s, but that probably has to do with the great depression. people not being able to afford to spend money on culture; not as much material nostalgia fodder being produced or preserved. the 20s and 40s are hotter because the economy was better. still, the 30s have their adherents

there are more people who look fondly upon various aspects of the 70s than I can shake a stick at. nobody wants to go back to vietnam or put another nixon in the white house, maybe, but like... fashion? cars? music? radical politics?

[RobClock]

The 1970s are peak a e s t h e t i c

[Marlin Clock]

Nobody looks fondly on the 70s or 30s. Seems like every person gets their crap decade, we might be in it now.

there is no factual basis to this statement

different populations are into fetishizing different decades, even outside of the obvious "that's when i was young" group

I'll admit I don't know of too many people who are hot on the 30s, but that probably has to do with the great depression. people not being able to afford to spend money on culture; not as much material nostalgia fodder being produced or preserved. the 20s and 40s are hotter because the economy was better. still, the 30s have their adherents

there are more people who look fondly upon various aspects of the 70s than I can shake a stick at. nobody wants to go back to vietnam or put another nixon in the white house, maybe, but like... fashion? cars? music? radical politics?

It had some good aesthetics, but between Vietnam, Nixon opening up China(one of the most underrated negative events of the Cold War era if you ask me), loss of trust in American institutions in Watergate, the increase in crime and degradation in many US cities, the deterioration of quality in US companies that started industrial flight, the oil crisis, there's a lot there.

I'll grant you that to my religion it was a particularly bad decade (Roe, the height of the abuse coverup, among other things), but there's still a lot that was objectively bad.

[RobClock]

Next you'll tell me the American dream never truly existed outside Rockwell paintings

[Slurpee]

my mom speaks fondly of the 70's

[GreyClock]

It had some good aesthetics, but between Vietnam, Nixon opening up China(one of the most underrated negative events of the Cold War era if you ask me), loss of trust in American institutions in Watergate, the increase in crime and degradation in many US cities, the deterioration of quality in US companies that started industrial flight, the oil crisis, there's a lot there.

I'll grant you that to my religion it was a particularly bad decade (Roe, the height of the abuse coverup, among other things), but there's still a lot that was objectively bad.

Bolded: I'm not sure I follow the causal link you seem to be implying. Detoriation of quality in companies in what respect? The products themselves? Like no longer built to last, but built to be replaced? Or the workforce maybe? Or maybe the quality (in terms of a social responsibility or whatever) of management? Industrial flight is nothing but the next logical step in any capitalist system. The moment someone figured out they could charge (their own former workforce, in part) the same for inferior products built overseas by foreign laborers, laborers they could get away with paying fuck all. When the levee breaks and all...

Roe: in what way was it "particularly bad"? Your capacity to impose your morality on people was reduced?

[GreyClock]

I'm just joshing, friend. I know all these fetuses are host to true Christian souls and they're being murdered by wayward sinners.