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Oulu, Finland
1 public comment
This is awesome.
Melbourne, Australia
9 public comments
fuck yeah pbf.
First the pool, now this
Bend, Oregon
This is great.
Vancouver Island, Canada
The Beach closed unexpectedly.
Aurora, IL
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I actually snorted.
Preston, Lancashire.
womp womp
New York, NY
Oulu, Finland
Oulu, Finland
20 public comments
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
Boston, MA
Has twitter wrecked modern communcation?
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
Fortunately, as I'm informed, it had all calmed down again by the time of my parents' generation.
"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." -- Douglas Adams
Oviedo, Florida
Nice commentary on modern commentary.
Cambridge, UK
@mahea50 Word.
San Diego, California
now let's make one for "damn kids are spoiled and have no respect for their elders these days"
DC
Brilliant.
The Golden Age Fallacy in action.
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” — Ecclesiastes 1:9
Escondido, CA
The summary is beautiful ;-)
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. -- Douglas Adams
the public comments on this comic seem to imply everyone swallows the premise of the letters...I had though Munroe's point was more that we keep hearing the same arguments over and over again in each age.
New York, NY
Those who fail to learn from history... yada yada yada...
Definitive proof that human faculties have been dwindling since at least 1871, and show no signs of abating in their sad dwindleMent...
Canada
Nice to see it spelled out to people that "nostalgia" is of all times. And the that troubles of today were often already there earlier, but people just remember them differently.
Netherlands
My recent phone conversations with magazine sales menseem to go pretty much the same route.
"Hi! I have some happy news! I'm calling you to offer you this free magazine as a thanks for being our customer! Would you like X or Y?"
"No thanks. I'm not interested in any of those."
"But it's... free!?!"
"Save your money. Use it to make them better 'cos right now I don't want them even for free."
There's enough papery stuff delivered in my mailbox already, so I'm not adding any new stuff unless I actually want it to be there. Yes, I still do subscribe to paper versions of magazines because of the convenience (compact size, enough to read so it's worth carrying them to places, no big loss if they're used in garden games by two-year-olds). However, getting rid of physical objects is a burden, even if the trip to the paper recycler is just a few meters. I still need to actively do something to get rid of the "free" stuff, and suddenly it stops being free. Time is money, etc.
However, if they offered me a sampler PDF directly to my inbox, or a magic code to get 7 days of access to their online site, I might take it. I want my crap to be digital, 'cos I have the tools to deal with them, and I can deal with a larger amount of crap and samplers and ads on my computer than I can physically. The delete button is less than five centimeters from my right pinkie...
The more stuff there is, the more important disposability and deletability become.
Oulu, Finland
As a mathematician, I can conform this :)
Oulu, Finland
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