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Right on, thanks for the story! This is later than I thought because when I think dialup internet, it was before laptops were really a thing. They existed but I don't think I ever saw one in person, just in catalogues.

They literally published project 2025 in it's entirety months before the election.

DeJoy. He is quitting or maybe already has by now. He was terrible. Should have been fired by Biden day one.

Might have had a tremor disorder. Might have been an alcoholic, I've been there before shaking so bad. My friend has essential tremor. It's actually had a big impact on his life and the way people perceive him.

Gonna need the story on that one. It reminds me of trying to teach my grandpa to use a mouse. Not his fault, he had a fifth grade education then went into the mines. This was all magic to him. So every time he wanted the cursor to go higher on the screen he'd lift the mouse in the air. We couldn't get past it- this motion on the horizontal plane becomes that motion on the vertical plane.

I'm sure I could teach a man like him now that I know how to teach. At the time I was an impatient young teen.

So your mom spent around $4500 in today's dollars for a standard computer set up of the time, then spent thousands more on an encyclopedia set because she wanted the computer crippled so you couldn't look at porn.

My god we humans are repressed.

An Encarta CD would have been a lot cheaper, just saying.

Ever seen an adult open Google Chrome, type in google, click the first link to www.google.com, then click the search bar on the page and begin to search? I have.

I've had similar experiences teaching zoomers basic shortcuts: ctrl-c, ctrl-v, alt-tab, ctrl-shift-esc. Makes me feel like a wizard. They might think I am a wizard.

It's not owned by a corporation and doesn't sell your data or use it to feed an algorithm. So yeah I'd say it's a lot better.

It's very clever, but I've always felt it flies right over the heads of their viewers. Maybe that's a feature not a bug, who knows.

They're the same picture.

I don't disagree with you but I'd like to point out that many of the most marginalized people here are forced to work on the weekend, in the afternoon and evening, in order to serve the more privileged who get weekends off work.