I distinctly remember, as a young teenager, the first time I stayed up all night on the internet, until I saw the morning sun peeking through my window.
Felt like I'd passed some barrier. The night was no longer real. Just a bunch of dark hours.
"Way better than those libtards who canceled on us."
In one sentence, Duffy both complains about the musical acts who canceled and completely legitimizes their stated reason for doing so.
Paris said: 37°C? Time to turn the Canal Saint-Martin into an urban beach 🏖️💦
Plouf! Parisians officially taking summer into their own hands one cannonball at a time.
Who needs the Côte d’Azur when you’ve got this? ☀️🇫🇷
“Kids these days don’t know any practical skills.”
Somebody from the generation that decided to remove woodshop, auto shop, home economics, and personal finance from public school curriculums in exchange for more practical tests.
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
You can’t write an essay without ChatGPT? Well, I’m an elder millennial and, on the eve of the due date in the Land Before Autosave, sometimes Word would freeze and we would write that essay AGAIN.
This scene in the book is spectacular because Gaius Helen Mohaim is completely aware of what's going on and why the hall is as big as it is and she's still unable to stop it from getting to her. Sorry ma'am, the Muadib is inevitable.
do you guys realise that joining a guild was arguably way harder than getting a degree today? master masons, artisans and architects were mostly wealthy burghers. the most you’d be able to do, if you belonged in the 90% of serfs, was haul the rubble out and help carry the stones.
I can’t fully explain to younger people how cool the internet used to be. We had open forums, personal websites, weird experimental pages, and chaotic corners of the web, before Amazon, Google, and Meta turned it into a sterile, closed ecosystem of clutter, and commerce.
Fun fact, liberals also love this country, but conservatives are so stupid that they think criticizing the worst government ever assembled means they hate the country.
Just your regular reminder that Tolkien was not just a Professor or writer but a skilled artist when it came to painting and illustrating. He created beautiful things.