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[Jaxbuck]

I suspect that the Earth will be quietly recovering in a largely post-human era. The shame is that we have or are very close to having all the tools we need to truly thrive, but because we're humans and evolve slowly, we won't take advantage of them, at least not without massive global wars first.

 

[Thump]

Just in our lifetime we went from rotary phones, cars without seat belts, TVs that needed 5 minutes to warm the tube and then maybe 10 channels max, transistor radios, phonographs that played 33rpm, 45rpms and 7 rpm records, 6 o'clock news, processed food being a novelty, same with fast food, pull tab beer and soda cans...

And smoking anywhere you pleased.

 

[Thump]

I personally went from using a party line phone as a kid in SW Ohio to today with the beginning of AI in less than 55 years.

Internet is what, less than 25 years old for the main stream public?
iPhones are less than 20 years old
AI is just getting started in the past 5 years or so (again for mass use, not early tech adopters).

It's impossible to imagine 100 years from now

Luckily you’ll be dead.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Luckily you’ll be dead.

Most of my teachers from elementary school through Jr High lived through the great depression and WW2. They didn't take any shit. I think kids today who are used to the younger, more progressive teachers would shit their pants if some giant hand suddenly reached down and dropped them into those times.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Luckily you’ll be dead.

Thank fuck.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Most of my teachers from elementary school through Jr High lived through the great depression and WW2. They didn't take any shit. I think kids today who are used to the younger, more progressive teachers would shit their pants if some giant hand suddenly reached down and dropped them into those times.

I had a somewhat legendary hard ass 8th grade English teacher (although some of the hard-assedness was theatrical) who'd worked in a factory building war planes during WWII. One day a kid fell asleep with his head on his desk (the typical one piece chair with a "desk" attachment) and she kicked the underside of that thing hard enough to have him sitting straight up. I also increased my shockingly terrible ranking in English on the California Achievement Test by 50 percentage points from 7th grade to 8th grade.

 

[DubCoffman62]

I had a somewhat legendary hard ass 8th grade English teacher (although some of the hard-assedness was theatrical) who'd worked in a factory building war planes during WWII. One day a kid fell asleep with his head on his desk (the typical one piece chair with a "desk" attachment) and she kicked the underside of that thing hard enough to have him sitting straight up. I also increased my shockingly terrible ranking in English on the California Achievement Test by 50 percentage points from 7th grade to 8th grade.

I always did well in school in elementary because my mother spent a lot of time with me teaching me to read, write, count, she indulged and developed my every interest and lived vicariously through my successes. I was a lazy student at school however. That is until the 3rd grade and Mrs Cutler. We had a system where we had pouches and different colored cards for each subject and when you finished your work on one you put the appropriately colored card in it's poach under your name. One day at the end of class I only had one card. She looked at me and said she never wanted to see that again. I got the message and from then on out I was done with everything before lunch and was able to listen to records, read, draw... Those were good times

 

[Thump]

I always did well in school in elementary because my mother spent a lot of time with me teaching me to read, write, count, she indulged and developed my every interest and lived vicariously through my successes. I was a lazy student at school however. That is until the 3rd grade and Mrs Cutler. We had a system where we had pouches and different colored cards for each subject and when you finished your work on one you put the appropriately colored card in it's poach under your name. One day at the end of class I only had one card. She looked at me and said she never wanted to see that again. I got the message and from then on out I was done with everything before lunch and was able to listen to records, read, draw... Those were good times

And smoke.

 

[DubCoffman62]

And smoke.

We had an open campus at my high school and sometimes I'd skip 4th period (as a senior) and my buddy and I would walk to his house and jam. Lunch followed 4th period so that was like two hours of kickin' it during school hours. At that time they just marked you absent, it wasn't a big deal. They knew you were at all of your other classes and didn't enforce or punish ditching. Now that same school looks like a prison with fences, mazes, metal detectors. It's sad. The younger generation will never know what was taken from them.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

And smoking anywhere you pleased.

I smoked on airplanes. Crazy to think about that now. I cannot imagine being on a plane and several people are huffin heaters.

We had a smoking area for students in high-school. We'd smoke and play hackey sack. Teacher, parents would walk past. Nobody batted an eye.

To Dubs' point, I dont think I ever attended a study hall back in HS. I had study hall 4th and 8th period. Double lunch and leave early. That was sophomore and junior years. Graduated HS early, actually, not because im some academic, but rather because I had the credits and didnt want to keep going to fuckin high school. Ended up getting mono anyway, so I was sick as shit the second half of my senior year ... at least I didnt have any classes (save for Spanish, which I was horrible at. I failed Spanish as a freshman and had to take it as a senior... I was so bad at Spanish, I cheated on tests and still failed.. and not because I was caught cheating))

 

[DubCoffman62]

I smoked on airplanes. Crazy to think about that now. I cannot imagine being on a plane and several people are huffin heaters.

We had a smoking area for students in high-school. We'd smoke and play hackey sack. Teacher, parents would walk past. Nobody batted an eye.

To Dubs' point, I dont think I ever attended a study hall back in HS. I had study hall 4th and 8th period. Double lunch and leave early. That was sophomore and junior years. Graduated HS early, actually, not because im some academic, but rather because I had the credits and didnt want to keep going to fuckin high school. Ended up getting mono anyway, so I was sick as shit the second half of my senior year ... at least I didnt have any classes (save for Spanish, which I was horrible at. I failed Spanish as a freshman and had to take it as a senior... I was so bad at Spanish, I cheated on tests and still failed.. and not because I was caught cheating))

My senior year 4th period was Home Room or something stupid thing like that. They took role and we were supposed to be studying but no one did and the teacher didn't give two craps. No point in being there. I had English after lunch and many days I grabbed a sub on my way back to school and ate it during class. No fucks given. I had my credits to graduate and by then I was just through. The second semester of my senior year probably lowered my GPA by at least a point
One more story. I manged to get an A my senior year in English because despite not doing any of the work I wrote a letter to the editor that was prinited in the local periodical ,in my own name, that was very critical about some of the aspects of my school. It rocked admin but many of my teachers told me that it was not only a well written letter that I had voiced the opinion of many. I got a free pass from a handful of teachers.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Last time I smoked in an airport was Amsterdam, probably around 2003? I had just flown across the Atlantic. I was passed out from a copious amount of booze, and when I came to, we were on thre ground. I get up and go to disembark (at this point some other passenger hands me my passport which I had dropped, I guess)...

Then..

We're walking down a long hall. I see what looks to me to be a heated cigarette area. (Its not) well, i light up... im smoking... chillin.. sayin hello to the pilot. I learned later, when I left a few days later, that there was no smoking permitted in the airport.

There's also no record of me having been in Amsterdam. I went through a couple of doors and was in the main terminal area. I blew off a couple guards saying "Im with that guy" (my cousin) when I went through those doors. No stamp on my passport. No going though any customs. Just walked though a couple double doors tryjng to keep up with my cousin. Lmao.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Last time I smoked in an airport was Amsterdam, probably around 2003? I had just flown across the Atlantic. I was passed out from a copious amount of booze, and when I came to, we were on thre ground. I get up and go to disembark (at this point some other passenger hands me my passport which I had dropped, I guess)...

Then..

We're walking down a long hall. I see what looks to me to be a heated cigarette area. (Its not) well, i light up... im smoking... chillin.. sayin hello to the pilot. I learned later, when I left a few days later, that there was no smoking permitted in the airport.

There's also no record of me having been in Amsterdam. I went through a couple of doors and was in the main terminal area. I blew off a couple guards saying "Im with that guy" (my cousin) when I went through those doors. No stamp on my passport. No going though any customs. Just walked though a couple double doors tryjng to keep up with my cousin. Lmao.

I was on my way back home from the UK and passing through Heathrow. There was a smoking area outside of the terminal before you passed through security and I spent some time there. This was 2006 and there had been some kind of terrorist threat and they were supposedly really cracking down on what could get through security. I emptied my pockets, my lighter and smokes, no problem. When I got back home and passed through customs they couldn't believe that they'd let me through security with a lighter. They were besides themselves.

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