Tweets for Today

[packbat]

• 10:26 Y'know what I deplore? The "anyone from 100+ years ago brought forward to today would be terrified" meme. Humanity hasn't changed that much. #
• 11:25 @fadeaccompli Doubly so when there's a trash bin. I've seen a healthy young man standing less than ten feet from it drop a peel at his feet. #
• 11:41 @fadeaccompli Granted, there's not a great supply of ashtrays around these days. Cup lids, though - there's no excuse. Always carry out. #
• 11:54 @fadeaccompli I've a lot of tolerance for addicts - probably be a horrible enabler. But at minimum I'd want them to grind out their butts. #
• 17:23 @kirabug I think you have to click on the thumbnail pictures in the thing on the right - one is the next one, the other is the previous one. #
• 18:25 @fadeaccompli ...hm. They should have a system to say: "yes, for the next [time period], you may make the same decision on identical cases." #

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Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I mean, I don't know history very well; what changed between 1208 and 1908 that would have prepared folk in the latter year for 2008?

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Well, the invention of electricity for example. Or, hey, that diminishing role of the church in every day life and the increase of secular institutions like science and stuff. Or the lack of, y'know, kings over large parts of the world. Or the fact that we have more than three continents now.

And that's just talking about someone from Europe or the Middle East. I imagine it would even weirder for someone from thirteenth century Africa or North America.

Um.

I'm sorry, the question is like asking what changed between the Bronze and Middle Ages, except even more so.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

...point.