Settling a dispute
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There were literally phone numbers you could call and someone at a library would look up the answer to your question. In like, a day or so. And call you back with the info.
I want this job so bad. Do you know how much I know but never get asked about! I have to inflict it apon people to get it out ofy system.
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I want this job so bad. Do you know how much I know but never get asked about! I have to inflict it apon people to get it out ofy system.
Pfft, I bet you can't even tell me one interesting thing about minerals
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There were literally phone numbers you could call and someone at a library would look up the answer to your question. In like, a day or so. And call you back with the info.
wrote last edited by [email protected]We texted Chacha (242242) when I was in high school. It just sent the question to some dude on their computer who looked up the answer and texted you back. I still have no idea how they made money.
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Pfft, I bet you can't even tell me one interesting thing about minerals
Yeah, I bet their apple knowledge isn't up to snuff either.
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my advisor: …yes
Girl stacking cups in the background: OH MY GOD!!!!!!
Skrillex noises
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Pfft, I bet you can't even tell me one interesting thing about minerals
They're rocks, Marie!
... Wait, that's not right.
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Pfft, I bet you can't even tell me one interesting thing about minerals
Does Bronze count as a mineral for these purposes? If so did you know that the earliest form of bronze was arsenical and that large amount of copper deposits used during the copper and bronze age were contaminated by arsenic. This is probably what resulted in early blacksmiths being shamans, because they poisoned themselves while making their tools and went crazy.
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Pre-smartphone was a very different time.
Apparently as many dumbasses around back then as now.
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Skrillex noises
I have Skrillex trapped in my basement. Play this at full volume or I'll put him in the hole.
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Apparently as many dumbasses around back then as now.
There is a widespread idea that people from the past were dumb due to a lack of information, the age of smartphones and free access to information has made it clear that a lack of information was never the issue, we are just really fucking stupid animals.
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There were literally phone numbers you could call and someone at a library would look up the answer to your question. In like, a day or so. And call you back with the info.
I have a friend who works for a library. They still offer this service. I don't think anyone under the age of 70 has used it in some time.
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We texted Chacha (242242) when I was in high school. It just sent the question to some dude on their computer who looked up the answer and texted you back. I still have no idea how they made money.
I still have no idea how they made money.
That's the neat part, they didn't.
They wanted to pivot to ads, or paid subscriptions, but neither revenue stream really materialized for them.
Google had a text to search service, too, that didn't make money, but turned out to be pretty valuable user data for developing smarter semantic search.
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Does Bronze count as a mineral for these purposes? If so did you know that the earliest form of bronze was arsenical and that large amount of copper deposits used during the copper and bronze age were contaminated by arsenic. This is probably what resulted in early blacksmiths being shamans, because they poisoned themselves while making their tools and went crazy.
I thought mercury was more likely for causing those "issues."
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I imagine everyone in the bar silent while he's on the phone, leaning forward, waiting to hear the answer.
I have to wonder how much money was made, and what happened to the poor fool who bet against this.
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There were literally phone numbers you could call and someone at a library would look up the answer to your question. In like, a day or so. And call you back with the info.
But what if the game show only gives me 30 seconds
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Does Bronze count as a mineral for these purposes? If so did you know that the earliest form of bronze was arsenical and that large amount of copper deposits used during the copper and bronze age were contaminated by arsenic. This is probably what resulted in early blacksmiths being shamans, because they poisoned themselves while making their tools and went crazy.
I'll allow it, because A. interesting. and B. I can use my preplanned response:
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This is the opposite outcome of one of my friends advisors. We went to the Roswell UFO museum as a lark. And one of the info panels said "this is potential alien metal panels, analyzed by a scientist, Dr. So and So" and we told the professor, who got really angry. "I said that I would look at what they had and it was all flattened pieces of beer cans, I told them not to associate me with this nonsense!"
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Does Bronze count as a mineral for these purposes? If so did you know that the earliest form of bronze was arsenical and that large amount of copper deposits used during the copper and bronze age were contaminated by arsenic. This is probably what resulted in early blacksmiths being shamans, because they poisoned themselves while making their tools and went crazy.
Interesting exception: in North America around the Great Lakes, pure native copper was widely available at the surface due to the ice sheets exposing underground deposits when they advanced/retreated.
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There is a widespread idea that people from the past were dumb due to a lack of information, the age of smartphones and free access to information has made it clear that a lack of information was never the issue, we are just really fucking stupid animals.
I mean, yeah, but also we made machines to feed us interesting things and it turns out we really like to be mad for some reason (justified or otherwise) and we'll share things to make others mad too. Throw in a profit motive, economic woes due to said profit motive, and it's over.
