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Yes, this is what people did back then

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    depends on what day of the week it is. if it's a weekday then I turn on the TV and watch like Power Rangers or whatever was on during Fox Kids Mornings. Or if i'm in my bedroom where I didn't have cable then bleh had to watch Global (Canada) and it was carebears or inspector gadget or something in the mornings. OR just put on the Genesis/SNES.

    If it's Saturday then I'm up early to go to the basement to watch cartoons all morning.

    it was way better back then.

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      Assuming I'm the same age I am today, probably the same thing šŸ˜…

      Wake up, morning constitutional, coffee, bong-rip, check the server.

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        [Imagine] you wake up in 1995. [There's] no wifi [and] no cell phones. [What's] the first thing you do?

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        you've omitted "just." If "just" were not in the sentence I would have instinctively filled it in with the missing words you've suggested. But I can't reconcile "just" with any parse.

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          Assuming I'm the same age I am today, probably the same thing šŸ˜…

          Wake up, morning constitutional, coffee, bong-rip, check the server.

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          Do you run a BBS?

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            Do you run a BBS?

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            I run a couple of services. A blog for my partner, a media server (farfetched but certainly possible in 1995), as well as a matrix server.

            I'm certain I'd be doing similar things in 1995. Based on my personality there's no way I wouldn't have gotten into that type of computing.

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              you've omitted "just." If "just" were not in the sentence I would have instinctively filled it in with the missing words you've suggested. But I can't reconcile "just" with any parse.

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              True. English isn't my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the "just" is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They're basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

              Sometimes people ask "Just why?", and that's a bit different than only "Why?", because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

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                Have a long and frustrating wank to Cosmopolitan because I'm a teenager and haven't figured out I can just walk into a newsagent and buy a copy of Penthouse.

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                  Probably play some Crash Bandicoot, or go to my nine o clock lecture.

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                    AOl, or the BBS's that I was a member of.

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                      AOL was dial-up.

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                      Of course it was. I had it.

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                        Dial into my local BBS and play some door games.

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                        Also, tell my younger self not to buy the lifetime subscription to the local BBS and just pay yearly, because this Internet thing is going to get faster and less buggy.

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                          None of you said, "prevent 9/11." For shame.

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                            Go back to sleep!

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                              1995 I would just be getting home from night shift.

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                                Listen to my mixtape, duh.

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                                  None of you said, "prevent 9/11." For shame.

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                                  Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

                                  I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

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                                    True. English isn't my native language and I thought about this, but it somehow just makes sense in my head. The way the "just" is used reminds me of the Modalpartikel we have in German. They're basically filler words that add nuance, emphasis or expectation to a sentence.

                                    Sometimes people ask "Just why?", and that's a bit different than only "Why?", because it adds a sense of confusion or urgency to the question.

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                                    That makes sense, and "just" is a filler word in English. I can see why in another language like German this would work fine. But in English, at least to me, this seems exceptionally clunky. The simplest explanation is simply that "just" isn't generally used in a context where "what" is been elided, but maybe there's a deeper reason why it sounds odd to me.

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                                      Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

                                      I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

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                                      We know where they went to flight school. Intercept and eliminate those hijackers. You will go to jail for murder, but you will change the course of history.

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                                        See DJ Heather and silicon soul live.

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                                          Back to usenet.

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