What's your 'old person' trait?
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I've started noticing birds, and worse, I've started recognizing them.
I can spot pawpaw trees going down the highway...
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I'm always up to date on the grocery store sales in my area and when there's something especially good on sale I will show up at the store when it opens at 7:30.
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It's interesting because inside the US, this is a totally valid opinion to hold. Outside the US, many people end up having to pay per message, but can use data for free via WiFi, so it makes more sense that these apps are popular there.
It used to be pay per SMS (and not cheap either), that's why WhatsApp got so big in the first place, it was "free" anywhere with free WiFi. But since many years now, regular SMS became free / dirt cheap (especially within EU), so it's no longer as good as a reason to use WhatsApp now. Now it's because it has groups, media, history, is searchable, etc.
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I prefer an analog kitchen. Spring based scales, wooden utensils, gas stove, glass storage.
Electric scale because it's more accurate. Wooden utensils yes agreed, plastic from utensils does break down in your food especially while cooking, high temps. Electric stoves are a lot healthier than gas, for yourself in the kitchen and for the environment/climate. Electric stoves got soooo much better in the last 15 years. Other than nostalgia, I don't see a reason to prefer gas nowadays. Glass for storage is the best, agreed.
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I'm confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?
A lot of Zoomer/Alphagens have said in surveys that the perceive prolonged or maintained eye contact in a conversation as a sign of aggression or attraction. I was using hyperbolic language for brevity.
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Anything invented before you turn 15 is just how the world works.
Anything invented between the ages of 15 and 30 is revolutionary and groundbreaking and you should pursue a career in it.
Anything invented after you turn 30 goes against the natural order of things.
At 39, this is becoming more and more accurate to me as time goes on. I remember telling some kid trying to pitch me TikTok when it first came out: "They brought back Vines?"
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that's gonna need to be sourced.
is tiktok really exploiting phones to root them, then covertly installing itself "deep in your hardware"?
When you install TikTok, it fabricates its own independent SoC within your phone. Sometimes you can tell because the case bulges slightly, but it depends on the model.
This isn't strictly forbidden by Android and iOS APIs (yet), but there are limitations – this most notably affects the capacitors on the new SoC which degrade quickly and can make a faint clicking noise, hence the name "TikTok".
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I'm turning 50 soon, and almost all of this hits close to home. Almost all. My media consumption is as it's always been: new books all the time. But also no TV, and I know all about a given movie from reading a few reviews, not actually watching it.
Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a good read every now and again, but when I discovered indie films as a teenager I was hooked. Not to mention I was a classic "nerd" who liked comic books, Farscape, and BSG at a time before liking those things hit the mainstream.
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Cast iron and stainless both work fine. Glass not at all.
Here's what you can do if you want to experiment without jumping in with both feet like I did:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KSNTSVR
You can get a single induction burner for a little more than $100.
Do you make a lot of stuff that involves boiling water? Tea? Noodles? Other pasta? These things boil a pot of water in 2 minutes. Not kidding.
Ohhh, that's tempting, and probably sufficient for my needs! Thanks for the heads up.
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I'm always up to date on the grocery store sales in my area and when there's something especially good on sale I will show up at the store when it opens at 7:30.
“Good morning, sir! We open at 8am.”
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I primarily write in cursive.
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1870s that is
I don't know much about the populat music of that time. I guess leftover music of the civil war. No jazz influence yet - no tin pan alley. Traditional and folksy, still based on German and English folk. Irish trad (like O'Carolan) would be rising, especially in the cities. I think Captain O'Neill was assembling his collection around that time in Chicago. Jigs And reels. I know (and like) those tunes.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I like watching old British sitcoms.
Some would also say that enjoying a good traditional Anglican liturgy is another one
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I don't download every new random chat app that's in vogue. I'll give you my phone number and we can text or talk without having to go through more 3rd parties besides the telephone companies we get service from. I hated needing a bajillion different text apps to talk to everyone I knew in the 2000s, I sure as hell ain't gonna start that shit up again 25 years down the road. Unless someone makes something like Trillian, fuck off with your WeChats and WhatsApp and Velcro or whatever the fuck.
Oh Trillian, that was such a good program. I loved changing the skin to fit my mood.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I love an early supper.
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I putter in the garden.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
I have a drawer in the garage titled "uncle solutions", it has a collection of rusted wire, bits of electric wire and similar shit for "quick fixes". I also just bought me and my SO nordic walking sticks, we still need to get matching trekking suits. Oh and I dream about retiring to a remote cottage and growing my own veggies like proper siberian babushka.
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I primarily write in cursive.
Ugh, I feel this one. I had only written in cursive for something like twenty years, and then I got a job where I needed to write in print for some legal reasons. It was super bad, yo.
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I refuse to scan a qr code for a menu. Give me a damn piece of paper
This irritates the hell out of me, especially after those malicious link hijacks in the news recently. I'd accept a url before a qr code.
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For example, mine is that I love watching Antiques Roadshow.
When out eating and drinking, my preference is to go and order food and drink at the counter/bar, rather than install some app or give a website all my personal information before I can order.
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that's gonna need to be sourced.
is tiktok really exploiting phones to root them, then covertly installing itself "deep in your hardware"?
I don't know the veracity of the statements about tiktok, but I do remember a hubbub back in the day about facebook nestling into parts of your phone and not being uninstalled with the app. A quick search later, and it looks like it was because it was a 'default app' on samsung phones. So yeah, for this I definitely want to see the proof of concept and at least some relevant info on tiktok specifically.
