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Undetermined. Just the bottom of the shoes made an imprint.

Sure, I’m not saying that they’re immune from nostalgia. Im not so saying that because they were to soon after Boomers, they didn’t have anyone from whom to learn about making nostalgia a marketing device that consumes everyone, and didn’t really have a good run at first. The mid-70s sucked for most people, and waiting in line for gasoline with your parents and the rather bizzare kids’ shows of the time don’t hit as a unofied cultural icon the same as the NES or the Beatles.

They don’t need a 3D map, and the researchers who have rendered a 3D map need a lot of specialized software and resources.

Xfinity doesn’t need that. They only need to know when people are online, what they’re looking at, and who/how many people are watching TV, and if there’s indication of pets in the house. That gives them an advertising gold mine of data.

Same in the US.

I got one once from something I know for sure I didn’t download. I always assumed it was a friend of mine staying with us that was torrenting “Boss’s Daughter Big Booty XXX” or whatever it was, but I never really wanted to ask.

I used to have a Linux/Win 11 dual boot.

After about 6 months I stopped using Windows altogether. After about a year I just wiped the drive and went 100% Linux because Windows becomes a liability when it does BIOS updates you don’t want or need to ensure that it’s the only OS on the machine.

100% agree with this. The 90’s were awesome for white males in North America and a few places in Europe born after 1950, and not a ton of other people. The same could be said of the 80’s or the 60’s up to 1973. Just because the Boomers (and then later Millennials) were great at the marketing associated with the entertainment detritus of when they had general periods of feeling awesome about life*, doesn’t mean it was the peak of anything.

Case in point, TWO of the most popular TV shows in the US in the late 80’s/early 90’s were one about living in the 1960’s (Wonder Years) and a show that included a lot of time travel to the 1960’s (Quantum Leap).

• To clarify this, Boomers dragged Western culture around on their emotions, so periods where a lot of them hit seminal age ranges (15-20 becoming and adult, and 30-45 when you have career and family and haven’t yet hit midlife crisis point) line up generally with larger periods of nostalgia setting in and being marketable. This is then extrapolated out to Millennials, who unlike Gen X, gobbled up their Boomer training and penchant for nostalgia hard. So the 80’s and 90s were sort of this perfect inflection point of career-oriented Boomers taking the lead and feeling like kinds of the world, then selling us the most brightly-colored plastic crap in the history of humanity, and then Millennials thinking that time, when they were also hitting 15-20, was the peak of human civilization. While the births per year are not quite a bell curve, there’s a range of earlier people in the generation that set the tone of that generation, which people a few years younger often go a long with. So it’s the first 5-10 years of a generation that are setting the trends and tones, and then another 10 years backing them up. Schools, specially high schools and colleges with 4-year cohorts, facilitate this by having the older classes informing the younger classes pre-internet. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Our ancestors DID need shoes. Footprints in South Africa dated to be between 75K and 136K years old show footwear in use. We invented shoes possibly 100,000 years before we invented written language.

Not really. Socks used to be the layer of what you wore first if needed, and then wrapped your feet in animal skins as the extra outer layer we would now consider “shoes.” Shoes and socks were just sort of a combined foot bag/bundle for thousands of years, and many cultures developed socks and/or shoes independently, meaning they are not a social construct if numerous cultures are inventing them for practical purposes.

I love this. I want people to need to hike 30 miles into the hills to ask an LLM for banal advice. And then spend the while hike back wondering about the word salad they got in return.

Well, up until only a generation or two ago, no one born into those paces actually did have a choice to stay or not. It’s not easy to leave a family support network, especially in a niche environment.

That being said, living in the desert, I saw tons of Midwestern tourists that underestimated it, and quickly got into basic trouble that I learned to avoid as a child. Bit, the people that were always cool and always prepared to deal with a harsh environment were the people that had spent time in Alaska. Spend time in an extreme place, and you learn to respect any extreme place, and be perfectly fine.

And the extreme cold option is always an option on the table. Not nuclear winter, but one bad volcanic eruption can affect large parts of the globe. Just ask folks in 1816, when an eruption in Indonesia led to a year with literally no summer in most of the northern hemisphere. Totally brutal famine in Europe, as one could also expect from AMOC collapse.

Oh, I never said I would play it well.

I would buy this album.

And I’ll play the harmonica.

Yes. I’ve lived in West Africa for about 7 years total. I’ve seen plenty of 50m deep wells pulled by hand go dry or collapse. People collecting water from puddles after a rain, rather than walk a mile to the well.

The old guys in Mali and Niger talk about being kids, roaming forests and keeping hyenas from eating the goats. One village I knew was named “it’s an elephant.” It’s all gone now. It’s been gone for 30 years. The elephants, the hyenas, the forests north of 13 degrees N, are mostly gone.

But some trees are still there, all the way into the Sahara. There are oasies and seasonal lakes with fish and wells and crops. Herders graze goats and donkeys in narrow bands far into the Sahara.

Im not saying it’s great, but im not saying it’s absolute devastation and hell on earth. I’d rather be there than some isolated community in Alaska or Siberia.

That’s when you dry out the stuff you grew when it was only 100°F

Also, Millet, sorghum, cow peas, pigeon peas, cactus, okra, and sweet potatoes are the crops that already grow in the Sahel, where it’s usually right around triple digits. People live like this right now. They have for generations.

Ever heard of a well?

Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)

Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.

And I’ve spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.

While you like to think “you can put in more clothes,” that’s nice and all… Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.

You do you, but, uh…enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?

Triple. No hesitation.

First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.

What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic – all already grow in triple digit temps. I’m eating well.

Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.

More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I’m not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.

Right? I couldn’t even get Voyager to show a feed, and every browser kicked for warnings. No idea how they would have missed it.

Yeah, I told them them late yesterday. I figured someone else would, and apparently no one else did.

I think our instance just failed some social dynamics test.