Automotive cigarette lighters eventually developed a secondary use as an auxiliary power port. The modern ones don’t actually function as a cigarette lighter though. They don’t have the clips needed to hold the lighter coil in the socket.

“Hey good looking. Can you help me install Microsoft Office in this thing?”

Worst pickup line ever.

What other things would be a big difference with the people today?

The lack of cigarette smoke everywhere, at least in the US and probably most other developed nations. In 1965, around 43% of American adults smoked. Today, just over 11% do. You no longer have to sit in the “non-smoking” section of a restaurant that still smells strongly of stale cigarettes. They no longer put ash trays or cigarette lighters in vehicles, which were a standard feature up to at least the late 90’s.

Dialing in a TV station, with the different bands and antenna tweaking.

That’s what younger siblings were for. Holding the rabbit ears or turning the antenna mast.

Eventually, we’re all the morning DJ at W.O.L.D.

Altman, a regular user of X since 2008, has been forthright about his frustration with the bots on it. In September, he posted to X that “somehow AI twitter/AI reddit feels very fake in a way it really didn’t a year or two ago.” A few days earlier, he made a similar point, citing dead internet theory, which posits that since 2016, the internet has been overrun with non-human activity. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM [AI]-run twitter accounts now,” he wrote.

CEO of glorified bot farm complains about effects of bot farming.

I’m just browsing. We don’t have the money for that.

There’s nothing I want more than to be a mid-level cog in the corporate state political machine.

/S

Many moons ago, I lived about 20 feet from a Union Pacific railroad track. Gotta give credit to the engineers. They really tried to quietly sneak by every morning at 2:00 AM. As quietly as you can sneak a freight train anyways.

I kind of wonder if that’s a better or worse experience than living right next to a major highway.

Mommy wants to be hurt. She specifically requested it.

Beast with two backs forgot to stretch.

Rock salt is great for dispersing ice from streets and sidewalks.

On one hand, I’m genuinely curious to see how the JP Morgan suit pans out. They have vast financial resources, an army of lawyers, and unlike some of the other defendents in Trump’s recent lawsuits, a potentially dangerous precedent to be set by settling.

On the other hand, they’re both scum and they deserve each other.

Or the time Ulysses Grant ordered the Treasury to flood the gold market - temporarily tanking the US economy - in order to crush his own brother in laws market manipulation scheme.

Presbyterians don’t have canonized saints but if they did, The Reverend Fred Rogers would almost certainly be #1 on the list. He believed in the importance of teaching kids to love their neighbors and themselves. And he found an incredibly effective way to do it that basically no one else has been able to match.

Too bad Meghan McCain was apparently watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on mute the entire time.

Probably called the feds on himself.

The officials said Flores appeared at an immigration hearing on December 16, where he represented himself, and admitted to the allegations against him then requested voluntary departure.

If a bunch of morons offer you a get out of jail free card and a one way ticket to freedomville, you take it.

The prosecutors added they “remain eager to prosecute defendant for his crimes and vindicate his victims” if he returns to the country.

That dude won the jackpot, cashed in his chips, walked out the front door, and he is never coming back.

This whole story couldn’t be more ridiculous if it were a Looney Toon’s episode.

That’s a tough call. I would say the hardest was when I was on the board of a regional charity organization and we caught the CEO embezzling. If you’ve never dealt with something like that before, it’s hard to imagine the river of shit that is coming your way.

This dude, who was paid a decent salary and benefits, very smugly told us that he felt he was more entitled to the money than the people who actually needed it. I’ve never wanted to punch anyone so badly. Firing him was the easy part. Dealing with the criminal investigation and the loss of community trust was the hard part. That was more of an emotionally exhausting year and a half rather than just a day though.

You can pull the fuse but this also disables Bluetooth iirc.