Checking out at the grocery store and item needs a price check. Teen cashier calls over the manager (also a teen) who instead of running into the aisles to find the item whips out her iPhone and looks the item up on the store’s website to check the price. DONE.
Just found overhead slides (kids, go ask your supervisor what THOSE were) from my graduate student days as an astronomer building instruments - I was doing @wondermark cartoons before they were even a scratch on a mezzotint plate. #astrodon#dinosaur#mezzotint#kidsthesedays#overheadprojectorslides
I have finally been forced to understand who vtubers are and engage with this corner of online content....and I feel like such an old. 👵🏻
I love working with trans youth, but playing chaperone on a discord server means I need to double check links shared and things like that. As a result, I need to learn about their favorite vtubers now and the pacing is so hyper...my brain hurts 😅
What gets me is that I know when I was their age I enjoyed similarly hyper and fast-paced content...and listened to loud music...and my joints didn't constantly hurt...
I just tuned into a community radio station ... how do these places still run ... with listeners ... I imagine they would have maybe 10 listeners at any time ... the presenters are hilarious! ... not in a funny way ... giggles
The local High School in Coos Bay Oregon has a noncommercial radio station. The students are the only on air talent. They do pretty good. I'm not so sure about their taste in music
sad when older accomplished and revered artists have had so many people sniffing their farts and calling it genius for so long they think that their form and style and interpretation of what art is is the pinnacle of human artistic endeavor.
that's right bucko, the concept of art and the technology used to make it have been changing and advancing for thousands of years but you cracked the code. that new thing is what finally went too far.
I can tell everyone in the office is much younger than me, because someone was moving a bunch of equipment on a dolly, said "I can't turn right," then looked at me blankly when I said "Sure you can, you're an ambiturner."
Gen X person asks me how someone they know, listening to a local radio station's stream on their phone's loudspeaker, could possibly avoid pissing through their mobile data every morning.
I just explained to a Gen X'er, who once worked at said fucking radio station, the concept of a fucking boombox.