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I'm_All_NEET:3

That's the problem with beauty isn't permanent. It happens to everyone from Madonna, Dick Van Dyke and Lynn Neilson. This doesn't apply to everyone tho. Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson and Dewayne "The Rock" Johnson have manage to be exceptions to this rule although it's much easier for men to do. In general women aren't really allowed to age. Even if there looks aren't important. I remember when the election was happening and people were dunking on Kamara Harris for having wrinkles like she isn't a woman in her 60's.
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💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ

I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...

He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?"
I said, "No..."
He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.

Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.

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flubba86

When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn't a sure thing, it's a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a "coin") every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing).
I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each. That's less than the electricity it took to earn them. And you couldn't spend them anywhere, except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza. There weren't even any exchanges to convert them to real currency if you wanted to.

I tried to find my coins years later, (when Bitcoins got to $2000 each), but I couldn't find the old hard drive the wallet was on.

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AlternateRoute

Have you heard of the Information superhighway?

"Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant

"I think you flooded it" in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)

"I got it off Napster"

"want to listen to my mix tape?"

"I can burn you a CD of that"

term used in the 1990s to refer to the Internet

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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NauticalNoodle

There's also a non-financial cost to keeping up with beauty standards via plastic surgery. Madonna is a perfect example. As soon as someone gets a facelift the ageing-clock speeds up and repeated lifts have diminishing returns until a person is left with an unexpressive piece of pleather for a face. Michael Jackson's nose was also a good example of such issues.
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Arthur Besse

“Sorry, I got to return this video”


2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn't widely aware of them until 2014.

How about "John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term" ?


Blockbuster RIP: The Video-Rental Empire Is Dead

The tragic tale of how Blockbuster went from Family Night mainstay to crumbled corporate empire.
Christopher Harress (International Business Times)
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Cracks_InTheWalls

Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.

Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it's in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask "Hey, are you done with that phone?" as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it's 50 cents now, unless you're calling a toll-free number).

VHS is making a ... come back isn't really the right word, but there's a small number of folks interested in what's on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).

It's all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.

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