I’m thinking of the other end of the equation: I don’t listen to a lot of the artists I liked twenty or thirty years ago. I’d be annoyed if I spent a bunch of cash on their albums only to have them be coasters now.

Exactly this. A music collection is expensive. Even more so if your tastes change over time.

Woah woah woah. Writers are supposed to support their assertions now? But what about the vibes?!

approved

less filling tho

The 80s and 90s were rife with that trope. I don’t know if modern action flicks are as bad.

It was a pretty shit sign.

They’re just a bunch of assholes.

Sauce!

a history of the Luddite movement—a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.

That’s a much better explanation of the Luddite movement than I was expecting.

Sex and relationships in action movies.

The whole “hot chick gets horny for the hero after a traumatizing couple of hours” thing gives a pretty messed up view of relationship building.

Jesus

I agree that it’s awkward and it creates problems in some scenarios. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a bad thing, but it’s an understandable (over) correction for some pretty heinous behaviour.

I think it’s also equally pretty weird to just dismiss a facet of someone’s humanity.

At work? I think it’s preferable to limit our interactions to work related stuff.

Outside of work, I’m ambivalent. We associate physical features, names, and accents with cultures. But those don’t always line up to significant differences in someone’s personality.

This habit of using headphones to dodge uncomfortable interactions may be especially common among younger adults, for whom social unease and feelings of isolation are well-documented problems that have become more common in recent decades.

In the last few decades we’ve noticed that we’ve been treating each other like shit. We’ve used race, skin colour, ethnicity, weight, etc to insult others and reduce their social standing.

We’re trying to fix that. As such, calling out those specific differences is frowned on, even if we aren’t using them negatively.

Is this inconvenient? Yes. It’s pretty easy to point out the only black/fat/disabled person in a work place. But we’re really trying to avoid any conversations that could turn into insults or attacks.

So we now have an unwritten social rule that we avoid using those identifiers when talking about individuals.

That Pepsi ad during BLM.

The one sticking out of the pelvis.

I’m also curious. Is there a particular kind of salt?