A 5-day, 40 hour work week “standard”
Somebody saying “bless you” to someone else who sneezes
The president
MSN Explorer, the browser, got an update in 2021. You can still download it. https://membercenter.msn.com/download.aspx
There’s a screenshot on the Wikipedia page.
Civilization started somewhere around 12 thousand years ago
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Outside.
Japanese here, it is still crazy people need to bring a big wooden stemp around to sign government documents and contracts. and bringing physical documents around in a suitcase.
A wooden stamp or is stemp something I’m unaware of?
Oxford University started sometime around the year 1100.
Cnidarians. (The sort of animals that includes jellyfish and sea anenomes and coral and such). Theyre so old that the first known predatory animal as far as I’m aware was one of them, and some of them still resemble those ancient versions to a significant degree. Even tho every time theres a mass extinction corals seem to be some of the first things to go, and jellyfish tend to be slow, stupid and not very good at controlling where they go, it somehow works out for them.
The baths on the Titanic still hold water today
Incredible
Coffee grinder. The pure mechanical one: a wooden box with a stylish crank on top.
I love those! My mom still uses the one that her mother used. It’s close to 100 years old now.
I have a more modern one, it’s an aluminum cylinder with the crank on top. Still a nice morning ritual, and much easier to hold.
Cobol on old systems that are too ancient to touch but are generally fine as long as you don’t touch them.
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Religion. And it all needs to go.
Amen to that.
Polytheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are nice enough. (I mean, monotheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are also fine, but I personally prefer “our gods are our gods. you have your own gods? cool!” to “there is ONLY our god. Your gods are FALSE.”.)
– Frost
David Attenborough, and I hope he’s around for as long as he wants to be.
It’s his hundredth birthday in 2 days!
Fax machines.
The amount of “modern” companies I had to fax shit too when my dad died was infuriating! Hyundai, Target, etc etc etc. Email is a thing dumb ass companies! Fuck me.
Many government departments and private companies consider faxed documents as a duplicated “original”, instead of a copy. Because that totally makes sense.
IT MEANS FASCIMILE GOD DAMNIT
Totally… 🤦
I can’t exactly recommend the service which can be a bit annoying but clicksend allows you to send faxes and actually letters for pretty cheap. the letter thing is pretty nice when something demands a physical one. you upload a pdf and it gets printed and mailed out. fax works same way. fax is way cheaper obviously.
Why would someone need that instead of just printing it and mailing it themselves?
just faster. you have to have a printer and paper for it and envelopes and stamps. with the service you just upload the pdf and put in the address and hit send. I mean I think most could see how it can be useful. Bit cheaper to print and fold and seal and stamp and drop in the box but with as unoften as I need to send a physical letter I like it.
Faxes are common in healthcare facilities and hospitals. I would imagine that they’re safer when it comes to sensitive data.
They are analog modems on a telephone line. There is no encryption at all, because they still need to be compatible with fax machines from the 1970s.
There was also an exploit where someone sent a manipulated image via fax, which would exploit an old bug in a jpg library that is used in the software stack, so you can run your own code.
Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there’s still a place for fax, it’s essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that’s not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody’s first choice, but I think it’s still valid.
Fax may outlast landline telephony.
It already has. Vast majority of companies still handling fax are using VoIP fax modems with digital receivers that turn it into a PDF. I haven’t seen a functioning copper landline probably since 2015…
Did you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
They still have some uses (Invidious: mirror selection or Nadeko).
Also maddening and frustratingly!
Honestly vinyl records, and I say this as a collector with joy
I think it’s kinda surprising when you think that most people who enjoy music in 2026 have access to a good percentage of all music ever recorded as part of their music streaming subscription.
It warms my heart that there’s enough people out there who don’t give a shit about the level of convenience provided by streaming that ultimately erodes the work of an artist, and they choose to buy an expensive plastic circle instead
Tracks on an album are intended to be listened to in the context of that album. To normalise pulling pieces out and ignoring the rest is kinda destructive to the artists’ intent.
Vinyl records are kinda the antithesis to that mindset. You’re kinda forced to engage with the album as an atomic piece of art
So for me it’s not just surprising, but a thing of beauty
most people who enjoy music in 2026 have access to a good percentage of all music ever recorded as part of their music streaming subscription.
For NOW they do. I suspect enshittification is forcing more capital investment in response.
The album thing has bothered me for a long time. There are now tons of “internet artists” that all seem to release one or two singles every six months and that’s just how they release music.
Albums aren’t just about a limitation of the medium. It’s about putting a concept together that’s bigger than a 3-5 minute idea you had one day. It’s about capturing a time of that artist’s or group’s life and progress. It gives you the chance to bind all of those tracks together and organize them in a way that you think will help guide your audience.
With single-only releases, you may never really get to know the artist or what emotion they may be trying to convey in a greater sense. Or worse, all of their singles just sound like “them” and never evolve beyond that.
Albums are a great statement from artists but in the history of recorded music the LP phonograph or album is relatively new, introduced in 1948. Before then artists basically only released singles. In a way the album was originally a value purchase; instead of buying 7 different singles you could buy one LP for a lower price. It’s almost more like the modern “greatest hits” albums successful musicians release.
I don’t think it’s fair to outright dismiss someone who’s only releasing singles; it’s not actually a new phenomenon. Maybe they’re not saying as much as people releasing albums, but not all albums are really carrying a concept or bigger thought, either. Not everything needs to be a novel; there’s a place for short articles or random comments online.
I suppose my tone was a little off. I shouldn’t imply that it’s wrong to not pursue an album or that it’s a more correct approach to do so.
If only the prices were not so 2026y.
