[williamcotton]

Speak of the devil... I just checked my messages and saw this from my wife an hour ago: "ACC north ridge has an armed person on campus. Don’t go out"

I checked the news just now and found this out: "AUSTIN (KXAN) — A shelter-in-place order was lifted for the Austin Community College Northridge Campus.

The campus issued the order at 8:50 a.m. amid reports of a possible armed person nearby. Police investigated the reports and issued an all-clear.

The shelter-in-place was lifted at 10:20 a.m., and the campus returned to normal operations."

So literally by just spending my time being nerd sniped on the internet and tweaking a Dockerfile I missed the entirety of this nothingness.

[ethbr0]

To me, this is the "past generations" litmus test I measure any of my personal preferences against.

If people were able to handle not-it in 1920, it's probably a "nice to have" rather than a "must have."

Which, we can all feel very strongly about things that are nice to have, but people were also doing just fine before constant connectivity was a thing.

[tomjen3]

In the 1920s you didn't have email, but the post was delivered multiple times a day.

You didn't have telephone, but probably somebody nearby you could call and give a message.

You didn't have a freezer, but you had a butcher within walking distance.

And you didn't have a phone in your school, but you also didn't have retarded media that spread news that required.

Also you could probably have a gun on you, and if it was hunting season there would be plenty of guns in the parking lot to stop a school threat.

[williamcotton]

Gotta love this guy born in the 1840s complaining about the telegraph being nothing more than a distraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS27u6IqWt0