Old people have no idea...

[MisterCreosote]

I think in his case it was a tad more than a single tweet going awry...

Didn't a single tweet start the unraveling, though? Am I remembering that correctly? He accidentally tweeted a deck pic?

 

[dixiehack]

Maybe the PR person whose racist tweet blew up while she was on an international flight?

Now chief communications officer for the parent company of Match.com. Practically the same thing as scrubbing toilets. darn this cancel culture.

 

[Batman]

I don't know. You tell me. How many have actually had their careers/lives ruined over one dumb tweet (that didn't simply more or less reflect their overall body of work but went "just a little too far this time")? I'm having trouble coming up with examples. Maybe the PR person whose racist tweet blew up while she was on an international flight? But then ultimately became kind of a cancel culture cause celebre for a while as a result? Bring the goods. Because the other examples I can think of aren't exactly how you describe it when you peel back the onion a bit.

Somebody ship in your Wheaties this morning? You seem riled up about this.
It's a holiday weekend and I'm trying to get work done so I can relax tomorrow. Maybe if I get an hour to go down some rabbit holes to find a few of the hundreds of examples of cancel culture, doxxing, swatting and other ashorted online harashment that has followed people posting something online that rubbed someone the wrong way, I'll post some. Maybe not.
Probably not.

 

[X-Hack]

Talk about riled up. But if you need to spend hours going down a rabbit hole to find something that fits your original claim before you shifted the goalposts a little, you weren't making much of a point in the first place, were you? Anyway, that's all I've got.

 

[Batman]

Talk about riled up. But if you need to spend hours going down a rabbit hole to find something that fits your original claim before you shifted the goalposts a little, you weren't making much of a point in the first place, were you? Anyway, that's all I've got.

I'm not always good with the Google. It's witchcraft and scares me.

 

[Hermes]

When did Google stop working as a search engine? I cannot find anything anymore on it.

 

[dixiehack]

When did Google stop working as a search engine? I cannot find anything anymore on it.

When everyone wrote for the algorithm instead of writing stuff a human might find useful.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I always thought XP was considered the robust, dependable, long-lasting OS, and then Vista came along and just sucked.

It was cool, though, when I got an iMac in 2007 and found out you could run Windows on it, too. About the only thing I used it for was Rosetta Stone.

Apropos of nothing, I forking loved the first iMacs.

And it could be mine, I mean yours, for the low, low price of $350 plus $110 shipping on eBay!

 

[BTExpress]

Apropos of nothing, I forking loved the first iMacs.

And it could be mine, I mean yours, for the low, low price of $350 plus $110 shipping on eBay!

It was my first computer. Took out a 401(k) loan for $1,200 to buy it. But it wouldn't hold the mighty 56kbps land line feed my provider offered, so I had to tell it to accept 34kbps to make it connect.

Round mouse was crap, though.

 

[Hermes]

Hated the round mouse with the heat of 1,000 suns.

 

[Azrael]

First school computer, ca 1970.



First work / home computer, ca 1982.

 

[hondo]

My son was born the day we sent ground troops into Iraq for W's folly. He was 18 the first day of his life this country wasn't at war.

Okay, to be fair, and not to diminish the loss of life and the wounded servicemen and women, but "at war" in the last three decades in no way compares to being "at war" during WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam. Especially during World War 2, with mashive theaters of operation, the Holocaust, bombings of civilians in huge European cites and the advent of the nuclear age with the ultimate weapons of mash destruction.