Under our nose is overcoming group thinking.
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What is that? I'm picturing Everclear and Prime.
Back in my day it was called goose juice, and had Gatorade
Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
Credit scores may be relatively new, but Equifax as a company existed since 1899 as "Retail Credit Company" and has always done some form of credit reporting.
Do people want to go back to the system that was used before credit scores? Where the person serving the loan just made the choice based off if they thought you seemed trustworthy? Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
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1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.
That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
Meh, you could do signal amplification via transformers and tuned resonators.
It sucked, but it was possible.
That's how we had telephones before we had tubes.
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Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I'm scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso's chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most "Chinese" food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
I find it preposterous to believe that nobody made these dishes before the 1960s. Surely people did. They just weren't popular or have the branding associated.
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Some of it was invented by Japanese-American restaurateurs (fortune cookies are one example), who were in the same business as the Chinese ones: using their knowledge to make cheap, satisfying food that the locals would like, authenticity being no consideration. It all got labelled as “Chinese”, because that’s where they assumed the cooks were from.
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This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the ~~50's~~ 1910s by some dude.
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The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I'll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn't be in and I always have to say something lol.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980's by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
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Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.
Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White
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Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren't introduced until westward exploration.
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Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Invention that's not obvious but I'm sure it's a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!
Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Why don't we have this??
People turning their phones to film in landscape will probably be one of those things that'll look silly in old media once this is changed.
Increases the hardware pixel count by ~1.6x while being wasted every shot.
Just turn your fucking phone.
That being said, half our phones have like 3 cameras on the back we don't use, so sure, throw a fourth on, why not?
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No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It's not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it's something made for black american pride and reflection.
I actually thought this was common knowledge.
Clearly the High V
This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit
Before high fives? Tipping their hat I guess? A subtle nod?
My money's on enthusiastic handshakes and cheering. Source: old movies.
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