I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006
Slavery being legal in the US.
Ooops, sorry, I forgot that it’s still perfectly legal in the US.
Slavery. People always talk about slavery like it’s something that only existed in 19th century America as if it wasn’t happening right now everywhere.
Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.
Whaaa? No way! 🤯
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Alabama
Both houses were all-Democratic from 1975 to 1978, then more and more Republicans were elected to them, only from 2011 do they have a majority.
Audio CDs are still around. While they’re surely not the medium people listen music from, they will most likely be on the merch table at the next concert you go to.
I’m a CD collector, they’re definitely underrated
One of the only things I’ve encountered in life that provides greater joy than sex is the feeling of finding an awesome super underground CD in a $1 garbage bin at the local record shop.
Favorite findings:
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, Sad Tropics
Sunswimmer, New Madrid
New Moon Daughter, Cassandra Wilson
Do people really think audio CDs aren’t around anymore? I bought several audio CDs in the last few years, I prefer to have local copies of music I like rather than depending on a streaming service.
On that note, vinyls have overtaken CDs in sales again
Who thought they weren’t around?
The fact that high end music streaming platforms are only just now starting to offer super high bitrate lossless “CD Quality” audio as an option, gives you an indication of how good CDs actually are as a physical medium.
A cheap old CD player connected via SPDIF to a modern mid-range DAC with decent speakers will give you better quality audio than the latest Sonos system streaming from Spotify.
The ottoman empire
Juno is still around and still offers dialup internet plans. Earthlink was still offering dialup until last year.
Ruby Bridges is alive and well.
Despite anti-miscegenation laws being banned as a result of Loving v Virginia in 1967, support for interracial marriages only passed 50% in the mid 90’s.
Women’s suffrage was ratified in US constitution 1920. But probably not for much longer.
Up until 1997 rape within a marriage wasn’t defined as a crime in Germany. Because it was specifically defined as an act outside of marriage. Our (probably) next chancellor Friedrich Merz voted against the bill that finally made it a crime!
In MLB, the National League and American League didn’t have unified rules until 2022, when the National League finally adopted the designated hitter rule.
The national league has designated hitters now? I guess I haven’t watched much baseball in a while. Oh, fuck Bally’s.
I believe it was implemented during covid when everything was weird and then they agreed to just keep it officially.
It was part of the 2022-2026 collective bargaining agreement. I wouldn’t expect it to ever go away, since it effectively created another high-pay player for NL teams.
Had no idea… what else changed besides DH?
How can you talk shit to AL fans about pitchers hitting now? Have any stats gotten more similar between the leagues, where the DH diverged them before?
the last indiginous rehabilitation learning center in canada didnt close until 1997
i forgot the official name for it
deleted by creator
Rosa Parks lived until 2005
(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.
My sister actually saw her in elementary school! Even in her old age she was trying to educate us, and teach us better.
And Emmett Till could still be very much alive, had he not been lynched.
As brutal as that verb is, it’s an understatement as to what he went through.
Going out on a limb guessing kids aren’t learning this anymore.
I agree, I’m in the military so I end up working with a lot of 18-19 year olds. One day a few years back, a bunch of us were sitting around the table talking, and I don’t remember what the conversation was about but this kid lookes at the black guy and says “that’s how you get lynched”
There was a collective gasp and we then had to explain to him what that meant. He just though it was something offensive to say to someone.
The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.
How are pension recipients determined?
…Didn’t that war end like 160 years ago?
US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.
Stuff like this is also why a lot of companies have also moved away from pensions, one it’s expensive, two mismanagement, but it turns out that offering to pay someone for free until the end of their life doesn’t make shareholders happy, so fuck the employees right?
now we’ll be lucky if we retire at all
Civil war employees must’ve had a powerful Union lol.
Hardened war veterans with guns and nothing to lose.
“In a world…”
