As I understand it, the late*, great Flying Squid founded this sub and posted many fine gems like this, captioned skillfully. You can see a lot of these if you go to the community page and sort by "old." Indeed, that's how I found this one. These 'golden-age' and 'silver-age' comics panels almost write themselves, being from such a different age and having such different sensibilities.

Also, these panels generally do a great job of reinforcing the importance of rule #3, i.e. "comics should be unintentionally funny." I kind of wish today's posters would be a little more heedful of that guideline, as Flying Squid went out of their way to make it a priority. Unfortunately, the listed mods have all been asleep for awhile.

Anyway, I have loads more of these, and am willing to keep posting for a while if this community remains viable. Thank you for everything, FS.

* Haha, just in terms of him suddenly disappearing from the Fediverse. I certainly hope he (or they) are okay in Real Life.

Oh geez, I hope it wasn't so stressful for him.

I've gotten a tremendous amount out of Reddit and now the Fediverse, but learning how to manage the draining aspects of such can be a tricky skill at times, it's true.

He probably made an alt. He was probably embarrassed tbh. He spent most of his time talking about how his daughter's life was in danger so he had to leave the US, then spent his 6 month visa surfing Lemmy 24/7 instead of looking for a job. Obviously he had to go back.

Worth noting he was part of the brigade that would downvote any post critical of Israel. He stopped posting the same month lemvotes went online so that might have to do with it as well.

Tbh I might be biased. I did not like him at all. The moment he was challenged on anything, he would fall into the grossest rhetoric. Huge dick to argue with (and not just with me but I saw it constantly when reading comment threads with him in it). Super hard-headed, althought I'm probably not one to speak.

Whoa, is that right? oO

Funny, recently I wound up accidentally falling in to a major argument with... well anyway, we humans are complex, and anyone prone to falling in to 'labeling traps' (guilty hand raised) can sometimes find that such labels don't describe someone nearly as well as one might've guessed.

Thanks for the backstory!

Overseas is definitely the place to view such destruction, in general. :S

As a disabled person, I don't have much choice other than to view all this shizzle point-blank style, haha.

Ya, it isn't easy. I try to watch my tone but certain subjects still get the worst out of me (mostly Israel, Steam fanclub and AI).

I also noticed I associate points of views in my head and I'll respond to a comment with the associated point in mind and not what the person was actually saying. Fair to say I'm not close to always being right either, so it's rough reading the convo a day later and realizing I was being a dick for nothing.

And ya, most people have complex and pragmatic opinions, but we end up turning them into 2d caricatures with only the most extreme parts being kept when arguing with them. It's hard to be fair when arguing online, very easy to label gratuitously.

Excellent insights, points and summation IMO. And I salute your strivings towards self-awareness upon all that(!)

I am firmly middle-aged, but still feel like I'm learning the ropes of this stuff. Still trying to understand the hows and whys of other people reacting the way they do, plus trying to get a grasp upon my own silly, coconut head.

The AI hate (not just you, but kinda 'everyone' at this point) kinda bums me out sometimes, because altho I thoroughly get it, and concede that it may well be our Skynet, I do find little uses here and there for AI tools. You know, at the personal level, not part of the grander doom that might await us.

Well, what a can of worms.

‘Hot’ used to mean horny, and ‘hooking up’ once meant to just meet up. Phrases change all the time, innuendo aways evolves.

You got that right, mon ami. Language is indeed constantly evolving.

For example-- the meaning of "nerd" back in the day meant almost an entirely different thing than it does today, in more of an 'otaku' culture.

Ah yes, I too remember when ‘nerd’, ‘geek’ meant something more than simply being really interested in something and having a hard time not talking about it.

Well put.

The irony being that the 'interest' in question was often something already vastly popular with kids / teenagers / etc, often Japan-based. It became rarely about the original subjects, which were more along the lines of math, science and specialised literature, etc.

Overall, I really don't have a problem with the rapid shift in cultural meaning, but I admit, it took me by surprise, and seemed really weird, as a kid of the early-80's. Oh well. Shizzle happens...

Did the something more for geeks involve bitting?

At one time, yes. Chickens and other smaller animals like snakes used to lose their heads this way.