Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days?

"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:h2irdj9v8c0fsmsioe57tbp59ji1vv9m64@4ax.com...

On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 10:31:29 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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"Cursitor Doom" <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote in message news:vbjn32$1s0q9$1@dont-email.me...

Print this out and leave it where the lady in your life will be sure to
notice it...
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https://disk.yandex.com/i/JL6k0QDq46aWVA

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Why? Do you like living dangerously?
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Reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJNTjydSRE
Just as ludicrous.
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I wonder how she knew that the correct recipe was DCDDB
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Women used to work very hard to keep their husband and kids alive.
Fetching wood and water, cooking, cleaning. Carrying babies around
without an SUV.
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Laundry used to be an enormous chore; my grammy had a wringer tub and
a clothesline, and kept and killed her own chickens, and cooked them
on a wood-fired stove.  And there was sewing and knitting and dealing
with diapers and such. Now if a sock or a t-shirt is torn, we throw it
away.
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No birth control.  Lots of kids, many that died young.
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Technology has helped women enormously. Men too.

That's true, but we seem to be trying to move towards a time when no-one will need to do anything at all.
Men or Women.
Just get technology to do it all.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/07/uber_driver_waymo/

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