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

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:16:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:58:42 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:36:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Sun, 8 Sep 2024 13:23:40 -0400) it happened "Edward Rawde"
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"John Robertson" <jrr@flippers.com> wrote in message news:vbkjn9$1vjga$1@dont-email.me...

On 2024-09-08 1:26 a.m., Cursitor Doom wrote:

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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More Russian nonsense...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex

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I find that their search engine can be useful.
Google has been moving towards giving you only the results they want you to have for a long time.
Maybe Yandex has too.
With the two of them, and sometimes other search engines, you can sometimes get a more balanced picture.
Or not if you're influenced by nonsense.

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Yes, the same with google maps,
sometimes I switch to using bing.maps as google maps is useless
then I wish I still had paper maps...

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Google maps, and Earth, tend to randomly hide street names.

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Indeed, even finding thingsin places I knew and lived can be a problem.
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But Strreet View is most cool.
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https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/80z30ukw82u0pjoevz247/GCT_SED.jpg?rlkey=ztj984yczpit49z5nufmwjutx&raw=1

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That could well be in america with all those overhead lines, driving on the right, type of trees? hills,
Your home town? :-)

The brick building is my new engineering office, a modest hike down
the hill from my house. The hike back up isn't so modest.

Cannot figure out the writing on the street :-)

Chenery Street. It ends at Glen Canyon, which has one of the two
remaining creeks in San Francisco. Sadly, all the rest have been paved
over. With bad paving, as you noted.  Islais Creek is barely a trickle
now, but when the rainy season kicks in it will be fun. There's
actually a dam, The Glen Canyon Dam, and some impostor of the same
name somewhere back east.

And there was a dynamite factory.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hi1j889kkn465fgpx5xgk/Glen_Canyon_Dynamite.jpg?rlkey=uq333s2okih26zgpicvcy7fb0&raw=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Powder_Company

Cracks in the road surface..
Is that reddish brick building on the left your company?
Restaurant on the right,

Destination Baking. Their stuff is astounding. My guys are putting on
weight.

Pedestrian crossing without lights..

Life is cheap in the Wild West.