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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 09:00:47 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ When grandpa was born Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Swedish-Norwegian Union were still around. Airplanes weren't.
Women couldn't vote even in Finland (but they could in New Zealand and South Australia!), there were no women members of parliament anywhere in the world and the Swedish King still had political power.
My parents were born closer to the American Civil War and the end of the Second Opium War than to today. When they were my age the Iron Curtain was still in place and Hong Kong would still be British for over a decade.-
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 09:02:09 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ This post inspired by "We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than it did to Stegosaurus."
mastodon.social/@Sheril/109418β¦ @Sheril Kirshenbaum-
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 19:45:57 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Also ... thanks for sharing this. I had no idea that stegosaurus died out about 150,000,000 years ago, while tyrannosaurus lived about 68,000,000 years ago, or about 82,000,000 years apart. -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 23:12:11 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I love that meme that an illustration of a human riding a t-rex is less of an anachronism that a t-red getting thagomized. π€£
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 19:43:23 EST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Wow. Your parents are older than I expected.
(2022-1865)/2=78.5
2022-78.5=1943.5
I may be old by some measures, but my birth was on this side of 1943.-
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 23:14:36 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I'm grateful every day that they're still healthy, vigorous and all there! β€οΈ -
clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2022 05:45:29 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I was counting from 1860 even (end of OW2), which puts them right on the centerline.
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