We got rid of our landline because scammers kept calling me daddy. Got tired after about 6 illegitimate children popping up and asking for alimony.
maybe you shouldn’t have been such a stud in your youth
jokes on you, they’ve been a eunuch since they were 4.
Id be using the hell out of payphones if they still existed. They just seem convenient and i have too many quarters
I really preferred the workflow(?) / pattern(?) that only existed for a few short years when pagers were common and cell phones weren’t. Someone would page you. You’d get it, decide if you needed to call them back, decide when to call them back, and where to do it.
You could do it from a payphone, you could wait until you got back home, or to your friend’s house, or to work, or whatever. If you wanted to stay out of touch, you could do it.
It’s the same reason that the children these days prefer to text rather than call. A text doesn’t have to be acknowledged instantly. You can think about your response if necessary. If you want privacy for your communication, you can arrange for that.
Thankfully we still have silicate pouches available
Referring to this?
Bitch, we talking to you through your phone’s keyboard’s predictive text and by rearranging your social media feed and you think that’s mysterious capitalism doing a magick psychic instead of, like, us.
Lmao conspiracy theorists be like:
"The PhD mathmaticians and neuroscientists will spend their entire lives on writing theses,
and then programmers and engineers will spend months to apply those and decades to improve their applications,
AND all of this effort will be used to make billionaires more money, plus some government propoganda."
Do people really believe this shit?
Bro, you think the Earth is real.
I don’t know how to relay how retarded your ass is.
I’m pretty sure I remember them using a cell phone late in the first movie(?).
I’ve got clear memories of it falling and spinning because it’s not tethered
They communicated with that phone. That they can do anywhere. They communicated through Neo’s computer, suggestion, and many other ways.
They could not extract someone plugged in from a cell phone. Had to be a landline.
Gotten!
Thanks
Isn’t The Matrix just an allegory about being transgender?
Fully intentional:
The Matrix films are about being transgender, the trilogy’s co-director says.
“That was the original intention but the world wasn’t quite ready,” says Lilly Wachowski, who came out as trans along with her sister Lana after the films came out.
Speaking with Them: Wachowski clarifies her previous comments, explaining that The Matrix was not intended to be a trans allegory when it was in production. While she acknowledges the movie’s strong trans themes, she says the ideas came about naturally, without intention on her or co-director Lana Wachowski’s part. Check out what Wachowski had to say below:
No, I didn’t [confirm The Matrix is a trans allegory].
Yeah, so that came from an interview I did for Disclosure. They had a bunch of Matrix questions. And the question they asked me was about Switch, who was originally written as a trans character who was male in the real world and female in the matrix. And they took that response and attached the question that everyone now references that it’s a trans allegory. And so it was slightly out of context, but I don’t sit here and put a stink up about it, because it is a trans allegory in that it was written by two closeted trans women. And so all of the things that are in it are super-duper trans. The idea of transformation, even the whole “My name is Neo, Mr. Anderson —” that idea of claiming identity, it’s undeniable.
Yeah, with all the decisions we made with that film, there’s just this burbling transness simmering below everything. So when I look back at the way that we cast those two parts, I can see how obvious it is that they’re one part in a lot of ways; that they’re two sides of the same coin. It’s not like these were conscious decisions, but more like we’re finding our way instinctively as these two closeted trans women. So all those things that your receptors are buzzing about are completely valid. When people say, “Oh, it’s a trans allegory,” it’s like, “Yeah… it is, but we weren’t like, Hey, let’s write a trans allegory.” That’s not how it started. We were like, “Hey, let’s write this action film,” and then we got our trans all over it. [laughs]
Okay weird. The BBC article reads totally different and there’s a lot of statements put into a new context.
Yeah. People often try interpret creative works in unique ways that the author didn’t intend. Doesn’t make the experience and impact on the reader/viewer any less important.
Whatever, it’s a better retcon than everything J.K.Rowling said about Harry Potter.
The Matrix having a bunch of trans themes > Dumbledore having a throbbing gay sex backstory and the 1 jewish student being named Goldstein.
The Matrix actually supports those themes and readings within the work.
Please note that I’m not applying personal opinion to the matter, rather just trying to provide the directors own context because it is their own work.
Also JK Rowling is a hack.
Given the watchowskis are trans, I’d say “not intentionally, but DEFINITELY subconsciously”
No, it’s fully intentional.
From that article:
Lilly doesn’t know “how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing” The Matrix.
They weren’t consciously making it a trans allegory. And, the studio would never have accepted it if that was all it was. In retrospect it’s obvious that that was a major influence in the story they were telling. And, they’re happy that in the present people are interpreting it that way. But, it wasn’t as intentional as people like to claim, and that’s far from the only possible interpretation.
It has been ruthlessly coopted by people who want to see it that way and refuse to believe that any other interpretation could possibly exist.
I freely admit that the the fact that the writers and directors later both changed their gender makes a good case that that was an element of the story.
But, this was also a huge budget action movie produced by a mainstream Hollywood studio in 1999 when the world was far less trans-friendly than even today. There’s no way they would have OK’d a movie that could only be interpreted as a trans allegory.
Well, dying also gets you out.
There are no other colas in mainstream supermarkets in the US because Coke doesn’t let them sell there
There’s a few left.
We’ve got an old one at work that doesn’t work. Every once in a while I’ll shout “Tank I need an exit!” into it and the other old people laugh.
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Did you know the Democrats in the US are sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit in the hopes some the anticomm sentiment will bubble up and damage the momentum of progressive socially democratic candidates like Mamdani, AOC, and Sanders?
sponsoring anti-communist posts on Lemmy and Reddit
They don’t need to. Tankies already make the rest of us socialists look bad enough…
It seems to me like the most prolific anti-communist people on Lemmy are strong supporters of those politicians.
Extremely cliché
It’s virtue signaling. Most of us don’t even get a chance to vote for those three.
