The folks in this thread are misinterpreting the comment. It’s not that someone from 1970 wouldn’t understand the concept; it’s that they would rightfully think that it’s stupid and judge you for putting up with it.
The 70s might not want to throw shade…
This is the food equivalent of a liminal space, I do not like it and I wish to shed blood over it.
Did anyone ever actually eat this sort of thing, or was it just the recipe book equivalent of a fashion show? Or perhaps it’s just regional. I sure as hell never ate that in the 70s.
Apparently my grandparents did in the 70s and thought themselves very futuristic for it. That being said my grandma is well known as the worst cook in the family and my grandpa was known for mixing all his food together “because it’s all going to the same place anyway”…
I feel like you’re grandfather would use one of those meal replacements that were developed for special forces but were abandoned for everyone but U2 pilots or something because they had the texture of wet sawdust.
It was ‘subtle’ punishment for abusive husbands.
Normally these aspic dishes look vile but I might be able to get down with this one, provided the contents were cooked well.
Didn’t Rachel make this in Friends once by accident?
That was just hold over food from the 50s. They were obsessed with gelatin back then, and plenty of them were still traumatizing us at family gatherings through the 80s.
That’s twice I’ve posted that this week.What’s holding it together?
Can confirm, have boomer parents who wonder wtf is wrong with everyone just freely giving up all their personal data to the people they spent 15 years being drilled not to give their information to.
On the other hand;
“I don’t care because I have nothing to hide.” - My mother, born 1961, when told she should stop using Chrome.
Neither do I. But why give up something I don’t have to? If it’s valuable to someone else, I should at least get some compensation for it.
Even in the early 00s it was already hard to grasp for some folks. I had friends who called me a liar for claiming that I could charge my mp3 music player by slotting it in the USB port of my tower as opposed to swapping out AAA batteries
When “Lithium Ion” sounded like something from Star Trek.
In the early 2000s??? Are you sure they weren’t just messing with you?
I’m not sure about the timeline on portable mp3 player development and popularity, but this was 2002 or 2003 and I was the only one in my friend group who had one with a li-ion battery as opposed to AAA-batteries.
“USB doesn’t deliver power, it’s for file transfer!” I was told. Some of my friends were also really stupid, though. That could have contributed to this wonder of technology.
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Fair enough!
Well, I realize that 1970s sounds like an age of dinosaurs to some people… But, people back then weren’t cavemen. They had electricity, batteries, video cameras, telephones.
The concept of an electric outlet in a couch is easy - not sure, but they might even had such things back then. Like to feed a lamp or something. USB is just low voltage and different connector, from the power transmission perspective.
The concept of a speakerphone with video signal is also easy. The only thing to grasp is that the devices and batteries became that miniature and efficient. Oh, and wireless.
Explaining that all video and voice recordings from all these neat devices are actually stored by a gigantic corporation, processed with voice and face recognition algorithms, and used to enrich personal profiles collected on all parties of the conversation to boost profits of said corporations, and many people even pay for this - THAT I would find complicated to explain.
Mobile phones wouldnt be strange by the 70’s. Two way handheld radios and car phones been around since the 40’s and the first cellphone was demonstrated in 1973.
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XLR connectors and related systems have been around since the 50s. The precursors to USB, like ADB and PS/2, were being released commercially by the mid 80s. I agree that the concept would not have been mind blowing in the 70s.
Yep, it’s the IoT aspect that would make their heads spin.
Yeah that part that’s hard to explain to them is something I think many people don’t understand now. It’s very abstract.
Wait, you have to charge those Spyware doorbells?
Only if they’re not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there’s no wires.
Tfw the bell is stolen
There were a bunch of videos posted of people stealing them when they first came out.
There’s a security screw.
Weird way to refer to your bodyguard but ok
That’s my safety screw.
After all, it is on the bottom near the power.
If it’s hardwired in, it’s not significantly harder to steal than otherwise. Clipping a couple of wires connected to a doorbell transformer is significantly easier than dealing with whatever mechanism is used to release the doorbell from it’s attachment.
Also, you would be stealing a camera that will film it’s own theft and upload the footage on it’s way out.
Additionally, these devices aren’t exactly expensive anymore, not a whole lot of value in stealing them. Even if stolen, not a huge setback to buy another one.
A couch with a power outlet baffles me
Might as well have it if your couch has electric adjustments anyway…
This is why my couch has two of those wireless charging spots on a fold-out middle console. It already has power because it’s got two recliners built in, adding charging spots isn’t very difficult.
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It baffles you that somebody might want to sit on the couch and charge their phone or pad or laptop?
Furniture can cover outlets making them less accessible. You then don’t need a 10’ cord to reach an outlet if it’s built in. It’s also in the same spot and easy to find the cord and port.
My headboard was cheap and came with an usb. It plugs into the outlet hidden by the bed. I now have a charging cord where I need it. Some of it is useful, some not so much.
It won’t always be done if people don’t want it. In the 80’s everything came with a clock. The old joke about the vcr flashing 12:00 is pretty accurate. Now many things don’t come with clocks in them. Heck last time I bought a Blu-ray player a decade or so ago, there was zero lights on it. Couldn’t tell if it was on or not. I hadn’t used it in months and switched over to that port on the tv and the movie start screen had been running the whole time. lol.
After explaining it I fully expect this response.
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Because you like toxins that give a strange high?
Toxins?
… strange?
1970s is easy: the doorbell has a real small battery like in your car that can be recharged. It then has a built in radio to transmit a TV signal to a handle held computer/mainframe.
Couches have built in power for convenience.
When I was last shopping for furniture, one of the immediate disqualifications was anything that required a power cord. I don’t need or want anything motorized, built-in chargers, bluetooth speakers, and I especially don’t want LED lighting in my chairs. All that crap is designed to fail / break. Not to mention that standards change quicker than furniture gets updated in my household. Most of those USB ports were old 5V USB-A crap that can’t keep up or crappy old bluetooth standards & antennas with poor quality speakers that I would never use anyway because my receiver is far, far better. And fuck LED lights in everything. Fuck that to Hell along with the people that make/invent that bullshit.
Okay but the most important question: where do I get a couch like that?
My cord is always the wrong length lol
We actually have electric recliners and it just dawned on me that they should have usb sockets since they’re connected to an outlet.
Ok, conclusion:
Charging things with the couch is cool and smart and I want it.
Needing to charge your doorbell is very silly, I do not want it.My recliner has a USB plug. It’s slower than fuck. Like plugging into an old pc USB.
yeah, this is some how a problem in this future. My electric couch is outdated, and it’s not even from my ass.
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shouldn’t be too hard to DIY a modern USB-C PD solution in there
But this specific doorbell also spies on you. Bonus!!
Great. Now I want it!
I swear this is getting stupid. One day someone is going to shove a battery pack up the butt with USB port sticking out “omg tech dude, I can charge with my butt”
It’s pretty bold of you to to assume that this hasn’t been done already; I’m sure there are more than a few with a flared base for safety.
You should probably ensure you have patent rights on that before you go spouting off about it in public spaces.
I once recharged my vegetable chipper at my desktop computers which honestly was weird enough.
Charged a weed vape using the Xbox once. Times have changed
My 50 year old “dumb” doorbell doesn’t need to be recharged. More proof that “smart” technology isn’t actually smarter and isn’t actually making our lives easier.
If they had a 50 year old doorbell they could replace it with a better version of the pictured one that is powered by the old doorbell circuit.
My Ring doorbell like this does connect to my existing power supply for a ‘dumb’ doorbell. This version shown is a wireless model aimed more at apartments which don’t have existing wiring or for a tenant who wants a removable version to take when they move.
I am not not associated with Ring, just a customer.
A doorbell like this requires recharging because it is wireless.
Meaning you don’t need to drill holes, just connect it to your WiFi.
Maybe screw the holder into something (or just command strip it to your door).
It removes to recharge.
Other smart door bells connect to existing power, and don’t need recharging.
I’m not sure you know what proof is
A dumb doorbell won’t let me talk to or see anything from the third floor which makes it much easier to tell Jehovah’s witnesses to fuck off.
JD’s pager.
Yeah but why would you want to need to?
Because I want to go back and time and fuck with people.
This is why you’re not allowed a time machine.
Understandable.
