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

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"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message news:h2irdj9v8c0fsmsioe57tbp59ji1vv9m64@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 10:31:29 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>"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...
>>>
>>>
>>> https://disk.yandex.com/i/JL6k0QDq46aWVA
>>
>>Why? Do you like living dangerously?
>>
>>Reminds me of
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJNTjydSRE
>>Just as ludicrous.
>>
>>I wonder how she knew that the correct recipe was DCDDB
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> No birth control.  Lots of kids, many that died young.
>
> 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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OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-08 08:26 +0000
  Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-08 10:31 -0400
    Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> - 2024-09-08 09:03 -0700
      Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-08 13:15 -0400
    Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-08 16:05 +0000
      Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-08 13:17 -0400
        Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-08 14:24 -0400
          Re: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-08 22:20 +0000
  Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-09 00:38 +1000
  Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> - 2024-09-08 08:51 -0700
  Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? John Robertson <jrr@flippers.com> - 2024-09-08 09:34 -0700
    Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-08 13:23 -0400
      Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-08 17:47 +0000
      Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-09 09:36 +0000
        Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-09 21:49 +0000
          Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-10 05:24 +0000
        Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> - 2024-09-10 07:58 -0700
          Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-11 06:16 +0000
            Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-11 19:04 -0700
            Re: OT: How can anyone claim life wasn't better in the old days? john larkin <jlarkin_highland_tech> - 2024-09-11 08:02 -0700

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