Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad

From	ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Newsgroups	alt.usage.english
Subject	Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad
Date	2026-06-17 19:09 +0000
Organization	Stefan Ram
Message-ID	<past-20260617200451@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (permalink)
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The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>The quiz is quite clearly asking about technology.

  The chatbot said that in the NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered
  by SurveyMonkey they were asked whether, if given the option,
  they would choose to live in the past, the present, or the future.

  But he said that the full, multi-page questionnaire isn't available
  to him.

  He added that the phrase "discomfort with modern technology"
  was not part of the literal multiple-choice question. Instead,
  that specific framing came from follow-up qualitative interviews
  conducted by NBC News journalists with the poll respondents. 

  When journalists called the participants to ask why they chose
  the past, the young adults explicitly cited a desire to escape
  smartphones, constant internet availability, and the anxieties of
  an algorithm-driven life, favoring the 1980s and 1990s instead.

  Well, I'm such a retrophiliac! I go online to collect photographs
  of my local boroughs showing how they looked decades ago when I
  was young, looking at those old buildings to calm me down. But now
  I do not feel so alone anymore knowing that even people who never
  experienced those demolished buildings want to live in that past too!

  A writer recently reported about his 12-year-old daughter watching,
  "Stand by me" (1986):

|What took me by surprise was my daughter’s fascination. She
|has since watched the movie half a dozen more times, on her own[.]
. . . 
|After first seeing the film, my daughter asked my father, who
|spent his childhood in a small city in the Berkshires, if the
|freedom the film depicts was the freedom he had, if childhood
|once looked and sounded like that. She wondered if this sort
|of unobserved life was as he remembered it, if he might, just
|as these boys did, have set off for days without parental
|concern. He told her, with amusement, that he was, in fact,
|expected to be home for dinner, but beyond that, yes, he
|could roam, without surveillance.

  .

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[OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-17 14:31 +0100
  Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-17 18:01 +0200
    Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-17 17:10 +0000
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 13:59 -0400
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-06-17 19:09 +0000
          Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 15:43 -0400
            Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 21:54 +0100
              Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 17:28 -0400
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 23:00 +0100
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-18 13:48 +0000
          Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-06-18 19:56 -0400
            Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-19 06:51 +0100
              Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-19 16:47 +1000
              Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-06-20 03:26 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 23:37 -0400
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-20 07:06 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-20 07:08 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-06-21 05:33 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-21 06:08 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-21 08:27 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-06-21 12:49 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-22 06:30 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-06-21 19:05 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-22 07:42 +1000
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-22 06:27 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-22 12:37 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-23 08:33 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-23 10:04 +0000
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-23 20:32 +1000
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-23 13:36 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-23 15:26 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-24 01:16 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-06-23 15:29 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-23 16:34 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-06-23 14:03 -0700
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-06-24 09:41 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-24 10:54 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-06-25 11:59 +0100
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Madhu <enometh@meer.net> - 2026-06-24 04:44 +0530
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-24 12:29 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-22 14:13 +0200
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-22 13:16 +0000
                Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-06-22 16:03 +0100
          Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-06-19 09:05 +0200
            Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-19 17:31 +1000
    Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-06-17 17:30 +0000
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-17 21:15 +0200
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-06-18 14:26 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-06-18 22:00 +0100
    Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-18 06:48 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-18 06:51 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-18 08:28 +0200
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-18 08:06 +0100
  Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 12:26 -0700
    Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2026-06-18 09:26 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-06-18 10:59 +0200
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-18 09:13 +0000
          Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> - 2026-06-18 12:49 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-06-18 20:49 +1000
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-06-22 16:07 +0100
      Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-06-19 13:26 +0200
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Julian <julianlzb87@gmail.com> - 2026-06-19 13:17 +0100
        Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2026-06-22 13:52 +0100
          Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-06-22 22:05 +0100
            Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-06-23 06:58 +0100
              Re: [OT] You've never had it so bad Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-06-24 05:45 +0200

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