I think the best example is the PlayStation 2 being discontinued in 2013, as well the PlayStation 1 in 2006
In MLB, the National League and American League didn’t have unified rules until 2022, when the National League finally adopted the designated hitter rule.
The national league has designated hitters now? I guess I haven’t watched much baseball in a while. Oh, fuck Bally’s.
I believe it was implemented during covid when everything was weird and then they agreed to just keep it officially.
Women’s suffrage was ratified in US constitution 1920. But probably not for much longer.
Ruby Bridges is alive and well.
Many state legislatures in the Southern US (e.g. Alabama) had Democratic majorities until 2010.
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Democracy
Too soon bro.
Acknowledged.
Continuing off OP’s list, the last PS3 game was released in 2020
The most recent commercial game using the modified 2.5D Doom engine, was released in May 2024 on Steam. It is called Selaco.
Heck, people are still producing new games for the Commodore 64.
😲
Lexus sold cars with cassette players until 2010
That isn’t as crazy as it may seem. My main audio source well after graduation which was 2005, was a portable cd player that could play cd’s burned with compressed mp3 libraries and connected to the car’s stereo system via aux to cassette adapter.
Idk about the portable cd player with mp3 library being common but most blunt cruises in those days were done in vehicles using portable cd player with cassette adapter. I know this is super anecdotal and specifically about the car owner class that isn’t buying new Lexus’ but I still wanted to point out the cassette deck saw extended use long after people stopped listening to actual cassettes.
Insert relevant Technology Connections video here.
Omg fuckin yes. It was so awesome. It was during a brief period when mp3 hit the stage but before ipod was God, there were mp3 players that would just pop up like a memory stick in windows and you could limewire whatever you wanted for music onto the players.
IDK if the software was Sony but the player was and you could put your whole limewire library in a small single CD per page zip up binder things. The mp3 saved on the cd was nothing special. The special was no audio players could play mp3 files at that time. Exceptions being: gaming consoles, pc’s and maybe your surround sound if it was new. Cars were still nobs and buttons.
My 2006 RX factory radio unit had cassette and cd decks. Sometime around 2012, I remember feeling like I had unlocked a secret backdoor because an audiobook that I wanted from the library had a crazy long waitlist for the cd edition. I hadnt used cassettes in decades, but somehow I had the idea to check to see if they offered that audiobook on cassette. They did! And it was available to check out immediately!
I replaced the radio in that car shortly after that because I needed a bluetooth connection and handsfree capability.
Slavery
This doesn’t qualify. Slavery is still in use in the world. You’d have to use a modifier like American slavery or the enslavement of x, y, z, people.
Correct. People are enslaved all over the world, but there’s a faction that loves to call prison labor “slavery” or “chattel slavery”. It reflects a lack of understanding of what slavery is and devalues the people who actually do get bought and sold, even today.
Yeah… Maybe think a bit on who it is that’s actually doing the devaluing here.
Maybe explain your point in English instead of dropping whatever vague hint you think you’re dropping.
Or maybe work on your reading comprehension? It seems to give you some trouble.
Or maybe get a hobby. Your thinking seems to be about as half-baked as your pedantry.
Have a good day friend.
So no explanation for the glib comment, just insults. Thought so. I have lots of hobbies, we’re not friends, and I don’t need the trolling - blocking you now bye.
Sorry bud, but you just can’t fly in hot with a dickish reply to someone else’s comment and expect them to extend you any grace. Especially when you’re not even actually replying to the actual comment but your gross misreading of it.
Since apparently I’m blocked. For any body else who might stumble upon this one. Lovable’s assertion that any comparison between cattle slavery and prison slavery somehow diminishes the suffering and plight of the former is a real head scratcher. Especially since the prison industrial complex in the United States was built to be an institutional replacement for the systems of oppression that were banned by the 13th amendment.
You’re completely right. I did the American thing that Americans are wont to do. Apologies.
You’re talking about prison convicts right? Actually lookup “chattel slavery”, it means someone owns the person. No matter how you spin the words to make yourself right, convicts don’t have owners. What they do is involuntary servitude not slavery. Calling it slavery devalues the experience of people who were forcibly kidnapped, shipped across the ocean, and sold in markets. And no, the race disparity in prison populations doesn’t make prison labor slavery, anymore than being green makes grass a frog.
Now, now, just calm down there Charlie.
I said nothing about prison slavery. You’re reading things into my post that are not there. The point I was trying to make is that the last the last living person who existed as property under what people think of as Slavery in the United States died in 1975. That’s either not even or just barely two generations ago.
But the rest of your statement, yeah…idk. I’ll just say that people are still being kidnapped, shipped and sold in this country. The mechanisms are different, the justifications are different. The underlying reasons? Not so much.
The last American Civil War pension recipient died in 2020.
How are pension recipients determined?
…Didn’t that war end like 160 years ago?
Civil war employees must’ve had a powerful Union lol.
Hardened war veterans with guns and nothing to lose.
“In a world…”
US Civil war vets who lived to be 90 married little girls at the end of their life. Usually it was an arrangement. The little girls would then be eligible for the pension and it transferred to them when the veteran died. Some of these girls themselves lived to their 90s, hence you had state governments still pay civil war annuities in the era of TikTok.
Stuff like this is also why a lot of companies have also moved away from pensions, one it’s expensive, two mismanagement, but it turns out that offering to pay someone for free until the end of their life doesn’t make shareholders happy, so fuck the employees right?
now we’ll be lucky if we retire at all
Polaroids are still going strong.
They mostly died and had a resurgence, you’re totally right!
I got one as a birthday gift once and it’s one of my favorite gifts even despite the fact it’s an invention that’s five decades older than me. It’s like some time traveler somewhere knew what they were doing.
Polaroids are what you get from sitting on an iceberg too long.
The last cathode-ray tube televisions were made in 2015.
Being interested in CRT TVs, that’s intresting to know
Rosa Parks lived until 2005
(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.
And Emmett Till could still be very much alive, had he not been lynched.
As brutal as that verb is, it’s an understatement as to what he went through.
Going out on a limb guessing kids aren’t learning this anymore.
My sister actually saw her in elementary school! Even in her old age she was trying to educate us, and teach us better.
Western Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy (though the majority doesn’t realize it yet, and think the Americans only fucked themselves)
Leaded fuel. Avgas is 100-octane leaded gasoline that is still being used by most small aircraft piston engines. Lead-free alternatives exist, but production and supply infrastructure is nonexistent.
The same kind as being used by the hyper-rich to nip down the shops for a ham sandwich?
Less likely, as those aren’t piston engines. This is the kind of fuel used by single engine Cessnas and the like. Nearly all propeller/turboprop planes, as opposed to jets.
Jet fuel never had lead
That’s why it can’t melt steel beams!
Those use Jet-A which is just diesel/kerosene without the additives
Jim Crow.
The south still has similar voting restrictions, it’s just the supreme court stopped caring and said ‘sure, whatevs’.
