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

Why? Do you like living dangerously?

Reminds me of

I wonder how she knew that the correct recipe was DCDDB

Probably not the wisest advice you have ever posted.

That's cool. I don't know of any wives who behaved that way when I was a kid. Many stayed home doing chores (of which there were a lot more in those days) but I can't recall one who accepted her guy as an always-right master. Usually, the opposite.

But roles were much more rigid in past times. Things are much better now.

It must be great for a guy in college now, being outnumbered by girls.

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.

Oh well, if you're jolly well not going to take this matter seriously I can trump that:

More Russian nonsense...

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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.

Jolly good show old chap. I'd have to admit that's hilarious too.

I find that their search engine can be useful. Google has been moving towards giving you only the results they want you to have for a long time. Maybe Yandex has too. With the two of them, and sometimes other search engines, you can sometimes get a more balanced picture. Or not if you're influenced by nonsense.

I would certainly agree that Yandex has a great search engine. Google? No thanks. Another good one is Search Mixer: searchmixer.com - but things can change and you must never accept *any* source as permanently trustworthy.

This one is also completely ridiculous/hilarious.

This one about women drivers is my particular favourite. Sad to think it would never be made today.

Yes, I did fix it, Jan. It wasn't in the sampler section after all but rather the phase detector part. It was one half of a double BJT that had lost its B-E junction. After that was replaced, the dreaded "YTO Unlock" Error message disappeared. The analyzer still has an issue to be solved, though: there's a problem with the attenuator (but I'm dealing with it....)

Google maps, and Earth, tend to randomly hide street names.

But Strreet View is most cool.

The brick building is my new engineering office, a modest hike down the hill from my house. The hike back up isn't so modest.

Chenery Street. It ends at Glen Canyon, which has one of the two remaining creeks in San Francisco. Sadly, all the rest have been paved over. With bad paving, as you noted. Islais Creek is barely a trickle now, but when the rainy season kicks in it will be fun. There's actually a dam, The Glen Canyon Dam, and some impostor of the same name somewhere back east.

And there was a dynamite factory.

Destination Baking. Their stuff is astounding. My guys are putting on weight.

Life is cheap in the Wild West.