Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[dragoner]

Then there are the sore winners.

 

[Reynard]

You can't refuse to choose a path and then get mad at me when I put one in front of you.

 

[Deset Gled]

Hey, look! It's that thread again! Haven't done that one in four months.

 

[Cadence]

There's practically an entire genre (ok, small genre) that could essentially be called "sanitized historical period pieces". Westerns in particular have a history of cleaning up anything that would be considered negative, although the sensibility of what people would consider "inclusive" has changed a lot over time. High Noon and Johnny Guitar were both considered notably revisionist upon release. Wild Wild West, Shanghai Noon, and Jungle Cruise are more modern examples that are even more revisionist, and much more inclusive. Well, Jungle Cruise is modern, at least.

Its worth noting that revisionist history goes in the other direction, too. Gone With The Wind, for example, is very revisionist in the direction of pro-South, pro-slavery.

I'm always impressed how the radio westerns (particularly Gunsmoke [1952-1961] and Fort Laramie [1956]) portray the bad that happened in terms of racism and sexism and genocide and the people who were committing it, but made it clear those people were the bad guys.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Do you really need AI to tell you to try unplugging it and plugging it back in?

Given the number of Tier One technical support types who insist on reading off the script to tell me to do things I've just told them I already did, apparently companies think so.

 

[Ryujin]

As one who was that first line support.. you would be surprised.

I'm tier 2 (at least) and you might be surprised how often tier 1 fails to ask it.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Staffan]

I'm tier 2 (at least) and you might be surprised how often tier 1 fails to ask it.

Or how often the customer says they've done something and they haven't. Back when I was doing 1st line broadband/tv support, one of our requirements before escalating something to 2nd line was to tell the customer that if this ends up with us sending a technician to their home and it turns out they haven't done the things we ask them to (turn it on and off, try a different cable, etc.), we'd charge them a fee for the tech visit.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[el-remmen]

There's practically an entire genre (ok, small genre) that could essentially be called "sanitized historical period pieces".

I was thinking this as I was watching Stranger Things and as someone who was exactly the same age as those kids in those years, there is A LOT less smoking than I remember both by adults and teens. I understand not wanting to "promote" smoking - but I also think it is possible to show some accuracy while making sure to frame it with a current sensibility.

As for people of color showing up in European time periods folks tend to think of as all-white, I think most folks don't realize how diverse older times and places could be - and there are scholars and efforts to convey a better picture of the kinds of people that were around in a time or place.