You best start believing in history, Ms. Turner. You’re in it!
Stumpyz on
> If Henry Ford was the touchstone for the age of the automobile, Elon Musk is the touchstone for the Internet age.
This shapes my opinion of Ford more than it does my opinion of Musk.
thisisredlitre on
What in the fucked texas board of education is happening with this horseshit?
BonJovicus on
The Great Meme War finally made it into the history books.Â
casualmolly on
The fact that the entirety of human history is just ‘some shit that some regular person lived through as just the day’s news’ has been an incredibly interesting realization to properly understand as I get older.Â
9/11 was a quarter of a century ago. And while I was too young to remember it super-well, there are lots of people capable enough to discuss it without having been born yet for it.Â
This extends back to every event in human history. And that’s wild.Â
karend126 on
omg we’re literally living through history now.. kinda weird to see alex jones in a textbook when he’s still out there being alex jones.
Kriznick on
As it should. Unfortunately, all 4 of those things shaped our country irrevocably.
Yangervis on
What grade level is supposed to be reading this?
TristanTheRobloxian3 on
wait a fucking second this literally means that the past we remember is now far enough removed from the people learning about it in school that we are officially history. thats fucking WILD.
Heroic-Forger on
“Elon Musk was the touchstone for the internet age.”
Yeah, like turning Twitter even worse than it already was and allowing Grok users to literally generate *AI child abuse material of real life minors*.
That bit *needs* to be in the history books forever.
Randolph_Carter_6 on
That textbook is probably worthless.
XCheshireGrinnX on
You have a relevant textbook that isnt 30-50 years old??? You go to private school or something???
Parody_of_Self on
What level is this written for?
0theHumanity on
Are the culture wars in the room with you right now?
Nyes_Paradox on
What book is this?
ghostfaceschiller on
This is straight up false, he was never a PhD student at Stanford – he simply claimed that he once was
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You best start believing in history, Ms. Turner. You’re in it!
> If Henry Ford was the touchstone for the age of the automobile, Elon Musk is the touchstone for the Internet age.
This shapes my opinion of Ford more than it does my opinion of Musk.
What in the fucked texas board of education is happening with this horseshit?
The Great Meme War finally made it into the history books.Â
The fact that the entirety of human history is just ‘some shit that some regular person lived through as just the day’s news’ has been an incredibly interesting realization to properly understand as I get older.Â
9/11 was a quarter of a century ago. And while I was too young to remember it super-well, there are lots of people capable enough to discuss it without having been born yet for it.Â
This extends back to every event in human history. And that’s wild.Â
omg we’re literally living through history now.. kinda weird to see alex jones in a textbook when he’s still out there being alex jones.
As it should. Unfortunately, all 4 of those things shaped our country irrevocably.
What grade level is supposed to be reading this?
wait a fucking second this literally means that the past we remember is now far enough removed from the people learning about it in school that we are officially history. thats fucking WILD.
“Elon Musk was the touchstone for the internet age.”
Yeah, like turning Twitter even worse than it already was and allowing Grok users to literally generate *AI child abuse material of real life minors*.
That bit *needs* to be in the history books forever.
That textbook is probably worthless.
You have a relevant textbook that isnt 30-50 years old??? You go to private school or something???
What level is this written for?
Are the culture wars in the room with you right now?
What book is this?
This is straight up false, he was never a PhD student at Stanford – he simply claimed that he once was