I don’t follow music much, but I have a guess anyway. It seems like the number and diversity of genres just absolutely exploded since trading .mp3 files became a thing. And with digital stores and YouTube, distribution isn’t a hurdle anymore, publishers don’t have to pick and choose which albums to release, they can just do ‘all’ of them.

So there’s just no longer one single sound that can define a decade the way it used to be, now people hear hundreds of wildly different bands in a year instead of a few dozen that were hand picked by studios because they had trendy sounds.

Undead Deity is in fact a great answer to the question.

That won’t tell you if the alarm app is being affected by something like doze which would only happen after the phone sits idle for hours

They REALLY would. (A few other examples are mentioned also)

In the US it’s Scotch tape, we never had that UK brand, so it’s unheard of as a generic also.

And Hoover is a brand, but I guess wasn’t as dominant, so nearly everyone just says vacuum as the verb.

@[email protected] obviously

I’m a little surprised they are even still going. I guess staying small really was a goal.

When I saw the title I was seriously expecting a lot more replies like this.

Never read it, but the adaptation - a.k.a. “Cinematography: The Movie” is an amazing watch as long as you ignore the plot.

I was going to say “robbing banks” but I prefer the generality in your answer.

The headline wouldn’t be out of character for the US State of Georgia.

It certainly doesn’t always get it right - I’ve seen subjects lit by bright sunlight in a nighttime background, or just from a wildly different direction, but within a subject the lighting usually seems consistent.

I’ve wondered the same thing myself, my assumption is that it just correlates how lighting works across millions of training images, much like how it manages to get gravity right most of the time.

Did the bunny make it?

Now dirt will get into your eyes and close them again.

I remember leaded gasoline (and prices under USD$1)

I saw (on TV) the Challenger explosion

On 9/11 I was staying at a friend’s house, and that morning basically every news site was brought to its knees. Like serving static text only summaries. I remember going outside and seeing the newspaper on the porch and thinking “This is going to be the last normal one for a very long time”. It was of course.

Some friends and I took a long road trip and in person we saw this fly the first of the two flights for the X prize (Note: that one actually had some decent reasons to use the name X)

I caught COVID-19. Twice. So far.

Pretty much so is the author of the article.

I have a much more lighthearted answer.

This post contains some spoilers, but I consider it outside the statute of limitations for such things.

There’s this old movie where aliens are concerned about humanity developing a weapon that if used would Destroy the universe.

So the aliens use a really stupid plan to try and convince us to stop. And I guess this was after 8 other ideas either failed or were considered even worse.

Anyway at the end (of course) humanity wins and drives off the aliens. Wait, what was the aliens’ original goal? Something about the universe? Oh well, must not be important… The End.

And that was Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Wait, that’s not Mars Attacks

I guess we all need to cut back on cranberries. /s

That whole article and they don’t say her age.

How do I know if one of my relatives might be eligible for the title if I can get them to record a sample for some pop star?