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    21 hours ago

    Sure, that would be 200 bazillion, paid in advance and 50 years of waiting time.
    You’re good with money, right?


    50 trasiphakazillion, to speed up the process and finish it in a week.

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      That, is an excellent skit.

      I’ve been battling this myself since I’ve newly transitioned into the world of industry, and it is looney tunes the discussions I’ve been part of: the parts I don’t understand sound like alphabet soup, and the parts I do understand are divorced from reality

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      2 days ago

      In the very next scene, he exclaims “It’s not even digital!”, but yes I hear you

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        Plus, this was so long ago that even if it was digital, at best it could have chiptuned its way through the opening to Final Countdown.

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      King of the Hill aired from '97 to '09.

      … There are too many episodes for me to be able to pick out exactly which one this is from, what year it aired in…

      But uh, fairly commonplace, reasonably affordable smartwatches, with the kind of functionality described… didn’t really become a thing until roughly the mid '10s.

      Yes, there were earlier ‘smartwatches’, or things that could be argued to fall into that definition… but they were extremely niche, quite pricey.

      Apple’s first smartwatch didn’t come out till 2015.

      Smartphones, with touchscreens, did not really even exist at a reasonable price point, with significant numbers of people using them untill the latter third or quarter of KotH’s seasons.

      Like I still remember having some clamshell, phyiscal keyboard ‘smartphone’ in 08 - 09.

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      I’ve seen this a few times, but this is the first time I noticed he also mentioned Tesla

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        He’s referring to Nikola Tesla in the standup. Someone that actually contributed to science with very little reward. The opposite of the founder of that car company that has tainted his name.