Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’
nypost.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/10105454
• Gen Z's nostalgia for the early 2000s is sparking a revival of landline phones, seen as a retro-chic escape from the digital age.
• Influenced by '90s and 2000s TV shows, young adults like Nicole Randone and Sam Casper embrace landlines for their vintage appeal.
• Urban Outfitters capitalizes on Gen Z's love for nostalgia by selling retro items like landline phones alongside fashion trends from the '90s and 2000s.
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No one is "bringing back" landlines. What a fucking retarded claim to make.
It’s 2024. Stop using that word. I know I don’t need to explain why.
Why idiot, imbecille and moron are okay but retard is off-limits? All of these words have been used in a psychological classification system in the past yet retard seems to be the only one people take issue with.
It's more recent. Just the euphemism treadmill in action.
Basically, some people are clinically unintelligent out of no fault of their own, and we'd rather they not get caught in the crossfire when insults are being hurtled. The approach to that has been to try and avoid unintelligence-based insults, but it hasn't worked, because it actually is just better to be smarter.
I don't really have a better suggestion, though.
You could at least act ignorant rather than trying to logic your hatefulness
Stop arguing about what slurs are okay to use. The only rule around here is to be nice. If someone asks you to not use a word because it hurts them, the nice thing to do is to listen.
Because language is fluid and changes with societal use. We don't all defer to linguistic norms from hundreds or even thousands of years ago when literally everything about life would be alien to us now.
I'm sure you didn't intend to post such a nice comment (based on the historical definition of the word)...
I 100% agree, but is there any way we could kind of keep working to phase out retarded from common vocabulary. It's just such a charged and unnecessary word to use as a pejorative.
I would argue words change meaning and if you dont like that word you also shouldn't use "stupid" or "dumb". I've never heard anyone disparage a person with intellectual disabilities using that term so in my mind it just means... How should I phrase this for someone so sensitive... "Very much not smart". Idiot should be fine since it comes from a word meaning "common person". I don't use the word anymore because i don't want to push even sensitive people away, but I do think the whole thing is pretty silly.
It's literally what everyone here called mentally disabled people in the 90s. And it was meant to be insulting.
Look dude it doesn't matter what word you use, there will always be a word or phrase to convey the essence of what the r-word represents. Its all just a treadmil of expressions, you can cancel the r-word and then in 20 years we can have this exact conversation about "stupid" and "dumb".
Give up trying to fight alongside people because there’s no way you’re gonna win.
Sounds pretty cowardly
Im too not smart to understand what you are trying to say
Do you agree or disagree with the first sentence
The article doesn't offer a single statistic suggesting there is a resurgence of landlines, much less that Gen Z folks are responsible for it. It's basically just a fiction piece.
Are you accusing the New York Post of not being hard-hitting journalism?
Dare I say, this news is falsified?
I don't know why I'm surprised. I guess I just assumed there would be some link to reality.
Casual slur use is cool and normal
Wired, VoIP phones are viable. Landlines aren't. ATAs convert old landline phones into VoIP phones.
You would think that by now it would all be that, but when I moved in my city and wanted to take my phonenumber with me they said it was impossible because many areas still had the old style switch relays and they could Not move new numbera to it