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RIP Kurt Cobain, you would have loved Genshin Impact

Imagine if 2pac was alive to play Fortnite.

Its really sad Ea Nasir died before he could post to linkedin about b2b sales

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this is honestly truly incredible clickbait and I respect the hustle

who doesn't instantly want to know more about such an inscrutable quote?! why was she talking about either subject (Kurt Cobain or GPS) at all, let alone together??

whoever decided to post that quote really knocked it out of the park with this one

IRL Clickhole bit

It's actually really sad that Gilgamesh died before podcasting. He would've had the best stories

I really feel like we missed out on his segment where, once every episode, he and Enkidu riff on a rapid-fire series of Ur-Mama jokes.
- Ur-Mama so fat that they had to widen the gates of Uruk to let him pass

What I love about GPS is that it's so pervasive that maps have basically vanished overnight. And in 1000 years there will be no physical evidence of it.

The only thing future archaeologists would be able to tell is that one day, we stopped making maps, and suddenly we started listening to the stars.

The only thing future archaeologists would be able to tell is that one day, we stopped making maps, and suddenly we started listening to the stars.
We got another candidate for the "beautiful sentence you'd think comes from a fancy book, but it's actually just an internet comment" collection
Gps satellites are in geostationary orbit so they won't deorbit for thousands of years.
- Don't worry Boeing and Elon will take care of that
- You're right, they'll just become deities because their motion is regular and visible.
  Then when they do de-orbit, a great schism will occur and the resulting wars will end in the re-industrialization of society and they'll be replaced
Anyone reading this should pick up a road atlas and stick it in your car
You will probably never need it... Probably.
and suddenly we started listening to the stars.
We wait for them to align just right.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39OqlJsm4
Those gps sats are never coming down they'll still be there in 10k years
- That's even cooler, would be pretty spooky if modern historical records and knowledge got lost and then all that was left was a gap in written information and several hundred large man made objects that can be seen with basic optics or even the human eye under the right conditions.

Alright this just struck me as so

on so many levels. Like, not just the randomness of GPS being the specific thing that is the singular modern miracle, not just that new-fangled technology existing that people who are now dead didn't get to experience is the reason why it's sad they're dead, but even why it is noteworthy that Helen Mirren has these thoughts, and why was she saying this of Kurt Cobain of all people?

I figured there had to be more context, and there is, but nowhere near enough to adequately answer my questions. Apparently though, this isn't a one-off. She is known for talking about Kurt Cobain and how modern technology relates to his death.

Of course, the comment came amid a broader point she was making about aging. “If you’re lucky, you get to be older,” she continued. “And then there you are. Oh my God, I’m 79! I never thought I’d be 79. And then you say, OK, well this is it. This is what 79 is. And it’s kind of OK. It’s not brilliant, but it was not that brilliant to be 25 either.”

Mirren has referenced Cobain numerous times in the past when discussing the nature of aging. In 2014, she told Oprah Winfrey, “Look at Kurt Cobain — he hardly even saw a computer! The digital stuff that’s going on is so exciting. I’m just so curious about what happens next.”

A year later, she told Cosmopolitan, “I was thinking about Kurt Cobain the other day and he died without knowing the internet, and I’m totally blown away by that.” And, in 2016, she said to the Daily Mail, “If I’d died at 27, the age that Kurt Cobain [of rock band Nirvana] died in 1994, I’d never have even known there was an internet! Incredible things are happening all the time and I can’t wait to see what comes next.”

I suppose it's mildly (very mildly) interesting to know that some celebrity I have a vague notion of (Mirren) is an unlikely fan of another celebrity who I was once a huge fan of. And I guess everyone has their own unique ways of contemplating their mortality.

If you want a singular miracle tech then GPS would be a fine candidate
- I agree that GPS has had a significant even profound effect on us as a global society and as individuals, I just think that it's far from the only technology that has. But fair enough on it being one of the better examples.

Compiling a list of things Kurt Cobain died before they got invented.

Bet he would have hated the sixaxis controller

sad that the god king Genghis Khan isn't alive today to experience the miracles of a bidet. I think he really would have enjoyed a nice, clean asshole as he was conquering and pillaging villges

I mean... You're not wrong. My fart box is being caressed by a lovely stream as I type this.

This is the type of thing actors should be thinking about. We're hurting them by asking them to think about politics.

No that makes sense. It's crazy how much GPS has changed day to day life, and in such rapid speed and to such an extent we just don't even think about it.

One of my favourite things these days is to just jump in the car with my wife and just go for a drive in the countryside. I'll avoid main roads wherever possible, and just pootle along country lanes looking for wildlife and interesting things. And the best part is that I literally can't get lost, because at the point when I want to go home, I just hit the 'Home' icon on the screen in the car and it automatically calculates the quickest route for me.
Sure, my grandparents could have done similar, but they'd have had to bust out the maps and figure out where they were and how to get home. All I do is press a button.
It really is very cool.
- "I agree" but in detail
Just follow the GPS, it's easy like that.
- Of course it's apple maps.
  But seriously if you ever need to have something to ponder, sit down and think about how different your life would be without GPS.
This statement confuses me somewhat, is it a bit? The "crazy" difference in my life without GPS would be: I'd have spent some more hours of my life looking at maps to work out where I am. That's what we did when I was a child and it really didn't take long.
That's honestly it.
- It's not a bit. GPS has fundamentally changed several aspects of our lives.

If he'd just lived for another 10 years, he would've seen the apex of Western culture, Burnout 3

It's not that she said something this dumb, it's that it was published by a journalist

Celebrities are not smart. There are exceptions, but most are simply paid to master the hallmarks of actual intelligence, without the requirement of the base substance.