Interview With An 87 Year Old Farmer (1929)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Used as an anecdote of an old person's views on technological change, such as the telegraph as a distraction.
What it is
Short archival film footage of an 87-year-old farmer interviewed in 1929, born in 1842, talking about life and change.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites haunter · 2021-10 · on “Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]”
Should be real Googled around and an earlier upload w/o the subtitles have the "MIRC @ SC.EDU" watermark [this video] It's the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina [LINK] I can't access the library catalog tho for some reason. Trying to find it in the online collection.
Cites komali2 · 2023-04 · on “Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF”
If my tone was insulting I apologize. I am angry though, you're right. I'm watching the predictable cycle. A similar anger after 9/11 because of the tragedy but also because I knew it would be exploited to erode our freedoms, and lo, I was right (I'm not special, lots were warning this would happen). Same here. People are ignoring the research that highly punitive retributive justice systems don't work, and reformative justice systems do, because of some combination of yellow journalism and cognitive / rhetorical fallacy. > Studies are not the arbiters of truth. Certainly not all truths, and I agree with you that we can't expect people to fact check literally every aspect of their lives. How