Dont forget “computer”
“What’s a computer?” - Apple 2017
Hidden Figures should be required reading (required viewing?) for anyone in STEM
Assuming we’re taking about the Charles Babbage era computers, yes.
They were not. They were talking about a much more important part of history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures_(book)
Babbage had some interesting ideas and produced one machine that was not especially useful. He didn’t even really understand the idea of software. That was Ada Lovelace.
NASA’s “computers” got us to the moon. They literally calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory. They saved the men on Apollo 13 by plotting their directory back home. All with paper and their superior knowledge of mathematics.
They were women and they were black, which is why they were mostly forgotten for many years and why you probably don’t know about them yourself.
Well fuck. I’m a useful man…
Looks like that’s useless :/
You were simply transformed into a handyperson.
It wasn’t the same as a handyman. The title “useful man” was for a servant who’d never actually serve the master.
Today it’d be a “runner” or some kind of “assistant to the assistant”
TIL, thanks.
A Go-fer
Holy shit, is this why lowly assistants are colloquially called gophers?!? I never drew the connection. Sometime we just take weird words or phrases for granted without thinking about their etymology.
If you’re a dude who hunts handsy priests using ninjitsu, I’d consider you a useful man…
Huh, no wonder anyone’s so damn useless 🤣
I would have been great as a garden hermit.
I’m already halfway there, I’m just lacking the garden
Back when only men were allowed to hold jobs…
Yeah that was always one of the weirder sides of the Patriarchy, establishing naming conventions like the suffix -ess being a female suffix but still giving the title High Priestess of Athena Polias to a man.
In Shakespearean times all cigarette girls were men.
Priestesses too.
I always thought court philosopher would be a good gig
The polar opposite of the court jester, unless the two are in on the whole joke.
“I don’t know, king, what is Truth? Anyway, pass the pie.”
They said we don’t need toad doctors anymore, but I’m not so sure.
Is the doctor treating sick toads, or treating sick people using toads? Both? Maybe it’s just a pejorative and real toads aren’t involved all
Its a toad using people to trat sick toads and humans
It’s not on the list but I always wanted to be a knocker-upper
FWIW, fluffer is still available.
There’s a podcast called Jobsolete that covers, as the name implies, obsolete jobs! It’s inactive now but they have an ok size catalog that it’s worth going back and listening.
So the podcast is now obsolete?
Meta af
Why is ninja, and only ninja, askew?
Maybe because we “think” there are no more ninjas, but we can’t confirm?
Does a priest hunter find new priests, or is it a person who kills priests?
Or a priest who also keeps the monastery flush with game meat?
Nah, we should be hunting these monsters
First one; then the other.
Turns out they were basically bounty hunters for Catholic priests during Elizabeth I’s reign.
Which “for”?
Bounty hunters searching for Catholic priests.
Bounty hunter working for Catholic priests.
Hunting down Catholic priests
Professional mourners are very much still a thing. Had them at a few funerals I attended. Very awkward to see them more invested into crying for the departed than the family. Some of the family members also seemed to think so, but hey, it’s tradition and respectful of the dead.
These sound like classes in a weird jrpg
Priest Hunter lol
Joint role play experts group?
Also, court jesters.
They still exist i think
Hey, we still have plenty of ridiculous clowns. I hear Ricky Gervais’ career is still going strong
