I bet it could be reversed pretty easily - e.g., Appalachia vs. Dubai.
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Yeah, and I like how the artist left room for that point.
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Facebook is the corporate equivalent of a philistine.
What the fuck? What does Facebook, or spreading fakes, have to do with any ethnic group? And why do so many people single out that group?
This misuse is so ingrained that, I canât find it right now, but I remember an archaeologist complaining that it makes it harder to study Philistine archaeology, especially Philistine art, because people assume it canât exist.
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Whether one believes in the Bible or not, the reality is that its stories and aphorisms are tightly woven into our society.
Iâll bet that most people who talk about Philistines think that theyâre talking about an ancient religious group, not an ethnic group.
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The bible apparently thinks itâs great to kill Philistines, even for things like stealing clothes to pay your debts to in-laws in peace time â and I do think itâs right to look askance at such traditions, considering how so many regard the modern Palestinians.
But I donât think it actually has any stories about them being unappreciative of art. Instead, it looks like that use was invented in modern Germany in a dispute between students and the surrounding town. The latter got called Philistines in the sense of an enemy horde, and then that name got saddled with the idea of them being uncultured.
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Yeah, I think thatâs my point: people have been socialized to think the term âphilistineâ is appropriate to use because they were a rival, lesser group in the Bible. Look at how âgypsyâ and âgypâ are often still used, and thatâs without the term being used in church on Sundays (and temple on Saturdays).
I think the religious aspect is what makes it more ingrained and thus harder to unlearn.
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When I was in college, a professor used âjewâ as a verb, in class. I was horrified.
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And weirdly, all he did was probably be aware of what holocaust deniers were doing in the 80s and 90s, and extrapolated from there!
I should go re-read some discworld books soonâŚ
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Because of my trouble with regular vacuums, and asthma which requires dust mite control, I picked up a robot vacuum on sale.
Watching itâs clumsy drunkardâs walk, I half expect it to start announcing âMY VISION IS IMPAIRED! MY VISION IS IMPAIRED!â but fortunately, itâs not so loud or dangerous.
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Your vacuum walks? Donât they usually have wheels?
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Yes.
And a charging port.
But that doesnât mean theyâre using the wheels to move, they could be hovering and only using the wheels to draw static electricity from the carpet. /s
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How very efficient! 
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The similarities between what this guy is doing at the EDM in 1962 and what I do on a daily basis is rather remarkable.
And furthermore, what are those noises the computer is making while itâs being used? Is this what tube-based computers sounded like? These same type of sounds are used for the ESPER machine in âBlade Runner.â
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On Apollo 8, the Russians were offshore with a trawler and submarine, and they tried interfering with our transfer of command. They would try to block frequencies so we couldnât give commands to the pad and the capsule. And it continued some on 9 and 10. What we had to do is put different antennas on and direct them differently so we could block them from interfering with our command process.
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I didnât watch the video, but maybe thatâs the EDM?
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It is. But what is causing them?
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Sorry, the joke didnât land:
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Perhaps the magnets controlling the position of the electron beam? The frequency of the beam making the spot (over and over again) could be audible.
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You should. Itâs a great episode, especially if you spend a lot of your time working with vector images.
Thereâs even a female computer expert.
Ah. Now I get it.
Perhaps. But I think a vector CRT doesnât have any moving parts.
Do vacuum tubes make noise? I was born into a solid state world. 
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