• radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Boomer humor at its most basic. “Them young 'uns think they’re so smart, but they just got schooled…that’s why you gotta respect yer elders!” Right, because unplugging a single node is going to save the network servers. I’ve literally only seen this clip of the show, but that blatant pandering to boomers told me all I needed to know. Also, fuck 12.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve always took that scene to be way more about not panicking and thus missing the obvious solution than any sort of boomer humor.

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        9 months ago

        Those algebra students of mine who are drawn in by the obvious proposed solutions on tests end up failing them.