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I'm quite fine with ashtrays disappearing.
Lately news has said there's been a backlash against vaping as well.
So this particular item maybe sits on the fence.
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Friends dropping by unannounced. Kids roaming free for most of the day. Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures.
> Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures. This is not a global thing though. While they replaced sand with woods chips or "smarter" materials that make it less painful to fall, the playground in my town are definitely more interesting that the one I got to play with growing up. They tend to rely less on pure strength and more on agility which is definitely better in my opinion.
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The plural of “memento mori” is “memento mori.”
It's a weird situation for a weird verb. Memento is an imperative form meaning "remember/be mindful". The plural form would be "mementote mori", but that makes no sense here at all, so I agree it would have been better to leave it alone as a fixed Latin expression grafted onto English. Originally I thought the title was trying to be clever (expected something about breath mints, perhaps). Nice to see The Baffler stil…
The plural of “memento mori” is “memento mori.”
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Friends dropping by unannounced. Kids roaming free for most of the day. Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures.
> Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures. This is not a global thing though. While they replaced sand with woods chips or "smarter" materials that make it less painful to fall, the playground in my town are definitely more interesting that the one I got to play with growing up. They tend to rely less on pure strength and more on agility which is definitely better in my opinion.
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I'm quite fine with ashtrays disappearing.
I doubt they have actually disappeared at all. Marijuana legalization spreading throughout the world has surely brought them back again. Lately news has said there's been a backlash against vaping as well. So this particular item maybe sits on the fence.
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I doubt they have actually disappeared at all. Marijuana legalization spreading throughout the world has surely brought them back again. Lately news has said there's been a backlash against vaping as well. So this particular item maybe sits on the fence.
Definitely knocked down a few pegs. Can you imagine a bunch of kids making ashtrays at Summer camp for their parents?
The same thing: imagine teaching kids how to make corn cob pipes nowadays! It's just not going to happen.
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It's a weird situation for a weird verb. Memento is an imperative form meaning "remember/be mindful". The plural form would be "mementote mori", but that makes no sense here at all, so I agree it would have been better to leave it alone as a fixed Latin expression grafted onto English. Originally I thought the title was trying to be clever (expected something about breath mints, perhaps). Nice to see The Baffler stil…
I think you're right with your edit. Its about memory of lost things, not our selves.
If you're writing at a desk, look about you -- what do you see? How much of that would be recognizable in 1, 2, 5 generations (about a century) hence? How much would be intelligible, but quaint (or benighted)? Ultimately the little essay is about ourselves, our own mortality: it is about us as ephemera.