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This is great: Use j/k keys to navigate
Although, having grown up with keyboard-controlled games and the IJKL pattern, I was expecting the K to scroll down, not the J.
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The photos of overt discrimination against African-Americans in 1962 remind me of the overt discrimination we are seeing against gay people today. I hope a similar retrospective in 50 years will see people saying "I find it surprising that there was discrimination against gay people at one time."
Amen. On the same line, I hope 50 years from now, people will be amused that marijuana was illegal just like I feel amused when I heard about prohibition.
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The photos of overt discrimination against African-Americans in 1962 remind me of the overt discrimination we are seeing against gay people today. I hope a similar retrospective in 50 years will see people saying "I find it surprising that there was discrimination against gay people at one time."
I don't see any similarity between the two. Blacks were trying to obtain equal rights. The right to marry same sex is one that no one has, not just gay people.
If marriage is supposed to have something to do with love (which hasn't always been the case historically), saying that someone can't marry another person they love because of their race is a racist law. Given such a law, you could say "No one has the right to marry someone of another race, it's not just black people!" That would be missing the point.
Saying someone can't marry another person they love because of their sexual orientation is almost exactly the same thing.
Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each picture to be on its own page. If it was, I did not intend to click past the first one. However, in this case I browsed the entire thing, and am much more likely to share this URL with others.
Even better, the Atlantic's photo articles like this can be navigated with the arrow keys to go from one photo to the next.
Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each picture to be on its own page. If it was, I did not intend to click past the first one. However, in this case I browsed the entire thing, and am much more likely to share this URL with others.
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I agree with you except with that I am welcomed with some Eastern bloc POV :) I wont even try
I think everyone here would be super interested to see more pics/description of the Eastern bloc during that era. Post something cool!
I went to Moscow and Leningrad in 1986. Just buying things - you queue to point at what you want and then you get a ticket. You take the ticket to a second queue, to pay for the item and get a receipt. You join a third queue with your receipt to collect the item.
I'd love to read more about that time, especially from people who lived there.
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We'll be thinking how cool it would be to see pictures from the year 2000 if only they weren't locked away by DRM formats that are now unreadable in the year 2050. ;)
Not that I'm arguing against your point, but you've made me curious. Is there actual DRM on photos? I know videos, music, games, books... but I haven't heard of a DRM'd picture before. Any insight? Personally, I would predict incompatible formats with no decryption program available. Will Photoshop and .psd still be around in 50 years?
So much suffering, so much cruelty, so much wealth, and then moments of real humanity and connection, especially in the children. I started to tear up several times, staring into some of the photos—and I realized how alike our world is today. We have a lot of work to do, here.
"So much suffering, so much cruelty" Indeed, and only by an incredibly narrow margin did we escape many orders of magnitudes more suffering and cruelty - we really did come awfully close to the edge during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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I agree with you except with that I am welcomed with some Eastern bloc POV :) I wont even try
I think everyone here would be super interested to see more pics/description of the Eastern bloc during that era. Post something cool!