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.
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.
I dunno, I think my favorite insults are the ones that don’t require any creativity or effort. There is something to be said of just using the old standbys because the person you are insulting is worth so little to you that you really can’t even be assed to come up with anything specific for them, or because the subject you are insulting is so inherently devoid of originality that they’re like a negative creativity vacuum. How many different ways can you really insult the same copy-pasted balding thumb headed shrimp dick moron? It gets tough after the one thousand three hundred and twelfth time. They make writers and dominatrices to insult people, there are careers. Me, I’m not gonna waste good material if I’m not paid for it.
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