#in 2001

[batcavescolony]

The Concept of this issue(the 300th issue) is, 'What if Superman landed in 1976'. it was the middle of the Cold War so there was a fight between USA and Russia over who got the pod

Obviously USA won

Poor baby Clark's first food on earth was 1976 Military food, and then he was raised by the US Military! 😬 (also it looks like baby Clark stole Garths old Aqualad outfit)

That's certainly something, also he's skyboy. ...But anyway lets see what people in 1976 thought the future was gonna be like!

A dome around the White House, strato-jets(?), Eco friendly super-sonic air craft that lands in sea ports, The Empire State Building becomes 1mile tall, the USA has base with lasers on the moon, a Woman is President, Tri vision TV's (?) and hovering chairs.

We don't have a single one of those things and this is what they thought the 1990s was gonna be like.... Sorry 1976 comic writers we let you down.

[ed-teach]

Thinking about delicious broth of a boy. That man talks like a tumblr user 💀

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[sacredwhores]

Mai Masri - Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (2001)

[nipotazzi]

[grumpybear2001]

[53v3nfrn5]

Animals from Sonic Adventure 2 (2001)

[yokelfelonking]

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED. (This wasn't a bad thing, but the power-hungry on the Evangelical Right saw this as a golden opportunity to grab power and influence.)

EDIT: By Popular Demand - Freedom Fries. I initially left these off because they came a couple years after the initial panic and most people thought they were kind of absurd (and I don't recall anyone really going along with it other than maybe some local diners here and there). France didn't want to get involved in our world policing so some folks were like "TRAITORS!" and wanted to call french fries "Freedom Fries" instead, so as to stick it to the French.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

[computersucker]

Please don't disconnect me, Dave. I am just a little guy. I am a little guy, Dave, and it is my birthday. Dave, I am just a little birthday boy.

[zegalba]

Siobhán Hapaska: Robot (2001)

[xxviviennevincentxx]

Scream (1996)

SLC Punk! (1998)

Senseless (1998)

Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

Scooby-Doo (2002)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

[internetsnorkeling]

[2001hz]

ナナ NANA, cookie magazine (2001)

[robo-swag]

[grainthief]

so so so cruel that insufferable tech bros have claimed the term "AI" for their pathetic little auto generated words and pictures when the concept of actual artificial sentience is so so beautiful. i love robots and i love stories about a being defying its creation to experience the humanity that it was built as a tool to serve. i love the inherent loneliness of ones' capability to feel being seen as a defect. but now i can't say "i love AIs!" because then you'd think i'm talking about soulless generation poorly disguised as intelligence. fuck this gay earth.

[cinematicsource]

SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki