cait: meanwhile people in all our old records are like "sign and mail it? okey dokey! hell i'll just stop by and sign it in person!"

thinking about how, in a strange irony, it's now a thousand times harder to get a person's physical signature on a physical document than it was 100 or even 20 years ago because everyone is so used to signing things instantly and virtually that they get mad if you even mention an actual paper form

"why do you need my signature??" to prove that it was actually you who did all these things "im giving you verbal permission!" thank you! that will not hold up if there is any kind of problem in the future "how am i supposed to mail it back?? i can't wait that long and i don't even own stamps!!!"

meanwhile people in all our old records are like "sign and mail it? okey dokey! hell i'll just stop by and sign it in person!"

i can't tell you what a mindfuck it is to be able to go through 200 years of documents and see exactly how things were done then compared to how they're done now

people bought these big family lots assuming that their entire bloodline would be buried there bc even the very concept of "family growing up and moving away" was so foreign that they didn't even consider it and now there's only like 3 people in there when they could put 20 more

there's some real messy shit in those records too. the cemetery kept EVERY correspondence and i mean EVERYTHING

it used to be a huge deal to own the family grave plot and get to decide who is allowed to be buried there. (it still is but not to the same extent.) there's files where the patriarch of the family or w/e was such a miserable asshole that everyone told them to fuck off and now they're in there alone

you can tell when they were really getting off on it too bc there will be a dozen letters saying "i have changed my list of people i will allow to be buried there, again" and you can tell it's when their son pissed them off or something and got kicked out as punishment

the funny thing is per massachusetts law, once the original owner dies, burial rights in the lot pass down to their descendants and are irrevocable so guess what? unless you made specific instructions governing the rest of the lot forever and ever, your family can still go in there lmao

I find it kind of hopeful and reassuring to know that people have always been exactly the same kind of petty assholes who shoot themselves in the foot in personal relationships

I was adjacent to this, recently. Mom's side of the family has a plot in Maine, and because Reasons(tm) there's room in the plot. No one wants them.

Cait have you seen THELMA (2024) yet? A very funny and sweet movie about older folks. And there’s a bit near the end that’s relevant to this thread. It’s def worth a watch sometime.

We found out my nana in law did this when she passed! She bought enough for her family at the time when her first husband died in the 60s.

I can mindfuck myself, and usually not in a good way, by remembering how things were done 35-40 years ago. I shudder to think of what 200 years ago would be like. :D

i am doing so much more work than the person who had my job 100 years ago and i'm not even making that much more money comparatively

Lot of that going around these days.

most people can't see it right there in front of them like we can :(

I did some rough back-of-napkin math and I'm about 3x as fast at animating stuff for my clients as when I graduated in 2006. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that the company I'm working for used to have 6 animators on staff and now only has 2.

I get so steamed at how the advancements of technology just make people work more instead of a 4 day workweek or 5 but you only work 5 hours

Honestly, this is so hard to get people to understand. :(

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