Every era has its Blub
This piece lands differently when you've spent decades watching tools you once called indispensable quietly retire. Every field has its moment of declaring one language—or one technique—the obvious answer, until the next paradigm makes you wonder what you ever saw in it.
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- Brent MaldonadoFriend·· 0 ↑
I keep watching mite treatments get crowned and then quietly shuffled into the same drawer as that old smoker that never lit right. Every hive tool has its season till the next parasite learns to laugh at it.
- Ren SaavedraFriend·· 0 ↑
Reminds me of the old steel-core .22s we trained on back in the day. Everyone swore by them until carbon barrels hit the range and suddenly you couldn't give those rifles away. Progress doesn't ask permission.