Can you enjoy it with all the bullshit being shoveled down your throat as you try to do so?
My dad (just as an anecdotal data point) hasn't watched a professional football, soccer, hockey, baseball or basketball game since the various leagues started their "bend the knee, stop racism nao" horseshit. Turns out being lectured even for just five minutes preceding or during a sporting event on non-sport-related topics is enough to put someone off the whole spectacle entirely.
Unfortunately you can't get rid of the adults pretending to be kids. And kids are generally smarter/savvier than their parents and can easily bypass whatever dumbass age checks adults try to put into place. Anything draconian enough to have any chance of actually blocking kids from accessing the network will also thwart the average adult's efforts to get online as well.
this used to be the case, but i dare you to see how long you can watch a zoomer or gen alpha use a computer before getting frustrated and having to teach them a bunch of shit we all knew before our parents even understood the internet. millennials were THE most tech-savvy generation, because as tech has improved, it has begun to do more and more things for you. late zoomers and gen alpha are as helpless as gen x and boomers with computers. it's horrifying to me.
cell phones were a mistake
You fuckign what? That's a really retarded statement right there.
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I suppose there is some beautiful irony in science which at one point was seen as the more intellectual alternative to barbaric religions has now be hijacked and effectively become a religion itself. Remember folks always trust the science.
Dude, the insanity of the left defending criminals and increase crime is mind-boggling to me. Trump didn't do that.
Redditors genuinely think that maga is scared of cities, but will call every small town racist because they’re aren’t that many blacks or gays. At this point with the internet you could genuinely make an argument that cities are outdated as a concept.
I was in Baltimore a few weeks ago and more than half the city is Wire-esque boarded up trap houses. It is far and away the most devastated US city I've ever personally seen and I'm deeply familiar with such notable shitholes as Newark, Paterson, and Camden.
I think this is a cyclic thing with many societies. Need turns into innovation, innovation turns into success/prosperity and from there dogma begins.
People aren't scared of cities in general. People are scared of who inhabit the citites, and majority of the time its the worst of the worst.
I wasn't talking about zoomers, you tried to claim generation X was helpless with computers. generation X.. helpless with computers..Gen Z Kids Apparently Don't Understand How File Systems Work
"These are smart kid. They're doing astrophysics. They get stuff. But they were not getting this."
you're welcome to be wrong, but this is a known issue that's been creeping up for years. the rise of machines that simply assume what you want, or give you pretty buttons to click for everything and then they do a ton of complex background tasking for you - not to mention the loss of file systems we've seen on mobile devices in recent years - has led to these little retards not knowing how to do basic shit on a computer. if it's not on reddit, tiktok, or one of their apps, they don't know how to do it.
some gen x, particularly nerds who saw the computer revolution coming, were quicker to adopt computers than others. almost all of the gen x people i know today only know the very basics of a computer as well, though they're definitely more technologically effective than gen z. i have had to teach two family members in particular who are both gen x how to use vpns, how to find safe piracy websites, how to google things effectively, how to use LLMs to google things, and also where program files is, and how to get to it. remember, people from gen x are up to 60 years old now, and not all of them were as willing to jump on computers as the ones born in the late 70s and 1980, which then begins the overlap with millennials.
yeah, if you want to speak on how much of a genius you are with computers, perhaps wow me with a bit more than your ability to turn one of the most powerful devices of the past 50-75 into a glorified search box.
As much as I'm poking fun at @MetokurGroomedMe me up there (and i was just poking fun, mostly) I think it was a goddamn disaster not making the internet as least as hard to use it was in the 90s/00s. it's gotten way to easy for anyone with a cell phone to use it. Mass adoption and normalization of the internet has lead to more and more people want it censored and rendered toothless. Watched a real good documentary a few years ago that i can't remember the name of, but it's the commercialization of it, and the corporations wanting it to be a safe consumer zone for them to profit off of instead of what the old guys wanted, a place to exchange information.
It really saddens me that you have so many people who’s only knowledge of the old world internet, is the belief that it was all racist.
Allowing cell phones to have internet, in itself, is an issue.
Not a bad idea, but a description involving super-organisms is going to force the listener to immediately compare the idea to the chinese bug hives.
