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I was under the impression smartphones were tiny computers? I mean they do 90% of what my laptop does including word and excel plus I can trawl for casual sex while riding around at work.
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Nude Hoxha Cameo posted:so unbeknownst to me my parents were antirevisionist mls; intriguing It's in the 70% range. Congratulations on being special.
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COMRADES posted:You know, some of this has to be on parents. It's not anyone's fault but your own if you give your toddler a tablet and ignore them 95% of the day. Perhaps this would be less of a problem if we gave parents parental leave and childcare and other wonderful things that cost tax money.
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spacetoaster posted:I think people itt didn't read the part where my kids are in elementary school and middle school before lambasting me as a ludite. No one is calling you a luddite.
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Hell I bet you've never even burned down a textile factory
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Peanut President posted:Hell I bet you've never even burned down a textile factory I did.
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KiteAuraan posted:burner phone for when you need to call your weed guy. lol just walk into the store
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EvilJoven posted:I had this discussion with my dad only he started getting super upset because my sister has children and the thought that they're going to come into adulthood in some sort of dystopian hellscape scares the poo poo out of him. He wants me to have hope for their sake. I also had this talk with my dad the other day. I basically ended with us agreeing that shits hosed and the rich are to blame. I also don’t want to talk about the future with my parents anymore, but it was somewhat theraputic to finally talk to them about it.
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Drizvolta posted:Perhaps this would be less of a problem if we gave parents parental leave and childcare and other wonderful things that cost tax money. Or if both parents didn't need to work full time. Yeah, capitalism is a gently caress for sure it is slowly but surely destroying everything.
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Accretionist posted:also lol if you don't have a file explorer and terminal on your phone calm down nerd
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Marijuana posted:calm down nerd Fight me irl
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Why don’t you come over here and dick me down
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Sadly the truth is in the middle. Yes you are socially isolating your children if you don't get them smart phones at a young age and also yes smart phones and tablets are destroying humanity and our entire society would be better off if we threw them into the nearest pit
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EvilJoven posted:Sadly the truth is in the middle. Yes you are socially isolating your children if you don't get them smart phones at a young age and also yes smart phones and tablets are destroying humanity and our entire society would be better off if we threw them into the nearest pit 
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Nov 1, 2018 22:12
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Accretionist posted:also lol if you don't have a file explorer and terminal on your phone I don't because I have a big boy computer with which to do big boy stuff.
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Marijuana posted:The Sprawl Series by William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count-Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive are the main novels) and Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson. And read the Blue ant trilogy for excellent takes on today's world, also by Willian Gibson.
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Nov 1, 2018 22:33
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Just lol if your children's social life isn't 100% online.
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Just lol if you have children.
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Nov 1, 2018 22:58
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The correct term is consumers.
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my consumer child has been in their VR enabled sensory depravation tank since 1 mo old and the life contract states they won't be harvested until the old age of 30 so I think they'll come out alright
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Poniard posted:my consumer child has been in their VR enabled sensory depravation tank since 1 mo old and the life contract states they won't be harvested until the old age of 30 so I think they'll come out alright Can I bum a kidney?
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cakesmith handyman posted:A chastity belt would be an abstainance arguement, not safe sex. Can't have unsafe sex if you can't have sex [headtap.gif] Accretionist posted:edit: redacted a bad joke. This is happening on a government level where I live. If you go into an unemployment office there is no longer anyone there to talk to about your problems, they just direct you to a computer where you can search for work online. The most advice they offer is how to layout a resume and how to write a formal cover letter. I agree with the poster who said smartphone use doesn't actually make people good at using or understanding computers. My neice is not even 2 years old but can comfortably navigate around apps on a tablet, like bringing up the camera and switching to selfie mode. Smart devices are so successful with consumers because they hide all of the technical poo poo in the background, and only rely on poking at pictures. On that note, there are still people who are amazed when I show them that you can zoom in on, and rotate maps and images by pinching, and that you can do different things by using 2 or 3 fingers on the screen, so afaik there is no encouragement for people to explore what their devices are actually capable of doing (outside of features that are advertised to them). The stuff about people being unable to actually talk on the phone and deal with communication in real time is very true. I have two younger housemates renting from me at the moment, male and female, both early 20's. The former is a pretty typical gamer - streaming videos, posting memes, and just generally wasting each with no motivation or energy to do anything. His grandmother is paying his rent and contacts me sometimes, because he doesn't answer his phone. The latter had a serious panic attack recently when she left her phone in an uber, she had no idea what to do about getting it back. I had to go online and call the guy for her to organise a time to pick it up because she wouldn't speak to him. TheMostFrench has issued a correction as of 02:25 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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speaking of phones, image upload through the app isn’t working right now and I’m too lazy to go over to Imgur myself, so please use your imaginations and pretend I posted this as a .png screenshot of something. my job gives us a yearly schedule sheet to keep track of days we’ve taken off. it’s mostly a grid with 365 boxes, plus a bit down at the bottom listing our earned paid days off for this year (goes up every year we work here). under that are the rules and conditions for the paper, which are as follows:quote:If you lose this card, you have to pay $30 and you lose the paid leave that you haven't taken we are not allowed to photocopy this paper.
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spacetoaster posted:The correct term is consumers. 
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quote:If you lose this card, you have to pay $30 and you lose the paid leave that you haven't taken That can't be legal
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StashAugustine posted:Tracer Tong Was Right
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It's not every day I see an organization that's more hosed up than the US Army.
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spacetoaster posted:It's not every day I see an organization that's more hosed up than the US Army. one of my favorite things about the air force was when someone would blindly rubberstamp a leave request and then freak out because they had to have a really good reason to cancel leave and now there's a hole!!!!!!!! in the schedule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Moridin920 posted:That can't be legal It isn’t, but they’re betting we won’t make trouble about it if it comes to that. They also told us we get one freebie re: losing the paper which I think just makes them look like bigger douchebags about it.
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Moridin920 posted:That can't be legal everything's legal in amerika baby except being nonwhite
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ScrubLeague posted:everything's legal in amerika baby this isn’t in America, to be fair
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Was playing video games today and heard this song again. I think it belongs in this thread. If only because of how accurate it is. What a good game. https://youtu.be/ZYnDsr8z4iU
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The reason I dislike the concept isn’t because it’s training the next generation to be cogs. It’s because these dang kids and their playmobiles are going to get in my way when I’m just trying to get my own cart down the aisle.
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Shear Modulus posted:i jjst found this thread existed probably a good thing, its mostly slapfights if we could get some capitalism.png in here that would be dynamite this one's from 2011, saved during Occupy Wall Street: 
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:god drat america
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here's another one i dug up from that era
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