Excuse my exasperation. The comment I replied to was exactly saying those arguments and I was addressing those arguments alone. I never said modern technologies don’t have an impact and your interjection with the topic implied you agreed that tech caused a fundamental generational change that validated the idea of “kids these days”. If you gave a smartphone with social media to a sentinelese child, they would probably develop behavioural issues as well. But that doesn’t mean this change would be universal to their entire cohort of children or that he was magically a new kind of child fundamentally different from the previous generation. To claim that “kids these days scream more” is precisely the kind of ignorant generalization I’m referring to, and it is born out of generational bigotry. It’s not a new phenomenon, it’s well historically documented. It’s the source of the generational rift that has plagued every generation from boomers to millennials, to gen z, etc. Kids today are under new and unique circumstances, just like every kid from every generation has always been.

For fucks sake, it takes a psychologist to be a pedant idiot on the internet against another psych. I also have a Bachelors in psychology and a Master in sociology. And as my doctorate tutor likes to say during debates when people throw credentials around as if they mean something to basic facts and science, “do you have an argument or are you just interested in comparing dick sizes?”

Oh, let me clarify. There are studies. What I mean is that you cannot compare today’s children to children from, say, 200 years ago, not even 50 years ago. It’s not possible as people back then unfortunately couldn’t see the future and foresee that their future scientific counterparts would need certain observational data on children’s behaviors. So we have cross sectional and cohort studies on the impact of smart phones and the internet. But this won’t say anything about generational differences amongst children, or the generational comparative differences to previous cohorts of children. Thus, it is impossible to say “parents today are less patient” or “kids today scream more”. Those are stupid and annoying common place generalizations from people who don’t know jack about developmental psychology or parenting.

We said the same thing. Of the TV. And the radio before that. And of the comics before that. And of the theater before that. And of the circus before that. Etc.

We ought to be careful of many pseudoscientific claims. Specially in psychology. We don’t have a control group of children before the advent of the internet to compare today’s children with. The “i 'member!” crowd are now all adults, a group who are notoriously biased and bad at being objective regarding their own childhood.

We can compare today’s children with and without certain habits, and indeed it has been found that mobile internet access, and social media specially, are detrimental to children in some personality development aspects and cognitive skills. But this is not a pass to make broad generalizations of entire generations of all children and parents across the globe. That’s just generational bigotry.

Like, different habits lead to different behaviors? Sure, no shit. But that doesn’t change the fundamental make up of human beings.

Well, neither is true, though. Newer generations don’t just magically have less patience. Nor children today are more prone to tantrums and screaming than children in the past 30 million years. That’s just good old, “back in my days”, backwards thinking that has, ironically, also always existed amongst the older generations.

It’s a song and dance, driven by evolution, it has happened before and it will continue to happen. As this thread and hundreds of threads, and newspaper articles, and postcards, and letters, and books, and clay tablets and campfire rants have proven, ever since humans developed speech.

Kids these days.

Part of some people’s chagrin with internet memes culture is presenting outdated and harmful ideas as popular or current. Further spreading misinformation and hurtful beliefs.

How non-white are you?

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The register machine literally let’s you input the amount of cash given by the customer and it tells you how much to give back as change. You are just refusing to do your job at this point for no reason when the machine is already doing the math for you.

Not really, it’s just how much better Vulkan is compared to DX12. It’s mostly about having a way better async scheduler for multi-CPU multi-threading hardware.

Corporate rate

Awesome! zero taxes paid.

Not American. Not rural. I live in a major metropolitan city not in north America.

You pay two bucks for coffee? If I’m paying two dollars or more for a cup of coffee I expect it to be some fancy shit like artisanal dried specialty espresso or some shit like that. God, American coffee culture sucks so much.

Often times it is because of limitations beyond the control of MS. Like, in my company we use MS products because they are the standard. But we have to work with the vendor and IT to selectively disable a group of features and updates. Because we are very secretive and confidentiality is paramount for very good reasons, it has nothing to do with trade secrets, it is about protecting people. Nothing can leave our servers, no telemetry, no AI, no automated cloud backups, no summary, no bots on meetings, no transcriptions, none of the usual crap they are constantly pushing for. Salesmen look at us like we are aliens, but it’s either that or we can’t do our job well. As a result, we are often left with lobotomized versions of the same apps. But at the same time, it shows how little those feature are actually useful or necessary. And in particular, how they are a prime point of failure and bugs.

Our Teams still fucks up connections from time to time. But it is usually because it forgets it is neutered and tries to do something it isn’t supposed to do and our VPNs nuke the connection. Like trying to call MS instead of our servers for telemetry, or trying to spin the module for a feature that doesn’t exist in our network. Then it becomes very obvious how buggy and ungraceful the whole app is. It can’t fail gracefully, it just craps itself and drags the whole computer with it.

TIS-100 Sits unfinished in my library as one of the most esoteric and difficult puzzle games I’ve ever played. It breaks my mind thinking about it.

I gather you’ve never met an Apple fan, then.

I get what you meant. But it would be more apt to say that they don’t want a highway there, it’s not like it wouldn’t fit if they wanted. The whole thing is a biosphere reserve, new infrastructure is not allowed. It has nothing to do with the geographical wideness of Chile. To only have a ferry there is a choice. Bypassing through Argentina actually skips a good third of the official highway.

I’m sorry, but at no point does Chile get too thin to fit a highway. It is just that part meets a gulf and wildlife territory. They are all national parks. The alternative (to going into Argentina or the ferry) would be to deforest hundreds of hectares and blow up mountains just so tourists get an scenic car ride (that is already pretty scenic and spectacular as it is).

Survivalists like to boast of their skills to start a fire from scratch with no modern tool. But that wasn’t the main skill in ancient times. Most societies found it easier to start a fire once and then keep the flame going through several mediums. It was a practical, mundane but vital activity that everyone participated in. The calories gains from eating cooked food was our cheat code for unlocking brain power.

The differences are astonishing Asmongold is pretty much a gaming and bad takes second hand streamer. Whose only identity is kissing right wing politician’s ass, even when they actively hate and attack him.

Then Charlie is there with movie and music credits, anime and comics productions, podcasts, business ventures, and also streaming. With every single of his political takes and controversies being morally and ethically sound and consistent.

They are like Superman and bizarro, mirror images of each other, similar but opposites at the same time.

Oh, and asswithmold face is the most punchable face on the internet (second only to PirateSoftware’s) while Charlie’s is sculpted by the gods themselves.

That’s ok, it means it is doing its job. It’s like feeling guilty because a water tank is filled with water. That’s why it exists, that’s what is there for. I personally delete books I’ve read from my kindle. My computer is the library with all books, and the ereader is the mobile library with all the books I want to read someday.