ThrowAway1922A
Born on November 02, 2022•374 Karma
The society we are building now where everyone retreats into their own world all the time is disturbing. We tell people to "just go meet people" when they're feeling down, yet there is increasingly nowhere to do that!
Despite that here on HN you have people cheering them on, excited for it. Tech is one of the last good paying fields and these people don't realize it's not a matter of changing career, because there won't be anything better to retrain in.
They are cheering on their own doom.
I'm more surprised that anyone ever turns it off, battery use is negligible compared to the cellular modem as I browse the web/listen to music.
Of course if you got a smartwatch you'll want to leave BT enabled to get calls messages and such. At least that's a good reason to leave it on.
You do you, but I enjoy talking with my friends and family and I don't see responding to them as "slavery".
Things can be a reason without being an excuse.
Sure I'm not in jail and on the surface I have my act together, but my entire life has been fucked up by what are now called "ACEs" and it's a miracle I'm as stable as I am.
I'm not going to let people off the hook, but I am able to sympathize...especially knowing the wrong person or event at the wrong time would have quickly sent me down the same path.
I'm not whining, but I do think you should try to understand why people end up the way they do because it's almost never as simple as them being a bad person from the get go.
Attitudes like yours aren't helpful and we could make society a far safer place if we could identify problems earlier in people's lives and intervene.
Nicotine is a great drug that the world largely insists of using an awful delivery method for.
My first thought was that sounded exactly like here in Canada.
They keep saying it because to most people they absolutely do weigh heavier. Very, very few average people are going to agree with what you just said.
Anecdotally, my close friends struggle reading the single short paragraphs I send them about important events. Bad enough that they skip over a couple numbers, and then say "I'm not doing all the math for that", when it literally says the answer directly. The mere sight of a couple numbers immediately puts them into "gloss-over" mode.
I really have no faith in Gen Z at large. I largely blame Tik Tok, but at the same time, something like it was inevitable. Capitalizing off of a feedback loop of shortening attention spans is going to spell doom for our society.
Every conversation I’ve had IRL on these points, after the initial negative reaction to what I just said, progresses into mutual understanding that an organized government is the ultimate threat when left unchecked - and that these rights are core to the system that protects us from that power structure.
It protects us from the very same people who are telling us to “think of the children.” When Feinstein and co. proposed “child abuse” legislation to “protect the children” - my point is that children need to be protected from her and the power structure she represents first and foremost.
Endlessly repeating that you are “thinking of the children” when you trade their future safety away digs this toxic thought deeper into the cultural zeitgeist.
When I opposed the president’s surveillance program, I was thinking of the children and how it was going to shape their lives in the US.