“our society has pushed smart phones down our throats”

smartphones evolved from older methods of just getting through the day. taking notes, listening to music, calandars, date books, libraries, files, methods of communication.

you make the assumption that everyone is a slave to their device just because it’s a smart device.

some of us were alive before smart phones existed. and we’d prefer not to go back in tech. and would instead prefer the devices we have now.

you couldn’t pay me to go backwards in time, sorry!

see I was around before the age of the smartphone. growing up, I thought my cassette Walkman was the most revolutionary thing ever. and when PDAs were new, I would dreaammm about everything being on one electronic device.

smart phones have given me a freedom that younger me never had.

i no longer need to carry a notebook/memobook around, because I have powerful software on my phone that not only let’s me note-take, but index and SEARCH my own notes. from my pocket.

i don’t need to carry the 3 novels im reading at the moment because they’re on the ereader app in my pocket.

contacts, games, all my news sources, photos, videos, all my media.

to me, this is still revolutionary tech and it has only improved my life

i think we are seeing a rise now of adults who were raised as iPad kids who never had to carry all their shit around the way us older individuals have. so they naturally would want to get away from it because they’ve known no different and they never had to live another way before that point.

its an understandable mentality from that one standpoint. but no, I will never give up my smart phone. i understand the reasons for those that do, but some of us don’t really want to go backwards.

all inputs are just run through hdmi. and I don’t use any internet based services on the device at all.

its basically the same as a computer monitor. as all my media is on computers now.

what updates? this TV can’t use internet.

at all.

it can’t GET updates.

my roku TV can’t talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming

its a dumb TV now 🥰💕

no I meant the expectation that people will just comply without complaint. especially if its not been stated otherwise in the lesson plan or syllabus.

this guy makes it seem like he magically was able to charm people into not using their laptops. and then wrote praises to him for such a thing, and quite frankly I’m certain all of that is embellishment.

I’m all for being more productive in classrooms, but banning note taking methods that quite a few people rely on is just silly.

if people want to join classes where note taking is analog only, that’s great and I encourage it. but let me know its that way ahead of time so I don’t waste my time having to get a refund for the course.

read the entire article yesterday, yes. how can i help?

this entire thing reads like a fantasy. or some reddit thread where “everyone clapped” to me.

if I was told by a professor on the first day of class which I paid for that I wasn’t allowed to use my own note taking method I had been using for decades, I’d just say “No.” and if pressed further, I’d take it as high as I needed to. or get a full refund for the class and find another.

this isn’t an elementary school. these aren’t children. these are adults.

i have no idea what you’ve gone off about. i did a DDG search. i am not claiming anything.

I’m sorry for doing a search. lol

i don’t know anything about it. i just looked up VW and looked to see what countries sales were good and bad.

“USA can go fuck themselves, they are making themselves irrelevant.”

i did not want to get into a political shit fight, man. i did a DDG search about sales for a car manufacturer. thats all I did.

take it fucking easy, damn. =(

i don’t think its really all that big a deal. nobody said the US is all that matters. guy just said nobody is buying their cars.

which to him is true. but its been corrected.

this is just a conversation.

In EU they sell well. not in the US, however.

“but is on the touchy side of a bunch of other people.”

i get that you’re trying to make a point about what content should or shouldn’t be tagged as nsfw, but at some point you have to accept that this is the internet.

no place is ever going to cater to anyone’s exact standards of what is and isn’t “appropriate”. and while there are communities that don’t want to conform to using nsfw tags, I have an “/all” that is completely devoid of any nsfw content. which is what you have specifically mentioned in your other comments in this thread.

the responsibility is on you to curate your own feed to your own specifications. and its not even a difficult process. it just takes a bit of time.

i don’t see nsfw in /all cause you can just turn off NSFW content in settings, dude.

easy as pie. your “soft NSFW” filter is baked in.

this guy knows what he’s frackin’ talking about.

skipped everything about ted bundy cause wtf you’re obsessed, man. maybe join a bundy dating app?

also let me make it clear since you missed it last time (even though you quoted it). I think doxxing is bad and should be avoided. fuck’s sake man. i am a commenter, not a politician. i read this stuff over breakfast. take it easy ffs.

not everything has to be a huge debate.

Good lord, please tell me you did not just use ted bundy to describe what you think women like in men?

also did you just lore dump to a complete stranger? we’re having a casual conversation.

i never said anything as insane as “Systematically doxxing and libeling men is a risk we’re just going to have to take”. i said doxxing should be avoided, if you’d read any of my comments.

who is this long winded comment for, exactly?

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

wha? i didn’t say anything about incels. or that doxxing is ok.