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Once upon a time it was rude to look at your watch at certain events as it implied that you were bored or keen to get home.
The trick is to look at someone else's watch. Of course, today only old people like me wear a watch. Curses!
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Related to this: it worries me that on vacation it seems my relationship with sight seeing is mainly through the phone's camera. I'm constantly seeing opportunities to take pretty snapshots, I worry that people "get in the way", I wonder about the sun messing with my photo... ...and in the end I forget to enjoy the view. Before digital cameras and mobile phones, I would just marvel at the view and enjoy it. Now I onl…
There were people like this before digital cameras. My father was one of them with his Canon A-1 SLR.
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And he doesn't even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too. As a kid I used to play outside a lot, and my mother had no clue where I was, nor could she easily find out. I could be outside all day without her worrying that I'd be abducted or involved in an accident. Now that all has completely changed, and my mother has too. Some years ago when I walked into t…
> And he doesn't even mention that you could just be outside, and be unreachable and not able to reach other people too. Or you could be at home and ignore the phone. People used to arrange a time to call or know when to call. It used to be considered impolite to let the phone ring more than 4 or 6 times unless the call was urgent. People never expected you to call back after an unanswered call, since answering machi…
Although my experience, especially pre-answering machines, was that a phone call was something that many people felt absolutely had to be answered no matter what you were doing.
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Chat up a pretty girl and she's likely to ask for your Instagram username. That's usually the point where I go into my "facebook is spyware" spiel, with predictable results.
If you say “I don’t use Instagram” without the spyware spiel, does it go any better? Or is not having Instagram alone enough to have things go south?
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Except that law enforcement is explicitly immune from having to pay damages to property in the course of their duty. We had a SWAT team destroy a fence with an armored vehicle during a standoff and they were just like, "not my problem." Apparently they don't want to have to make decisions based on cost.
Depends on country I guess. In Sweden they usually pay for the door.
What I miss more than anything else is having an attention span. Years of abusing social media has left my brain pinballing all over the place. I am a collection of unfinished thoughts. Even as I write this, I can feel my mind needing to latch onto something new.
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You aren't kidding, I'm also seeing a trend of people claiming that any information that doesn't match their viewpoint must be faked or dishonest.
The issue isn't that people are just huffing, crossing their arms, and crying fake news. The issue is that they are able to bring up 100 different sites supporting their claims. The person they are arguing with, obviously knows that the other is an idiot because they have 100 different sites supporting their claims! In a way, we've regressed back before we had the answer machine at our fingertips. You don't really kn…
If you want to teach your kid what it was like before the internet, take away their phone, give them a popsicle, and tell them to go ride their bikes and play outside until the streetlights come on. When we were kids, the goto story about kidnapping was "The Ransom of Red Chief"... why in the world would someone want to take a kid? There was only one kind of mail, and it was delivered every day except Sunday, and nat…
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The trick is to look at someone else's watch. Of course, today only old people like me wear a watch. Curses!
That is cunning.