How to disagree with people politically but remain friends
While this is an understandable sentiment, expressing this today means different things than 10 years ago.
Should we “remain friends” with those that support an administration that deports people to foreign countries without trial? Is it “just politics” when people are ok with a president that is attacking free speech and freedom of the press? With a president deploying the military to cities with Democrat mayors? I don’t think so. We’re talking about freedom and the future of our country. If you support such corruption and destruction of our democracy, we can’t be friends.
most people don’t care about any of that. they are more focused on the local sports team, their schedule at work, their kids sports games and a million other things.
i mean you can grandstand all you want about it… but it won’t ever change those people’s minds. they have other shit to worry about that federal politics, which is largely background noise to them.
your error is thinking other people think about politics like you do. they don’t. they don’t think about it at all.
The majority of Germans in the late 1930’s weren’t members of the Nazi party either. The majority of Germans in fact claimed being either unaware or opposed to what the Nazi regime did. Did the tell the truth? I’m inclined to believe so. Does being unaware/laying low absolve them of any and all crimes committed by the Nazi government? That’s more of an open question.
Actively voting for a government that commits crimes because you don’t care sufficiently about politics does not absolve you of responsibility for those crimes. Once you actively enable a fascist government you are complicit in the crimes it commits.
Apparently showing the tiniest speck of empathy is grandstanding now.
Bus numbers and it’s connections. Growing up in a metropolitan Asian city, I enjoyed taking buses everywhere. To school, to grandparents place, to friend’s houses, to friend’s grandparents houses etc, I could give routes that went through posh neighbourhoods, or food recommendations along the routes.
It was my super power before Google maps came along 🥲
Who still uses Facebook?
People keeping up with organizations, family and friends who refuse to use stuff like Signal.
The trick is not to follow assholes, switch off news and patch it with Revanced.
Having to remember a bunch of telephone numbers really sucked. I was particularly bad at it, myself, and had to carry around a little address book. I’m so much more happy now that I can store phone numbers in my phone.
So, I’m going to start this on two things I’ve seen degrade in people who grew up with computers as a primary source of information versus a secondary source.
First, I’ve seen the ability to look through a document degrade over time as younger people have gotten used to Ctrl+F. The ability to manually look up and scan through a document has degraded. Also, I’ve seen people will then hyperfocus on the paragraph at the detriment of skimming the page.
Second, the ability to read not perfectly legible text has degraded as well. If the document is a poor scan or bad print handwriting, younger people have to practice the skill of reading it which was usually assumed to be had.
So, where do I think this will go in the future with AI?
First, I’m seeing AI used a lot to summarize and those results are being trusted. I see a future where younger people won’t have that ability to process and summarize data because they will be out of practice.
Second, I see the ability to write is going to degrade since people will be out of practice as people rely on AI to write for themselves. That lack of practice is going to have major impacts to critical thinking skills.
Well reasoned. Reading to get an overview and summarise is already a skill going away in the new breed of researchers.
That’s entirely up to you. Do you not have phone numbers for your main people memorized? I also have my library card memorized. This level of memory work isn’t rocket scientist level functioning, it’s a choice.
Do you really want to be in a hospital, after a car accident, with no phone (destroyed/lost in crash), and have no idea how to call your parent, spouse, or child? This occurs more often than you’d think.
I have my wifes number memorized also my sister and parents.
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I memorize important numbers
I don’t use GPS after the first time going to a place and remember my routes
Facebook? what… ? people actually use that?
I won’t use AI…my information stays with me, in my mind when I need it. I can’t rely on others, I won’t rely on computers to be there when I need it and that most certainly applies to ai
I remember the routes, too, but you don’t have random road congestion or construction that sometimes necessitates alternative routes? It’s like having a psychic friend that tells you when the most direct route is fucked.
sure, but east is still easy. I don’t mind heavy traffic, or needing detours. I’m patient and hardly even in a rush. if I’m late for something, meh…
In my community, it seems the local, state, federal government and local utilities are all competing to shut down as much of roads as possible, so there’s always a bunch of weird diversions to traffic. An unfortunate side-effect of underinvestment in infrastructure until the need is absolutely dire.
Because the crews don’t get much work done in the winter, they tend to concentrate all their work on warmer months, which exacerbates the issue.
You are old school. As am I
I’m probably older than both of you. I use gps constantly even when I know the route. It’s safer to focus on the road than think about the route.
People didn’t use to memorize numbers. They used little private address books that you wrote your numbers in. Moving that text to a computer screen changed nothing for the majority of people.
I don’t use Facebook but I didn’t use Myspace either.
I don’t use AI but I have nothing against it. I used it once to write some code in VBscript which is a language that would be a complete waste of time to learn. It saved dozens of hours.
Ha I learned VBBasic back in the day self taught. I wrote thousands of lines of code. Then I learnt about loops :)
I let my Phone (and CarPlay) map my route for me; but I do like throwing a spanner in its workings by deliberately taking a wrong turn to explore.
Previously, I would do the same, but then I would have to pull over and spend 15 minutes browsing the Street Directly trying to figure out where I was before I was able to continue my journey.
Having a frictionless (and relatively) safe way of exploring has empowered me.
I’m exactly like that, and 20 y/o. Though my body feels like 80.
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It’s because of the burden of knowledge you’re carrying in your head. The choices you make…
I memorized my friend’s phone number. It’s because she’s a lawyer, and that seems like a good number to have memorized.
Okay, but its also much rarer to get lost and stranded with no way to get help anymore. You really have to go out of your way to be completely isolated.
I memorize the phone numbers of my family, but why would anyone memorize the phone numbers of the rest of their contacts? Nobody did that before we got address books in our phones. That’s literally why phone books existed.
Why we should kill each other
yeah, instead it will tell us why we should kill each other while the wealthy… wait a second…
The way it’s going…
AI: Happy Birthday! Other notable people who share your birthday: Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Charlie Kirk, and many more great historical figures you should hope to praise!
Sounds like something Grok would say.
Stored phone numbers and GPS sre reliable though. I never remembered most numbers or birthdays anyway due to ADHD, so those being easily accessible was a benefit.
GPS directions also include construction and more accurate time estimates. I never learned alternate routes because remembering the ones I knew was enough effort and I still learn those. Going to new cities is way easier now!
Spell check is one of those.
Writing our own letters. That was actually a skillI miss writing good. /s
Me write pretty one day.
𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂.
Grammify was the icing.
