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I remember watching this movie for first time and laughing real hard, it was great scene.

"Keep that knife, you'll be needing it..."

Honestly though these days, "old man" is pretty much anyone that remembers world before social media and now the Chatgpt "convenience" craze that @RescueRanger brought up.

At least I feel that way heh...so maybe this is best thread to have measured discussion about that stuff....it needs relative cultivation of quality + quiet, so old gent corner sounds good.

I feel majority of social media is psychological quantitative "aura farming" for whichever confirmation bias one needs in end. The 80% ersatz that bulk displaces the 20% pareto bedrock from any purposed muster.

But human "id" in the generic average human ego has always been like that, we simply have current context and circumstances that mold our perspectives and priority (for assertion/discussion etc).

I'll see what reactions/convo we get and I'll maybe share some recent humorous episodes regd this (given the history I invested lot of time into studying in yesteryear)...

The "older" man responses to kid's (or even mainstream reductive) "hot take" in this chatgpt age. The increasing laziness and indolence I sense in "internet age" society.... given "info" abundance at finger tip.

Relative older generation was moulded and weathered by different things in different ways for info gathering in processes that needed more time to do it.... compared to young folk now. I feel we overall value it (than younger gen.) much more given this, you give people too much of something they lose perspective of its true worth.
 
Nilgiri said:
I remember watching this movie for first time and laughing real hard, it was great scene.

"Keep that knife, you'll be needing it..."

Honestly though these days, "old man" is pretty much anyone that remembers world before social media and now the Chatgpt "convenience" craze that @RescueRanger brought up.

At least I feel that way heh...so maybe this is best thread to have measured discussion about that stuff....it needs relative cultivation of quality + quiet, so old gent corner sounds good.

I feel majority of social media is psychological quantitative "aura farming" for whichever confirmation bias one needs in end. The 80% ersatz that bulk displaces the 20% pareto bedrock from any purposed muster.

But human "id" in the generic average human ego has always been like that, we simply have current context and circumstances that mold our perspectives and priority (for assertion/discussion etc).

I'll see what reactions/convo we get and I'll maybe share some recent humorous episodes regd this (given the history I invested lot of time into studying in yesteryear)...

The "older" man responses to kid's (or even mainstream reductive) "hot take" in this chatgpt age. The increasing laziness and indolence I sense in "internet age" society.... given "info" abundance at finger tip.

Relative older generation was moulded and weathered by different things in different ways for info gathering in processes that needed more time to do it.... compared to young folk now. I feel we overall value it (than younger gen.) much more given this, you give people too much of something they lose perspective of its true worth.
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Beautiful post and I concur l, show me a young person that has ever consulted an encyclopedia.
 
RescueRanger said:
Beautiful post and I concur l, show me a young person that has ever consulted an encyclopedia.
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My cousins son is a book worm. A rare distinction for a 8 year old. He rotes the dictionary. They flew in from Peshawar and he was busy reading his dictionary. Incredibly smart.
I gifted him my 3 volume Readers Digest dictionary. He went wild 😳
 
Fatman17 said:
My cousins son is a book worm. A rare distinction for a 8 year old. He rotes the dictionary. They flew in from Peshawar and he was busy reading his dictionary. Incredibly smart.
I gifted him my 3 volume Readers Digest dictionary. He went wild 😳
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Correction: Encyclopedia.
He's going to be a fighter pilot.
 
Nilgiri said:
I remember watching this movie for first time and laughing real hard, it was great scene.

"Keep that knife, you'll be needing it..."

Honestly though these days, "old man" is pretty much anyone that remembers world before social media and now the Chatgpt "convenience" craze that @RescueRanger brought up.

At least I feel that way heh...so maybe this is best thread to have measured discussion about that stuff....it needs relative cultivation of quality + quiet, so old gent corner sounds good.

I feel majority of social media is psychological quantitative "aura farming" for whichever confirmation bias one needs in end. The 80% ersatz that bulk displaces the 20% pareto bedrock from any purposed muster.

But human "id" in the generic average human ego has always been like that, we simply have current context and circumstances that mold our perspectives and priority (for assertion/discussion etc).

I'll see what reactions/convo we get and I'll maybe share some recent humorous episodes regd this (given the history I invested lot of time into studying in yesteryear)...

The "older" man responses to kid's (or even mainstream reductive) "hot take" in this chatgpt age. The increasing laziness and indolence I sense in "internet age" society.... given "info" abundance at finger tip.

Relative older generation was moulded and weathered by different things in different ways for info gathering in processes that needed more time to do it.... compared to young folk now. I feel we overall value it (than younger gen.) much more given this, you give people too much of something they lose perspective of its true worth.
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The other day my sister sent me this. My report card from class 2 or 3. Look at the subjects we had to pass. I'm 7 years old. No tv no Internet etc. Just the school books. My mom used to buy a magazine called Look and Learn. That was the earliest from of Internet for me.
Nowadays kids watch tv in class and sit in front of the desktop computer. It's all very easy and getting easier.
 
Fatman17 said:
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The other day my sister sent me this. My report card from class 2 or 3. Look at the subjects we had to pass. I'm 7 years old. No tv no Internet etc. Just the school books. My mom used to buy a magazine called Look and Learn. That was the earliest from of Internet for me.
Nowadays kids watch tv in class and sit in front of the desktop computer. It's all very easy and getting easier.
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The dawn of the post-literate society​

And the end of civilisation​


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The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation
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Read and weep.
 
LOL!

Last week was lock up in the county jail until I can bond out.

Inmates were very kind, looked after me.

Next day donated board games and a copy of the Koran to the county jail library.
 
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