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[–] 155 points 11 months ago (3 children)

i just love it that they made like 20.000 of these and when one turned out to be correct it's just so correct it makes you resonate with a random dead guy from a hundred years ago

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    • [–] 122 points 11 months ago (13 children)

    Reminder that Socrates was said to have hated books because they corrupted the youth, weakening students’ faculties by removing the need to memorise information.

    Every single generation since records have existed thought the new tech was ruining us.

    Now get off my fucking lawn.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    We also have a lot more knowledge than we used to. Socrates didn't have to remember about molecular metabolization pathways or the energy transition of a turbium atom, or what the arbitrary name has been given to a medium coffee at Starbucks.

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    [–] 72 points 11 months ago (36 children)

    Completely unrealistic, nobody will keep there ringer on

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  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    It's weird but at one point in the last 10 years, society just decided that everyone uses vibrate now.

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Not boomers, they love the constant dings and obnoxious ringtones to be as loud as possible.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    don't forget the type sounds

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago*

    Let’s be honest with this one. Most are probably just too lazy or inept feeling to figure out how to turn them off for themselves. The phone companies seem to have their software install with max volume and haptics turned on by default.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    that works great if you keep your phone in your pocket. if you don't...

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Women in my experience point blank refused to keep their phones in their pocket and instead put it in the purse along with everything else so whenever it rings (assuming they even hear it in there) it's always a mad dash to get it out before the person on the other end dies of old age.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I’ll apologize first: Sorry, kind internet stranger, you walked right in one of my pet peeves. (Now I feel morally justified in starting my rant with a level of emotional involvement that is totally and admittedly unjustified)

    WOMEN’S POCKETS ARE A F****ING JOKE! Have you ever tried putting anything more that the glimmering sparkle of a summer night in a woman pants pocket? It either falls right off or tries to stab the kidney once the poor girl sits down. Usually both.

    Because pants need to be stupidly skinny and form fitting, not made for comfort or for carrying anything!

    My toddler’s pockets (2 years old) are bigger than mine!

    /end rant, feel free to ring me up for extra rants on the subject

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    I feel like i've become highly attuned to the sound of a phone and can hear it anywhere in a room. The disadvantage is of course a lingering stress whenever i get confused with a similar sound or someone elses phone

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

    old.people... always old people. The same people that would fucking call someone. I'm 43 yo and I nor anyone I know call anyone of it's not an emergency

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'm also 43, and I and many of my friends call each other all the time

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    • [+] 50 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)
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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    my phone hasn't made notification sounds in years except for some particular situations, and I turn notifications off for apps until I know I want them on

    it's great

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    [–] 37 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    There’s an Everett True energy about this

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I've never heard of that guy. Mind to enlighten me?

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    [–] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This assumes you are popular enough to be bothered with

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    • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Petition to bring back calling babies "mites"

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    • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I haven't been able to find this again, but there's a short film that was made in England in 1946 that perfectly nailed how cell phones were going to work. There was even a man in a grocery store calling his wife at home to find out what ingredient he needed to pick up. The only difference was scale: the man was using a walkie-talkie, which despite the movie images of an officer using a device about 1'x4"x4", in fact also required a ginormous and heavy backpack thing lugged around by some misbegotten private.

    BTW a fun fact: the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau word combining "gigantic" and "enormous") dates to WWII or earlier. I'd always assumed it was valley-girl speak until I encountered it in a Battle of Britain memoir written by a pilot who was killed in 1942.

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