In a way but you should see the amount of crap he got away with.

This is basically akin to getting the unabomber for using fake stamps. 🤣

Yes, except the antivax movement predate the internet by a hundred year.

But social media does work as an accelerator. Unfortunately it seems to be very good at accelerating stupidity.

You’re totally correct and I forgot about that. My S8 could actually do more than the latest flagship if we consider the headphone jack and removable storage. So yeah… progress…

https://historyofvaccines.org/vaccines-101/misconceptions-about-vaccines/history-anti-vaccination-movements

The above link will give you the overview of the historical background on antivax movement since vaccine invention.

It basically boils down to two arguments, which feed each other.

• Risk => Vaccine are/can be/will be/may be/ought to be dangerous to someone somewhere, somehow. I don’t understand and I’m scared.

• FrEeDoM => I do not contract and I am free to decide what treatment I get, I am not a sheep and I participate in no herd and the only immunity I accept is from overbearing big government.

In spite of my sarcasm, I do think the second argument has merit, a government should of course be extremely careful with mandatory medical treatment of any kind and bear the burden of proving regularly that the benefits continues to far outweigh any and all alternative.

That reminds me, I have a 10am appointment for my flu shot. Almost forgot.

There isn’t much progress in phones.

There was a period between 07 and 2016 (maybe) where each new generations of phone was a big leap in quality and capabilities, so I admit being in tech, so well paid and actually professionally concerned by the evolution I was on a 1 to 2 year cycle for a while. That reminded me of the evolution of computers in the 80s/90s…

Now, I recently I broke my galaxy S8 from 2017 and went to check new phones and of course looked at the current flagships and … meh… Yeah they are better I mean it’s 6 generations later but they are not that much better. My old phone could already do 90% of what they do and 100% of what I need and it’s just not worth it, especially since I’m pretty sure my income hasn’t followed the same curve as flagship phones prices.

So yes, nowadays even a 7 year old phone is more than enough for the vast majority of the population except for people who need a status symbol or some weird use at the margin I can’t think of. (An no, your photo sucks donkey balls and no one cares about them and you don’t need 12 sensors and an AI coprocessor for your tiktok stories that only 3 peoples watch)

Lachlan is a masculine name of Irish origin, meaning “from the land of lakes” or “from the fjord land.” It is an Anglicized version of the Gaelic and Scottish Lachlann, which means “warrior from the land of the lochs” with loch meaning “lake” or “fjord” and lann translating to “land.”

Google is your friend.

Yeah, just trying to sells some crap to nostalgic genXer.

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Lol.

usually

So you admit that they sometime do ? Kinda kills your whole point. 🤷

Did you write a guidebook of acceptable words and concepts in fantasy ? I ask because if you’re so bothered by the introduction of new words into fantasy literature I’m assuming you don’t read anything with any words invented after the release of the Epic of Gilgamesh sometime in 1155 BC.

It’s a violently stupid argument.

Complaining about “the way it’s included” has been a trick to try to gatekeep minorities that dates back from to the origin of time.

For those people always pretend it’s ok to include X except in “that particular context” or “in that particular way” and unsurprisingly enough it’s never the right context or the right way. Unless of course the context is out of their way.

I’ve seen the same boring argument repeated for every single minorities over the last 50 years.

I remember very well bioware games and others in past decades got the same kind of reaction because « omg gay romance, that kind of agenda shouldn’t be pushed in a video game, think of the children ».

So now the new social “battle” is trans right and the game has a gender questioning character (From a review, I haven’t played) that seems to take at most a whole 5 minutes over the course of the whole game. Why not.

Now the game has been designed to cater to 10 year old and not the older crowd who played the original so it doesn’t have the depth you’d want and the dialog is on the nose. Well, too bad. Just play something else.

I don’t know how many time I answered the same thing to the exact same argument but here goes:

In short, it’s most likely not true. You’re implying the the millennials were generally more competent but it’s very likely wrong, the vast majority of people in that gen had absolutely no clue what they were doing on a computer most of the time they just knew how to do a few limited things with them.

The apps didn’t make the masses tech illiterate, the app adjusted to the existing ones and removed the stuff they couldn’t never understand, like where to save a file to be able to find it later. (I’ve worked in a support call center and I can tell you with 98.5% accuracy that the lost file is in system32).

The gen-z has quite a lot of smart, curious tech savvy people, and a vast majority of tech-illiterate people, so did the millenial, and the X, and the boomers.

This whole generational superiority argument is just as baseless as it was when my gen was blaming yours for being lazy, not able to learn anything due to a short attention span and an obsession for brunch and avocado toast.