I'm constantly lowkey furious that there is almost no tactile/kinesthetic pleasure in interacting with smartphones and other modern computers
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Replying to @selentelechia
This is so absolutely amazingly ungrateful. Millions of people have labored lifetimes to give you a gift from the gods that you buy for a weeks' wage & put in your pocket, and which connects you to infinite libraries...and you add your own innovation on top? No, you piss on them
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Replying to @MorlockP @selentelechia
Whew! I abhor unlocking my account, but I did so with the intent of going on a lengthy jag. No self-doxx, but let us say that
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Replying to @frosty_tredegar @selentelechia
I'd like to hear other opinions!
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Replying to @MorlockP @selentelechia
Hm, OK, I'll give it a shot. Here's one: > "a gift from the gods that you buy for a weeks' wage & put in your pocket" Putting on my Dale Gribble hat:
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(I just now realized that "FAGMA" is an acronym commonplace amongst my friends, but roughly nowhere else. That would be "Facebook/Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon".)
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I state this to avoid the question: "What's FAGMA?" To which I would have to deliver the obligatory response, which none of us would wish to hear.
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Further: > "I lived in the 70s and 80s. We were isolated from everyone." This is not what I observed.
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Hmm.
My crowd agrees on this e.g. @ElamBend etc
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