Art3sian

I can offer you a very small example of a difference in thinking that I experience.

I’m a grown ass man and I can’t easily tell my left from right. The best example of this is when I’m gaming and the tutorial tells me to press ‘left thumb stick’, I usually fuck it up. It took me a long time and a lot of thinking on it to realise what was going on. For me, left and right is not instinctive like up or down, but rather, it’s either a feeling, or not a feeling.

The reason for this is because when I was 5 I nearly lost my left index finger in an accident. It was reattached, but during the healing process I was constantly told my left finger was the one I hurt, so I literally learnt left from right as ‘injury’ or ‘no injury’, which I then attributed to as ‘hurt’ or ‘not hurt’.

So now, when I have to choose left or right, my brain has to remember an injury and where it was, then kind of feel that injury and tell myself that yes, I feel it so that’s left, or no, I feel nothing so that’s right. These steps take more time than a normal person’s automatic reaction to left or right direction.

Imagine someone touching you and saying, “does this hurt”. It takes time to figure out if it hurts or not and then reply. Thats what I’m doing every time I need to identify left or right, and if there’s no time for that, like “quick, make a right turn here”, I’m forced to guess.

And there is no way for me to unlearn this.

I said I’d leave Reddit on July 12 and July 12 is when I left. Sure, I miss it, but it was an unhealthy, 4 hour per day/8 year addiction that’s been broken.

Now I scroll Lemmy for maybe 30 mins a day.

I listened to a science podcast recently that said anyone can learn to do it in a few hours. The trick is looking in the mirror and trying various things until you get it, then practising that thing.

But it has to be in front of the mirror.

Compound interest has been a thing since the Babylonians, 2,000BC, and they understood it from clay tablets.

If you don’t understand it 4,023 years later with a iPhone in your pocket, you’re an idiot.

I hate this argument.

What happened to being an adult and not signing your name to stupid shit you can’t afford?

ITT: I’m fat. I don’t wanna.

How did you party back then?

EDIT: you all missed a perfect setup. None of you are cool.

People freak out about this but I’m a marketer, and it’s not as bad as people think.

You’re a data point in a database with millions of other data points, and all targeting towards you is automated through tagging. No one is specifically looking at you or specifically listening to you. It’s not even coded and stored in ways that can be consumed as images or sound.

For the record, I don’t work with this tech. I just know how it works, and where I don’t necessarily agree with it, I also don’t care because of how I know it works.

Yee-haw, got me and my jumbo-sized family a jumbo-sized vee-hickle and not Obama or nobody else gon’ tell me what I am, or what I ain’t drivin’ on these star spangled streets of Murica.

Every day one person wins the internet’s greatest fuckwit award. Today that person is you.

This is a tear-off summary of a much bigger report created from multiple peer reviewed sources over months. I think from memory, the Gen-Z content had the fewest peer reviewed sources attached to it as a) there hasn’t been as much study done on Gen-Z because if they’re age (half aren’t even adults yet), and b) most of the studies done are based on change culture and online habits.

Gen-Z as wasteful spenders is an age biased assumption. Research suggests that their learned experiences through GFC, COVID, geo-political inability, environment, and a post-COVID economy has hardened their resolve, much like WW1, the Great Depression, and WW2 did for their grandparents.

I mean shit could change. They’re only 26 at the oldest so their data is evolving.

I'm curious why you say the opposite is true?

Because it is true within the generational cohort. No disrespect, but I’m not looking at you and your mates. I’m looking at mass populations.